blazenblue63

And miss out on an excellent reason to go for a drive? Hell no lol!

DeViLbOi

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Last time I was at O'Reilly Autoparts they said they would happily order Redline for me and ship it to the house. They don't store stock it but they can get it.

Wurmfist

I can't believe this one is still here. My long lost topic creation. All hail it's mighty creator...ME! lol... anyways, My 04 is gone. I got a family and it just didn't fit the bill anymore. If anyone buys a used red rx-8 with a RB exhaust and only about 18k miles on it, well, it was probably mine. No-one in this area probably had one with lower miles. Anyways, got a big truck now... Now where's the RAM forums at??

Side note: I still have the OEM cat-back exhaust if someone needs and wants to make me an offer, I can deliver.

Jon316G

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Wow... the original thread created is leaving.

Just looked at the 1st page of this thread.
Only people from that page, still around, is Josh and myself.

Wurmfist

Well, I'll still probably troll around... lol

Gopherage

Yup i'm still here. The funny thing is I originally revived the thread because I didn't know how forums work and didn't notice there was a 2 year post difference between my first post and the last one. I'll probably have my Rx8 for a long time unless something horrible happens to it. I've only just recently broke 30k miles. And now have the winter truck so i'm not driving the Rx8 in shitty weather.

Vyndictive

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Denny, I have your engine cover at my place.

blazenblue63

ah crap! youre right! and my little heater is there too lol.

blazenblue63

let me know when ur home and i'll swing by and pick em up if i dont see you at autocross i'll pm my cell

Shinka_MJR

Welcome to the "club" BB63. I'm also near the canton area. If you ever see a black cherry RX8 around N.Canton/Massillon area, that's most likely me... unless some how Brian makes his way over here. he has same model.

i also swapped out my tranny and diff fluid with redline. wonderful change. though i had the Valvoline oil change place do it. Didn't have the facilities to do it at the apt and wanted it done. they charged me $15 to do it.

blazenblue63

thank you

jon and steve helped me out enourmously with the coils and plugs and the redline swap. i opted to change the coils and plugs because i didnt know when (or if) they ever got changed and when i drove her afterwards OMG! she's smoother all through the powerband and idles a little smoother. the cool thing was that jon and steve actually explained and taught me every step and let me do most of the work. jon was nice enough to clean my MAF while we were working on it.

are you referring to brian katzensomething? i know him and his car. his ex is my sister in law and we hung out a couple times. he's not on the forum? i figured he would be.

blazenblue63

i went to geauga lake sunday but i didnt see anything lol. i was on 43 by the waterpark and must have driven up and down 10 times lol. i was on the late side because my wife wanted to come and well by the time i got up there it was 1330 and all i saw was 2 evo X's racing the other way lol. let me know when you are going again and i'll follow you up

DeViLbOi

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The Cleveland locals are great for that...ermm...Denny. You can learn a ton about your car as long as you are willing to put in the time and not freak out. It's really going to suck for me to move away from these guys.

The Brian that Banned was speaking of is Brian DePietro (tiresmoker). He lives in Youngstown but still comes to hang with us regularly. You can spot his Black Cherry Shinka by the numbers on the side though.

blazenblue63

yeah i was amazed how great everything went. prior to joining the site i read most of the must read threads and stickies and such and got the theory of the car pretty much down. but i'm just not that familiar under the hood in practice lol!

i really liked getting my hands dirty working on the car and seeing the results immediatly afterwards when i started my car, it's a great feeling lol!

i'm just really glad that jon and steve were there to guide me and check my work and letting me use his garage. made me feel infinately more omfortable and i didnt have anything to worry about which i would have if i would have done it on my own.

damn the cherry shinka's are more common than i thought LOL thats 3 i know of now in an hour radius.

DeViLbOi

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Just wait until you get into something more complex like a clutch job.

Shinka_MJR

lol, ***. :p

I earned the nicknamed of "Banned" because i successfully got banned from the RX8 forum for 3 days due to posting political content... twice lol

Anyway, glad you got everything swapped and cleaned. i need to do my MAF as well.

the 05 Shinkas are kind of common around here. i dont know why. but that just means this area has good taste is all. there were less than 1400 produced total. I guess mazda has scheduled around 2000 for the total run but never had enough sales to meet that number.

