Attn Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island & Massachusets people
 

About a month ago I went to Texas for a week and I met with a bunch of miata people and the whole time I've owned a miata in CT (5 yrs) I've only met two guys (Vash and Rain). I feel like us northeast guys should be more outgoing. So I was thinking let's have a Fucking meet already! we could meet maybe around New Haven and take route 1 all the way up to the casino or something similar. It's a nice curvy road with lots of shade. Let's do it! I was thinking Oct 3rd. That way people would have a month to finish their cars and make it a plan. Let me know guy! Stop being so new England grumps and let's go for a ride. Any other ideas are cool as well

Im in. Im up in the Keene area.

Alright Kool. I wanna get at least 10 ppl to come

Cool dude, now I have a deadline to get this fucker on the road already.

I've been without mine so long now that I cant wait for just the drive to and from the shop everyday! lol

awesome. I need some time to get my car back together tho. its running finally, but with a massive oil leak so I have to fix that soon. Oct. 3rd sounds great tho.

I will spread the word!!

I gotta get my car running right too that's why I gave a little over a month so everyone has time to get the cars ready

This was kind of short lived... I think it's a good idea. I'll be back in NY in time for winter.. but if some people want to get together this spring that would be awesome. I will to drive just about anywhere.

Maybe in the more distant future we could try and do a meet a little bit further south and see if we can pull in some people from IL, OH, VA, PA etc.. maybe get like 20-30 people total and make a weekend out of it.

I think thats a good idea. Not a ton of boosted miatas in CT....thats for sure.

Fuck....I'm just hoping that my car is on the road by Oct. :cry:

I will be renting a warehouse for working on my miata.. it's not huge, can fit 3-4 cars. I have a ton of tools.. if anyone needs to do some work and needs space/tools let me know, although I'm pretty far from anyone I think (Watertown/Syracuse area). I will have a badass space heater for the winter months too!

Dude, you will need it up there, probably starting now, in fact!

Thanks for your service, btw.

Haha, don't remind me! For some reason I keep thinking I'm going to return to some warm and sunny place... I guess it's better than winter in Afghanistan, pretty much everything beats sitting on top of a mountain during a blizzard.

I would be down for a meet in CT this October.

That would be great! Thanks and watertown it's not too far from most of us. It's about 30 min from me and I'm next to new haven

Btw how's everyone with time? 2 weeks away. You guys still down? 240 did you get your oil leak fixed? Vash is ur 80 year build done yet? Hehe

my shit is still leaking. oil isnt too bad but coolant is. Its a simple fix, its the water pump inlet. I should get around to it soon. I am still driving it around once in a while and doing some tuning.

I am free the weekend of the 3rd. The following weekend I am dynoing the car with the Uconn Car club i run. I am also free the weekend of the 17th. Dependinig on the cars condition i might not want to go too far.

Alright we gotta think of a place to meet up

i will most likely be leaving from tolland ct (uconn area)

I've been giving the bodyshop guy shit everyday so he's been working on it. I hope to have it finished by the weekend if he can handle working on it for more than 1 hour a week.

I feel like its been so long and everything is changed now that its gonna be a completely different car. I'm excited as fuck, but still a little numb about it seeing there's still much to do.

Hopefully I'll be ready by the 3rd. If not I'm down to get up whenever.....I just need a car. lol

That's awesome! Glad there are some Miata guys around me. I will be living in there on the weekends pretty much lol, so open invitation to anyone that needs to get some work done. I will be home by December.

Are any of you guys going to the cruise event thing on Oct 3rd at Modern Motors Mazda in Thomaston CT?

no. looks like my dyno day is gettin moved to either the 3rd or 17th tho

no what is that>?

how much would you guys hate on me for being FWD if i were to show up? lol

haha as long as it has a bp and isnt stock

far from stock but yes it's BP powered ;)

hoping to have it running this weekend, finally

Your car will probably be faster then any of us. I was thinking of meeting up in Ikea parking lot in new haven around 1pm? Let me know what you guys think

The Nutmeg Miata Club is holding it. They are not my choice of crowd, but they are all nice people. Right now they have like 40 people registered so I figured I would go check it out. I went to their Miata's at Lime Rock event this summer. I didn't do the parade lap :riaa: but overall the event was a pretty good time. Good food, shaded seats, drinks and a bunch of door prizes. Not to mention being able to watch Andretti's JPS F1 car lap Lime Rock at 47.xx seconds was pretty sick too.

We may have some spots open for our dyno day. Would a few of you want to dyno at Swift motorsports sometime in october?

What's the charge and how many pulls?

