I was just gonna post that james lol yeah the mazda meet looks like its gonna be a real good turn out! everybody in STL is meeting in wentzville at the steak n shake or bob evans NO LATER than 10am...April 31st-May 1st...I'm definantly going...if anybody wants to go meet up at my house since its pretty close to 70 around 9...Just let me know...dunno If I'm staying overnight there unless brett lets me crash there haha

 

yea ill prolly be crashing and make a weekend out of it. Hopefully Ryan will be 21 so that he can go out to the bars with us. And anyone that needs a place to stay just let me know. I still have my town home up there. But if your stayn with me you better be ready to party none of this im goin to sleep at 11 PM ****. lol

 

So tempmting, i need to try and get off work sunday also

 

brett i wont turn 21 till like 2 or 3 weeks after this lol

 

Autocross this Sunday at Family arena in St. Charles, how about coming out to play with the SCCA crowd. Would love to have more RX8's out there. If you have never autocrossed here is a link to explain a bit more http://www.stlsolo.org/new. Also, St. Louis Region SCCA is planning a Tech-O-Rama for the middle of may and all auto clubs are invited to come out and be represented. There will be give aways, raffles, product demo's and hopefully some technical presentations. Would be fun to have a bunch of rotary nuts show up. By the way mine is an 04 GT Black, nothing special but sure is fun to drive.

 

That'd be alot of fun! If my wheel bearing and hub assembly gets in this week and I can change it out I'll b there. Otherwise my car is kinda scary to drive haha

 

Yeah, you might have a bit of an issue getting through tech if it is that bad. Sure wouldn't be any fun watching a wheel head across the Katy Trail and into the river.

 

I missed the first event because I botched a sway bar upgrade, breaking an endlink without a means to replace it. I have since gotten it fixed and will be at this next event for sure.

On another note, anyone local interested in getting Idemitsu oil and / or premix for a decent deal? PM me for more info.

 

I've been interest in going an autox ever since i've had the 8, I won't be able to make it this sunday, but any day on easter weekend would. Mind posting a link with all of the dates?

 

^ Nevermind, I found the schedule on their site.

 

Would anyone be interested in having a meet Easter weekend?

 

there is a big meet in forest park on every easter

 

Ill possibly be going out there, I gotta work that day so depends when I get off.

On another note IDK what to do guys, I need to replace my rear shocks for sure the fronts looked alright. Ive been debating for a couple weeks now whether to get some 800 dollar coilovers im interested in those powertrix ones if any of you know what im talking about or if I dont do that ill get konis.

Konis 500.... Total 500
Powertrix probably 850 with shipping and then sell S Techs 130.. Toatal = 720 and I can adjust height now.

So for 220 dollars I can get coilover basically since I need something no matter what. My rear drivers side is about a half inch lower than the passenger and I am bottoming out sometimes.

What would you guys do?

 

didn't you just but the struts off me adam? don't tell me they are sagging

 

Yea man I was suprised that they were sagging but its weird I went on some pretty crazy backroads a few weeks ago and im thinking maybe something happened to them then, it seems that only the drivers side is sagging but both rears the top 4 coils of the springs are touching.

 

i get my new exhaust monday its a catback system . plus i was wondering is it hard to do the coils plugs and wires or is that something i should have a shop do

 

What system are you getting? And no its not really that hard to do took me about an hour.

 

The coils are the hardest part if you don't have small hands. Otherwise it is a pretty easy job to do.

 

i didnt really see a name i just no is catback. i was told everything is pretty easy but u have to watch the plugs cause they have to be set to a tourque and if u dont do it right it could blow the motor

 

Well I think theres a chance of like breaking an apex seal but yea just make sure they are torqued to the correct specs. Dont ask me what those are, have no idea.

So you just bought the exhaust without knowing the name?

 

I'm curious as to where you bought this exhaust. lol

 

got it off ebay . i know its not a name brand like hks or anything like that. but i read everything about it and it sounds like what i want
04-09 MAZDA RX8 STAINLESS STEEL CATBACK EXHAUST SYSTEM

thats what it says

 

Okay, I gotcha. I think I have seen a few recent threads about one from ebay and they said it sounded pretty good. Hope it all turns out well for you.

 

Just dont expect that 20 horsepower.

 

thanks
i have to buy brakes and rotors for my car then i think im going to get pullys and a header then start saving for a turbo