Restoring an Abandoned Mazda RX7 EP. 6 Interior Restoration
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- Опубликовано: 22 май 2024
- While the interior may not be seen once the car is back together that doesn't mean that we still won't paint it. Getting the interior done will be a HUGE Step forward for us as we can start re-assembling a lot of stuff back onto the chassis. I have been dreading the interior restoration because of how long it took to strip everything down. But for my second time painting, I couldn't be any happier with the results. The RX7 looks better than it ever has. This @eastwoodco Paint has been coming out amazing!
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"I don't have one yet" Thats what I like to hear man. I've got faith just take your time and trust your gut.
Always game to give things a go at least once 😅🙌 I got a good feeling about it 🎉
Now this is how you do a SEMA car! Excited for the future of this rx7!
Right?! Gotta make this thing as proper as we possibly can 🙌🔥
My dad did painting for years. You can do it either way. For what your doing it would be better to do it with the parts off vs on. Then you can do the inside of the doors and fenders leaving no silver. If you were doing a pattern or a color shift of any type then you are better to do it assembled. Hope that helps 😁
Perfect will do all panels off car then, feel like it will be easier to focus on doing smaller panels vs trying to do the whole car at once 😅
@@Smeedia make sure they all get painted within the same batch. Batches can be slightly different hughes and it will make it look off.
Great advise Having painted a couple cars and many car parts as a hobbiest I second both comments
Don’t forget the anti static and tack rags. I didn’t realize how much a pain static was till I was proficient. Then you find fighting static electricity is always the challenge. It’s like they build a body shop in an electro magnetic field. We’re you think your fighting contaminated paint, /water spots, fish eyes, but it’s static electricity.
SOOOOO much work man. Doing the same thing with my car right now, feels like I'll never be done cleaning, scuffing, masking, cleaning, cleaning, cleaning... ugh it never ends! Love the way the interior turned out looks freaking awesome!
The prep work takes so got damn long 😂 but the end results are totally worth it!
Tanner that looks fire! 🔥 Prep is everything. Remember those 6Ps from your military days.
The 6Ps will haunt me forever 😂😅
Primer, painting, clear coat...doesn't matter what it is. It comes out amazing, there's something sooo satisfying when you love your work.
Getting better at spraying, things starting to come out smoother and cleaner 🙌🔥
I love watching him do stuff and how honest you are with us as your audience and makes me feel more encouraged to do things mess up and keep trying cuz you do things you've never done you're not comfortable doing and you just put forth the effort even though it's money involved and people don't like to waste money cuz you know not everybody has it like that but to give it a try you never know you might be good at it you can get better at it I just like that inspiration I get from your channel
We are all going to make mistakes as we learn. And up front it may cost a bit more, but in the long run whenever you have projects to do you’ll have the equipment and skills to do it again. 🥳 I was terrified ti start painting because I thought I’d just mess it up. But we all surprise ourselves with what we can do. 🥳 biggest thing I say is just get out and give it a try 🙌
@@Smeedia 💙💙💙💙💙👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
This man's talent is just 🤌🏼✨
🙏👨🔬🫡
Just bought a C7 Corvette but the RX-7 is still my favorite of all time.
How you liking the C7? Absolutely love that generation 😮💨🔥
@@Smeedia Think RX-7 but american style lol. That's the best way I can describe it. The Corvette is a real sports car. The only other thing I can compare it to is a Viper in terms of true American sports cars. Plus the LS/LT engines are just so easy to maintain/work on.
Looks amazing so far, can't wait to hear it go brap
I just wanna hear the braps again, with no leaks 😂😅
I knew you wouldn’t be able to resist painting the rest yourself. After all the prep work and time you’ve already put into the underbody it was only a matter of time. Hell yeah.
Figure it can’t be too hard to paint the entire thing myself 😅
Wow you really went all out with this RX-7 build.
Tanner-one of my favorite things about your channel is your Let’s figure it out/let’s learn how to do it mentality. Keep it up lad!
I’m always down to figure out or learn how to do anything if it’s within possibility 🥳
Best RX-7 series on RUclips hands down ❤. I hope you plan on adding improved sound deadening to the car to make it OEM+.
