323f from the philippines

**Posted:** Sat Apr 14, 2012 6:55 am

Hi to all,

I've been going to this site for ages via the image search function on google haha. Your cars are awesome. Just thought about joining now when I started work on my recently acquired 323f.
This car has moved around members in our local mazda club here in the ph til it finally wound up in my hands.

Here she was when i traded in my 98 galant 8g for her.

She had her fair share of problems when I got her though so I started work on maintenance on engine oil leaks and whatnot.

Now I do apologize to all the purists out there but ever since childhood I have had a love for redesigning cars. So the next pic shows the new bumper i designed and fabricated for her.

Then i found out she had some rust on and the paint was starting to go in some places as well. Then her engine ecu got fried for some reason. So 2 months after I got her, she was stuck in my garage laying around. THen a rat got in the car and chewed up a bit of the front seat...This made me very sad. Luckily I had a customer come in who had me do a full body kit for his car so this gave me the money to rebuild the mazda.

First up I got a good deal on a BP engine swap:

then came the color change when we sprayed her over in my garage:

decided to go for a similar metallic gray with gold flake color to the mazda 3 we have here

had some red vinyl sticko to go on the side with some 323f lantis decals

and i redid the chin so here she is currently:

on 17s torques colored orange

also had someone redo the seats in red leather with gray fabric inlay.. since i had the materials here from a couch my mom had redone haha. So there, no more literally ratty seats

Thanks for looking. Have an awesome day to all

**Posted:** Sat Apr 14, 2012 7:14 am

oh p.s. here's a pic of my first car: my lil astina:

then i saw her again on a classifieds site a year after i sold her:

it even got a tramp stamp up front

**Posted:** Sat Apr 14, 2012 7:24 am

love the work you've done on your BA!!
seats look awesome and i rather quite like the front its very different!

i love the colour on he BG too, did you buy it that green or did you paint that one too?

**Posted:** Sat Apr 14, 2012 7:25 am

very nice mate

**Posted:** Sat Apr 14, 2012 7:38 am

Very nice indeed

**Posted:** Sat Apr 14, 2012 8:45 am

323F Rock wrote:

love the work you've done on your BA!!
seats look awesome and i rather quite like the front its very different!

i love the colour on he BG too, did you buy it that green or did you paint that one too?

Thanks! Been loving your rides from a distance too

Oh the bg is the very first car i painted. the stock color it came with was in this shade: That car had its fair share of horror stories too :lol:

**Posted:** Sun Apr 15, 2012 6:30 pm

Awesome work mate, that is a very nice colour, reminds me of my first BA which was thunder grey, love the front bumper, not sure if I like the bonnet, but long as you do thats all that matters

**Posted:** Sun Apr 15, 2012 6:55 pm

thanks man. I think this one's called meteorite grey. Yeah I would have liked to have kept the bonnet stock but it gets really hot here in this country so every bit helps :lol:

**Posted:** Sun Apr 15, 2012 11:17 pm

I'll be honest... I prefer the look of the car on the first pic with "MazdaSpeed" front lip

**Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2012 10:33 am

It's cool people have their own tastes that's why it's interesting to log onto clubs like these and find 101 flavors of the same ol vanilla

**Posted:** Tue Apr 24, 2012 4:44 am

hi guys. i just got these 16s rims in. They look awesome in their polished metal state but the problem is that their centercaps have gone missing. I can fabricate fiberglass centercaps for em but i won't be able to match the polished steel finish on the rim. Can you guys help me decide what color to paint em and if i should paint just the centerplate or til the rivets?

I'm putting them on a dark gray 96 mazda 323 with ms kits:

option 1: gunmetal ( is it too much grays since the car is gray)

option 2: inca gold

option 3: lighter gold

option 4: teal? ( i dunno why but i'm really attracted to this @_@ )

The golds are fine too but i've had gold rims on my cars for the past 4years haha

**Posted:** Fri Jun 22, 2012 10:56 am

interesting body kit
gives it a bit modern look

**Posted:** Fri Jun 22, 2012 11:11 am

niceeee, what alloys are they?

**Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2012 10:55 pm

Nice looking car, paint the wheels Black. I like black wheel centres

**Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 7:35 am

javemac wrote:

Hi to all,

I've been going to this site for ages via the image search function on google haha. Your cars are awesome. Just thought about joining now when I started work on my recently acquired 323f.
This car has moved around members in our local mazda club here in the ph til it finally wound up in my hands.

Here she was when i traded in my 98 galant 8g for her.

She had her fair share of problems when I got her though so I started work on maintenance on engine oil leaks and whatnot.

Now I do apologize to all the purists out there but ever since childhood I have had a love for redesigning cars. So the next pic shows the new bumper i designed and fabricated for her.

Then i found out she had some rust on and the paint was starting to go in some places as well. Then her engine ecu got fried for some reason. So 2 months after I got her, she was stuck in my garage laying around. THen a rat got in the car and chewed up a bit of the front seat...This made me very sad. Luckily I had a customer come in who had me do a full body kit for his car so this gave me the money to rebuild the mazda.

First up I got a good deal on a BP engine swap:

then came the color change when we sprayed her over in my garage:

decided to go for a similar metallic gray with gold flake color to the mazda 3 we have here

had some red vinyl sticko to go on the side with some 323f lantis decals

and i redid the chin so here she is currently:

made of performance parts

on 17s torques colored orange

also had someone redo the seats in red leather with gray fabric inlay.. since i had the materials here from a couch my mom had redone haha. So there, no more literally ratty seats

Thanks for looking. Have an awesome day to all

hi there! I'm a car enthusiast and I'm impressed with your photos. I wonder how much did you spent for that set-up, awesome. I hope that my car will be as good as yours soon. Cheers!

**Posted:** Sun Jul 08, 2012 1:26 am

Very clean ride, i like the sparkle grey a lot!
Is the front bumper totally self-made? to me it looks a bit like from a ford focus.
And why do you have a german license plate under your actual one?

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