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Read please.
Originally Posted by TeamRX8 View Post
This involves several issues. The first being that you can't see beyond your own immediate needs and wants. This is not Wiki8Club. It took many of us years and years of involvement and reading to amass the knowledge.
Imagine somebody coming here daily, in fact it is often multiple people daily, asking if not demanding the same information over and over again. We are not your on demand servants. We are people just like you with other priorities and demands in our lives, limited time, our own personal interests for being here, etc. Why should we spend that time catering to people that come here seeking instant gratification?
That leaves us with two options. We can either ignore you completely or we can tell that the info is here if you bother to make the effort. However, over several years of telling people this you eventually get fed up dealing with the continuous stream of people seeking instant gratification yet you still would rather point them in the right direction so you just bark at them to get the point across. Imagine someone coming to your house, going to your living room, pulling their pants down, and taking a dump right there on the carpet just because they didn't know any better. You might be annoyed and yet also understanding because they didn't know any better. Now imagine this being a different person doing this every day. It wouldn't be long before you just as soon they go away and never come back.
Almost every day there is some clueless dolt posting a tech or troubleshooting question in the DiY area, despite there being a sticky thread at the top saying to only post threads there with DIY instructions and subsequent discussion of same. The real issue is that people think they are free to just come here and do as they damn well please and there's no need for etiquette, rules, structure, or organization unless it serves their own personal interest.
Well guess what? We're not here to cater to new uninformed people that come in here trampling all over everything regardless if they're ignorant, just don't care, or whatever. This is like any social community and so if you make waves you better expect to deal with it. If you don't like it then get the f' out because the established community could care less about some newbie whining about not getting what they want immediately. We do care about you clogging up the search engine with useless threads on already established subjects, which there is a dedicated thread on this very subject in this same forum area no less. It took me 10 minutes to explain this. Now imagine multiple people daily requiring it, so you make a Sticky thread at the top that says "read this first" and yet every single new person just like yourself thinks they are beyond trying to fit in properly so that this forum operates smoothly for all of us.
You probably don't read Japanese, but the line in my sig is a well known Japanese proverb that reads "the nail that sticks out gets hammered". You made yourself that nail.
This involves several issues. The first being that you can't see beyond your own immediate needs and wants. This is not Wiki8Club. It took many of us years and years of involvement and reading to amass the knowledge.
Imagine somebody coming here daily, in fact it is often multiple people daily, asking if not demanding the same information over and over again. We are not your on demand servants. We are people just like you with other priorities and demands in our lives, limited time, our own personal interests for being here, etc. Why should we spend that time catering to people that come here seeking instant gratification?
That leaves us with two options. We can either ignore you completely or we can tell that the info is here if you bother to make the effort. However, over several years of telling people this you eventually get fed up dealing with the continuous stream of people seeking instant gratification yet you still would rather point them in the right direction so you just bark at them to get the point across. Imagine someone coming to your house, going to your living room, pulling their pants down, and taking a dump right there on the carpet just because they didn't know any better. You might be annoyed and yet also understanding because they didn't know any better. Now imagine this being a different person doing this every day. It wouldn't be long before you just as soon they go away and never come back.
Almost every day there is some clueless dolt posting a tech or troubleshooting question in the DiY area, despite there being a sticky thread at the top saying to only post threads there with DIY instructions and subsequent discussion of same. The real issue is that people think they are free to just come here and do as they damn well please and there's no need for etiquette, rules, structure, or organization unless it serves their own personal interest.
Well guess what? We're not here to cater to new uninformed people that come in here trampling all over everything regardless if they're ignorant, just don't care, or whatever. This is like any social community and so if you make waves you better expect to deal with it. If you don't like it then get the f' out because the established community could care less about some newbie whining about not getting what they want immediately. We do care about you clogging up the search engine with useless threads on already established subjects, which there is a dedicated thread on this very subject in this same forum area no less. It took me 10 minutes to explain this. Now imagine multiple people daily requiring it, so you make a Sticky thread at the top that says "read this first" and yet every single new person just like yourself thinks they are beyond trying to fit in properly so that this forum operates smoothly for all of us.
You probably don't read Japanese, but the line in my sig is a well known Japanese proverb that reads "the nail that sticks out gets hammered". You made yourself that nail.
#5
Strength/Confidence
You can increase the performance by......giving it to me. It will perform better with me at the wheel. Jk, but seriously, read through the Series II performance section.
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#8
I forgot brake pads, after the OEM pads wear out, and probably a few other things but I am busy building 30 ignition systems for shipment tomorrow and then gathering parts for another 50 kits to build and ship asap.
#9
We have the right to be useless since it's obvious he hasn't done any of the research by himself.
RX-8 engines come from the factory making about all the power the can unless you go FI. Sure you can gain some NA power but it adds up to a lot of money for hardly any gain. Worry about saving money for maintenance and making sure it runs perfect (and will stay running perfect) before you go throwing parts at it.
RX-8 engines come from the factory making about all the power the can unless you go FI. Sure you can gain some NA power but it adds up to a lot of money for hardly any gain. Worry about saving money for maintenance and making sure it runs perfect (and will stay running perfect) before you go throwing parts at it.
#10
RX-8s come from the factory with a few key weaknesses and several middle-of-the-road items (such as swaybars, shifter, etc.) that most people do themselves favors by swapping out to something better. That is the purpose of the "Mods I Regret the Most" thread; to avoid the truly useless mods while also mentioning the modifications that people appreciate the most.
This car is far more about things that are not associated with RWHP. Many noobs, newbs, what-have-you, are not aware of this.
This car is far more about things that are not associated with RWHP. Many noobs, newbs, what-have-you, are not aware of this.
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I'll bet a month's salary that the part that needs the most improvement on your R3 is the driver (I actually make the same bet to most of my buddys in the sportbike forum I frequent... I have yet to lose)
The limits on your RX-8 R3 are waaaay higher than you think (or that is usable in the street.)
Once you learn th car's limits in a track controlled environment, then, & only then, can you determine where the shortcommings are and improve on those.
Otherwise evrything else (exhaust note, audio system output, straight line acceleration... etc are just personal prefference)
"performance is a very subjective term... first determine where you want the car to go, before you strt looking for modifications to an already incredibly capable car".
#12
That is one thing which makes me appreciate my lightweight flywheel, springs and sways, shifter, ignition system, and some other stuff I have; one need not break the law on the street in order to enjoy them. They evidence themselves in normal, everyday, driving and they shine on the racetrack.
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