I have some we can test out and try, I’d like to use some so it’s not in godley loud 😅
It's funny that with all your subaru content, of all cars, the fd is your monalisa
Also keep the AC!!! Nothing beats ac while cruising
I’ve always wanted one and Subarus are a dime a dozen 😅 I’ll prob do this to a Subaru in the near future though
@@Smeedia I hope it's the coupe
A build like this is what creates an eternal bond, reminds me of when I built my RSX-S from the ground up. Cant picture my life without that car at this point.
This is one car I won’t part with, going through and building something to this extant is such a different feeling. 🔥
Looking great man!! I know the camera never shows the true outcome but I can tell, especially if you put it out in the sun its SHINING!!
It’s glossy glossy 😍😍😍
This is something I've really been wanting to see. Thank you for dabbling in so many fields of expertise and sharing it with all of us. It makes it less daunting for some of us to dig into our own projects.❤❤❤
I’m always down to give something a go, always try to go into with the mentality of if we mess up, we can fix it 🫡
I'd love to hear the paint guys advise on how close to professional you were able to make your paint job and any tips and tricks to help you refine the process so that we can have full context of the dream as DIYers ❤️
I’m always all ears for painters to chime in 🙌🫡
Tanner it's looking freaking awesome. Keep up the great work. I love how this project is the farthest thing from a subaru yet you were able to still incorporate a subaru with the color lol
A smart man will admit they don’t know and learn. Being able to admit it takes a real man as it’s the hardest thing to do.
This will be a fun drift car for sure. Turbo rotor.
Makes sure when your painting white or silver or grey. Hold a lifht in your opposit hand you paint with and look for the flash. Otherwise you will be snowblind. White is hard to see when painting, and when you lay clear down the light is crucial.
This is the part where I go suggest you watch sylvestor’s customs and watch his body work and, paint prep and paint videos. IV been a body guy for 15 years, and I’m 35, watched his videos and just the body panel alignment and level portion was amazing the way he takes new school and combines it with old school for amazing results. You will learn a ton from him. I did for sure. And your right in the meat of when those videos apply. .. with that said. Looks like you were doing pretty well laying the paint down, the speed and proficiency will come with time and as your confidence grows.
Psssssshhhhhhh, ppppsssssshhhhhh, pssshhhhhhh the sounds of monumental progress. Good work, my guy. Looking icy.
Thanks Patrick, loving how it’s coming out 🥳
Love the progress on the rx7❤
Coming along 🥳🥳
Great work mate, starting to look show quality already. In regards to the doors and fenders, if I was going to do this myself, I would send the doors and fenders away for sand blasting. Then I would fix any dings/dents or hidden cancer (that's been covered up) prime inside and out, base coat and clear the inside and then bolt them on the car and paint the whole car complete.
Curious if my buddies blasting cabinet is big enough for the doors and fenders. Worth a try 😅 would definitely make things easier for stripping
Good move going with the painting yourself :)
Respect sir
Figure won’t hurt to try 💪
Nice work. Hell of a car guy.
Thank you 🙌🫡
This would’ve taken me a year , you’re fast af
It took a good chunk of time to strip everything 😅
Big Hagerty engine building vibes with this music😂 LOVE the RX7 content!
Trying to mix it up and not reuse the same music every time 😅
Wow, that thumbnail screams project car goals👍🏽👍🏽 keep it up Smeedia!
Thanks Omi! Things coming along better than I was expecting 🎉
Awesome job. The only thing I would have done differently is fully welding the seat crossmembers to stiffen the chassis more
Is that something people regularly do with these? 👀
As a word of advice if you want to paint all the parts evenly and make it SEMA MAZDA Hall Of Fame edition, all parts depending on the place will pull them off regardless and I would suggest doing the same leaving them a part and just painting them separately. As a moderate enthusiast of personal dream builds, do not ever "skimp" even on the little things because later on you don't want to regret what you should have done. You have worked hard for all of this now, why let the best go to waste and make it a dream masterpiece of smeedia Hall Of Fame glory.
Will leave everything off and paint it all separately 🫡
Looks so nice, it's almost a shame it's going to get covered with carpet and liner! Great job!
