denim

Our official RX8Club Mazda Tech here in the area is Jay. He drives a blue RX8 and cares a lot about getting the work done right. I have gone to him a few times now. He has been more than awesome, even when wrong springs were shipped to me and the website owner maintained over the phone that we were wrong. Jay was totally cool and swapped the springs on and off a couple of times to confirm, as apparently the spring perch between the P5 and 4 door is different. Next up for me, is when I can't stretch the clutch in my P5 any longer as its the only main wear and tear item that has not been replaced. You can go to a Mazda dealer and pay dealer rate and not get to talk to the mechanic, or go to Jay and pay his rate and get to talk to him.

denim

When all this snow happens, this is a good way to get your speed fix:

Car Sounds With Mouth 2 (68 Camaro, M5 Turbo, Honda Civic, and more!) - YouTube

Genocide

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mazda rx8 motor, trans, and exhaust for sale

good deal on some 8 parts. Not too far from you guys in frederick.

BrokenRecord

Good find! Thanks.

I'm definitely interested in grabbing a spare trans since I wrecked my synchros learning home to drive stick. Let's hope its cheap enough I can afford it!

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Genocide

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yea, I just saw another spare trans on CL somwhere else earlier. thats a good price for the entire exhaust. But they dont know what brand it is, that kinda lost my interest.

BrokenRecord

It's the full TurboXS catback and racepipe with the Garageline headers from the looks of it. I bought that exact setup a little over a year ago. I believe I had the catback and racepipe on when you last saw me, but I might have already swapped in the BHR midpipe in place of the TurboXS one by then. That setup is like $750-$800 new, so it seems like a decent enough deal if you're thinking about it, just know that it will be LOUD!!! Like, your neighbors will hate you because you will be able to wake them up from a dead sleep under 4k rpm, loud.

That being said, it's a ton of fun, and I'd have the full setup on right now if I didn't work in an environment where having a stupid loud car is heavily frowned upon. I miss the huge fireballs I used to be able to launch!

CBarnes

I almost pissed myself watching this... hahah thanks for the post! ive watched quite a few of these motormouth guys, never heard someone so dead on with the rotary sound.

CBarnes

figured id make everyone else a little more anxious, like we need it. :P haha cant wait to do this sheiiiitttt again.

BrokenRecord

Pretty sure these are my in-car videos from that same set of runs:

For you new guys that are nervous about participating, these are the runs I did my first day:
- notice Nate's helpful directions. If I could do it and not get embarrassed, you definitely can. Let's get a great turn-out this year! So psyched to start this season!

RJayX-8

I'm definitely down to do some runs, especially while I have weekends off till September.

CBarnes

those were my first runs ever on a track too! and after a sleepless night, and a 3 1/2hr drive there.

bladeiai

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Did you guys know there was a test and tune this past Saturday at Harry Grove? I didn't even notice it before. Not that I could have gone anyways, but I was surprised.

denim

Nate said it was invite only I think.

stinksause

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Sushi meet is back! https://www.rx8club.com/ne-rx-8-foru...9/#post4573245

BrokenRecord

I got bored after work and decided to play around with making a club logo. What does everyone think? I want to clean up some of the edges, but if everyone likes it, I'm looking into getting decals and shirts printed up. I'd like to have something together early in the season.

Roush

I like those. Just the outlines and text would look nice. Also, hello to whoever I just cruised with down 695 outta towson towards glen burnie. Looked black with a mazdaspeed kit.

Genocide

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looks good to me. I like the one with the rotor more personally

Nathan Atkins

yeah it was only 13 slots plus organizers, and we had to shovel snow off of the lot before we started :-)

I JUST missed out on FTD at the last second, but it was Danny Kao in his fully STX prepped FR-S that got me and even then it was by a few tenths

So there's the Autocrosser's Inc event the same day as the CDC opener and I'm currently signed up for the AI one. It's at Waldorf which isn't any closer for me but it is one of the more high speed lots that i need to practice on cause i keep getting my *** kicked.

