Event Coverage: Mega Speed 2013 – Part 2

Mar 28, 2013

Today’s portion of coverage from Mega Speed 2013 focuses almost exclusively on the tuner hall which this year was fairly self contained from the rest of the show.

Apparently this was done based on feedback from last year but personally I would have liked to have been a little bit closer to the rest of the action.

Nevertheless the tuner hall did have a lot of cars and it was great to see a lot of people again after a long winter that refused to leave.

Shining Monkey

The Shining Monkey booth was pretty well packed all the entire weekend with people who wanted to hang out with professional drifter Chris Forseberg and check out Ken Blocks car.

megaspeed_2013_tuner_ford_ken_block — Ken Block sadly never made it (partying in Budapest) but his Ford Fiesta did

megaspeed_2013_tuner_ford_ken_block_2 — Just ain’t care

Taylor’d Customs / Airlift/ John

This year was my first year showing at Mega Speed and it was actually John and Blair who managed to convince me to do so.

Blair and I showed side by side while John was a few cars down in his own showcase section putting us to shame winning multiple awards.

megaspeed_2013_tuner_taylord_airlift_audi_mazda3_1 — Big thanks to Blair for the carpet and stanchions

megaspeed_2013_tuner_taylord_airlift_audi_mazda3_2 — Blair’s wheels didn’t arrive in time for the show but thanks to Air Lift Performance we both got low

megaspeed_2013_tuner_taylord_airlift_audi_mazda3_3 — Can’t wait to run these wheels all the time again, putting my winters on again after the show sucked

megaspeed_2013_widebody_mazda_3_1 — This was the first event I felt I could get some decent shots of John’s car from all angles

megaspeed_2013_widebody_mazda_3_2 — He ended up taking home the award for best Import Other, and best wheels

megaspeed_2013_widebody_mazda_3_3 — Big thanks to John for rocking that very large, and hard to appy, SIE sticker!

megaspeed_2013_widebody_mazda_3_4 — There’s actually a lot of flake and depth in John’s paint… it’s just nearly impossible to capture

Acura/Honda

megaspeed_2013_tuner_honda_79_civic — The owner of this first generation Civic sent in some progress photos awhile back and I completely forgot about it until I saw it at Mega Speed

megaspeed_2013_tuner_acura_el — Javed’s EL looking clean as always

megaspeed_2013_tuner_acura_widebody_rsx — I’ve seen this RSX a few times but it looked especially good at Mega Speed 2013, I think it was the lack of stickers

megaspeed_2013_tuner_honda_elevated_civc_bbl — Brian says this is the last time his Civic will be seen like this, very curious what he has in store

megaspeed_2013_tuner_turbo_civc_ef — Turbo K20 Civic with an interesting front bumper

megaspeed_tuner_honda_ef_turbo — Another big turbo drag Civic

BMW

Nice to see some of the old maxbimmer.com glory day guys out at Mega Speed.

megaspeed_2013_tuner_bmw_e46 — Randy’s e46 looking great on his new SSR wheels

megaspeed_tuner_bmw_e46_horse_power_freaks — It’s been quite some time since I have seen Fab’s e46. Still looks good

megaspeed_tuner_bmw_e46_widebody — Rounding out the maxbimmer alumni was Gary with his wide body e46

megaspeed_2013_tuner_bmw_5_series_wagon — Nice looking e39 wagon, don’t see a lot of these at shows

Euro

megaspeed_2013_tuner_vw_jetta_bbs_lm — Manny’s GLI

megaspeed_2013_vw_golf_mario_hatch_1 — This Golf bagged Golf had a very aggressive Rotiform setup

megaspeed_2013_vw_golf_mario_hatch — Love the vinyl on the tank.

megaspeed_2013_tuner_audi_a4_1 — Nice touch here matching the inter cooler piping to the wheels and the strut bar

megaspeed_2013_tuner_nextmod_audi_a3 — Perdo still has one of my favourite local A3s

megaspeed_tuner_vk_golf_bbs_rm — Very clean MKII Golf on re lipped RMs

megaspeed_2013_tuner_porsche — Downtown Porsche sponsored 911

Nissan

megaspeed_tuner_nissan_silvia_drift2 — Battle worn from last years season

megaspeed_2013_tuner_nissan_r32_skyline — Paul’s GTR, stunning as always

megaspeed_tuner_nextmod_nissan_skyline_gtr — Peter got some new wheels for his Skyline. I’m not quite sure if I like these more or his old ADV.1 wheels

Mazda

megaspeed_2013_tuner_mazda_mx3_widebody — This wide body MX-3 reminds me of a mini version of John’s Mazda car

Ford, Fiat, Hyundai and Toyota

megaspeed_2013_tuner_ford_mustang — I met a lot of people for the first time at Mega Speed, one of them being the owner of this Mustang Mike (aka Mcnarly)

megaspeed_2013_tuner_fiat_1 — Who would have thought Rockstar wheels would fit under a Fiat 500?

megaspeed_2013_tuner_hyundai_geneis — Sam’s Genesis on Alex’s wheels

megaspeed_2013_tuner_hyundai_genesis_2 — Not sure whether or not Sam will be rocking these all year

megaspeed_2013_tuner_nissan_350z_too_fast_motors — The Too Fast Motors 350z looks to have received some plasti dip, or vinly wrap over the winter as well as some Phat Fux Wheels (worst wheel name ever)

megaspeed_2013_tuner_toyota_celica1 — Tom’s Celica also went through some changes this winter, receiving a repainted engine bay…

megaspeed_2013_tuner_toyota_celica2 — and new hatch setup

Minis

These two cars were actually in the hall that part 1 of the coverage was focused on but I felt it more appropriate to include them as a close out to today’s post.