This build is not for the faint of heart.
I'll start from sometime last year when I built the Rezax, the size was 18x11 0 and 18x12 0 my car was on Stance Gr+ coilovers with megan rear upper camber arms. This is when I had to do body work and such to fit the wheels.
Skip to the second post if you just want to see it start from 2014.
Fronts sit perfect after raising the coils 1/2" and hammering down the pinchwelds, there is no rubbing at all.
Here is how the rear sat with minimal pull, can't drive like this since the fender is on the tire, still looks sweet though... needs a lot of pulling.
Front camber sits at -5 and rear was at -8 but we brought it down to -7.5.
Sergey's House of Wheels completed the insane radius/pull and alignment is spot on so it was time for some body work to clean up the wavy fenders. Fender is about 20mm wider and raised so the rear can be dropped lower.
wheels fit like a charm :)
We heated up the rear bumper and tried to align it with the fender... not even close. That silver portion of the bumper on the edge not being covered by the blue tape was cut off. Then to fill the gap we added fiberglass to the quarter panel to have it meet the bumper. Originally we thought we would have to make a custom bracket on the inside but the rear bumper was surprisingly pliable with some heat.
3 days at the body shop and we've achieved: Fender pull cleaned up, rear bumper cut and widened, and quarterpanel extended to meet the bumper.
A few days later the fenders were finally finished and primed.
Perfect.
By the end of April I finally got the front sitting where I want it and the new sideskirts on, picked up a set of Shine Auto FEED sides and sold my old OE aero. Also realized I never aired down my tires lol. They were at over 80psi, aired them down to 40psi and it rolls SOO much smoother, oops. Since I had previously lost my jdm corner lights coming back from a show I just decided to have them filled this year on the bumper. Car was just waiting for paint but at this point I was so strapped for cash because every penny I had to save was for my trip to Asia for most of the summer.
I brought my car to the city for ONE day before the JDMC season opener and managed to smash my front bumper, the same hit also knocked out power to my entire dash… what a joke.
Rolling into the season opener, can you guess how many different colors my car was?
p.s. only one of my front fenders is primed because we accidentally smashed it when we were test fitting so it had to be fixed.
Looking like a bulldozer.
By the end of May it was difficult for me to come up with any money to paint or wrap the car, I had to save enough money to be able to survive for two months on the other side of the world. My friend hooked me up with a ton of plastidip so I decided to say “**** it” and we sprayed the car , matte white with a pearl clear coat. It looked really good for a little while so I didn’t mind at all, and it covered up a lot of blemishes. I took it off my car because I ended up hating it, but I’ll get into that later.
I sanded, primed, wet sanded, then painted some of the plastic covers in my bay to match the chameleon wheels.
The next day I had a followup shoot for Carsxhype.
By the time I was leaving I still had no clue what I would do for paint or my front bumper and adding to that, I crushed one of my fenders coming home from the most recent shoot. Fortunately, I was able to have regular internet access overseas so I was able to sell a bunch of parts I had laying around and had my parents ship them out. I was slowly able to budget more money towards my car so by the time I came home from my Asia adventure I had a bedroom full of boxes of car parts. It was magical, it was what I imagine Christmas to feel like for you guys.
Cusco oil catch tank, NRG neochrome radiator cap, mazdaspeed mini filter, a set of sidemarkers to paint, and a new dash piece from the incident earlier and something else in that white box, but I can’t remember haha. I also used this opportunity to do an AuxMod on the car while the dash was taken apart.
And my new bumper <3
My JDM Revolution intake resonator cap came in a few days later, took almost a month to come from Japan.
Then we had a fender fixing party at my house with Sergey and Kyle.
I got extremely lucky acquiring my front bumper; it is the only BN Sports Rx8 front bumper in America. A couple years ago a friend of mine in SoCal bought the BN front and sideskirts, spending over $2000 and waiting 6 months for it to arrive. By the time they came he decided to sell the car and never mounted them. Then after another few months he sold them to another forum member in Tennessee. Upon receiving the kit he started having issues with the Rx8 and had to hold off on mounting the kit. By the time everything was sorted out he also decided he wanted to sell the car, so again, the kit was never mounted. He posted the kit up for sale but of course no buyers because of the outrageous price. So I decided to finally splurge and buy just the front from him. And with a down payment on the sides, he would hold onto those for me.
The front crash bar on our Rx8’s are larger than the ones in Japan so the back portion of the bumper had to be trimmed just enough. Other than that it fit like a glove! :)
And it’s sort of hard to tell in this pic but I did paint the sidemarkers the same chameleon as the wheels for a nice little detail.
Got some brushed sheet metal and made a nice cover for the intake to match the metal cusco sticker on the intake tubing behind it.
In November I had a shoot for Whips N Chocolate.
My tire decided it didn’t want to hold air anymore at the shoot.
And this wraps up the 2013 season of the Rx8! Now comes the infamous Air build.
