1995 Mazda MX-3
Rolling on 20"s now
WHEEL ART reflective Wheels
The Wheel Art kit lighting up the rims behind Chrome City.
20" Limited Rims that are going on the car once the tires get here. The picture is of the rims with a Wheel Art Widow Maker Kit. The second picture was taken with a flash.
I fixed the front end and put in the 01 Civic projectors. You might notice if you have been thinking about making a set of these that I didn't use the ones that everyone else has been using. Well, that was not by choice, I bought a set on ebay and they sent me the wrong lights. I did want the ones everyone else had been using. Let me tell you, if you do this conversion, MAKE THEM GIVE YOU THE RIGHT LIGHTS, because these were a major pain in the *SS! But Since I hadnt seen anyone use these 4 lamp headlights I figured might want to make it a little different. For a closer look see below.
Shaved rear window. The glass was removed, then the edge was cut out. We made a templet of the opening and then welded it in. It was kinda difficult but it was worth it. Now it looks more like a Del Sol. BIG NOTE, me and Bruce made this hatch WE DID NOT BUY IT OFF THE INTERNET!
I had chrome altezza tails but I have nothing chrome on the car..... GOTTA GO! so I found the black JDM lights on Ebay. Gotta love E-bay. The wing is a stock wing off a 95 Eclipse. I know I still need to mold it a little to make it fit perfect but ya just cant rush some of this stuff (like its been 3 years and I haven't gotten around to it.
The dash was sanded down and painted to match the exterior of the car.The Steering wheel air bag was removed and an Accele 5.6" tv was installed. But I didn't like the picture quailty, so I took that one out and wired in an Eclipse VM7211 7" wide screen. I used fibre glass to smooth out the over hang of the tv and now I am going to cover it in vinyl to match the vinyl on the steering wheel. Yes, the steering wheel has full play and has no interference from the wires of the tv because I used the air bag and horn wires to run through the column.
White faced gauges bought off of course E-bay.
The center console was gutted to make room for the radio (relocated 5" below the stock location in order to make room for the 7" Eclipse VM7211 screen to be mounted in the console (fibre glassed in, looks good and hard to steal). The radio is an Eclipse 55090 DVD/CD deck, running to an eclipse 5.1 digital processor (see pic below).
If you have a very good eye, then you might have noticed that the right center dash vent sticks out insted of being recessed, This is because the vent was fibre glassed over and an Eclipse center channel speaker was installed. The vent directly to the left was removed and covered with an Eclipse speaker grill and now houses the remote eye for the Alpine Navigation system that is mounted in the rear of the car.
The TV's primary purpose is to be used for video rearview. It is connected to an Accele color CC tv camera in the rear hatch key hole (see pic above, this is a picture from before I painted the body kit). The camera is color and flips the image like a mirror would do. it works great and is easy to see because it is so close to the driver and because the Eclipse screen shows VERY good detail.
There is an Accelevision (4 input-2 output) switching unit mounted in the center console to the rear of the shifter to switch between DVD player, Nav system, the Accelevision TV tuner, & video rearview. It controls both Screens (I'll put a pic up later).
These are the stock seats but I had Trim All in Cedar Rapids, Iowa (Pete is the bomb) take the nasty blue speckle inserts out and get rid of the cloth material and recover them in black and red.
The passenger side air bag was removed to make room for the eclipse changer to go into the dash (my EX-girlfriend hated that idea, so I got rid of the wind bag insted of replacing the airbag, BIOTCH. This was the best place to mount the changer to keep it from vibrating alot incase I decide to enter it into another spl contest in the future. The orginal idea was to mount the dvd player here but after removing the air bag, there wasn't enough room to make it fit without decreasing the structural integrity of the dash (can't go too ballistic, I have to drive this everyday).
I mounted the 5.1 processor in the rear driver side panel, in front of the rear speakers. Yes, I molded the rear speakers into the location that the rear arm rests were. Since there is no rear window, you REALLY have no room for someone to sit back there anyway. NO SCRUBS. Good for a duffle bag or 2 but thats about it.
1 Eclipse Titanium 12" Subwoofer. 3 Eclipse amps (fronts, rears, subs) 3 half farad capacitors (I really need full farad caps).
Thanks Bruce, for all the help!
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