So Devilboi, what is your deal exactly lol. Your active in the Colorado forum so i assume you must spend some time out here to care to pop in the Mountain thread. And at the same time your tag says Ohio and you said your not out here? Moving for business? (Don't read that in the wrong context please, just a curious question)

 

I currently live just East of Cleveland and am going to be transferring to Colorado Springs for work as soon as I can find a place. So far the banking system has not been my friend. The first house I found in Peyton in March fell through after the bank wanted more for the house than the asking price in a Short Sale. And a couple weeks bad I bid on a foreclosure in Briargate with an amazing view to find out that the bank would not permit an inspection prior to sale. Should be out there again in a couple weeks to do this little dance all over again.

 

It kills me that my baby is limping along right now. I would love to get more involved and maybe do some meets but I don't to be the slow kid that everyone's stuck waiting for.

With that being said, if anyone has an oem cat in the Springs or Colorado I can borrow just to get through testing and engine replacement I would be great full.

 

That's crazy devil. Sounds like a headache. And ender I'm mobile so it's hard to go back, what kind if mid piece are you running on your car currently?

 

It had a test pipe on it when I bought it. I had a magnaflow cat with a new O2 sensor about a month ago, got a CEL about 5 mins after it was done. Reset the CEL and it came back. Saving up to put a Davesport cat, that one is verified on the board for no CEL, or the cat midpipe from the Rx7 store. The midpipe wouldn't be the problem would it?

 

Do both of these places of a few RX8s?


Ender - What are all of your problems? Is your car drive able right now?

 

Im not 100% sure but a couple months back I got a few little things from dons sports car they only do salvage of sports cars if they don't have it they could tell you the next best place.

 

My car is now in the shop for a bad o2 censor p0171... went down to woodman Nissan where i bought the car and thew a fit and now they are gunna pay for it. Ender I would help you out but my wife would flip if if I pulled my cat off my car..sry man good luck

 

So I've been stuck in Denver since 10pm last night. Tryiing to get a flight out at 11:15am.

 

Who said you could leave?
Denver is the Roach Motel of the West, didn't you know?

BC.

 

Seems like Central Foreign Auto Parts is the closest salvage yard with several RX8 motors in their facility:

http://www.centralforeign.com/

I got linked to them via carpart.com

BC.

 

Hi, I am planning on coming to Colorado in a few weeks and I was just wondering if you guys have seen those mobile emissions testing vans anywhere? I want to try and avoid those areas as much as possible lol. I know there used to be one all the time at i-70 and kipling in arvada when I lived there a few years ago.

I don't know if they have any type of power to get an out-of-state vehicle in trouble for emissions but I would rather not find out.

 

Ok back finally, been very busy this summer and have had several issues with my 8 already, but thats all sorted.

Hopefully gonna have some free time coming up on the weekends if you all have been doing stuff.

Also, are any of you good with car audio? My 8 came with an aftermarket system, that has just stopped working, and I am stumped , even for an IT guy lol

 

They don't have any power over a vehicle without out of state plates.
Most of the time, they barely have any power over vehicles with CO plates.

Don't worry about it at all.
They don't send out tickets, or anything like that.

All they do is capture a plate number, and record the emmisions levels associated with it. If the plate isn't a CO plate, then the info is dumped. If the vehicle was accelerating too quickly, the info is dumped, regardless of state.

If they actually get info from a van, and the vehicle is within 10 months of registration renewal, they then need 2 Passing certs from a drive by test to no longer need to go to an emissions testing facility to renew their registration.

Thing is, you can defeat the system really easily.
Just put your plate on ANY vehicle that is cleaner, and drive by two vans on the same day, and you're set.

BC.

 

Those vans make me laugh... I usually pass them at 8 grand.

 

Well thats good news Bladecutter. I was worried they might send some info to Nevada or something. In my old car I always passed them going as fast as possible. With a midpipe I might be to much for that van to handle though lol.

 

In case you're curious, here's the website for the rapid screen vans, and even has a pull down menu to give their locations for each week:

http://aircarecolorado.com/rapidscreen/

BC.

 

Thanks for the link, nice to know its actually pretty harmless. Hopefully I will see at least one of you on the road out in Colorado. :P

 

Well, if you tell us when you're going to be in town, we might be able to make sure you see us!

BC.

 

Well I finally got the call this week that my house went through so I should be out there by the end of the month permanently. Of note...when I got the call on Monday i was on the Cherohala Skyway and ran into a guy formerly from Colorado Springs. He said that the Cherohala Skyway and Tail of the Dragon were nice...but didn't compare to what you can find around the Springs. So the gauntlet was put down...yall got some big shoes to fill!

 

Congrats!

BC.

 

I will be coming out on the 11th of August for a week. Do you guys have any type of meets out there?

 

Technically, no.
We are all kind of lone wolves out here, roaming our territory on our own, marking our land, and not sharing our kills.

But, I'm sure if you pick a date you want to hang out, announce it, some of us might be able to tell you if we're available.

BC.

 

im gonna be out e until the 16th, around aurora and lakewood. Maybe I will see someone.

 

Looks like I am going to have a house out here next week. I have run into the same red RX8 twice this week up at Briargate. Almost waited around to see if I could drive it because I miss my car but needed to get back each time.