My Modified Miata Mudguards

Nd4SpdSe · Post by **Nd4SpdSe** » July 10th, 2005, 12:32 pm

I've finally gotten and modified the Miata mudguards I wanted, their not installed yet, the bodyshot will need to do a bit of creativity to get them mounted, but they shouldn't be too bad

I saw these when we stopped by and met a Miata club gathering

They will be perfect, since the style matches the back portion of my JDM OEM side skirts, as scene here: (Photoshop concept pic i made last year)
Notice teh curved shape, they should flow nicely together

Their original Miata mudguards directly from Mazda, cost me C$366 with tax, but their made of eurothane, which is good since I'm keeping my stock rear bumper, so they'll flex together is something happens

This is their original fit, a little longer than expected

I was reluctant to cut them cause of their price, but i'd rather try than to let them go to waste. Side by side comparison, before and after.

After cut: (Sanding was done later, that is just the preliminary dremel cut)

and a quick testfit (still not sanded)

What was actually cut off of end(and used as a template to recut the shape)

Can't wait to see them installed, the car is getting dropped off Friday.

Absath · Post by **Absath** » July 10th, 2005, 1:56 pm

Very cool idea. I think it will flow together nicely.

Cant wait to see it finished.

-Tim

solo_ryder · Post by **solo_ryder** » July 10th, 2005, 2:29 pm

Man that is really sick, keep us posted. I wanna see the results, I love the look of those rear muds on the miata

Mazderati · Post by **Mazderati** » July 10th, 2005, 2:40 pm

Looks really sharp. What a great idea!

send more pics once they are installed!

GregoryChristian · Post by **GregoryChristian** » July 10th, 2005, 2:51 pm

nice creativity

looks good !

mitmaks · Post by **mitmaks** » July 10th, 2005, 5:25 pm

nice job, this is what we need to see more on this site, more custom parts/creativity instead of being honduh boy shopping wal-mart for bolt on parts

Nd4SpdSe · Post by **Nd4SpdSe** » July 10th, 2005, 6:03 pm

Thx for the positive comments guys

Andrew_Pakula · Post by **Andrew_Pakula** » July 10th, 2005, 6:22 pm

$366 for mud guards? that's crazy, are they made of gold?

PATDIESEL · Post by **PATDIESEL** » July 11th, 2005, 12:11 am

MMmm, look awesome, much better than the stock rear. Love the flow of them back into the bumper. Great job on the redesign.

Josh · Post by **Josh** » July 11th, 2005, 1:52 am

their was actually a car i saw from Japan that had a set. really finnishes the rear end of the car off. supposidly he bought them from a company called Nobel France, but i cant find a company by that name anywhere.

jrors · Post by **jrors** » July 11th, 2005, 5:13 am

Major props on the creativity on that. We all look foward to seeing the end result!

Nd4SpdSe · Post by **Nd4SpdSe** » July 11th, 2005, 8:25 am

Andrew_Pakula wrote:$366 for mud guards? that's crazy, are they made of gold?

Anything made from gold when you buy directly from Mazda, or so their prices make it seem. $366 is including tax, Canadian funds of course, so about $318 before tax, but since when are eurothane parts ever cheap, and since when is buying direct from Mazda cheap either...

I saw them posted online for just under $200usd, but after exchange, shipping, and more likely getting nailed at the border for brokerages and taxes, it would probably come out the same, so I decided not to bother and order them directly

Josh wrote:their was actually a car i saw from Japan that had a set. really finnishes the rear end of the car off. supposidly he bought them from a company called Nobel France, but i cant find a company by that name anywhere.

An Mx-3 has them?

Josh · Post by **Josh** » July 11th, 2005, 11:29 pm

Nd4SpdSe wrote:
Josh wrote:their was actually a car i saw from Japan that had a set. really finnishes the rear end of the car off. supposidly he bought them from a company called Nobel France, but i cant find a company by that name anywhere.
An Mx-3 has them?

yep; if you can find it there is a Japan MX-3 club (i cant rember the name) but one of them had a car named Ruby Red. and on his car he had them. i had several pics, cause i was going to do the same thing. but my hard drive had crashed and i lost all the pics, and i couldent find the sight again as it was all in Japanies and i cant read a lick of it. i have one pic but you can only make out a faint out line of the flaps cause its so dark and grainy.

PoisonDrop · Post by **PoisonDrop** » July 15th, 2005, 8:14 pm

Very nice...I've been looking for an option for the rear bumper to keep it stock, but give it a little style...I like what you've done. By the way...where did you get those side skirts? Those are JDM OEM you say? I wanna keep the exterior of mine stock, but I've always wanted side skirts...that seems like a good compromise...

Nd4SpdSe · Post by **Nd4SpdSe** » July 16th, 2005, 9:49 am

Ya, for what I've been told, those are the JDM OEM side skirts, even harder to find than just the regular OEM skirts. I got them from a guy in Buffalo who's car got in an accident, so the one skirt one one side has cracks on the underside on the one side, but nothing major and should be easilly repairable.

The mod of the mudguards, after the initial cut, tracing and recuting the shape, I would say takes about 20min each, with especially triple checking the trace for recuting the shape, last thing I wanted to do is screw them up, so it's a easy mod, just expensive to buy them.