by "Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa)
Published 05/17/2017 at 22:50
by "Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa)
Published 05/17/2017 at 22:50
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Fixed my lip fitment and polished my hardtop today! Also some idiocy on my part. Here’s a 50/50 on the hardtop:
Not stellar but better than it was. Need to sand it down more and polish again to get rid of more of the orange peel.
A lot better than it was, and it sparkles in the sunlight due to the metallic paint. For a $40 paint job I’m pretty pleased.
I also took a look at the fitment of my knockoff garage vary lip.
Not stellar.
file to the rescue! I also replaed the too-short plastic rivet with these I found at Autozone
I also bought some 3m trim tape but I was having issues getting it to stick to the lip. Ended up pressing the lip onto the tape while wearing a welding glove and hitting it with a heat gun set on high. Doubt it will last though...
Much better! Now for a wash...
I love the way this lip works. It’s just the right amount of rice for a car from this era and compliments the side skirts perfectly. There was one damper on my mood during all this though. I was a dumbass and set my polisher on the roof and it fell and made two nice dents in my door.
so now I see this in my driver’s rear view mirror
Gonna head to the PDR place tomorrow and get that fixed because I can’t live with that crap.
"avalonian" (avalonain19)
05/17/2017 at 23:45, STARS: 3
I feel like the Mazda emblem should be put back on the front. It looks kinda naked, but everything else looks amazing, I wish I had the balls to do this to my DD.
"daender" (daender)
05/18/2017 at 18:49, STARS: 1
I’ll keep this post in mind whenever I pull the trigger on that front lip.
...it might come after I create the NB2 equivalent of the 10AE’s interior.
"Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa)
05/18/2017 at 19:53, STARS: 0
What would *that* look like?
"daender" (daender)
05/18/2017 at 20:12, STARS: 0
I’m going to essentially need a whole Miata’s interior as mine is the tan option from being a LS-packaged car. Here’s the essential parts I need to pull the look off:
10AE’s blue carpet or a replacement in a similar shade. If I get one from a 10AE, I’ll make sure to wash it thoroughly. Supposedly E-Street guys at nationals reported a weight loss of between 10 to 20 pounds from deep-cleaning their original carpets.
Door panels and seats from either an ‘03 Shinsen or an ‘04 Azure Blue package. Both cars come with black interiors with blue seats (cloth or leather, I’m leaning more toward cloth even though the mesh will get torn up over time on the side bolsters) and black door panels with blue inserts. However, most of these cars have had their once deep-blue features faded to a mild-to-light blue. Also, the seats are monotone in color rather than the black with blue inserts found on the 10AE.
Alternatively, I could get regular door panels from a black interior NB2 (with the Bose speaker emblems because reasons) and paint the inserts to accurately match the 10AE’s shade. I could also get my seats re-covered with aftermarket skins to also match the 10AE carpet.
10AE blue boot cover, because I’m going full-retard.
10AE interior as a refresher:
The Shinsen interior, which is the same as the Azure blue except the Azure was painted sunset silver metallic instead of titanium like your ‘02 SE. Also the Azure had the option for the leather variant of the blue seats:
The rest of the interior could be easily sourced from any ‘01+ NB2. I would keep my wooden Nardi furniture and all the silver interior trim I salvaged from two separate ‘03 Miatas (one of which was a Shinsen). The convertible top would finally get switched to black (I’m thinking a Robins replacement), which finally completes my two-tone scheme for when I use either of the tops.
The final result will be unique to say the very least. It’s a combination of special editions that were never meant to be crossed. Wooden wheel, knob, and parking brake grip. Bright blue and black interior with matte silver interior trim. I’m sure everything will go well together except for the wooden trim. If that’s the case, then I’ll probably source a different Mazda Nardi wheel from another Miata or a JDM FD RX-7.
"daender" (daender)
05/18/2017 at 20:12, STARS: 0
I’m going to essentially need a whole Miata’s interior as mine is the tan option from being a LS-packaged car. Here’s the essential parts I need to pull the look off:
10AE’s blue carpet or a replacement in a similar shade. If I get one from a 10AE, I’ll make sure to wash it thoroughly. Supposedly E-Street guys at nationals reported a weight loss of between 10 to 20 pounds from deep-cleaning their original carpets.
Door panels and seats from either an ‘03 Shinsen or an ‘04 Azure Blue package. Both cars come with black interiors with blue seats (cloth or leather, I’m leaning more toward cloth even though the mesh will get torn up over time on the side bolsters) and black door panels with blue inserts. However, most of these cars have had their once deep-blue features faded to a mild-to-light blue. Also, the seats are monotone in color rather than the black with blue inserts found on the 10AE.
Alternatively, I could get regular door panels from a black interior NB2 (with the Bose speaker emblems because reasons) and paint the inserts to accurately match the 10AE’s shade. I could also get my seats re-covered with aftermarket skins to also match the 10AE carpet.
10AE blue boot cover, because I’m going full-retard.
10AE interior as a refresher:
The Shinsen interior, which is the same as the Azure blue except the Azure was painted sunset silver metallic instead of titanium like your ‘02 SE. Also the Azure had the option for the leather variant of the blue seats:
The rest of the interior could be easily sourced from any ‘01+ NB2. I would keep my wooden Nardi furniture and all the silver interior trim I salvaged from two separate ‘03 Miatas (one of which was a Shinsen). The convertible top would finally get switched to black (I’m thinking a Robins replacement), which finally completes my two-tone scheme for when I use either of the tops.
