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Good day all,

I have acquired a 2007 Black rx-8 Gs Full Equipped (heated seats and Bose) for the lucky price of 2000$,
and I've already changed a few important things.

Brakes - Hawk HPS
Brake Rotors - Racing Break
Tires - Will be changed next year
Flywheel (was originally broken) - Excedy Light flywheel
Clutch (was originally broken) Stage 1 Excedy
Starter - OEM


So now I'm at the point of what's next, I obviously would like to gain more torque, but safety and handling in more important to me.

Now I was thinking of changing the shocks, but should I lower the car a bit, and also what kind of shocks should i get (if i should even change them)

If not what else should I change before going for power mods.
then what power mods should I go first?

Thanks!

(money is not so much of a problem, But I will not touch 3 rotor stuff -.-)

RIWWP

iTrader: (2)

Too bad about that clutch...

https://www.rx8club.com/series-i-tro...clutch-244381/
https://www.rx8club.com/new-member-f...oblems-250365/
https://www.rx8club.com/rx-8-discuss...e-1-hd-253431/

Hopefully you have one that won't self destruct soon.

It also gets me ever time someone "breaks" their "brakes".

For moving forward...

- compression test to see if that dirt cheap car you got was dirt cheap for want of an engine
- SOHN adapter and 2-stroke reservoir so you can stop burning 4-stroke
- MazdaEdit to increase OMP rates and reduce coolant fan temps (and later tune if desired)
- delete the cat if you can get away with it, ideally a BHR midpipe is the right choice, but you may want to waste money on other midpipes before making that realization
- sway bar upgrade is cheap and usually a good move
- BHR ignition

hoosier1104

iTrader: (2)

My recommendation for sure is the BHR stuff RIWWP mentioned. I have both of them on mine. Strengthening the weak points is more of a piece of mind thing really.

JamesD31

Is the BHR ignition a good purchase? A needed purchase or just a nice-to-have?

Also, first mod should be buying a new motor - there was a reason why it was only $2k.

You might also look into the super sexy axial flow short shifter for the 8.

I would hold off on midpipes (BHR 'should be releasing their header soon'). Which will come with a custom midpipe for it.

hoosier1104

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LS2 coils with a lifetime warranty or replace your coils once a year or every 30k miles. Your choice.

supergoat

I'd recommend you replace your coils, wires and plugs as well. However, and this is nothing against BHR, I would recommend going OEM and just replacing them when they need it. You can get a set of four coils dirt cheap now.

04Green

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I recommend that the next $100 you spend is the $100 in my sig.

Welcome, well done, and, um, if your Stage 1 fails, I have one that did not I will let go cheap. I just did not like the heavier pedal.

++ on the flywheel though. That is hands down the best performance mod.

rob babicki

onother upgade ive been looking into is :

the S2 is running 105-115 psi oil pressure, this was supposedly for main bearing life

is there a down side to bumping an S1 to this oil pressure ?

Shaozhou Zhang

It’s a 6 year old thread, you might want to search first, if you find no answers or have doubts about the answers, start a new thread.
FWIW, my oil cooler hose literally blown the next day I upgraded my OP regulator.

rob babicki

i would like to, but for some reason i cant start new threads ????

Loki

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You can in the new members area. Everywhere else after 10 posts and 30 days.

TeamRX8

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because you noobs are annoying enough without creating new threads on old, well worn out subjects already multiple-posted to death by previous noobs

that isn’t worthy of a new thread, that subject is very old and no, you’re not special
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