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1989 Mazda,Before,After,And Between.

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rbriggs   +1y
well this is the truck, like i said i started a little late with the updates on this project forum thing, but i got the truck for a good price, and like most minitruckers i couldnt wait to cut this bitz up, this photo was after the 4x4 front fenders and sanding down
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rbriggs   +1y
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botton bag bracket
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ran the dump/fill valves under wiper cowl, seeing how its gonna be shaved kinda wanted it hidden
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rbriggs   +1y
from front veiw
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and close veiw of rear 4 link
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front bag
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front (TEMP) set up going to run battery in back
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rbriggs   +1y
rear c notch horrible pic i know.. its from cellphone
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went ahead and shaved the tabs off the rotor...pain in the ass btw
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front bagset up, temp for now want new control arms
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rbriggs   +1y
now that the tabs are shaved off, i seen a guy at a redlight with big ass rims on his titan yelled at him for his stock rims and he told me to pull over long story short got these for 80$, went and got tires for em same weekend for 100$ for all for
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sanded,primered,sanded,sprayed,sanded,sprayed,wetsanded sprayed,
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rbriggs   +1y
Mean while a couple buddys and me spent a good while running all the wires for the bags,relays etc etc,
and got the bags working half way decent, running 2 vair 480s,a 5 gal tank ( i know so small..) and half inch valves and line,anyways its laying down there now....
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pic from the rear, sence im running a 4x4 bed and i cant find a single cab short 4x4 ANYWHERE this is a temporary setup for now...
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and the inside
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stripped it all out
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rbriggs   +1y
so its laying out now.....frame/crossmember at least
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rbriggs   +1y
after we got it bagged, i wanted to get rid of that ugly @$$ sand job, which btw this truck was painted at least 4 times, 1 of which had clear lolz WTF but yea started spraying it, i know its not in a booth,...its primer fellas lolz the color is gray primer, i just tinted it to a purple
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rbriggs   +1y
well im trying to keep yall to date on what i THINK we did it on i bought to truck august 25th 2010, and from the date on my phone that another pic was taken we finished bagging it and sprayed it on october 1st, not to fast i know, just like all jobs, and mine ( the army) time is about 1 1/2 day a week of work.
rbriggs   +1y
so we sprayed it and started buttoning her back together just to have a couple drag sessions in it and wait on the stupid cold here in colorado to hit us and start a trad/newfloor bodydrop; heres a couple pics of it after we buttoned it up to drive it around.
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you will notice some dings in the front fenders, yea dont ever try and hand roll your fender lips,that metal is a pos and as you see.....bends easy lol oh well
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