Monthly Archives: December 2017

The Road(Ster) Trip – Miatas At The Gap (MATG)

Miatas At The Gap is an event I’ve been attending for the past 2 years (and also been there about 8 years ago). I always look forward meeting new friends and driving a little too fast! Here’s the only picture I got from 8 years ago with my NA Demo Car :

***I’D LIKE TO APPOLOGIZE FOR HOW LATE I’M CREATING THOSE BLOG POSTS, BUT I’M CATCHING UP WITH LIFE***

It all started at the small cabin I rented, the morning I arrived, I met with some long time customer (Jaime, with Garage Vary Tail Lights & Nakamae Type-R Seats (plus lots of interior goodies) as well as a forum legend (username was Doppelganger, now running a Mazdaspeed NB with 17” TE37)… for those who know about him!

This year was no different than before, lots of driving, meeting new friends, trying craft beers and discovering new roads (beers were after driving, of course).

 

I started by having my new REV9 Door Decals (available soon) done in Carbon Fiber to give it a “phantom look”, made by my friend Scotty:

We did organize a meeting and there was a bit of misinformation about it… we ended up being only 2 people for the first hour. Then, a bunch of people arrived!

There was this cool NC rocking the Garage Vary Front Lip and Garage Vary Front Grille Insert:

That red car parked next to him drove all the way from Texas (we actually met last year) and he was really slow… (actually, he was the fastest out of our group):

There was also this ND which I had a very hard time keeping up with until I realized he had tuned ECU ^_^

And those flashy Floridians which we later became best friends~

That’s a lot of loudness here:

After the event, we went for some rolling shot, and it turned out pretty good! I had finally decided to install the Zeromotive Aeroguard-II and I can tell you that it saved my TK-Style Front Lip from being destroyed (Thanks for my friend Jonathan for the awesome shot).

And, after that, a little group of us decided to go for some fun driving… ^_^

I ended up chasing two white FC3S RX-7 with serious oil leakage issue as I had difficulty breathing when I was following them -_-

 

We finally stopped to enjoy the beginning of the sunset (and let engine cool down)

^^ This shows how the Odula Rear Diffuser looks with the Integral Kobe Type-US Muffler as well as the Rallybacker Low Ducktail Spoiler~

And even my friend from this morning found us (cool shot of his Runabout M2 Mirrors):

We finally headed back to Fontana Village to go for a craft beer exchange and did a very last photoshoot :

It was an awesome event that I look forward doing again, even though it’s a straight 20+ hours drive from home. It’s always great to meet other enthusiasts, get scared driving the Dragon and make friends. The blog post of the next event I organized is actually already online, check it out : Road(Ster) Trip – Charleston Meet & Road(Ster) Trip – Atlanta Meet

Our 2017 Holiday Schedule

Hey everyone, as you may have noticed, Christmas/New Year holidays are just around the corner!

We’d like to inform you about the holidays and shipping schedule for the next 2 weeks or so!

 


 

Shipping Schedule

The shipping schedule (packing and shipping) at our warehouse will be available on week days as usual, but will be down from 29th of December to 3rd of January. There will be no parcel sent during those dates, everything will resume from 4th of January.

 

Production Schedule

The production schedule depends on every different shop. Some more mainstream products will be available throughout the holidays, but the smaller company will usually take vacations from 28th of December to 4th of January. There is a holiday on 8th of January, so it’s possible that some manufacturers will be unavailable until 9th of January.

 

Delays To Expect

We will try to inform every customer who place an order with an accurate estimate on when the product will ship. It is possible that this estimate is not ready until 4th or 5th of January due to holidays in Japan. Every order placed after 25th of December cannot be guaranteed our regular 5-10 business days timeframe (due to multiple holidays and the shipping schedule mentioned above). Expect 1 to 3 business days extra wait on regular items and for special order items, we will contact you with an estimate. Regular order timeframe resumes on 9th of January.

 

Support/Questions

For those with questions relating to products, we will continue working during holidays, but the answer may come later than usual due to the holidays.

 

In a hurry?

If you are in a hurry, it’s best to either contact us before placing the order or waiting after the holidays, as shops are taking time off and we mostly cannot provide shipping estimate or process the order quick.

 

Relax and enjoy time with friends & family, it just happen once a year~

Delays on Jet Stream Orders

Hey everyone, we know many of you ordered some Jet Stream products in the past few months from us. As usual, if there is longer-than-usual wait time, we inform customers about it. Most customers got their products shipped on time, but 2 recent (exceptional) events may have slowed down the process on a few orders.

We contacted many of you earlier this month to inform you of delays on your order. Unfortunately, all orders who didn’t ship yet will be delayed an additional 10 days on top of our first estimate due to second incident that happened.

 

 

Event 1 : Owner’s car accident

On November 21st, Jet Stream owner got involved in a bad car crash. He had to get some screws in his spine, stitching and needs to stop working for 3 months. He is helping with work schedule, but cannot work on the products by himself to speed up the process.

 

Event 2 : Son is hospitalized

On December 20th, heavy stress and being overworked led the son’s owner to get bronchial virus and needs to be hospitalized and have an operation. Now the production is stopped for 10 days so he can recover fully.

 

What you need to know

Jet Stream is a very small family owned company. They are only 2 employees (owner and son) and sometimes have helpers for small tasks. They keep the company small to ensure providing with the best quality parts with fitment up to par with the best manufacturers in the industry. They really take pride in their work and would not want to compromise quality by hiring unskilled workers. We hope you understand that these items are limited and high quality and that they want to ensure that even though production is slowed down, every customer will get a perfect fitting product.

 

We really would like to apologize for this although it’s exceptional, out-of-our-control events. We hope it won’t affect your builds and we look forward sending you the awesome products made by Jet Stream.