1984 silver series 3

[MelloYello]

This fb is going to be MINT. Great work Ian.
Are you keeping track of the hours you put in. It is either a lot, or you are very efficient.

[Lucky]

Blimey, that looks proper! Is that with rattle cans or do you have a compressor and gun in your manshed, Ian?

[RX7SA]

That looks amazing Ian, fatastic job, can't wait to get mine sorted now lol. I guess thats what they call inspiration hey!

[Steve-A]

Now thats looking great Ian

This car should be very clean and tidy when you're done with it, better than new I'm sure!

[Casey]

Excellent work Ian - how long did that take and did you use a spraygun or cans? I spent another 3 hours on Kimi "de-rusting" yesterday and finding progress very slow. However, I'd rather "over-do" the rust busting before painting, rather than "under-do" it!

[spoddy]

its looking really good and i'm really looking forward to the end result.
one colour i think looks very modern for the fb is the one used for the 12a turbo kept in the mazda museum.

i've said it before, but heck it is nice, tornado silver



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it looks alot nicer in the flesh so to speak and up close and the above pics show that maroon interior a little.
but silver is a flashy expensive colour, the rx8 looks great in it too.

as long as its not green.

[TOOL]

Forget in the flesh. It look f**kin awesome in the pictures. Looks great against those wheels too.

[ian65]

thanks gents,

I'm sticking with the original colour of K3 sunbeam silver..... tornado does look good in some photos, less so in others. A bit of dust on it makes it look very dull and it looks sort of brown in certain lighting conditions which I don't like.
I agree that on a polished car it looks awesome..... unfortunately, I'm not one for polishing my cars and I think that K3 silver will be more practical for me... not to mention, most of the underside and engine bay had already been done in it and it's the cars original colour.
For the underside of the car and the engine bay, I get the paint mixed at my local auto paint factors and they put it into aerosols for me.... much easier to spray and gives a miles better finish than off the shelf stuff that the likes of Halfords sell.
I'll only be using it on the underbody and engine bay though.... the outer panels will get a professional respray at a bodyshop.

[ian65]

Finished putting the clear coat on today.... gotta say i'm very pleased with the result....









I can start building the engine bay back up now and putting the front suspension back on

[spoddy]

looks great ian, like she just came out of the factory
did you use halfords spray clear coat?
bet you are glad its done, have fun pulling all that masking tape off.

are you painting the engine up and the bits and pieces attached to it?