Here's a vid Danny posted of his second quickest run, I think I still had him at this point:

denim

That track layout looks fairly similar to the one from last summer.

RJayX-8

when is the next event

denim

Believe the first event on the list is AutoCrossersInc. in Waldorf on the 9th of March.

I might not start until the 22/23 at FedEx.

Chris'8

Hey fellas, Just checking in. It seems its about time to change my front brakes on the RX8. Just double checked the service records from the previous owner and it seems they haven't been changed yet and I'm sitting at around 32.5k miles now.

Any one have any recommendations for front pads? Something that won't run down crazy fast, little beefy but not a terrible bite to them? I'm sure some of you autocross guys have some brands you prefer?

Also, just wondering if anyone else might be able to help me with another issue that has started recently. My auxiliary port that's in the little cubby area, right behind the cup holder has been acting up. It seems whenever I hook up my phone or ipod, none of the lyrics of my music plays, just the background music and backup vocals play. Has this ever been heard of before?

Nathan Atkins

When It comes to brake pads there is only one good choice, the OEM ones. Everything else is compromised in some way, but in my (broad) experience the OEM from the dealer are the best at everything without being to noisy harsh too much dust blah blah anything else one could complain about. And theyre not even that expensive...less than 200 for a full set from the local dealer here, which may not be the cheapest but its the best dollar to quality ratio.


Here's how this happens. It's not specific to iPods; any device with a headphone output is capable of this.

The vocals in most tracks do, indeed, occupy the "centre" channel - that is, the vocal signals are identical, and in phase, in the left and right channels.

Headphones have three connections: tip, ring and sleeve. Tip and ring connect to left and right channels (I forget which is which) and the sleeve is a common return (ground) for both channels.

If the sleeve gets disconnected while the tip and ring remain connected, the common return disappears. Both the earphones are still connected together via the wires connected to the sleeve, though. So the circuit ends up looking like two earphones connected in series, strung between the left and right channel outputs.

That means that the only signal available to drive the earphones is the difference between the left and right channels - and since the vocal signals are common to both, they get cancelled out.

You'll also notice that the stereo imaging is all wrong. The left and right earphones are now reproducing the same signal because they're wired together, but they're out of phase; some people still hear this as a "centre" channel of sorts, others hear bizarre spatial effects.

Most of the bass will have disappeared too, because bass, like vocals, is usually common to both channels.

The most likely cause for a missing sleeve connection is a broken solder joint where the headphone socket is fitted to the PC board. you should be able to fix it just by resoldering the socket connections.

Nathan Atkins

I made a swivel mount to put on my car for autocross, the idea is the counterweight pulls the back end in the direction of the G-load so that the camera is pointing into the turn, it works pretty well at higher speeds, but the lower speed stuff it over-rotates a bit, I'm thinking of putting a fin on there to stabilize it

I finished it late at night so the video of the first test use is difficult to see:

Nathan Atkins

As most of you guys know, I'd prefer to get my go fast on the cheap:

So I can essentially build myself a bad-*** suspension kit for less than a grand:

4ea Hypercoil 12B0300 best springs in the business and will lower the car about 1 inch and give natural frequencies of 1.79F and 1.79R which is good for autocross without throwing street-ability out of the window, $296 shipped

Koni Yellows, the best adjust ability this side of Penskes without the heinous price tag, so i'll be able to dial in an ideal ~65% critical damping, $525 shipped

FCM Bumpstop Kit (F:36mm/R:58mm) from Good Win Racing, the shorter stop up front will remove the cars tendency to under steer on hard transitions, $145 shipped

$966 all in, and I get basically the same thing as i would've gotten with a good quality coil-over kit, except for the ride height adjust ability, which I don't really feel like i need. A 1" drop wont cripple me over speed bumps and is totally street-able

Now how does this kickstarter thing work again? ;-)

Also if anyone wants me to investigate high quality yet inexpensive suspension solutions for them feel free to ask, I look at this stuff for fun