- All right guys, this is the big one.
Welcome back to episode five of the Mazda RX-8 build.
We are about to load this sick girl up on a trailer.
We are bringing it down to Oshkosh Wisconsin
to one of my buddies shops,
where he's gonna help us wide body this car finally.
It's crazy that it's coming so fast
but it's about to happen.
Got the lions kit, V1 wide body kit, ready to rock and roll.
We got some side skirts we'll be loading up too.
And we're going to take it down there
and he's going to help us cut the fenders,
weld them up, seal them, and then make sure
that all the mounting holes and stuff are drilled
so we can install this kit.
Once that's done, we going to
bring it back here and get it ready for the next steps.
But we're going to be loaded
up on the trailer really soon here.
Dustin should be here any second.
You've watched Custom Offsets at all.
You'll recognize him
but he's going to help us tow this thing down to Oshkosh.
Let's get this girl a little loaded up.
(upbeat music)
♪ We're driving down the boulevard ♪
♪ Cruisin' with the windows down ♪
♪ Feelin' like we run this town ♪
♪ Your song is on the radio ♪
♪ The one you always liked ♪
♪ That one that always gets you psyched ♪
♪ Girl give me a reason ♪
♪ Even when it aint enough ♪
♪ Honin' and believing ♪
♪ Show me what we got in love ♪
♪ Girl give me a reason ♪
♪ Even when it aint enough ♪
♪ Honin' and believing ♪
♪ Show me what we got in love ♪
♪ In love, show me what we got in love ♪
All right guys, so today we're going to start cutting
into the Mazda RX8.
We're here at my buddy, Randy's shop.
He's going to help us out with this and yeah
we're just going to get her up in the air.
- Take wheels off and see where we gotta cut
and go from there.
- Perfect.
(upbeat music)
♪ Honey I, honey I, I got what you want ♪
♪ Give me all your love 'cause it's burning hot ♪
♪ It's what you do to me ♪
♪ Babe I can guarantee ♪
♪ Honey I, honey I, I got what you need ♪
♪ Yeah, under the night sky I want your eyes all on me ♪
(funky upbeat music)
♪ Leather jacket though it's too cold ♪
♪ Saw your face in a crowd and I think we locked eyes ♪
♪ Heard she's perfect, yeah, she's beautiful ♪
♪ Never thought you'd be here it took me by surprise ♪
♪ I met you in the doorway, of a friend of a friend ♪
♪ Never thought I would see you this soon but ♪
♪ Hope she really loves you ♪
♪ 'Cause I swear you deserve everything ♪
(funky music)
All right, so we've got the front passenger side cut.
We've got the rear passenger side cut.
Things are getting crazy.
Now I got a lot of questions.
Like why wide body the RX8? It looks really nice.
This is why.
So when I bought the car, I knew that it had a little bit
of rust going on in the rear quarter panels.
And I was like, all right..
- How bad?
Well, from the outside, it doesn't look like it,
because this is all you saw from underneath.
It's like, Oh, okay. It's a little bit.
But you don't realize
that it goes all the way up inside here.
And like, that's a good amount of rust. So just cut it out.
- Yeah.
- Wide body it.
- It was bad enough to a point where it's starting
to separate like that.
- Yeah, that just did it.
So, if you ever wondered why I wanted the wide body
the RX8. It was the intention from the beginning.
When I went and checked out the car, saw the rust.
I knew, buying it, intentions of wide bodying it right away.
- All right, so, with this is not finished
but I'm going to finish cleaning it up,
make it look as good as the front one.
Round it out, get rid of the sharp edges,
probably trim this up, get it to fold up,
so you can weld everything together and then seal it.
And then we'll move on to the other side
which is the same process.
It's on the driver's side of the car.
And then tomorrow, we're going to come back.
We're going weld everything shut,
we're going to (indistinct)
these, so it doesn't get any moisture in it
and any grit and grime and dust.
And then we're going to mark everything out,
drill holes in the wide body, probably put the rib nuts in
and give her a good solid test fit.
(grinder sounds)
(upbeat music)
- So fenders are all cut and cleaned up, all four corners.
Now, next is the weld up the rears, seal everything,
and then start drilling holes for the mounting
of the actual fenders, getting everything lined up there.
And then, yeah, just kind of keep moving forward.
How has the process been so far?
- Surprisingly pretty easy.
These cars take, you know, the cutting
with all the inside shaping of the fender walls.
They take it pretty well.
So, I mean, it's actually going pretty fast
as you can tell. We're about four or five hours
into it and it's almost halfway done.
- Awesome.
- Yeah.
(upbeat music)
(grinder noises)
(welding noises)
- Hell yeah, brother.
So we got the driver's side flares on all pretty
much good to go here.
Looking absolutely killer. I love this kit.
Like I said, this is the lions kit V1, fits really nice.
Everything that came with it seemed to go in really nice.
And now we're just gonna do the same on the other side.
- Yep. Yeah, pretty much done.
I mean, all we gotta do is throw the washes on,
throw the rest of the hardware in,
and just pretty much ready to roll,
and then just the same with the other side.
- Yeah. So we're going to kind of get out of Randy's
hair a little bit. Let him finish up the other side.
And then the next time we'll see
this will be a tone it back up to work.
So we will see you guys then.
(upbeat music)
All right guys. So here it is.
The official wide body Mazda RX8.
I think it came out pretty damn good.
Randy did an absolute killer job.
So thank you, Brian Randy Seven Sons garage
for knocking this out for us
in a matter of a weekend, which is absolutely incredible.
It looks great.
There's just some minor tweaks and adjustments to make
on the kit itself to get it to sit a little more flushed.
But overall, we didn't really have to do any major trimming
of the kit at all to get it to fit,
which I think is absolutely killer.
We threw some spacers
on the artists elders for the meantime, while we wait
on some multi-piece wheels to get made up for this thing.
But using the resources that we had
we were able to get the rears damn near perfect.
Now, however, the fronts are causing us a little
bit of issues, kind of flip-flop of what we saw a stock body
with the fronts, they tucked in super hard
which is absolutely crazy.
That ride height.
It looks perfect, actually a little bit pokey,
which is exactly what I was looking for,
but the camber arc on these cars is absolutely insane.
So when the sink airs out
the fronts just don't stop going in.
So it looks a little kind of bunk in the front right now
but we're just going to use that
as reference when we submit the measurements
for the multi-piece wheels, to make sure
that this thing is going to look absolutely killer.
But like I said, the rears pretty damn good.
Pretty damn good.
So let's go ahead and wrap it up for
this episode of the Mazda RX8 build.
She's officially wide body. I'm super happy.
Thank you guys so much for watching and of course
following this build and just being a part of it.
I can't be more thankful.
Don't forget wheel, tires, suspension, fitmentindustries.com
and stay tuned next Monday
for the next episode of the Mazda RX8 build,
it's gonna get a little wild, a little spicy.
I'm gonna be throwing the big country lab's wing on,
as well as a carbon fiber splitter.
It's going to be hot.
- Rolling. Don't worry, man. You the man. (laughter)