Lets Hit The Town!

This is how Gil and the 'Bow roll out 60% of the time, everytime.

Straight out of retirement! A second coming!

Before you read this blog take a second and press play and this youtube video before u procede itll be a nice background song that really sums up this post 

After selling my STi and my Ruckus I really needed a car to commute from home and to school my dad was getting mad that we were sharing his truck and i never put gas in it! lol! 

So i began my  search with a small budget in mind...a whooping $2000 budget i began to comb craigslist every 1 hour to find my new miata...after driving 7 piece of crap miatas i finally found sean. 

He was already retired sitting in his garage reminiscing about days gone bye when his previous owner would play "I, Swear-All 4 One" with the top down through the tape player.

After driving almost an hour to riverside with "chocolate face" and "Paul walker black shirt", we arrive at the previous owners house.  We wait outside for almost an hour and he finally comes out and pulls this bad boy out covered in dust hasnt been driven in weeks.  All we could say was "DAMN!! thats clean!"

We take him for a spin around the block and come back start negotiations and leave with my 1994 miata 

121k 

new clutch 

new top 

great condition 

The next day I take it to get washed and pick up a new Nikkor 17-55 f2.8 and obtain these images in stock form of the miata

It was stock for about a two weeks the stock ride height was ridiculous and i couldnt drive a stock car for long so we got some springs (shout out to renald valdez) and found a really cheap roll bar on clubroadster.net for $160

Week 2 

The rims were small and i came across this set of slipstreams Maricris had at her parents house and threw them on for shits and giggles 

Week 3

 

                           

Week 3

"Offset is everything"

Et +45 is a very weak offset on a miata so i threw the slips up forsale and found something slightly more aggressive on the miata 

XXR 513 15x7 +15 

not crazy but sat a whole lot better 

One of my favorite mods to do on any car i own is to purchase OEM lips for my cars so i grabbed this cracked lip of craigslist, nothing some zipties couldnt fix =) 

Fitment is good and all but with stock fenders you cant really get anywhere so i hit up Albert @ AWDFitted (AWDFITTED.blogspot.com) and he rolled my fenders so perfectly if your in the southern cali area hit my boy albert up hes great!! 

Week 4

Racelands finally came back in stock so I ordered them right when i got home got them installed and slammed the car to the ground! 

(shout out to Mark Innocentes and King of Thailand) 

Week 6

After a few weeks i was finally able to sell those damn wheels! I really enjoyed the stepped lip but was not a fan of the faces...

I was able to get a set of Axis OG in great condition 

Week 8

and this is how the car sits today 

-Low to the earth

-Blown Shocks

-And happy to be alive

I really enjoy this car and sometimes i wonder if sean is thinking "what the hell happened to me, one day i was sitting in my garage enjoying my time off...now im all dressed up and getting driven all day" 

This is only the beggining i never modified a car this fast and cant wait to see what the future holds for this car so the skys the limit! 

bonus clip how i get up steep drive ways

Did it fit? or Did it fail?!? - The Introduction

Everyone meet "Charlotte."

 

She brought many memories to many people. She brought the annual beach party to the "Surf Ninja's." Charlotte was the little car who kept giving and never asked for anything in return. Sadly after blown suspension, warped rotors, 0% brake pads, and needing every possible scheduled maintenance asked by the Mitsubishi handbook, she had to leave us. 

But she didn't leave us alone and helpless. Instead she left us with "Valerie (2006 Nissan 350z)." From the birth of this we shall build new memories and put smiles back on those old familiar faces as well as the news ones in the near future. 

Everyone meet "Valerie."

And with Valerie joining the family, brings to you a new game we can all enjoy! DID IT FIT?! or DID IT FAIL?!

 

3 Cases of Coronas?!

It Fits!!!

Valerie only holds 3 cases of 24 packs. =*( clearly not the car you want for bringing supplies.

16 Normal Size Balloons & 3 Large Balloons?!

 It FAILS! =(

We managed to fit 16 Balloons in the car, but as you can see completely unsafe! Luckily Keith came to save the day. How many cars does it take to transfer 19 balloons? One 350z and one Scion Tc. Thank you Keith!

Well people that's all for now. Stay tuned for many more adventures of DID IT FIT?! or DID IT FAIL?!

Adding A Little Rice To Our Diet Part 2: L.E.D Crazzziee

PART ONE OF THIS PROJECT(click here)

DISCLAIMER:

The following post was not intended  to support ricers. the intentions of these SMD LEDs is to add a little class to our cars by providing a luxurious lighting effect. Do not trying this alone. Getting into LEDs alone will eventually cause you to go overboard and thus turning you into a ricer......... Enjoy our post!!

Still on the search for LEDs for Gil's Miata, Gil and Jeff meet up at Jeff's house to plan out which new shops to hit up that might have the license plate light. Since it was already 7pm, Gil's hope for buying his lights die on Jeff's drive way. But a new hope arises since JLC, in  San Gabriel, are open til midnight. Gil and Jeff stop by Starbucks to meet up the rest of the crew and begin their adventure to JLC Lighting.

Visitors: Ryan Patao, Irone Brion

Chris Dungca

Keith Suprimido

J.C Blaza

Alice Chen

Renald Valdez

Jack The Wiener Dog

                                            

   

And now for Today's Project

Keith's Scion Tc (Angela) makes her Blog debut and starts off the project by installing SMD LEDs to his front parking lights, front passenger dome light, rear passenger dome light and both map lights

The 'Bow begins with the front parking lights

Stock Parking Bulb

SMD LED from JLC Lighting

LED installed

 Stock halogen

LED

Before

After

Now for the interior lights

The front interior housing consist of driver map light(left), front dome light(middle), passenger map light(right)

Toyota conveniently provide instructions inside the housing

Abo struggling to remove the bulb

As does Gil

.....meanwhile, Chis is hard at work with Keith's Mom's Chicken Adobo

Eventually they remove the stock bulbs and replace it with the LEDs

Before

After

Time for the rear passenger dome light

Abo converting the mm bulb to the LED panel

PWNED

Angela finished with her make over

G's turn to replace the Side door step courtesy lights

Abo figuring out how to remove the housing

....Mean while....... Jeff and Keith discuss their political views, global warming, equal rights, animal testing, stem cell research and..... black dildos

After such an engaging convo with keith, Jeff helps out the 'Bow with the housing. Also the G is still shining from Abos previous work FOUND HERE

Abo finally removes the stubborn housing

Step light before

Step light After

All done

Abo also stepped it up buying JLC's brightest set of LED panels for his map light (The 'Bow doesnt even use his map light it is off by default)

Why Abo why!?!?!?

POST PROJECT PICTURES

Angela lighting a storm

Angela View from rear

Valerie's View from rear

G's interior

G's trunk

VQ Rears

Time to call it a day

Once again we like to thank Jack Zeng from JLC Lighting for his accurate bulb knowledge of all our cars and his great hospitality. Will this be the last time the crew messes with LEDs? Stay Tuned To Find Out!!!!........

POST PROJECT COMMENTS:

LEDs add a cleaner look to your car's lighting

Bulbs are still hot when trying to remove

30 LEDs (15x2) for your dome light is down right scary