Putting the carpet back into is going to sting 😂
Yooooo tanner u unbeliveble man way the go ❤❤
Thanks Steve 🥳🫡
So excited to see what comes out of all this hard work!! It doesn’t go unnoticed
Excited to see this thing come back to life totally refreshed 🥳 so far painting has not been as bad as I thought 😅
Great work! maybe add a few coats of Pearl on the exterior ? Awesome build
Thank you 🥳 for my first time painting we’re going to just stick with the basic white 😅
Here for the RX7 *LET’S GO TANNER!!!*
LETS GOOOOO 🙌🙌🙌
Can’t wait to see it finished I love watching the progress man keep it up
The finished results are going to make everything so worth it 😍🔥
Spraying the parts off the car you will find a lot easier for you to do. Just make sure that you spray them at the same angle as if you were spraying the car. This is more critical if the car was metallic but not essential being that it is a base colour. , if you spray the parts and the body of the car at the same time this will guarantee that the colour will be the same as opposed to spraying them separate and mixing paint separate for these parts and the body a slight difference of temperature all the mixing of paint could change the colour , another tip for you when painting wrap the air hose to the gun round your waist, hold with your left hand so the air house goes underneath your right arm round your back to your left hand your find this will become more natural as your painting and keeps the airline completely out of the way you find this lot easier way to paint
I’ll try to do that with the hose, I’ve been tossing it over my shoulder but I tend to get tangled in it lol
Will do, I’ll try and spray everything same day if possible or even around days that have similar temps and humidity 🫡
Ohh man a Thursday blessing! Thank you Tanner
Anytime good sir! 🫡
You, sir, are *VERY* fucking thorough!
I can already imagine just how beautiful this build will be when it's all said and done _(5 years from now)_ 😅
Shooting to have it all done by end of July 😅 but we shall see on that dead line lol
Word of the day "mechanical adhesion"
Let’s all say it together now 😅
I'm glad,and excited for you that you've decided to paint the exterior body of the RX-7. From the Instagram photos I've seen earlier of the interior, you'll kill it!! 😜 Now to put it all back together
Putting it back together is the fun part 😅 I’m excited to be done with the wire wheels 😂
Looking good buddy!! Well you don’t have to blend the panels together, off the car would be better. You can get the edges, brackets etc. looking better as well.
I’ll do em off car, feel like that’ll be easier to paint em all too 😅
Well done Tanner! Looking forward to seeing this build progress. Not much out there is nicer than a fully dressed and built proper RX7.
(get fkn nutz with the heat sheilding especially with a white car, I recommend search ---"Self Adhesive Aluminum Foil Sound Insulation Cotton,Reflective Insulation Roll Self-Adhesive Aluminum Foil Roof Insulation,for Floors,Walls,Lofts,Roofs ( Color : 15mm(thk) , Size : 1*1M(1m²) ) and then coat in a gold reflective sheet on the firewall near downpipe, etc.)
I’ll give it a search dog into some heat shield options. I know turblown has some solid sets up.
I’m hyped to see this thing fully together 🥳
Love the lofi bg music!
Trying to get a good mix of music 🙌💪
Bro amazing work I to did my own car painting you have 100% improvement in paint stroke
Hell yeh man! Paint the whole car my guy, you can do it! Love the work tanner, you're an inspiration!
We’re going to give it a try, been loving how everything else is coming out. In my eyes the interior was the hardest to paint 😅
I believe it, all the nooks and crannies in there must have been an absolute bear to clean/scuff/etc again and again and again lol
@@award_I went through more wire wheels than I can count 😂
@@Smeedia haha I absolutely believe that. Thank you for the recent tip about evaporust gel. My dad had recommended evaporust, but you let me know they made a gel. Stuff has been coming in handy as I work my way through this old Scion Ive had sitting.
I always love your WRX stuff, but this rx7 series got me to pull this old Scion inside the garage and have a try at fixing it up. Thank you so much bud.
Dude!!!! You’re killing it!!!!
😎👍🏻👍🏻
Tom my man! We’re doing the thing 🥳
good job man 👍💪
Thanks buddy 🥳
I would paint the back sides of the doors and hard to reach areas of any doors and fenders while off the car then put those parts on the car to paint the exterior or those parts while it’s on the car. Probably the easiest way to paint it and you get even more practice before doing the outside of the car…
True, wouldn’t hurt to do it that way. That’s one way I’ve seen a lot of people do it too
You’re going to have one of the cleanest Rx7’s. Did you decide on a body kit?
Stock body 🫡 I can’t bring myself to cut this one up 😅
You can use dry ice to take off the old detener easily
That’s what I used for everything else. But because it’s on a vertical surface the ice doesn’t tend to work as well
JFC the RX7 looking crispy and spicy. Incredible work man. 🎉
Ps - you sound sick-ish (allergies?) in your editing voiceover? Get well soon.
