july 30 or 31 hmm think i am free.

Anyways, True: hahahh Saw your brief thread on the blonde.
I think we need a website. <-- I have an old server & static Ip address just laying around
doing nothing.. I'll hook it up this weekend and host the crazy 8 site. I'll send you all the URL once its up.

sweet! I can upload some pics from the last event in a gallery...I'll resize and recompress them to take up minimal bandwidth

who thought of the name crazy 8s :D :D :D

True: hehe :) I'll email you the ftp username and password. Once I get it running :).
I should have our beta site up and running by this weekend.

True: you can post more pictures on my box if you want. The account/pw should be the same. (If you need a refreshed drop me an email.)

thanks fray I don't have any at the moment but the camera I just got the day before our first meet I've not become much more knowledgable of and can take much better pics...plus my gf is going to come along to take them instead of me shifting, steering, taking pics/zooming, turn signal, all at the same time :D

-J

Hello everyone,

After discussing with several Minnesota members on the board how much fun the last group drive was we have aranged another one!

Sorry for the late notice but early August was not a good date for atleast 4 people...(we can have another in August as well and a caravan is in the works for Midwest Rotary Rally).

So, the date is set for Sunday July 31st, at 1:00pm

Out of simplicity we will meet again at Ridgedale Shopping Center, and depart on a drive between 1:15 and 1:30.

Again, Ridgedale Shopping Center is located at Plymouth Road and 394...meet in the northwest corner of the parking lot, near the gas station (located by the Bacio's/Champs). For further directions please visit: http://www.ridgedalecenter.com/Info/GettingHere/

If you have a nice route you recommend email me or call and we can work it out...Frank's path last time was great...we could use his help again.

Looking forward to seeing all of you and again feel free to email me or call (if for instance you are get lost) (PM me for copy of entire email with my personal info intact...and PM me your email so I can add you to the MN list).

Regards,

Jason

PS. Fray and Speedrx8er are kindly donating server space so a website is in the works for MN RX-8s...with pictures and info...any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Nice, I'll see you all there :)

Yes Any suggestions for our website will be great. I was tempted to do it in all Flash.
But the load time may take awhile to load for those that are not on high speed connection.

To bad papajoey can't make it . hehe could really use his e-tool to load the new maps/ hehehe

I'll bring the sCANalyser for sure with a working computer this time! :p

Speederx8er we should meet during lunch sometime to hook it up

truemagellen, I'd love to get a print out of my car's current ECU information.. (Basically just the VIN, flash info stuff.)

Anyway, I hope to be there.. it's about a 90% chance right now.. :)

I can probably do a snapshot of that info/or save it in word then send it to you when I get home after the meet

if you guys want to we can hook it up after the meet starts to breakup

That would be nice. Dying to know my air /fuel mixture how rich /lean etc.......


But in the mean time.
heeheh Trying to figure out how the obd2 can are programmed.. be cool to program my own. Now if i can get my hands on some ocx and dll ehhehe

Hey everyone, sorry for the delay. Our beta website is almost done. I"ll keep you posted.

cool :)

Hmm what is this I hear about a recall?? anyone?

don't bring your car in just yet...call ahead of time and make sure they have the parts for BOTH recalls...that way they won't keep your car there indefinitely...cause that is what they are supposed to do for liability reasons.

Hmmm I don't recall getting a letter from them.

whats the recalled parts??

Will they I get charged since i am have turbo??

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nevermind Found it

2004 MAZDA RX8 - SUSPENSION:FRONT:CONTROL ARM:LOWER BALL JOINT
2004 MAZDA RX8 - ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING
2004 MAZDA RX8 - AIR BAGS:FRONTAL
2004 MAZDA RX8 - POWER TRAIN:MANUAL TRANSMISSION

the recalls are the the first and second (the other two are old...were probably already addressed in your car)

The suspension they'll fix without being charge...as for engine and engine cool they probably won't charge either because it is a simple ECU reflash to add more fuel to the cat to cool it down and stops you from repetative high revving while stationary. The final piece to this one which may not apply to you based on vin number is a heat shield above exhaust components to protect the undercarriage...specifically the gas tanks

really it isn't an issue to us since our temp never really goes abouve 100 and we aren't stupid enough to rev the engine in neutral for several minutes or more. The problem was since there was no movement there was no airflow under the car to cool it...I'll tell you the whole story if you want on Sunday...just there is info I shouldn't be posting on here

here is a link to the thermal breakdown recall (TSB/Recall for dealer): http://www.finishlineperformance.com.../pdf/3305G.pdf

and as for the control arm...I have the pdf at home...the one on the site is down

Thanks

Well after seeing how hot my air temperature was. Granted I drove for about 45 mins and it was 90+ degree outside. I decided to pull the bumper off again and move my air fliter out of the engine area. After pulling th bumper and some platic covers. It looks like there is enough room to do some kind of ram air :rolleyes: . The downside is that my filter will get dirty real fast :( .. I also plan on lowering my innercooler by 2 inches.

I don't know how long the pipe can be. I fear if its to long it may cause some air turbulant. What do you guys think?? :confused: DO I need to move the sensor to?? :confused: hmm

I've got to post pics pronto :)

Yeah...when we gonna see some pics from this club! I think that Jason really has like 5 screen names, and he just wants to make everyone think he has friends :)

blurring the license plates as I type this ya bastard ;)