My 8 is hibernating. If this weather keeps up, i'm going to give up hope that she'll come back out a few times over the winter.

 

Mines running around still. I'm still in Columbus for work, but I'm heading back to Cincy for the weekend. I'm also expecting new plugs and coils tomorrow, mine are on their way out.

 

Bah, snow just makes your heart race more while driving boys, lol. Keep your eye out for the red 8 doing pirouettes on the freeway between Columbus and Cincy in the ice/snow- that be me...daily driver and lovin' it! Now when some dumb a$$ in a 4x4 plows into us I will be singing a different tune I know

 

I'll keep an eye out for you on my way back to Cincy.

 

Merry Christmas everyone! Hope Santa brought lots of goodies for you and your cars.

 

Figured I'd ask around here about this issue. Does anyone elses 8 have issues with idle/stalling when you disconnect the battery. I had disconnected the battery yesterday to change the ignition coils, but I ran out of time before I could get anywhere. I reconnected the battery and oh so reliably it won't hold idle and stalls a stoplights. This has happened to me twice before, both times after a battery disconnect. It seems to "relearn" how to hold idle after about a week or so each time. Just curious if anyone else has this promblem, because I'm going to start avoiding disconncecting my battery like the plague.

 

Yes its no big deal. Just drive it a few times and everything will be back to normal. It has to relearn the fuel trims.

 

My 8 was great in the snow last year. It's the other asshats i'm worried about. It's nice not having to worry about all the salt, ice and other **** either. I'm from NE ohio and the snow belt. I'm not worried about my driving, I'm worried about others.

 

Happy New Years everyone! Hope the new year brings good things to our cars.

 

Happy New Year! It is where I am anyway. I hear the weather has warmed up, if I were home the Miata would be out.

 

Happy new year all!

Had the 8 out of friday for a while. Oh how i missed it.

 

Happy New Year everyone!

 

Happy New year everyone! So i finally broke down and made an appointment to have my 8 looked at. I have had the warm starting issues for about a year now and my transmission grinds when going into 4th and 5th since i bought the car. I'm dropping it off Wednesday at Kerry Mazda in Florence and the work should be covered by my warranty so i should only have to pay the $200 deductible. It could be a compression / engine issue since i have replaced the battery and whole ignition system and the transmission is likely done for. So i might get a new engine and transmission out of this, but we will have to see. So I'll be driving a bitchin' smiley faced mazda 3 for a while... I'll let you know what happens.

 

a happy new year!
i've been hibernating for quite a while now..
anyone planning on coming to the fuel sometime?? holiday's over and star feeling like it's time for me to start driving...

Tact

 

Tact, I'd go but it's a little far for me at the moment! Sometime in March I should be there.

I finally managed to get a Mazdaspeed front brace for the wife's car. Now I have an Axial Flow master cylinder brace (blue anodized) that will be sitting around. I only put it on for a short time, when I changed her suspension the mounting studs on the new ones didn't have enough thread for the bolts to bite on. Thought I might use it when I changed things back but no need now. If anyone wants this let me know and we can work out a price. I will also trade for your stock brace as hers already has the holes drilled so it will be plug and play.

 

Good luck man. How's the little smile car treating ya?

I'll be there this saturday in the beater. I went all winter long last year. It's nice to get out of the house.

 

new engine for me... until then I'll be rocking a 3.

 

so... im not driving a 3. he called and said its going to be like a month before he can get an engine from mazda so he told me to just drive it untill then and he's gonna call me... weird.

 

Odd, but new engine is good. How've you been other than that Matt?

 

good man, i got a new girl, possibly a new job, and i start school next week at NKU. Hows things with you?

 

Eh, pretty much the same. Building a road bike so i can get out and cycle again. Other than that, I don't have **** going on. Good luck with getting a new gig. Mo' money = Mo' mods

 

So, anyone going to the Deals Gap Rotary Rally with me?

 

I would, but have already committed to The Mitty. Besides, I know if the wife saw some of the monsters that will no doubt be there, she would want more power and that would mean fewer mods for the Miata. She definitely doesn't need any more power, she gets into enough trouble as it is.

 

I'm interested in the meet, but it's too far out there for me to commit to anything. I won't know if I can until I schedule for my spring quarter classes.

 

beginning of the year mess.. so busy at work, and then last couple snow caused leaking on our roof... now i need to get a new roof, and there goes all my modding funding....

if the weather's good, i'll probably make it to the fuel this weekend.

Tact