@@smillman437allergies, this pollen got me dying 😂
@@Smeedia same. I’m just up the road across the border in BC, dying from this sh1t lol
RMEEDIA
I’m going to fire you lmao
When you paint the exterior, I highly recommend adhesion promoter for the unpainted parts like your bumper
Even if they already have primer on em? 👀
@@Smeedia if they're already primered, you'll be fine. It's just for bare plastic
This car is going to look super sexy when it's all done in that white 😍
The aspen white just goes hard on this car 😍
HYPE
🙌🙌🙌
Are you considering keeping the millenium jade green look? i thought it fit the rx7 soooo well 🤩
It’ll stay white 🫡
I used a similar mask when I painting powder coating in the last factory the i work before
They seem to work pretty well
Yo dog, I live in a small city in Canada and saw an STI drive by with a smedia windshield banner. I thought that was pretty cool. Car looks sick and I think its mega cool you are just doing it on your own.
Eyyyy I love it 🥳 what town?!
@@Smeedia Lethbridge
And next found tanner down the rabbit hole making custom carbon fiber body panels.
One day 😅
I'm glad you at least scoffed it up Because it definitely would of not Stuck with the primer And I guess you used etch Primer Because of all the raw metal Is I used to work on high end classic So much We had to paint and Clear Is underneath the car Because they're a high end Show cars and I don't know I don't know if the car is a solid color Ifor a metallica color If it's metallic Make sure Either way your first or second coat Should be very light Especially metallic Good luck
Epoxy primer for everything but it’s all DTM so we’re covered there 🫡
If you plan on bringing that car to SEMA, you should probably have someone with experience paint the exterior. Just sayin. The interior and engine bay did come out pretty dope though, but I wouldn't risk the biscuit.
Nah we going for it! It’ll definitely have some orange peel but we can polish it out
@@Smeedia So you've accepted the SEMA quality standards then? I kid, but seriously. Keep a backup plan in place if your paintjob doesn't turn out so hot. It's always good to challenge yourself, but if you have a specific goal in mind well it might just do you better to outsource something you don't have the time to tackle properly.
I'm gonna point out the sound deadening still on there when you take it to SEMA
You won’t even know it’s there 😅
What color wheels do you plan to put - white, bronze, black, gun metal etc
I have a set of grey RS05RRs but I kinda wanna do a polished set of wheels
Looks super good! What size compressor are you using to spray?
26 Gal, a bigger one would be ideal 😅
How hard was it to pull the windsheild and did it come out in one piece? Ive got a carbon roof for my fd to replace the sunroof and thats my biggest worry
Paint it together. Humidity, temperature has to be the same as the paint flashes over
You’ve also done the fender wells. I’d leave the panels off the car and send it that way.
I've never done anything like this before but maybe spraying nitrous directly onto that old sound Sound deadening might have gotten it cold enough to knock off
Dry ice tends to work well, I don’t think N2O would work too well. It’s also a bit pricey to use like that 😅
itll be easier to paint the fenders hood and bumper off of the car, just make sure they are in the same orientation that they would be mounted on the car (lay the hood flat, fenders upright, bumper facing out not up)
Will do 🫡 I bought a couple stands to hold all the panels while we paint them. Figured doing it panel by panel would be a bit easier for me to focus on. Vs doing the whole car at once 😅
Naw you can paint everything off the car. Especially since you're making the car all the same color. Color matching won't be a worry.
Whatever is easier for you though, if you wanna do it on the car and that makes more space do that!
Perfect, I’ll prob do it panels off car then so I can focus on smaller areas vs the whole car all at once 😅
I knew you'd eventually decide to spray the car yourself. Why do I get the feeling Blue isn't going to stay blue after you get this one back together? 😁
It’ll prob just get repainted WRB to fix the fenders 😅
id paint with panels and doors off the car. since you're doing color change i'd want everything off where I can get to every angle and crevice on it.
