Official GTA & Surrounding Areas Meet & Events!

[SonicTheHedgeHog]

Hey Everyone,

So as some of you already know we kicked off our first meet on Sunday, August 18th @ Square 1 shopping mall in Mississauga. Fortunately 2 of us Sonic owners made it out, but were hoping we can continue to meet up and get more Sonic owners to come out!

So I've made a thread sole for posting meets and events.

Here we can post when and where we will host meets. Feel free to also post about up coming car events.

I have added a few pictures of the first kick off meet.

Next meet is on Sunday, August 25th @ Square 1 shopping mall in Mississauga @ 9am!

Post if you'll be there and we'll see everyone then! :banana:

 

[lambertsonic]

Is anybody going to be there this morning ?

 

[chivalryder]

Damn. If I made it out on the 18th, there would have been three black hatches!

Sorry I didn't make it out on the 25th. Ended up having way too much to do and felt like death at the same time. -.-' This weekend would be a no-go for me as well. Moving to Brampton!

 

[chivalryder]

I think this thread should be stickied!

 

[SonicTheHedgeHog]

We should have a fall meet sometime maybe at the end of September. Will follow up with details soon.

 

[chivalryder]

Any future meets should be good for me. The last few weeks have been rather hectic, and (unfortunately) meets are low on the priority list. I usually have nothing to do on weekends.

I have plans to start Auto-X next year. As far as I'm aware, there's an Auto-X meet at the Brampton GO station twice a month through the warmer weather. It's long-term, but plans should be made to go to those as well.

 

[rcmn0022]

I should be good to meet in September.

Sorry about not making it to the first meet, apparently you are supposed to get to bed more than 2hrs before you have to leave the house. Dropped the ball on that one.

I'm currently meeting with a shop that is working on making a true CAI for us and looking to put in a full 3" exhaust kit for our cars. It's going to be a local shop so no worries about shipping or duties. I'll keep you all updated and hopefully I'll be able to show you the intake and maybe the exhaust at the next meet.

 

[chivalryder]

I don't know about the rest of us, but Caledonia isn't exactly "local."

Mind you, it's closer than California...

 

[rcmn0022]

They aren't in Caledonia though. They are in downtown Dundas, which is less than 10mins off the 403. Easy access from Toronto.

Unless you would rather drive across the border over to Michigan and drive to ZZP and pay duties or risk getting caught for not paying them.

But I know this shop is planning on making both a 2.5" and a 3" version of their exhaust.

 

[chivalryder]

Sweet! Dundas isn't far at all!

I'm currently debating whether or not I'll mod my Sonic, or if I'll keep her as a DD and get something I'll be less hesitant to modify.

 

[rcmn0022]

Intake, exhaust, tune, rims and tires. That should make a killer DD. Maybe a sub if you like your tunes. Keep in mind that if you daily it, you will get tons of enjoyment out of every drive.

This car isn't going to be smoking modified muscle cars but you can definitely drive on a ton less gas then they do. Plus they are so much fun to drive. And they have a lot of braking power.

I found out that it closes the sunshade on the sunroof if you try to stop hard enough and it doesn't even squeal the tires to do it.

 

[chivalryder]

My budget is tight, but I'd love a bare-bones, stripped out, no-frills car to bring to Auto-X events. The engineering in this car to make it more "average-Joe" friendly is slowly getting more and more irritable.

Not sure if I want to strip out the interior of this car and potentially drop in some scaffolding in the back so I could rock some 6-point harnesses.

As for "basic" mods: $650 USD for headers is a lot of dough compared to $300 CAD my buddy paid for the headers on his Impreza.

I've always dreamed of having a lightweight car. It'll be really hard to get teh weight of this car below 2000#...

 

[lambertsonic]

Anybody down to meet soon ?

 

[chivalryder]

I'm down.

 

[ftwphoto]

I'd be down. Just need to see when.

 

[rcmn0022]

I'd be down to meet up. But when and where?

 

[SonicTheHedgeHog]

Definitely down!

What about this coming Saturday September 28th?
Sometime early evening?

 

[chivalryder]

I should be able to make that.

 

[ftwphoto]

Tentatively I should be good for that date.

 

[SonicTheHedgeHog]

Great! Should we meet in the East end?

I'm thinking Kennedy Commons it is near Scarborough, big retail parking lot.

Around 8pm?

If anyone else has suggestions throw them out there...