3 pulls, $50 + 10 for afr

They always invite me to meet up with them and I still haven't. They just don't seem like my kind of people but then again I never met them.

man i wish i had the time to upgrade my map sensor and retune for 25 psi between now and then. i'm dying to hit 350whp.

Im down to go when is it gonna be?

Its the 24th... Ill let you know if spots are still open probably a week before.

Damn better be one more spot for me

So let's do a head count. Who's coming Saturday?

I hope I can make it. But it looks like to do so I will be driving the car without the updated registration.

I wont know for a couple more days. If I cant make it though, we should try and do one more before the winter gets here. :bigtu:

or you guys can come join up with me and the NEmotorsport fall kanck cruise on the 18th... im about to go make a specific thread about it

What state is that in?

NH.. never heard of the kancamagus highway?? kanck is short for it.. we also do hurrican mtn road and bear notch.. alot of twisty roads in the moutins. alot of diffrent cars. last spring we broke the 200+ car barrier and we all had a blast.. this run is known all over we have people coming from maryland and florida to join us.. there might be a 2010 GTR as well as a r8 joining us too. along with many high hp cars. a couple skylines we have about 5 miatas already joining us. and there will be plenty of proffesinal photographers there. theres a group in MA, RI, and CT that are meeting up to make the hike. i made a seperate thread about it.. im also going to be adding it to lotustalk.com here in a moment to see if i can get some of them to join as well

so whats going on, is there a dyno day or meet or anything happening soon?

My car is broken... major ecu resets in megasquirt. I doubt I will figure it out before dyno day on the 24th...

That being said, there may be a few slots open. I will know by the end of this week

The dyno day is held by me (uconn car club) and is the 24th of Oct at Swift motorsports.

idk i tryed making a meet but eveyone always backs out, im down for the 24th even tho my car is so so right now. If you guys are serious about it if not ill make other plans

Like I said, I will know if spots are available by the end of the week.

I would love to meet up, but my POS is always breaking

can't make the 24th unless the weather sucks... hoping to go racing at new england dragway

10/17 = mustang showdown. lots of fast cars so the track will be prepped very well. only downside is that this event is usually packed, so you wont get that many runs.

10/24 = import wars. this event was pretty empty last year, i made about 20 passes and could have made more! downsides are mediocre track prep and ricers doing top fuel burnouts with street tires, dragging water all over the place. if you like to laugh at broken civics, this is the event to attend.

i would love for someone to come with a camera and/or video camera, i'm hoping to crack 11's... :D

So just looked at and decided to rent my workspace. 450sqf so plenty of room to get some work done. If anyone needs to do some work just let me know and we can work something out.

Is it just a empty place or is there machines, welders, tools, etc.?

I have most of the basic tools. No welders or machines. Got some issues right now with power so it's pretty much useless for work right now :/

Once power comes back there will be a nice sized compressor, heat, plenty of light, and lots tools.

Would you guys be interested in really putting something (s) together? I came from oahu and we had miata meets almost every month. It was a really good time and there are only half the roads and twice the traffic. I am working on getting my car sorted over the next month or so and would love to take it out for a drive with some other miata's.

CT people are always all talk and no meet... In the five years I had my miata I've met one person from CT and about 30 from other states like TX, VA, NJ, DE, PA, RI. I'm always down for a meet once spring comes tho. And the the hell is Oahu?

how about a trip to on track karting in walingford?

Oh and you guys better all be at the Uconn Car Show april 10th. I am running it this year. I know one of you showed up last year.

Oahu is the most populated island in the hawaiian island chain. I would be down for a car show...my car isn't show quality but I will check it out. I think April would be a good time to have a meet.

Trust me the majority of the cars at the Uconn Car Show arent "show worthy". its more like a 600 car get together. It would be really cool to see a big miata crowd there this year.

How bout NO on the trip to on track ;)....I live like a mile away so it wouldn't be much of a cruise for me. Weather permitting I'll go to the uconn show.

On another note, anyone know where I can pick up a set of doors CHEAP? Now that I have a hardtop, if I can get some doors with windows I'll be able to drive my car more this year since I won't have to worry about the weather....

Haha i was thinking karting cause its more of a winter thing. My miata wont see the road till sometime in march and even then i gotta do some work to it before it will be out on any cruises.

Uconn car show will have a rain date this year btw

I'm down to go the the Uconn show, I got to finish up a few loose ends in the spring

Doors? Have you tried junk yards? There are a few reasonable ones. I can find out which one I got my audi front end from if you want.

I havn't called any junk yards yet. I'm hoping to find someone that has/knows someone with a parts car or something. Theres gotta be someone out there that would be will to help a fellow miataist with some super cheap doors ;)

What's the deal with no windows?

My cars PO gutted the doors to save weight....all thats left is the skin...I'm not that die hard and would rather have windows