This is what I’m thinking, feel
Like it’ll be easier to focus on a single panel vs feeling rushed to try and do the whole car at once
It would be sick if you had a media badge made and put it on the front or rear or even little front fender ones….. 👀 I mean you are doing everything at this point it would be a nice custom touch
Ima look into getting something made, I like that idea 😅🔥
You can paint the panels on or off the car. It's a simple paint so you won't see any difference
I may do em off car then so I can try to focus on a single panel vs the entire car all at once 😅
@@Smeedia it'll definitely help with coverage. Just make sure they don't fall lol
@@thanhbeach814I bought a couple of the painting saw horse stands for panels 🫡
What kind of motor you have for this car? The 2J is for the sti right?
Rotary going back into it 🫡
hey bro have a quick question i have a 07 sti with 19lbs of boost and im not sure if its turbo failure or boost leak but i have P0244 and in 4th gear around 4.500RPMS cuts boost cuts fuel bogs really bad and if i keep going i can feel the turbo working and not working. its got a Cobb 20G with stock wastegate but i watched your video on how make X amount of HP in a STI and on the list for 350whp waste-gate wasn’t on there, jus wondering what you would suggest doing or thinking or have ever heard of this thanks again!
Shouldn’t need an EWG, we did around 430 on my 07 that was still IWG.
I’d start with a boost leak test. P0244 sounds like a boost controller issue
@@Smeedia i do have a grimspeed electronic boost controller on it as well. not sure what it could be
you remember where all those bolts go?
Nope 😂
Did i see a seam in the transmission tunnel that looks perfect for a handbrake??? 😏🤣
Hydro? 😉
@@Smeedia 🤣🤣🤣
U know u owe me 10 second car lol
Pop the hood 👀
2jz no shit put my tab at Harry's overnite parts from Japan lol
This could decimate all somethings about cars calms me down that soo true to us jdm boys I had fun in the time wish it was still there
You better sound deaden the shit out of that thing! Make it quiet, do all the metal surfaces and even the backsides of the interior trim panels, it made a huuuge difference on my car, lets you appreciate the exhaust and the speakers more too :)
I have some in the shop we’re going to try 🫡 going to paint be to stick it over the new paint 😂
@@Smeedia 😆😆 covering all that shiny work will be sad but you'll super happy when all the carpet and the rest goes back in, out of sight out of mind 😄
Incase you need a brand, I actually highly recommend the Amazon basics stuff, a while back I came across an independent website that did testing on 20+ products and the Amazon brand surprisingly came out pretty close to the top, for the money and easy application, I would go with that, just make sure you get a roller :) I think that and the raptor line you put on plus the seam selling will reduce a ton of unnecessary NVH
It depends on how much he values sound quality... apparently not that much since he runs Chineseium headunits in several cars. I'm a big car audio guy, sold that shit for the better part of a decade. I will always err on the side of the audiophile in a debate like this.
@@cd5sircoupe honestly though even if you don't care about sound quality, I would say doing what he suggested is a good Idea because the sound deading just makes for a more comfortable and enjoyable driving experience. It makes the interior a little quieter on the interior but you can still enjoy the intake and exhaust sounds without the tinny annoying rattle of stones bouncing off the subframe and chassis. Plus the amount of weight it will add is pretty well negligible unless it's meant to be a Pure race car
What’s the paint code for that paint?
51E 🫡
what paint did you use for the rx7?
Eastwood 🫡 paint code is 51E aspen white
@@Smeedia what sound deadening material did you decide on? i know i mentioned lizard skin a few episodes ago.
@@reaper352c5I’ll have to check, I have a few options I got 😅
@@Smeedia Dynamat 😆. That shit was stupid expensive to the regular consumer. It was like less than 10% of the cost to me as a dealer. So if a roll was $30 I'd pay like $3. Never would have done it as a normie.
Fuck yeah!! Paint that girl!!!
Full send 🙌🙌
If you're planning in a body kit wait on painting??
@@Daniel-vf5ockeeping it stock body 🫡 can’t bring myself to cut it up for a kit 😅
Paint the fenders off the car if you have already set your body gaps
But the car looks great so far
Definitely getting there 🥳🔥
The dirtier and more cave man look Tanner gets you know stuff’s gettin done!
Got stuff to do 🫡🙌
Take your time now and be as thorough as possible. You will appreciate it later.
100% we’re not rushing anything 🫡🙌
You missed a spot
Where 👀
@Smeedia it was a joke originally, but when you were laying down the seam sealer you gapped a spot on the floorboard. Plus the paint where the windshield is that you brought up. Honestly though I commented that right when the video started just to troll you 🤣🤣🤣