Yea the edges are a problem -- you cant see it but there are chips o the sides i guess from standing the hood up on the floor.

 

yeah jin his Evo is red

 

why would you wanna wet sand your stock hood and trunk? just polish it using rubbing compound and then coat it with wax.. haha Tomcat, i know how to restore a dulled carbon fiber hood so let me know if you want to do it (takes like 6 hours tho)

 

Dam kevin always beat me to the punch lol... I swap trunks again with 1andonli and he's gonna lend me a drill so this weekend I should have the spoiler on by then...ghost can u bring the spoiler to the meet tonight also 1andonli want to buy your taillights he has a big hole in his .. Plus umma repaint my rims to maybee gloss this time see how it comes out...

 

i'll bring the spoiler for sure, can you bring some fishing line? i need it.. haha
also, i only have the passenger side taillight..

 

Polish will not get rid of orange peels nor the fine scratches unless I use a rotary buffer. Wet sanding's a lot easier on the paint than a rotary buffer.

Plus, I need to touch up a few paint chips on the hood, which will need wet sanding to get it right.

 

There are a few people that have wet sanded their entire car's original factory paint. The reason people do this, like JinDesu said, is because of the way Mazda painted these cars there is an "orange peel" effect on the paint. If you look at your paint close enough and are **** enough.. you will see it has like small half crescent textures.

You can see the difference here..



The part on the left (fender) is without orange peel, and on the right (door) is what orange peel is.. look at the little circles..

If I had the ***** to wetsand my own paint I would do this..

https://www.rx8club.com/series-i-do-yourself-forum-73/diy-removing-orange-peel-your-factory-clearcoat-29237/

 

Rotary buffers are scary.... leave it on for a few seconds too long, or put on the wrong speed and poof, there goes your clearcoat and possibly your paint.

Wet sanding (and dry sanding, which I'm technically doing) is a lot safer by hand, just a hell of a lot slower and tedious. Using 1500 grit for the main sand, and 2000 for the finish, you should be able to get it nice and flat without worrying about oversanding.

I've been trying to learn as much about it as possible before I attempt it.

 

oh wow that's a huge difference.. thanks for clearing that up. i think i'll be doign that when i have some time

 

It depends on how **** you really are. Take your car outside on a day with clear sky, take a good look at it from a steep angle (parallel-ish to the surface), and you can decide if you care about the orange peels or not.

Also, not all stock paint jobs are that bad lol... for example, certain parts of my car doesn't have pronounced orange peels. But my trunk definitely has, and that's like the second prettiest part of the car

 

i think i'll be making my first appearance tonight... be there around 930ish


yo... i think i saw you at the kinkos yesterday. i was behind you on line.. that was my 8 parked at the pump

 

I'm there. Ping me your addy: carbonfaddict. Need me to bring food? I'll probably be doing a poker and SIM tourney the new weekend. Just waiting on the cockpit to come. You down? Anyone down?

 

yea that's the one he needs if any pm him.. I'll bring my whole fishing reel so take as much line you need..

 

yo chris im down.

i have a lucky hand at poker

which weekend do you have in mind by the way??

 

pm sent! yeah man i'm down.. let me know when. my schedule's pretty packed

cool thanks

haha be prepared to lose all your money!

 

Guys whatz up, i have good & bad news... The good news is i'm coming to the meet tonight in the family van chevy astro..the bad news is my sweet brown sugar is out of commission, yes the 1st gen the motor is shot the back rotor no compression. But it's ok. I had lots of fun with my bitch this summer it's time to put her to sleep this winter. I have another rotary coming out soon... Be on the look out for dj.nada ( he'll be back )

 

We can't wait then, Nada!

 

RIP brown sugar...

 

LOL...THIS IS WHATS COMING NEXT:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j2jMNwNTik&NR=1

 

YERSH! What color??

 

Same has the video

 

nice! so next next year, you'll have an FD? hahaha

 

Hey Ghost send me your address, I'm very likely busy but if not I'd love to come down to an install meet and help out and learn stuff, I have a bunch of tools.

Also I say we organize a cruise to Foxwoods and party it up?!?!

 

Oh, a foxwoods trip would be pretty awesome. Let me know if you guys do plan this.

I suck at gambling btw :x

 

DUDE,

I was going to walk up to you and say whats up and tell you about RX8 club but people are tools when you try to talk them so i didnt bother.

Nice bumping into someone on the streets who also is on the forums -- ill see you tonight lol