FD RX7 Dash Bezel Painting and New (to me) Seats
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Anyone in the FD RX-7 or other 90s JDM community knows that tracking down good parts is getting more and more difficult and expensive. I coughed up a lot of money on my interior restoration and still came up short finding a few good pieces. One of those for me was my bezel trim around the factory radio and air conditioning controls. Sure, they could be found online or searching forums and market places, but they always seemed to be just in bad of a condition as mine. Broken tabs, scratches, you name it. These seem to fetch an unreasonable price (often around $200 US) at that condition. I decided to tackle repairing mine and using SEM texture paint and top coats to make the trim like new again. I am really happy with the results and can’t recommend these products enough. This video shows the process and results. I also clean up a new set of OEM seats and get them ready to go into the car.
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Love the content, but if you don't mind, a few suggestions. I mean no offense by any of this, just an avid viewer and small time content creator.
You clearly put a good amount of time into your videos and, judging by the quality of wood working tools, you also spend a good amount of money on your hobbies. I think there is a bit of room for improvement with how you are currently documenting and/or vlogging from a viewer's perspective. I've watched just about every video you have made for the FD so far and I love the content, but, I tend to skip around a bit, not because of the content itself but your explanation of it. I find I am similar to you in how I want to convey my methodology and I tend to justify my logic on camera. Like you, I tend to reiterate things. You often verbally repeat yourself while showing the process of your restoration or modification, It's not a bad quality to have but it does disrupt the continuity for the viewer, what I mean is, the 15-20 seconds of reiteration tends to make me want to skip around the video. Trim the fat, if you will.
Your camera work is good and your audio is balanced well. You also do a fantastic job with giving the viewers all your findings and links to the products you use. I always try to use an affiliate link if one is available when I buy online. I like your process and it's clear you have a good eye for details, but expressing all the nuance verbally isn't always needed. I think you mentioned the distance thing with the SEM paint about four times in this video. Again, good information to know but have a bit more faith that your audience is smart enough to understand with one or two explanations/discoveries. Please don't take any of this the wrong way (as I reiterate, lol). I think you just have a good thing going and would love to see you with more subs.
By all means, I appreciate constructive criticism. If my way doesn’t appeal to my audience, I would be foolish not to adapt. My primary goal is to provide (preserve) the information for others, but if no one wants to watch my videos then it’s somewhat of a lost cause. I have a lot to work on. My UA-cam and project cars are, unfortunately, pretty far back on my priority list (kid, wife, business owner). So, I find the time when I can and sometimes it is rushed. As you probably know, it’s a little more challenging picking out your own “flaws”. It’s kind of like proofreading your own writing. I really do welcome feedback. It does help me improve. Thank you for taking the time to offer the advice!
When will you be publishing your novel?
@@IconGarage pretty much agree with this guy, it's the first video i've seen (interested in SEM texture), it's really good content, but it tend not to go to the essential enough for me :)
I can confirm that the thick electrical tape on the housing is from the factory. It was all over mine and quite a pain to get all of the adhesive off.
Awesome! It has become clear to me that someone has had most of this stuff out of the car at some point (even before b is for build). So, sometimes when I find things, I have no clue if that was Mazda or someone else’s handy work.
Another excellent video 👍
For the LEDs that are glowing all the time, there's obviously some low floating voltage on those circuits. Fitting LEDs that have a built in resistor (normally labelled as canbus compliant?) should sort that.
ALMOST 10K SUBS! I hope it helps with the cost of the build! Great job with that cant wait to see it all in and together. The seats also look clean. KEEP IT UP!
Thanks! Oddly 10k has been a tough step. It’s all fairly tough to be honest. UA-cam is huge and a very competitive market. The FD content is fairly niche. Financially speaking, it is not very much money. I’m probably making 50 cents per hour of my effort, if not less. It’s really view based and you probably need to have at least 50k to 75k views per day to make any sort of “living” on UA-cam ads alone. Having an automotive channel is even more challenging because of the expense of tools/parts/labor. That’s why most try to do some sort of Patreon and merch store to help offset the cost. That’s part of the reason we have seen more and more car giveaways lately. My expense to revenue ratio is probably 20:1 or 25:1. And that doesn’t include the cost of the cars themselves!
I recently used spazz stix chrome spray with floor wax and the lighting for the housings of the cluster and the HVAC look so beautiful.
Nicely done. I wish a great 2020, with a finished Mazda and another project on going. Unfortunately you won’t be restoring the 2 “old” cars I have (1993 Brazilian Ford Escort XR3 Convertible and a 1997 Land Rover Discovery) and so we won’t be exchanging experiences. Greetings from Brazil.
I would love to get this thing wrapped up in 2020. The engine rebuild is going to be costly so I am going to have to save up and plan for that over time.
looks great!
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Thank you for your detailed content !
Too detailed? Lol
That was an amazing job on that panel Mate. 👌 It looks mint.
Thanks! I’m waiting to see how durable it is. It feels solid, but only time will tell.
looks really good imo!
Looks better in person. It’s a really good option and looks factory.
Looking great. Keep up the good job.
Thank you! We will get done eventually.
@@IconGarage Can't wait to see the project finished. 🚘👍
Great vids good content camera work and audio better than many other channels on YT.
Nice to see how far you have come, looks fantastic, great job, keep up the great work, love your attention to detail.
Thanks Alistair. I try to get better with each video. I’m going to try to put more effort into the channel in 2020.
have a great new year and i hope your chanel break out in 2020.
great job as always.
That would be awesome! Happy new year to you too!
I want to see time lapse when you are doing things so i could see how you are doing its not the proper way to learn but i will gonna get the idea how to do
Since you basically restored the whole interior of the car, what have you used for the rubber door seal? Since they are old as the car I suppose, they won't be as good as new, so maybe you have done something and can give me some tips. Wishing you the best for 2020.
The rubber on my car is in good condition. I think the door seals and rear hatch seals can be purchased through Mazda. Might check with Atkins Rotary.
How did you go about getting those deeper scratches nice and smooth? Build up primer?
Hey man! Just bought my FD. I was wondering how this stuff help up over the past year or two?
Looks like new. I keep the car in a garage when I am not driving. It sits outside when I drive it to work, but I don’t think it sees much sun/heat. I am happy how it has turned out. The real test would be something like the door trim that sees more wear. It’s all in the surface prep.
How ya get the stickers off for the heater dials?
How you get the sticky coat of them plastics?