Things seem to hectic over here right now. The site is up and down and I don't enjoy getting bashed by the RX7 drivers. I'll still drop by once in a while, but not like I usually do.

 

Oh, I just ignore them. I'm sure once the dust has settled the mods will be back and bring in the reigns on them.

 

:D I guess you are right... I'm just watching the battle between Doc and Zoom44 about the Thong Tuesday and Wet T-Shirt Wednesday!

 

Yeah, it's pretty funny.

 

Thong on Tuesday and Wet t-shirt Wednesday?? What am I missing?

 

:D did they remove the threads already? did you miss the pics? thongs and a$$ everywhere

 

Hehe! Be gentle with me I am old Actually I am new to RX8's as far as owning one but I have been around rotaries quite a bit. I own www.vintagerotaries.com and am 1/2 owner of Scalliwag Performance which we make a lot of aftermarket rotary stuff. My 10th Anniversary Ed. RX7 was the featured car for about the last year on the RX7Club.com before they changed the site and pulled the feature car from the top right of all their pages. It was kinda cool to have that honor while it lasted.
My biz partner, David Sanchez, is going to ride out with me next Tuesday to meet you guys. His background is mainly racing rotaries with the highlight I guess being that he won the first NHRA Import race (All Motor class) at Ennis in 2000.

So we are both old, but thick skinned so you guys can raz the hell out of us. I will just pretend I am home with the wife and kids and so I may not even notice :D I look forward to meeting you guys. BTW I absolutely suck in pool, do they have foosball?

 

That sounds awesome, can't wait to meet you guys. Oh, and your in luck, they have foosball :D

 

Sounds exciting. I don't know if I will be recovered by next Tuesday or not, but I'll try to make it. I got trashed last night... long story. Welcome again.

 

Was your trashing a substitution for the beach?

 

Scalliwag, nice car on that page.. kinda reminds me of my bro's Datsun Fastback back in PR.. any more pics of that car.

 

Are you talking about Judge Ito's RX3? If you click the pic on that page it will take you to the thread where there are several more pics. Some with the one piece front pulled off so you can see the motor. It has 4 55mm tb's setup to where they look insane Ito is a hardcore builder with a shop in NJ. He is selling it to try to regain a little sanity. He is too good and he is always swamped. Never has time for anything but working on other peoples stuff
He also has a RX8 that he has built up pretty well.
Another local guy I will try to get to come out is Ken Scheepers. He runs the national circuit NHRA Import. He lives up in Flower Mound but I bet he can find time one week at least.
He was running a all-motor 1st gen RX7 until it blew coolant onto his back tires in Jersey last year and he went into the wall at 120mph
He is putting the final touches on a Modified/Pro-Outlaw RWD RX8. He wasted no time getting that car built. You guys may already know all about Ken so sorry to keep rattling if that's the case. I built some of his peripheral port housings on the last car.
Anyway any of you that don't know who he is here is his RX8 http://www.kenscheepers.com/Car/rx8.html

 

WOW man, i freaking love Scheepers old car.. man i would love to meet him but i dont have an 8 nor i cant make it to the meets since i work.. all i have is my natural Puerto Rican love for the rotaries.. hahahaha.. man the new car looks sick as hell.. he should take pics next to my bro yellow 8 to compare..hahahahaha..

 

Looks like I may need an initiation to get into Real HP for the RX8!
[thinks to self: I gotta meet these guys! :D ]

 

No... yes... well, if it was I didn't plan it that way. I ended up back in FW playing pool with my cousin and his roommate. After 2 pitchers of beer my cousin bought us 3 consecutive rounds of Royal F***s. After 2 more pitchers of beer Alex (his roommate) bought 2 more rounds. After the next pitcher, Josh ordered another pitcher and left! He said he was wasted. Alex and Josh left me drunk with a whole pitcher! (by the way, I lost the last game!)

 

Well my biz partner David is PR and a lot of the guys that helped build Ken's car also. So is Judge Ito. I'm mostly Cherokee so that makes me the "minority" Ken is from South Africa. He has a great accent... sounds a little Australian.
Hopefully you can get you an 8. I have driven almost every model of rotary except a Eunos and a Cosmo and none come near the 8 except a 3rd gen. But even a 3rd gen is several steps behind IMHO. I am absolutely ecstatic with this car. OTher than some slotted brakes and a couple of tweaks I cannot see much I want to change.

But the dipstick sucks. I am turning a prototype this weekend on the lathe when I get to my shop that will come up another 3" with aluminum ends like the one on my website sorta www.scalliwag.com
This weekend will be interesting. I am going to get the 8 in the shop and see what kind of stuff I can make. Mine has the spare tire option so I will probably dupe some of those since I can jig off of it I can't wait to get it up on my lift so I can check out the underside. :D

 

Yeah i figure about Judge Ito, and i knew about some of the guys who built Scheepers car.. and i knew about Scheeper been African.. i was in shock at first.. hahahaha..

as far as the 8.. well my bro has one.. haha.. thats close enough.. i rather have a 1st gen 7, or a 2nd gen Turbo II..

 

i'm not telling what the surprise is...but it isn't that...the doors aren't even on the car yet and he is waiting on the paint to come in. hopefully by NEXT tuesday but i'm not holding my breath. its just him and his body guy doing all the work on about 10+ cars!

 

OOooohhh, body shop stuff is usually interesting. It has my attention. I am hoping that the bod mods for the 8 are cleaner than the 7 and older stuff. Spending 3 days working a nose piece to clean line a car is rough.
There is some Mazdaspeed glass that looks pretty good but I want to read up on how clean the fit up has been before I lay down a wad.
Hopefully you guys are finding out what works and I don't have to be the guinea pig for DFW

 

what do you mean by MS glass...?

 

Mazdaspeed's fiberglass

 

oh i see...what parts do they have so far?

 

http://www.japanparts.com/shop/shop....ts%2fBody+Kits

 

oh ok...for some reason i was thinking it was some sort of other specialty parts...i'm looking to get that entire MS kit less the wing.

 

Mr. Ed, tell us how easy/hard it is to mount the MS Kit to your Focus. J/k.