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

[LeeW]

love those lights lee got any spare time for mine I got some lights that need modding I would pay you

these are very much in the alpha testing stage at the moment, theres a lot more refinement to happen yet! once mine are done and I can show you them properly I'll get in touch and we'll have a chat about getting you a set done...

[untakenname]

Looks good, when I did my rear lights I used some discarded fire escape light cover to diffuse, can just about see them here in this pic when I was the process of tinting them
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cheers for that, I'll look into it. how did you manage to separate the lense around the key hole so neatly? I drilled a ring of pilot holes then cut between them, but it's a bit messy. this unit is just a test bed for me so I wasn't too worried about it being perfect. but I would love help on how/where best to cut them open and any good tips on resealing...

Hi, I cut around the back of the housing where the lock was then used some milliput epoxy to seal it back up after.

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I made a quick vid a couple of years back on part of the process of cutting into the lights, the main thing for a successful cut was to use a quality dremel cutting wheel, I used some cheaper ones first and it made the job a lot harder.
One of the good things about the S1 lights is how cheap they are, I messed up my first attempt then got two more from a breaker for £20.

[warpc0il]

When cutting plastic, run the dremal wheel through a bar of soap first, it then cuts the plastic easier and with less melting.

[bigpete8]

Looked at her admiringly as no problems from short Xmas layup... Unlike my bosses 18 month old audi which had a flat battery this morning and he had to jump start.

[13Black]

Started mine up today after over 2 weeks without being used. The cold, tiny Odyssey PC680 dry cell did well !

Still, might make a little jump start lead for it as I'm a little paranoid.

[Culdranth]

Pot holes in UK are getting silly, this just magically fell out.... bit of a pain on ramps, but was a waste of time as all looks good. think its time to pull engine

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[xamtex]

my pz went into the operating theatre today ready for heart surgery. delayed for 3 weeks while my fingers healed a bit.

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[shroom]

my pz went into the operating theatre today ready for heart surgery. delayed for 3 weeks while my fingers healed a bit.

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Keeping you busy then! Don't envy you

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[shroom]

Gave mine a clean and took a nice photo before the Mrs shouted at me for ruining a nice walk spending more time with the car.

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[delta0]

Changed the gearbox oil to redline from the millers trx stuff and what a difference. absolutely no crunches anymore. engine oil and filter changed.
AEM fitted too and scheduled in another dyno run for the end of the week to see what difference exhaust and CAI has actually made...

also the second variant of a custom headlight mock up complete. think I'm going to alter the design ever so slightly but I will take this to the next step now. need to work out how to mount the array and diffuse it before the clear lense... got some ideas. the sequence goes; sidelights on with animation, brake light test, indicator animation, then sidelights off with animation...

Looking forward to hearing about your CAI and exhaust differences on the dyno.

[tmk]

Took a trip to Twin Ring Motegi

(Sadly to check out the Honda museum and other attractions rather than a track day).


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[brix79]

Those wheels work really well.

[shroom]

Those wheels work really well.

Thank you, they are the Rays from a 350z.

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[brix79]

Ah, I had a feeling they looked kinda familiar!

[GreySilver Beast]

Looking forward to seeing your car next month Tom

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[shroom]

Looking forward to seeing your car next month Tom

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Thanks mate :-) be good to meet you all. As I have been bored over Christmas I did a little video of my RX8 for YouTube. Not everyone's cup of tea but I wanted to do this to keep a record of it for the future ;-) check it out if you have time

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[LeeW]

Looking forward to hearing about your CAI and exhaust differences on the dyno.

All I know at the moment is +10whp peak increase. When I got home and compared the graphs from the stock visit, the original visit had RPM on the X-axis and the printout from the 2nd run had MPH which is a bit annoying. So I don't know how the graphs actually compare. Could be 20whp down across the whole range apart from that one +10 point for all I know. I've asked for all runs to be emailed individually plus the best run from both visits to be overlaid on the same graph, all with RPM on the Xaxis. I'll update when I get them through...

Nice flammage though

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[delta0]

Looking forward to hearing about your CAI and exhaust differences on the dyno.

All I know at the moment is +10whp peak increase. When I got home and compared the graphs from the stock visit, the original visit had RPM on the X-axis and the printout from the 2nd run had MPH which is a bit annoying. So I don't know how the graphs actually compare. Could be 20whp down across the whole range apart from that one +10 point for all I know. I've asked for all runs to be emailed individually plus the best run from both visits to be overlaid on the same graph, all with RPM on the Xaxis. I'll update when I get them through...

Nice flammage though

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Look forward to seeing those. Nice pic!

You could extract the data from the graphs https://automeris.io/WebPlotDigitizer/

[untakenname]

Fitted a new fuse to my airhorn, feel a lot safer driving around as people stop in their tracks when you beep them

[warpc0il]

This one?

[untakenname]

Hi, that link doesn't work for me, it was this one though I believe it's now been superceded https://www.mx5parts.co.uk/stebel-nauti ... -3207.html

It mounts quite well behind the oil cooler in the stock location, from inside the car it doesn't sound that much louder but from outside the tone is a lot more noticable and it's hard to pinpoint where it's coming from.

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[exiled--viking]

Got the bugger fixed back on the Road go go juice in more go go juice after a good run tomorrow.....getting 4 points to each litre ZoomZoom ... fixed the problem with the MAF sealing ring perished new one made thank god for super glue ..... cut an new rubber seal that was to big the glued the ends together I will get a New one monday from my parts guy.... and a bugger'd spark plug












thanks for taking the time to look

[PaulAV]

Have had the same issue with a spark plug. Imagine it causes more issues with forced induction putting more strain on ignition system. Had a slight stumble today coming back from Northampton, I think there's a slightly iffy wire or connection to the maf, going to get the contact cleaner on the connector tomorrow.

[xamtex]

well its out.

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[Dave2112]

Test fitted my solar battery charger, incorporated a switch on the centre console as it should not be connected while starting or running the engine. Don’t like the way the wire is showing coming out of the panel, so will drill a little hole underneath the panel and feed it through that way. Seems to be working well, it chucks out 20v. This is to combat the drain on the battery that my nexus takes as it is is charging all the time. A few times now if the car has not moved for a week the battery loses too much charge to start the car.

We’ll see how well it performs ?

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