Joe Maddox Rx7

Time to paint! Now I made a seemingly foolish but in time smart decision to paint both rx7s at once. We have been have seriously bad smoke with our constant wildfires here in the PNW and this day was perfect and the next was to shift the smoke from Bend back on us. It turned out well and I'm very happy! And the smoke came back the following day and continues still.

Joe Maddox Rx7

Which brings us back to here:

I was exhausted 😴 but i did good.

Good shine, smooth.



I absolutely love these wings

I also ended up repainting the 2JZ value cover for the "final stage" white comet. I am referring to the right hand drive infini as the "final stage" white comet because the rotary engines dead and no longer made and this is how it would stay in the battle. 😆

Joe Maddox Rx7

Time to assemble!

I first got started bringing out all the boxes of new parts i had been gathering. Almost everything on this car will be new. It's exciting and tedious but slowly its coming together!

The trinity 🙌

Getting it untapped and putting on new parts!


Every single bolt, nut, screw, seal, gssket and plastic is new on this car 💙

Smoked 👌

Attention to detail means every clip.

I love bi color turn signals and jdm flash to pass lights!

White/black/silver

Pity to cover it all

Reclaimed auto

Joe Maddox Rx7

The "final stage" white comet is also coming together really well. I am some plumbing and a few wires from firing it up and the body and interior are coming along nicely!

Joe Maddox Rx7

Update time!!!

Ok where to start, ummmmm well I love this car:


This was on my 40th birthday. The weather was nice that day, roads clear and while its still hard to stomach the burnt hills it was a nice drive. 👌


I got a bit distracted building the 2003 miata with Liam and Becky. They wanted to get it buttoned up and so I ended up finishing that project up. This was my first time working on a mazda that was not an rx7. Im not really a miata guy, it's like a little fd. While I thought the fd was cool I really love my fc's.

Liam was stoked, we might make a build thread about its process.

It got a full detail and is practically new. We ordered some Corbeau forza seats for it, cloth black.


Here was his motors first start (minus a 02 sensor making the exhaust loud af)



We bought some MS01R Mazdaspeed 15 inch rims, wrapped them in Advans. Full factory kit and some oem bezels for the lights. Found some OEM mica splash green and got most everything resprayed and looking good. 👌



New projection lights and bezels with a freshly painted to match lip!

New megan Racing exhaust, strut bars and rear bezels freshly painted. Now back to the 2jz rhd infini, gtus and 10ae over there 😆

Joe Maddox Rx7

So 8 weeks came and left and I got my stitches out!

It went well,might have some permanent tingles

Healed great though!

A week after the stitches were removed it was like it never happened, all three holes are not even noticeable. I highly recommend this if your wrists go bad.


Now 6 months of healing, so naturally i decided to get back to the GTUs!

It took me a few to remember where i left off...

I gathered everything up, threw on a new clutch and started getting ready to put the motor in!

Joe Maddox Rx7

Unfortunately I had to pause again, I needed more space. It was time to build the shop. I figured I could do it one handed and by myself 😆 so I started at making three new bays for the GTUs, RHD Infini rocketbunny and the 10th Anniversary Edition. I got a ladder, a Milwaukee drill and saw and a level and measuring tape and started getting it all together!

So I knocked down the old walls and built a second floor for storage. Then laid gravel, poured a foundation, set the walls, roof and house wrapped it.

Now i have plenty of space to finish the GTUs! Looks good on the ground with all the suspension and brakes done. Time to get the new Works rims, Apexi dual N1 exhaust and the wiring finished up. Ill be running a lot of things and would like redundant relays for things.

I also built this shop for it. Wired it with new panel boxes with all new wires from the transistor. Now i can run a few lifts, phase 3 compressors and all the heaters and lights i want! I got a full HVAC system for the shops as well!

Now this spot caused problems because it made the family start talking about what to fill it with 😁

Oh yeah, I got lifts!

Joe Maddox Rx7

So we all started talking about what cars we might want to fill that spot, liam and becky suggested that I get another classic 60s car. I hesitated on that idea and jokingly suggested maybe they should. Liam jumped on that opportunity after I implied I would be down to help him with a restoration. Well sh*t, he jumped on it and went and found a 66 pontiac super project and bought it 😆

As stoked as he was on this project it wasnt going in the shop. So we all started talking about what we all might want and again ended back up on newer classics.

Joe Maddox Rx7

Ok a little back story on why we started talking classics. We all have corner cars. We have the holy Trinity of fc's and the limited edition rx7 is soooo stock and mint its a trailer queen we drive on perfect days and nights.


And we went up and down the peaks in the miata all summer long. He got bored of driving it 😆



We thought about another turbo car like a Nissan or Toyota but the 7s cover all that. So we needed a muscle car, a modern one.

Joe Maddox Rx7

I have been a fan of rx7s since my first one in 1999. I think the rotary is amazing and fun. However I love 60s classic cars! I have had a lot of them from 66 impala super sports to the plymouth gtx. Sometimes I had one to drive for each day of the week 😆


When i lived in apartments my cars would take up the whole block 😆

I would switch around which two i was driving that week and keep the rest in storage units. Id drive my catalina or monte carlo and becky would drive her grand prix

My favorite combination of car was this. A 69 dodge superbee and a 66 pontiac catalina. Fast or cruise, bright or brutal, bling or bullet.

And crusing 60s pontiacs with your wife is a must in life.

But apartments hated us and we moved to the suburbs.

Which still is rough. At times storage is full and when i get new ones i need to park them in neighbors who are kind enough to share 😆

Love thy neighbor 😆

But they were all so clean!