With a fun and exciting announcement, the Owner's Club have invested in a vinyl plotter!
What the heck does that mean? I hear you ask?!
Well, firstly, all those decals that members get at shows like the Annual Meet, JDM Combe and so on all cost the club money; so at the last committee...
As you may have read, we are planning on doing a regular Car Of The Month feature for every month through 2022 (and potentially beyond!). This is where all you lovely people can post up your cars for consideration! As with all things...
This forum is just a part of the RX-8 Owners Club; to get the best out of the Club you should really look at joining up!
Here are some of the benefits of being a Club member:
See and post in all parts of the forum
As a guest, you can only see a...
i had a look around and could not find anything like this...
i have seen sim kind of threads on other car forums i have been a member of,
it makes for intresting reading once going to see what people have done each day.
so i thought i would start this thread to see what people have done to there...
I've seen a lot of chat on here about the cars people owned in the past and others they own now. As a relatively young driver i think i've had more than my fair share of cars and recently i seem to follow a pattern in buying- practical to sporty to practical and so on.....
These are the colour codes for RX-8 touch up paint, Clearcoat denotes that clear lacquer should be applied over the colour basecoat.
Tricoat denotes that a midcoat and clear lacquer is applied over the colour basecoat.
Brilliant Black Clearcoat ..... A3F.
Lightning Yellow Clearcoat ..... A4J....
Well, I finally did it and wasn't even trying!!
Nice long trip from Leeds to Chichester, mostly cruising at 85 but still having fun at every roundabout I came across!
Original 300 mile thread seems to have dropped off so started another
Mod bit - title edited, this thread predates the R3 by a...
As many members help one another I thought it would be nice to have a post where you can say thankyou to each other. :mrgreen: I have been in many car clubs and can honestly say this forum is the most informative and friendly one I have come across. :thumleft: so firstly thanks to everyone who I...
The attached spreadsheet shows the total number of UK RX-8s registered and SORNed, broken down by model and year.
RX-8_UK_Numbers.xlsx
The headlines are:
- 24,730 individual cars have been registered between 2003 and 2018
- 13,289 still exist
- 8,092 are still on the road
- 11,440 are missing,...
Again on the insurance side of things. I'm only a couple of years older than you at 27, and I think I'm looking at 800 - 900. I'd recommend trying for quotes on confused.com and elephant.co.uk . Elephant is Admiral, and Admiral was the cheapest for me on confused, but seems to have gone from there...
OK maybe time to start some sort of record for the special editions so to start lets see what sort of list we can build so please add your details: then the usual copy and paste.
IF KNOWN INCLUDE THE BUILD NUMBER.
After reading this in another thread I thought I would just post to say that all is going well with my RX.
06/02/2006
Overslept after long weekend out and so the roads were clear on my hasty drive into work, a weekend of not driving made it seem even more lively.
As some of you are aware, I've been in communication with Scorpion-Redpower regarding the potential of having a production re-run of the exhaust system they produced in 2006 for the PZ models.
This would enable PZ owners to restore their exhaust system to their original specification and may also...
Today I drove 452 miles in a diesel Fiesta from Northampton to Newcastle & back & saw a total of 0 RX8's. I also drive to various other store locations for the company I work for and never see more than 2.
Having got the idea off Seanp,I was wondering if people could post up if they're willing to help out fellow owners with fault codes,what area you could cover and/or how far your willing to travel etc,what beverage you'd want on arrival,preference of biscuits and so on&so forth.
Posts reporting rusty sills featured quite regularly on the forum 2-3 years ago, although less so today. The costs of repair relative to the value of the cars at the time meant that a number of RX-8’s were scrapped by owners due to the cost. Maybe that equation has changed, with values stabilising...
Based on the opinions of a couple of other owners regarding the quality of the gear change in their own cars I decided to change the oil in my own gearbox to a full synthetic.
I have used Mobilube SHC 75w90 synthetic gear oil as it is available locally in a trade motor factors that I use.
As a community we have been talking forever about fake ignition coils but these days they’re far from the only fake parts being offered for your car.
“Fake” coils include replicas of the Mazda OEM coils sold in convincing branded boxes, having been produced in a factory in China and sold wholesale...
WARNING: This post is long, really long, and doesn’t even have any pictures.
I've been active on this forum for ten years now and this is all based on my personal experience owning and working on RX8s, talking to owners, information gleaned and distilled from forum posts and PMs, working for Ford...
Please use this thread is if you wish me to follow up any issues/queries you may have, regarding your 8. However, your first point of call should be your dealer. Alternatively, PM me and I will be happy to help.
I have spent time this morning talking to my service manager today. I can now list the...
Took my 8 in for its second service this week at Romford Mazda . A gentleman call Chris called me over to his desk and said, we have done the service, but we have found some problems. My heart sank. Just a few problems he said.
O/s/f anti rollbar lower link broken, os engine mount riding low(did...
You are allowed to vote up to three times for those that have had more than one rebuild but can you post in the thread if you've had more than one with the reason.
E.G. In my case it was Romford Mazda cocked the first one up royally.
If you haven't had a rebuild can you please post your current...
It seems to be hit and miss, sometimes it starts and runs with no problems. I can try it the next day and it won't start, battery is fine as radio and lights work. Also when I do try to start there is nothing, doesn't even turn, also when it has started and I switch off it wont start again. Any...
I decided that it was absolutely necessary to get a Kaaz 1.5 way diff for the track car, and therefore scraped the bowels of the Internet for the best Black Friday deal on one. It should be delivered in the next few days.
So now I need to find someone to assemble and fit it.
Hey R3 owner peeps. I have mainly stumbled across this today whilst looking for something else.
DISCLAIMER - I have not printed this yet
I intend on printing a test part our of normal PLA (not suitable for use in the car long term, but cheap and good for a test print) and will obviously post...
Its raining and im a bit bored, flicking through ebay, and a couple of parts took my eye.
Ive got a the center consol trim with the silver trims which run upto the ash tray. If i was to get the top of the dash, air vents etc, a radio and a ash tray, would it be interchangeable?
So then chaps
I've seen on some strut braces they incorporate a master cylinder brace to help reduce motion and so improve brake feel
like this
mazda rx8 brace.jpg
do they do anything that you can feel?
From around the age of 13, I'd haunt the local car auctions. By the late seventies, there were loads of mint Mazda Rotaries going through, selling for around £200. Nobody wanted them.
The only one I can remember actually being driven was, from memory, an RX-2 with a Ford V4 conversion. This was in...
Got a hurdle to overcome on the banana project, sorting this knock connector. It's snapped off flush with the connector which I guess is a blessing and a curse. Downside is I can't joint back into that connector (although I do have spares from a bad/cut loom I have so that's not too bad - middle...
I am off to the land of the rising sun on Sunday with work. I am there for almost 3 weeks and on my final weekend there I wanted to try and explore a little more than I will over the prior couple of weeks.
I thought, I must go to Hiroshima and see the Peace Park and Atomic Dome. I had previously...
When the battery housing was removed today I noticed that the brace or strut located below, is quite heavily corroded. Is this cross member
attached to the car's structure with fixings or is it an integral part of the shell? I'd be interested to know if anyone has experience of a similar...
'Problems, in the end, make the enthusiast' (said someone, presumably)
Unfortunately my first motorway trip has resulted in an engine light and a slight hint of of ‘bogging down’ on acceleration. On returning home I noticed a few oil spots in the driveway which obviously helped settle my nerves...
An unfamiliar noise has become apparent on my S1, I noticed it when putting the engine under load between about 2k and 3k rpm. It is slightly tinny and, at first, made me think of sucking foam through a straw so I thought about something on the intake, but it disappears after 3.5/4k rpm so now I...
Recently changed diff & gearbox fluid to this. Do you think using 70/75w rear diff fluid may cause rear diff whine, as 75 /90w seems the more popular choice. Fluid is Redline MT-LV and I'm not certain it is actually the rear diff making the noise. Whine comes at over approx 50mph and gets louder on...
Having been toying with changing the head unit, but have read that although the metrakit seems to be good, it’s not 100% reliable. Is there anything out there that allows a head unit change but keeps climate controls and is reliable in its function?
im going to use this thread to showcase some of the more interesting work completed by Kernow Rotary Specialist..
my first customer arrived today after sadly having his car fail its mot. the computer showed a apv solanoid circuit fault and a bank 2 o2 sensor circuit fault. the apv was not...
On my way to a kart race at whilton mill in Northampton and the car felt off. Struggled to hold idle and the throttle kept going up and down, even at speed. My fuel consumption was terrible. 60 miles was almost up to half a tank. When I got here I saw these codes. P0172 / P0335 / P2097 and MAF was...
Help please. The immobiliser system on my 2004 192 Rx8 is Heat Sensitive! I have to warm up the ECU , either by repeatedly holding the ignition on for 1 minute at a time(perhaps 10x when really cold) or by heating the ECU externally! Nobody in the car auto business is keen to help except new ECU ,...
Hello
I am having a problem with the track day car,the battery has been disconnected for about 8 months and the battery in the Key was dead so I put a new one in.when I try to start the car the immobilizer light flashes quickly and fuel pump does not prime
What have I missed?
Thanks mark
As the title says chaps
Currently sat on the side of the motorway, with a sudden big vibration, jacking the car up shows front left bearing has about 8mm play at the rim
Could do with one for the weekend as this car is my daily
Gsf a and euros no helped
Hi all just wondering if anyone has had same issue as me with my miltek cat back system...had it fitted by my trusted local garage and since it has been fitted my tailpipes don't seem to be the same length coming out of rear bumper !..they said they have tried to get it to line up but they reckon...
The story is that my 8 is not working since December last year, I'm suspecting that engine is low compression, it is not keeping a steady idle RPMs, air intake is blowing away somewhere, soon as I'm trying to even drive a bit on parking lot it...
Any lighting experts does anyone know do HID bulbs change with time, I went out earlier in the RX-8 in the dark and I noticed although dipped beams seem OK the focal point of the H9 main beams seem to be low down on the road in front of the car although the road ahead is well lit and the RX8 was...
My car has been off the road for almost two months whilst I replaced all the hoses for silicone ones, fitted new RRP pulleys, and a new AEM style intake, I also ran a cable to the boot for a future battery relocation. And treated the underbody with Lanoguard.
During all this the battery was on...
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