Meet Moss and Roy

This is a little overdue, but it’s been almost a month (4/25/09) since Justin has owned his ’05 White Water Pearl RX-8 GT.  We went down to the South Bay to pick it up at the seller’s house and while we were there I took some before shots.  The car itself is pretty fancy – leather heated seats, 6 disc cd changer with an ipod thingie, auto dim rear view mirror, piano black trim, etc.  Also, this is the first (ok, second time, but the real first time didn’t really count!) I’ve sat in a rotary-engine automobile…the sound of the car is so unique, it almost sounds like a hybrid car and the acceleration is very smooth.  Overall, this car is pretty fierce and posh!

For now, the RX-8 has no name since Justin is quite particular.  I’ve come up with plenty of names only to be rejected by the owner who wants to keep with the theme of “Napster”, his FD.  I really like Opal, but that was a no go.

Rotary & Piston Engines

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April 18, 2009 MOCC – Ultimate Santa Clara Meet

Cruise. Sun. BBQ. Photos. Mazdas. Fun.

USCM was set up by the members of mocc and it was quite successful!! The cruise started off at the parking lot of Costco in Mountain View and from there about 30ish Mazdas pulled out onto 101 > 85 > 9 >17 > Great America.  What a route, right? Poor Roy was screaming to go on Hwy 9, but was falling behind on 17 towards Santa Clara.  A worry I had going into this cruise was keeping up since my car is absolutely the slowest among the pack of Mazdaspeed3s, P5s, MSPs, RX-8s, etc…and it happened!! I rolled in last into the parking lot; the saddest part was losing contact on my radio which has  a 2-mile radius. hah! Oh well, I kept up enough to make it there and even ticked 77k miles during the cruise.  Overall, it was nice having a gathering of Mazdas and seeing everyone’s clean rides.  And the sun…I’ve learned my lesson – sunblock, sunblock, sunblock!

Here are some favorite shots and my gallery on picasa.

What’s in store for next year? =)

[about time I updated!]

I forgot that about a week ago it was freezing since it’s been sweltering the past few days.  My frozen fingers presents…..

April 15, 2009 – A&W Nor Cal Roadsters Meet

This NA was just too cute; it also has the “look” that I would like on Roy – dropped, roll bar, deep dish wheels.

Decent turnout for such a frigid night.

April 1, 2009 – Wing Stop Nor Cal Roadsters Meet

A great thing about boys is that they can be more handy around cars than I’ll ever be – they have the tools, the experience, and interest.  However, I would certainly love to learn more about a car and its mechanics; so far I’ve learned to rotate tires, subsequently, being able to change a flat.  Also, installing an air filter (see below post)!  Just observing Justin tinker with my cars is learning enough -_^.  That’s why I had him help me fix Roy’s third break light which was not functioning when I got the car.  At first, we thought it was a dead bulb, but even with a fresh one there was no light.  This seems to be a common problem – per miata.net the issue was probably the wire being pinched by the hinge and had disconnected the wires.  With further inspection, he discovered that was the case and within 15 minutes it was fixed.  Of course, I could have done it with his instructions but preferred drinking my juice and taking photos of him =P.

I’ll let the photo speak for itself.  lollll…