I'll start from sometime last year when I built the Rezax, the size was 18x11 0 and 18x12 0 my car was on Stance Gr+ coilovers with megan rear upper camber arms. This is when I had to do body work and such to fit the wheels.
Skip to the second post if you just want to see it start from 2014.
Fronts sit perfect after raising the coils 1/2" and hammering down the pinchwelds, there is no rubbing at all.
Here is how the rear sat with minimal pull, can't drive like this since the fender is on the tire, still looks sweet though... needs a lot of pulling.
Front camber sits at -5 and rear was at -8 but we brought it down to -7.5.
Sergey's House of Wheels completed the insane radius/pull and alignment is spot on so it was time for some body work to clean up the wavy fenders. Fender is about 20mm wider and raised so the rear can be dropped lower.
wheels fit like a charm :)
We heated up the rear bumper and tried to align it with the fender... not even close. That silver portion of the bumper on the edge not being covered by the blue tape was cut off. Then to fill the gap we added fiberglass to the quarter panel to have it meet the bumper. Originally we thought we would have to make a custom bracket on the inside but the rear bumper was surprisingly pliable with some heat.
3 days at the body shop and we've achieved: Fender pull cleaned up, rear bumper cut and widened, and quarterpanel extended to meet the bumper.
A few days later the fenders were finally finished and primed.
Perfect.
By the end of April I finally got the front sitting where I want it and the new sideskirts on, picked up a set of Shine Auto FEED sides and sold my old OE aero. Also realized I never aired down my tires lol. They were at over 80psi, aired them down to 40psi and it rolls SOO much smoother, oops. Since I had previously lost my jdm corner lights coming back from a show I just decided to have them filled this year on the bumper. Car was just waiting for paint but at this point I was so strapped for cash because every penny I had to save was for my trip to Asia for most of the summer.
I brought my car to the city for ONE day before the JDMC season opener and managed to smash my front bumper, the same hit also knocked out power to my entire dash… what a joke.
Rolling into the season opener, can you guess how many different colors my car was?
p.s. only one of my front fenders is primed because we accidentally smashed it when we were test fitting so it had to be fixed.
Looking like a bulldozer.
By the end of May it was difficult for me to come up with any money to paint or wrap the car, I had to save enough money to be able to survive for two months on the other side of the world. My friend hooked me up with a ton of plastidip so I decided to say “**** it” and we sprayed the car , matte white with a pearl clear coat. It looked really good for a little while so I didn’t mind at all, and it covered up a lot of blemishes. I took it off my car because I ended up hating it, but I’ll get into that later.
I sanded, primed, wet sanded, then painted some of the plastic covers in my bay to match the chameleon wheels.
The next day I had a followup shoot for Carsxhype.
By the time I was leaving I still had no clue what I would do for paint or my front bumper and adding to that, I crushed one of my fenders coming home from the most recent shoot. Fortunately, I was able to have regular internet access overseas so I was able to sell a bunch of parts I had laying around and had my parents ship them out. I was slowly able to budget more money towards my car so by the time I came home from my Asia adventure I had a bedroom full of boxes of car parts. It was magical, it was what I imagine Christmas to feel like for you guys.
Cusco oil catch tank, NRG neochrome radiator cap, mazdaspeed mini filter, a set of sidemarkers to paint, and a new dash piece from the incident earlier and something else in that white box, but I can’t remember haha. I also used this opportunity to do an AuxMod on the car while the dash was taken apart.
And my new bumper <3
My JDM Revolution intake resonator cap came in a few days later, took almost a month to come from Japan.
Then we had a fender fixing party at my house with Sergey and Kyle.
I got extremely lucky acquiring my front bumper; it is the only BN Sports Rx8 front bumper in America. A couple years ago a friend of mine in SoCal bought the BN front and sideskirts, spending over $2000 and waiting 6 months for it to arrive. By the time they came he decided to sell the car and never mounted them. Then after another few months he sold them to another forum member in Tennessee. Upon receiving the kit he started having issues with the Rx8 and had to hold off on mounting the kit. By the time everything was sorted out he also decided he wanted to sell the car, so again, the kit was never mounted. He posted the kit up for sale but of course no buyers because of the outrageous price. So I decided to finally splurge and buy just the front from him. And with a down payment on the sides, he would hold onto those for me.
The front crash bar on our Rx8’s are larger than the ones in Japan so the back portion of the bumper had to be trimmed just enough. Other than that it fit like a glove! :)
And it’s sort of hard to tell in this pic but I did paint the sidemarkers the same chameleon as the wheels for a nice little detail.
Got some brushed sheet metal and made a nice cover for the intake to match the metal cusco sticker on the intake tubing behind it.
In November I had a shoot for Whips N Chocolate.
My tire decided it didn’t want to hold air anymore at the shoot.
And this wraps up the 2013 season of the Rx8! Now comes the infamous Air build.
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