Monthly Archives: March 2018

The Road(Ster) Trip – Miami in a gold fashion

I’ve been many times to Florida in my life, but never to organize Miata meetings. I’m glad I’ve been able to do so, it’s been over 10 years I deal with awesome customers from this state and it was the time to give back.

Funny enough, many of the people who attended both events met me during Miatas At The Gap. During the first part of my Road(Ster) Trip, I’ve had A LOT of driving and it was time for me to relax just a little. I decided to stay 4 weeks in Florida to catch up with emails, orders and take a bit of (me) time.

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

 

Wynwood (Miami)

And here is the last time someone saw my car in its grey form. I decided to do a photoshoot in one of my favorite spot in Miami : Wynwood District.

 

The biggest highlight of this trip was the fact that I decided to change the color of my car without really telling anyone. I wanted something that would be unique, yet keep some of the classiness of the car. I went with Autoflex (made by Plastidip) which is a liquid vinyl with a clear coat that you spay on the vehicle to change the color, but most importantly, to protect the paint underneath. I knew I had a very long way to go on my trip, so if I could keep my Machine Grey color intact underneath, it would be awesome.

 

The result was pretty awesome, I was ready for a disaster, but it ended up looking pretty sweet.

 

Miami

This was just weeks before the Hurricane Irma happened. The weather really was AGAINST us, it was raining for a few days, but we still managed to do the meeting. I took pictures of pretty much all of those who came to the event! As usual, we went to a craft beer spot : The Tank Brewing Co. Here are some pictures of the event~

Neat NB with 15” Enkei RPF1-RS Wheels :

NC with some extra power~

Matt (Captain Slow)’s NC

Nice NC rocking Nissan R32 Wheels & the Garage Vary Eyelids

My friend Erik I met at Miatas At The Gap

And then, a whole bunch of people came up, it really was an awesome event!

Oh and a non-Roadster came, too!

 

At one point, the brewery staff offered us to bring the ND Demo Car inside of their bar for a location, that was pretty great!

 

After the event, we went for a little drive in Miami and ended up doing an awesome photo with the city landscape (which ended up on Mazda USA’s Instagram and landed 5.8k likes, really proud of this one)! It really shows the beauty of the 17” Advan RZ Wheels as well as the Rallybacker ND Low Ducktail Spoiler.

MazdaUSA’ post : click here. (https://www.instagram.com/p/Bbuft6XjHnj/?taken-by=mazdausa)

 

I hope you enjoyed this post about the Miami event! More to come in the next weeks~

 

 

 

The Road(Ster) Trip – Visit at R-Speed & drive South with new mods

I usually only do blog posts about cities & meets I organize, this one is a little different. I found out I kind of forgot to post some very nice upgrades that I did on my demo car (and some of them were temporary, you’ll read about it in the next blog posts…)!

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

After I organized the Atlanta Meet, I went at my friend Joe’s shop (R-Speed) to have some work done on my car.

 

R-Speed

It’s one of the pioneer in the Miata tuning community. Everyone who works there knows a lot about Miatas and are very friendly (talk to Hector, you’ll see what I mean). They will solve ANY problem in term of mechanical work on all years Miatas, I couldn’t recommend them more. I went up there to install some small parts, but the main piece we had to do were the Odula ND Side Skirts! You can also see the very nice Rallybacker ND Low Ducktail Spoiler and Odula ND Rear Diffuser. Due to the reduction of clearance, we also raised the car height by about 5-10mm as otherwise the side steps were way too low.

 

For those who don’t know much about R-Speed, it’s a very cool shop specialized in Miatas, down the road near Atlanta.

 

You’ll always be able to find the spare part you’re looking for…

 

… or the spare car!

 

Another thing we did was to install some fresh Advan Center Caps onto my Advan RZ 17×8 Wheels. We also swapped my lug nuts for some very nice Project Kics Leggdura RL53 Lug Nuts.

As it had been one (very) long week, I decided to cool it off at my favorite spot in Atlanta : Monday Night Brewing and meet some Roadster Friends (unfortunately, camera died before I could take pictures of their cars).

 

And here are some different angles of the Odula ND Side Steps :

 

You can see it flows pretty well with the TK Style ND Front Lip :

 

Drive to the South

As I left Atlanta, I decided to take some pictures on the road as I believe the scenery was really nice and it was just another reason to take photos of my car. At one point, I drove by an abandoned Gulf gas station and couldn’t believe how beautiful it was… the sky and everything, so dark.

 

And then it was time to hit the road again…

 

I hope you enjoyed this picture-heavy blog post about some small changes on my car… will continue updating the Road(Ster) Trip posts as much as I can in the next weeks!