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That paint looks like a beautiful job  Love the RX3 as well, I used to have an FC RX7 a couple of years back so I'm a fan of pretty much anything with a rotary in it, it's a shame more of the old school rotary cars didn't survive Thanks Adam. The photos don't do it justice though. I'd like an FC one day with a nutty motor in it. Really like the styling of them. So 80s. Had an FB ages ago. |
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Unfortunately high quality & highly detailed paintwork just does not come cheaply - sadly few vehicle owners understand the time & commitment that it takes to produce paint finishes of this standard & far too many think that a few £k is more than enough for a decent paint job - Thankfully some owners fully appreciate what it takes and the finish that is now on your car speaks volumes to me in the amount of work that's gone into it
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Unfortunately high quality & highly detailed paintwork just does not come cheaply - sadly few vehicle owners understand the time & commitment that it takes to produce paint finishes of this standard & far too many think that a few £k is more than enough for a decent paint job - Thankfully some owners fully appreciate what it takes and the finish that is now on your car speaks volumes to me in the amount of work that's gone into it My Dad had an old Jag restored over 20 years ago and the bodywork on that ran into the several tens of thousands even back then as it took the best part of a year to do by an old Rolls Royce coachbuilder. You can still get a car resprayed for a few £k but as you say, unlikely to be a quality and long lasting job as the paint and prep won't go as "deep" into the car. Things like underside, wheel wells, engine bay not being painted, interior, windows and trim left in and masked off rather than removed, and areas of rust not in the line of sight left to carry on eating away into the metalwork. Poor quality existing repairs simply bogged over etc. Then there's the quality of the work itself from welding, through to filling, sanding, paint, flatting which varies massively from shop to shop. There's a lot of seemingly good cars out there hiding some real horror stories under piles of filler. |
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First job after getting the car back was to fit the headlining. Luckily I had a spare original rooflining from another coupe without the sunroof hole in my parts hoard. Big relief as the aftermarket rooflinings aren't all that great. A new insulation panel was fitted beforehand as the original was removed when the sunroof was put in.  There were a few small tears on one side from when the rooflining was previously removed. These were fixed with the Stormsure method.  The repaired tears are still visible but only under bright light. The Stormsure glue is really tough, I was quite surprised how good it is. I applied a second layer once the first had dried to give it extra strength as this section of rooflining is under quite a lot of tension.  New seam welts were fitted throughout.   The old parcel shelf had speaker holes cut in it. Good NOS or used ones are non existent but a mate from NZ sorted me out with a new one that he made up from scratch using the same material.   C pillar trims fitted.  |
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Dinitrol cavity wax sprayed into rear quarters before fitting new moisture seals  Rear seat and door cars in.  |
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Gearstick gaiter was badly worn so sent it off to have a replacement made up.  |
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Dash panel was resprayed by DC Customs. This could then be bolted back onto the dash pad.   |
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Rather than fit the front seats and dash at this stage I decided to fit these later as they'd get in the way when wiring up the electrics so made a start on all the various other bits that now needed to be restored. Brake booster.  A bloke in Aussie (letzgo1 on Ebay) makes replica stickers for the car and they are quality.   Restored the scissor jack and wheel chocks. About as far as I trust myself with applying paint! Was a bugga to match the paint colour as had no code but my local paint shop let me flick through their colour charts.    |
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Wow. What an absolute stunner! I note you grabbed a couple of bits from Tim at RX Motors, I can see his place from my office right now haha! Just had a read through this when I should definitely be working, you've done an exceptional job! The attention to detail is awesome and I love that you're staying as faithful to the original as possible. Looking forward to seeing more  Marcus |
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awesome! may I ask how you cleaned up the transmission?
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Wow. What an absolute stunner! I note you grabbed a couple of bits from Tim at RX Motors, I can see his place from my office right now haha! Just had a read through this when I should definitely be working, you've done an exceptional job! The attention to detail is awesome and I love that you're staying as faithful to the original as possible. Looking forward to seeing more Marcus Thanks Marcus. The attention to detail did increase somewhat after the paintjob as I couldn't bring myself to bolt anything crusty back onto the car Yes the car would not be where it is without Tim. He's helped me out loads in the past. Top bloke. |
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awesome! may I ask how you cleaned up the transmission? Many thanks. The transmission was vapour blasted. It comes out better than new and a nice finish unlike sandblasting. I think its small glass beads in water. I'd use this method for any aluminium casting now. |
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awesome! may I ask how you cleaned up the transmission? Many thanks. The transmission was vapour blasted. It comes out better than new and a nice finish unlike sandblasting. I think its small glass beads in water. I'd use this method for any aluminium casting now. thanks great to know! |
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Love the RX3 as well, I used to have an FC RX7 a couple of years back so I'm a fan of pretty much anything with a rotary in it, it's a shame more of the old school rotary cars didn't survive
