HAVE DEVELOPED MY RX8 AND HAVE SOME BOLT ON GO FAST THINGS.SWAY BARS , EXHAUST , FRONT BRAKE KIT. ANYONE INTERESTED.

 

Spill the beans, we're all ears

 

Fire- away.

We are listening.

 

Pics please, dyno results etc. We are all into information sharing here.

And BTW, how 'bout you find the caps-lock on your keyboard and turn it off

How bad is the front brake kit anyway?

Cheers,
Hymee.

PS - the name Rick Shaw does ring a bell to me in racing circles - coincidence?

 

Hymee,

My thinking re the front brakes also. If I was going
to change something last, the brakes would probably
be it. The thing stops extremely well, and the ABS is
no fuss hero tech.

 

Hymee

You make a great softwear engineer but a lousy detective , check rick shaws profile all your questions will be answered.he he oops

michael

 

I dunno about being a bad detective, but my hunch was right then.

Welcome aboard Ric!

Cheers,
Hymee.

 

I'd have to agree with dbb on the brakes for normal usage... they're awesome. Unless you're doing track work of course, which ric shaw is probably doing.

 

Well, now you're Ric Sure!

... coming mother ...

 

RIC SHAW : near guru status with rotary tuning and racing.

 

If anything, the pads should be changed to put up with track work..................if you're that way inclined.

 

Hey Ric, nice to have you on board!

Ric fitted the Racing Beat sway bars to my 8.

All round nice guy and genuine GURU. Can't wait to see the stuff he's developing.

 

thanks guys for welcoming me onboard. EMACKs sway bars work realy well, i have road tested them but noy on the track. As always time is a problem and so things happen slowly with developments. I would like to have a track day in Sydney, Wakefield Park , if enough RX8 owners wanted to.
Yes the std brakes are good but a bigger kit option like the Nissan Z350 "track pack" i thought would be a good idea.
The rear muffler i have developed is nice and quiet but flows very well giving us an increase in performance on the dyno, it sits in the std place and looks as the std one does.
Any one in Sydney want to have a road drive day on a weekend ?

 

Ric - A track day? Yes please. There is the excuse I need to drive down! As long as it is "Driver Training" I might be able to get a pass out

 

thanks guys for welcoming me onboard. EMACKs sway bars work realy well, i have road tested them but noy on the track. As always time is a problem and so things happen slowly with developments. I would like to have a track day in Sydney, Wakefield Park , if enough RX8 owners wanted to.
Yes the std brakes are good but a bigger kit option like the Nissan Z350 "track pack" i thought would be a good idea.
The rear muffler i have developed is nice and quiet but flows very well giving us an increase in performance on the dyno, it sits in the std place and looks as the std one does.
Any one in Sydney want to have a road drive day on a weekend ?

 

Count me in for a track day.

 

Count me in too. It is going to be at Mallala isn't it?

Then we can all cruise up to the Barossa for a bit of creative wine tasting.

 

Ditto

i can just visualize , a convoy led by our estemmed moderator hymee, heading towards sydney , maybe staying for a few days of R & R. NO nagging wife or kids , yeah im on my way .

RIC SHAW WELCOME to the forum .

 

hang in there with me guys i'm a mechanic / race driver and not to crash hot with the key board if you know what i mean. bloody computers !!!!!!
nice to be along.

 

Computers are just mechanical devices at the microscope level.

(complete with a fascinating array of electron hills, strange magnetic effects and blistering heat levels)

 

hang in there with me guys i'm a mechanic / race driver and not to crash hot with the key board if you know what i mean. bloody computers !!!!!!
nice to be along.

 

mechanics and computers...yeah I know what you mean. Always funny watching dyno operators key in details into computers.

Hey, aren't cars computerised these days?????????

 

Speaking on computers, lets change the subject ( I wrestle with them all day) back to oil.

Ric : since you work on Rotaries for a living , what is your stance on synthetic vs. mineral oil? I'm using Pennzoil purebase mineral. Some people on this list (and some Mazda dealers) are using synthetics like Mobil 1. Rotary Heaven in SA swears by Amzoil 0w-30 synthetic for rotaries. ?

 

Forum Members ...

Dont let Ric Shaw get away with such modesty (mechanic/ race driver). If as I assume , he is THE Rick Shaw, he is an absolute guru of perfomance rotary engineering as attested by his customers and his racing results.

I for one will be paying attention to hsi technical / perfomance posts!

Rob

 

dbb... did I meet you at the Mallara RX8 test drive day in July?

I went across the boarder as I missed out the day in Victoria

Mallara is nice to race on I like that track.