Keeper of the Plains (in Wichita, KS):

High water:

Fallout shelter:

Red Rocks:



Garage:


Gas:

Winter:

Driving:

Brakes:

those are random pics... that car looks pretty no matter where it is. What wheels are those you have on it for the summer? I really like them.

The wheels are 17x7 Enkei RSV. By design, they look alot like these wheels:

But I didn't want to spend the money on the Racing Hearts like the Tri Point Mazdas, so I found these for about $130 each at Edgeracing.com and thought they were close enough.

My winter wheels are Konig Theory wheels that I bought off a fellow http://www.mazdas247.com member inexpensively. I'm in the process of repainting those wheels silver. I hate the bronze with the polished lip look. I still have the factory wheels. If I ever get into road course stuff, I'll mount some race rubber to those.

Covered in some Kansas "snow"- it's more like a little snow with freezing rain on top of it to seal it all together:

The short competition career of my car:

I was just looking at those very same wheels today in fact but they are 21 lbs for the 17" [img]http://coloradomazdaclub.com/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif[/img]

21 lbs?!?!?!? I can't find any info on Enkei's website, but Edgeracing lists the 17x7 RSV wheels as 17.5 lbs. A little over a pound per inch isn't too bad.

http://www.edgeracing.com/wheel/3642/

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21 lbs?!?!?!? I can't find any info on Enkei's website, but Edgeracing lists the 17x7 RSV wheels as 17.5 lbs. A little over a pound per inch isn't too bad.

http://www.edgeracing.com/wheel/3642/[/b]

Yeah I was at Discount Tire yesterday, and asked them what the 17" RSV weighed....they could wrong I guess, but my car weighs more than yours
and I would think the wheel for my car would need to be a bit stronger?

edit: I am totally wrong that same wheel is 17.5 in my size too!!!

Very nice random pics!

Sweet pics!

So MazdaTom, the disc brake pics, am I to assume you did a rear disc conversion on your ride?

Nope. The ES and the Mazdaspeeds came from the factory with rear discs- I think the Mazdaspeed's brakes are like .1" larger in diameter. What I'm showing in the picture is that the pad was worn down to the backing plate. I did that to the front pads as well. Not really bragging by any means, just showing the carnage.

Very nice pics bro.. I still love the color of that blue.. its sooo hot on those proteges and protege5's..

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Nope. The ES and the Mazdaspeeds came from the factory with rear discs- I think the Mazdaspeed's brakes are like .1" larger in diameter. What I'm showing in the picture is that the pad was worn down to the backing plate. I did that to the front pads as well. Not really bragging by any means, just showing the carnage.[/b]

that's nice, other brand cars in the same segment were NOT offering rear disc brakes at that time... the carnage
was from auto crossing I assume or do you have one heck of a lead foot.

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that's nice, other brand cars in the same segment were NOT offering rear disc brakes at that time... the carnage
was from auto crossing I assume or do you have one heck of a lead foot.[/b]

Actually, the carnage was from normal driving, although the car was autocrossed at least twice. I bought the car with just shy of 30,000 miles. Someone either intentionally broke off the pad squeakers or they somehow broke while being used- prior to my ownership.

Can't wait for next summer / spring! I wanna go autocrossin bad..