The final result will be unique to say the very least. It’s a combination of special editions that were never meant to be crossed. Wooden wheel, knob, and parking brake grip. Bright blue and black interior with matte silver interior trim. I’m sure everything will go well together except for the wooden trim. If that’s the case, then I’ll probably source a different Mazda Nardi wheel from another Miata or a JDM FD RX-7.
"daender" (daender)
05/18/2017 at 20:12, STARS: 0
I’m going to essentially need a whole Miata’s interior as mine is the tan option from being a LS-packaged car. Here’s the essential parts I need to pull the look off:
10AE’s blue carpet or a replacement in a similar shade. If I get one from a 10AE, I’ll make sure to wash it thoroughly. Supposedly E-Street guys at nationals reported a weight loss of between 10 to 20 pounds from deep-cleaning their original carpets.
Door panels and seats from either an ‘03 Shinsen or an ‘04 Azure Blue package. Both cars come with black interiors with blue seats (cloth or leather, I’m leaning more toward cloth even though the mesh will get torn up over time on the side bolsters) and black door panels with blue inserts. However, most of these cars have had their once deep-blue features faded to a mild-to-light blue. Also, the seats are monotone in color rather than the black with blue inserts found on the 10AE.
Alternatively, I could get regular door panels from a black interior NB2 (with the Bose speaker emblems because reasons) and paint the inserts to accurately match the 10AE’s shade. I could also get my seats re-covered with aftermarket skins to also match the 10AE carpet.
10AE blue boot cover, because I’m going full-retard.
10AE interior as a refresher:
The Shinsen interior, which is the same as the Azure blue except the Azure was painted sunset silver metallic instead of titanium like your ‘02 SE. Also the Azure had the option for the leather variant of the blue seats:
The rest of the interior could be easily sourced from any ‘01+ NB2. I would keep my wooden Nardi furniture and all the silver interior trim I salvaged from two separate ‘03 Miatas (one of which was a Shinsen). The convertible top would finally get switched to black (I’m thinking a Robins replacement), which finally completes my two-tone scheme for when I use either of the tops.
The final result will be unique to say the very least. It’s a combination of special editions that were never meant to be crossed. Wooden wheel, knob, and parking brake grip. Bright blue and black interior with matte silver interior trim. I’m sure everything will go well together except for the wooden trim. If that’s the case, then I’ll probably source a different Mazda Nardi wheel from another Miata or a JDM FD RX-7.
"Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa)
05/18/2017 at 20:45, STARS: 0
That’s a ton of work. The wood furniture might look a bit odd. Better send it to me instead so it can go with my dark brown interior accents. The blue is pretty cool though, that blue carpet seems like it’ll be a hurdle. Might look at some sort of water-based dye soak with a regular black carpet. Or a spray dye. I had really good luck spray-dying the headliner of my ‘97 Riviera black from light tan and it was exceedingly durable. A good dye would also work to change the color of the steering wheel grips, seat inserts, and shift boot since it permeates the material (IIRC) and is more than just a paint coat. People re-dye leather couches and such all the time and I don’t hear many horror stories of the finish flaking off so that might end up being a valid solution.
Also, have you foamectomy’d your surfboards? I went full retard with the foam cutting with my driver seat and it’s *FINALLY* comfortable for me and far more bucket-like. I’ll probably make a video out of doing my passenger seat since there is so little information on the internet about properly doing an NB2 seat foamectomy.
Silver interior trim is a good choice. My car has the silver trim, silver vent surrounds, and silver rings in the gauge cluster and silver door handles and it all feels very cohesive and nice. More car interiors need to embrace distinctly not-organic finishes like that instead of trying to do faux-wood or faux brushed aluminum or carbon fiber.
And speaking of mish-mash special editions my car is a: 2002 Special Edition, Mazda-not-speed, Club Sport edition. Come at me brah :P
"daender" (daender)
05/18/2017 at 20:55, STARS: 0
I don’t think the blue carpet will be as much as a hurdle for me, sourcing-wise, as it would be for most people. Luckily, Panic Motorsports is an hour away and they tend to buy a lot of NBs from Copart and auctions to part/salvage/convert them for Spec Miata. There were two 10AE’s last month going through the local Copart (one was destined to be a coworker’s future car before it got wrecked in transit) and I have a sneaking suspicion either one could’ve ended up at Panic.
I think installing the carpet and dash will be the largest (physically and mentally) challenges because of the amount of required to swap each item out. I feel confident enough to tackle the rest of the panels. The only thing stopping me from taking the plunge now is the fact I burned a $960-sized hole in my account to upgrade pop’s Ranger for carpooling purposes.
I’ll add Mazdaspeed springs in the future, I really dig the stance it gives your car!
"Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa)
05/18/2017 at 21:01, STARS: 0
SO jealous of your access to miata parts. Kansas is a wasteland for NBs. Yeah, my shocks and springs have settled in and... mmfh. I think it’s about .75" to 1" lower at this point and it’s damned purposeful looking. Also sits a little lower in the front than the rear which I don’t usually like but it honestly works pretty well.