ND MX-5: Mark’s 2016 ND Build

[Conrad 16.5]

Went to a huge car show in Punta Gorda last Saturday, won best in class 2010-2020!

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Went to a southwest fl miata club dinner/meet Thursday night. Cool folks! Won the 50/50 and a door prize too!

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That's a beautiful green on the RF above! Too bad, in my opinion, the owner decided to stick Ferrari emblems on it...

 

[bazooka joe]

That's a beautiful green on the RF above! Too bad, in my opinion, the owner decided to stick Ferrari emblems on it...

Ya, he’s a pretty “eccentric” kind of guy, it’s kind of a joke….,the extra stickers don’t help either. It’s a great color and the wrap is done well!

 

[Conrad 16.5]

Kind of a joke is right. Those stickers look even worse than I first imagined. And that prancing horse on the rear bumper? That's hideous.

As I said though, love that color!

 

[CTt3P5]

Yeah, love that color on the RF, it was executed very well! Too bad he didn't go with debadging it vs. the Ferrari emblems. Also, if it were me, I would have paid a little more to have the emblem recess in the front bumper filled in prior to wrap.

 

[bazooka joe]

He did it as a conversation starter????
Boy is it a conversation starter. Apparently it’s ended up on the Ferrari site too…not to well received

 

[bazooka joe]

Last day in Fl until next yr, watch the sunset at the pier.

 

[CTt3P5]

Wow, that time went fast! What a great way to end it though, watching the sun set off the pier.

 

[bazooka joe]

Arrived in NC last week. Finally got to get the car washed and covered. The two car garage is full of moving boxes at the new house so she lives outside for a few weeks. Back to MA on the 27th if April.

 

[bazooka joe]

So I hate car covers to begin with….was heading out to a cars and coffee event yesterday and when I removed the cover I had 3 moisture spots under the clear coat . Tried heating it up with the hair dryer but it’s not hot enough, my heat gun is back home of course, I have it out in the sun today, hopefully they’ll dry out!

 

[CTt3P5]

That sux Mark! Hope those sun rays dry it out for you!

 

[Reitrof]

Ouch

 

[bazooka joe]

Nothing yet

 

[bazooka joe]

Going to by a cheap harbor freight heat gun today.

 

[bazooka joe]

Got it! Heat with a close eye on what your doing worked!

 

[Reitrof]

Nice, I have one of those guns and they work well.

 

[CTt3P5]

Happy to hear you got it fixed. I guess you won't be using a car cover anymore.

 

[Conrad 16.5]

So I hate car covers to begin with….was heading out to a cars and coffee event yesterday and when I removed the cover I had 3 moisture spots under the clear coat . Tried heating it up with the hair dryer but it’s not hot enough, my heat gun is back home of course, I have it out in the sun today, hopefully they’ll dry out!

I've never seen this happen to a car before. What do you attribute it to? Pin holes in the clear coat?

 

[bazooka joe]

I've never seen this happen to a car before. What do you attribute it to? Pin holes in the clear coat?

Not sure, I know this happens with the plastic covering that comes on new vehicles too! Happened to my cx5.

 

[bazooka joe]

So I was running a Goodwin exhaust I picked up for cheap for a few weeks. I was tunable, but I could never get the sound I wanted that didn’t leave me with a headache…..the drone when decelerating was so annoying and climbing hills as well. Just wasn’t for me. I put the HKS back on and fell back in love all over again!
with the Goodwin exhaust I could use my Verus diffuser either, without cutting it all up.

 

[Reitrof]

Did you have the helmholtz midpipe?