Any talk of a get together soon? I went back three pages but didnt see anything mentioned. figured i'd ask.

Vyndictive

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Yea, the demand for torqueless 4 door sport coupes in purple is pretty low... who knew?



Danny,
Next autocross is April 16th & 17th, both at Geauga lake.

I doubt many of us will go on the 16th because its the novice driving school.

However, most of us will be there on Sunday the 17th.


I don't think we have a date set for the next official rx8club meet.

DeViLbOi

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Since nobody is going to driving school...who wants to go bowling on the 16th?

tiresmoker

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I have to be at the drivers school on the 16th to do tech inspections and help out with the rookies. Depending on what time it all gets done thought I may be up for some night bowling.

*wats for Steve to make joke about me being chief of tech and my car breaking and belching tons of oil smoke...*

tiresmoker

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1,357 to be exact. Originally 2150 were to be produced but the plant caught fire and production for the Shinka was stopped. Hence the reason the projected number was never met.

Also, it seems as if the majority of the BCM Shinkas are on the east cost.

DeViLbOi

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Oops...got my weeks crossed. I'm off this week...not next. Anyone up for bowling this coming Sat?

Shinka_MJR

psst. captain obvious, read my sig :p and yes, when i look at a digital clock and it says 9:43 i say "it's about a quarter til 10".

but good looking out on the actual reason as to why production ended. makes it even more enjoyable to own now since it wasn't because people didnt want to purchase purple torqueless wonders. LOL.

So what'sup bro! Sorry i not been around in a while, on here or meets. No genuine excuse for not popping in here but meets were fairly limited due to the new baby. she's almost 16 months old now. Crazy, eh? Anywho, up for the next get together, where ever, when ever it is. Bowling would be fun!

blazenblue63

Yeah bowling sounds fun. I suck at it but oh well lol!

Could someone give me directions to the geauga lake track/parking lot you guys use? I didn't see anything last time I went there lol.

Vyn can I swing by Saturday for my engine cover and heater?

Tiresmoker I want to start putting my car on the track. What does the novice school entail? And prices?

DeViLbOi

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Rookie school teaches you what the cones mean, hand signals, etc. It also gets you a passenger to help you with your driving.

And here is the parking lot...

Course area

Course Comparison

Last year they only used the one parking lot but this year they will use both. Should be fun.

tiresmoker

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You want to go to the side for the roller coasters. The other side (water park side) we don't have enough cones for yet. We will be running on it by the end of the season. I believe you went to the water park side on Sunday. The side you want to go to has a little shopping plaza across the street from it. Also, we were done by 2:30pm because we only have 50 participants for the 1st event this year. Plus we run a pretty tight and efficient ship and can keep things moving at a good pace so we're not taking all day to run an event from dawn to dusk.


Lets see if I can help with this one.

This should give a brief overview of autocross for you. Each link on this page should help with the questions you have.

http://noraracing.net/new-to-autocross

Basically what will be covered in the school will launching and brake control, cornering and slalom control, a "classroom" session where vehicle dynamics are discussed and also the parts you buy for your car and how to properly use them, and then the afternoon is basically autocrossing and applying what you learned durning the day and practicing it.

It is definitely an informative day and you will get TONS of runs in during the afternoon.

As for pricing and how to sign up, follow this link:

http://racerslane.com/clubs/NORA%20-.../4/events/2669

As stated, the cost may seem a little high, but the event the next day is included in the price. At previous schools, people have seen upwards of 20+ runs (considering that most autocross events are anywhere from 4-8 runs that's a hell of a deal, and you are getting instruction too) If you are thinking about doing it, one thing to note is I believe there is a cap on registration, reason being is that we want to make sure that we get enough people to make it worth it, but not too many where all of us running it are running around frantic and not being able to have enough people to help with ride alongs and things of that nature. Once a little more info on how we are going to run it this year is out there I will let you know.

If you have any other questions let me know. I'll be glad to help.


And on that note, a shot of my car being a stubborn bitch this past Sunday: