What have you done to your RX-8 today????

[Rusty Nightspring]

It’s been on of those days...

Yeah they happen! You start on one job and end up with two plus the original job. All you can do is keep slugging away!


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[ChrisHolmes]

Passed the 600 mike mark running in, pulls strongly and smoothly up to my self imposed 5k limit.mitching to use those extra 4K revs

[V8 Power]

Passed the 600 mike mark running in, pulls strongly and smoothly up to my self imposed 5k limit.mitching to use those extra 4K revs

Is it oil change at 1,000 miles then full revs Chris?

[ChrisHolmes]

That's the plan, when do you get yours back from Carl?

[V8 Power]

That's the plan, when do you get yours back from Carl?

I am informed "March" but I won't be holding my breath...
Soon as I have a more definite i'll let you know, could be a Chris and Graham road trip to pick it up?

Glad I got a picture of my car as I can't remember what it looks like

[Rusty Nightspring]

A dry sunny day!

Checked (and topped up as required) various engine bay fluids, cleaned air filter, etc.

Did a full interior valet including leather feed for seats, steering wheel and gear stick gator.

Defogged headlamp lenses using G3 rubbing compound.

Repaired and refitted mount for dashcam.

Quick wash of bodywork and wheels to get salt and road dirt off. Will do a full exterior clean later in the week.



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[WaferShaf]

Good work Rusty!

[warpc0il]

A dry sunny day!

Checked (and topped up as required) various engine bay fluids, cleaned air filter, etc.

Did a full interior valet including leather feed for seats, steering wheel and gear stick gator.

Defogged headlamp lenses using G3 rubbing compound.

Repaired and refitted mount for dashcam.

Quick wash of bodywork and wheels to get salt and road dirt off. Will do a full exterior clean later in the week.

If you're not busy then mine's looking a bit tired

Can't guarantee a dry sunny day over here in NI though

[Rusty Nightspring]

Good work Rusty!

I thank you!

:-)

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[Rusty Nightspring]

If you're not busy then mine's looking a bit tired

Can't guarantee a dry sunny day over here in NI though

I've got a bucket, brolley and passport... I can travel.

;-)

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[ChrisHolmes]

That's the plan, when do you get yours back from Carl?

I am informed "March" but I won't be holding my breath...
Soon as I have a more definite i'll let you know, could be a Chris and Graham road trip to pick it up?

Glad I got a picture of my car as I can't remember what it looks like

I am sure that can be arranged as Evesham is on the route from Cheltenham to Newbury, sort of!

[warpc0il]

If you're not busy then mine's looking a bit tired

Can't guarantee a dry sunny day over here in NI though

I've got a bucket, brolley and passport... I can travel.

;-)

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[Bex]

blanked off the third brake light on my second boot, de-rusted second boot around where badges and third brake light were. filled the holes to make a nice smooth boot to swap with with my cars current boot lid , new one has a spoiler attached and i wanted to see what the deleted brake light looked like. i have missed having a spoiler!

(i de-badged the current boot lid and that also needed to be de-rusted like this too, maybe worth checking if you are concerned about rust spreading. the badges and brake light might be hiding the start of some future rust spots)

also rear brake pads fitted just in time as i was pretty much through all the pad, it stops a lot better now, had a quick check around looking for faults as its mot time next Wednesday.

[nightfire10]

Fitted carbon plate suround and new plate

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[PeteH]

Number plates must have been worth a lot less before text speak arrived.....

[wiggles]

Really want to get one of those plate surrounds... I'm to cheap for the carbon one though

[nightfire10]

Really want to get one of those plate surrounds... I'm to cheap for the carbon one though

managed to get a used one

[wiggles]

I always miss out on these things !

[Goobie]

Fitted air ride suspension!

[phoenix11]

Fitted carbon plate suround and new plate

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Glad you got sorted. Looks great.

[SeeJay]

It's high time someone got cracking on these CF license plate surrounds for the R3

[nightfire10]

Fitted carbon plate suround and new plate

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Glad you got sorted. Looks great.

Was going to get a plastic suround from e/rotary then carbon gel plate but managed to get used carbon one but couldn't get plate in gel that size, just to warn others that plate size for these is show plate size lol

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[untakenname]

Spacing on the plate looks legit for the road?
I looked through the regs a while back when not running a front numberplate for loophoples after noticing old Citroens had their numberplates behind glass and realised there's a maximum height limit for the front plate (1.5m iirc) but no minimum so I may mount mine on a spring loaded mechanism really low on the offside of the front bumper so its literally scraping the pavement.

Was going to fit my new (to me) exhaust system today but the fact it's below freezing and snowing puts that on hold, really annoying as during the week the weathers been perfect.
Took some inspiration from G's refresh build thread so got had a go with some metal polish and a drill mop and after an hour the exhaust it's looking pretty nice and shiny.
Fingers crossed it's going to sound good as it looks.



Should have taken some before pics as was quite tarnished.

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[Shagrington]

Finally got round to having the two bald front tyres replaced. A bloke in a van came to do them and saved me going out in the snow. Old back tyres now on the front, new tyres (I went with Uniroyal Rainsport 3 as the Vredestein Ultrac Sessantas aren't available any more) on the back.

[kopite72]

Interesting shaggy, have you had the uniroyals's before and if so what did you think of them?