All my pics (plus a few from Friday night) are here: http://pics.dpsubs.org/Portland/

After removing all the shitty ones, cropping some etc., there're 99 pics.

Highlights:

Shades of Grey


The Seattle crew


There were a LOT of 7's there


But I think we might have had them outnumbered


Drool... cleanest FD there, besides the race car


I don't know if everyone looked at the drag prepared Integra that was on a lift, but... it has a Smoke Stack coming out its hood:


Patrick's car was absurdly close to scrapping when they got it on the Dyno, even with boards. This angle is the best shot I took but definitely doesn't show how close it is to the bolts underneath. I took a video of him getting off the dyno, I can post that to vimeo or something if people want it.


Yah, better shot of how close it was...


Before the clusterf*ck before the drive


There as a great view from Vista House


Best road signs ever?


Alright, I'm done, I'm getting up at 6am tomorrow to head to Bremerton. It was great seeing everyone again/meeting new people. Hopefully I/we can get down to Portland again this summer.

 

thanks for the pics!

 

Good God.... That clearance pic is frightening! I was waiting for a scaaaaaaaaaaaaape the whole time.

 

Man I knew it would have been too good to be true, a 4 day weekend, dyno, and meeting fellow rotorheads. And I still cant figure out where my boost leak is coming from looks like its going to the shop this week

 

does anyone have some dyno numbers from today that they are going to post up? Dondo, how did your car do with the new coils?

 

bad. 142 for most runs and one with 155. i'll scan the runs and post it.

the shop guys suggested this as a possible culprit:
https://www.rx8club.com/series-i-tech-garage-22/unbolting-knock-sensor-174334/

 

A few of mine:

 

can't believe i missed this......
no blue 8s????

 

None!

 

No blues at all! In fact I was the only 8 with color!

 

Thanks again for everyone coming out to make the meet a great success!

Thanks to all the guys from up north making the drive to Portland! Way to represent the 8!!

Later in the Summer maybe we can have a Saturday mid morning meet and and the Portland area 8s will make the drive

 

Reman engine with ~900miles, all stock:

Run 1 -
164.0 @ 7800 RPM
129.7 @ 5700 RPM

Run 2 -
164.7 @ 8100 RPM
129.8 @ 5700 RPM

Run 3 -
165.1 @ 8100 RPM
129.6 @ 5700 RPM

 

That was a lot of fun. I didnt get home till 3am. Had to stop off half way crawl into my back seat and sleep for a few hours.

Tons of fun, those who didnt make it you missed out. Cant wait for next time.

 

My dyno results:

Not sure how I feel about performance past 7k RPM. Ideas?

Run #1


Run #2


Run #3

 

What kind of dyno was this? Numbers say "Mustang" to me.

 

Yep mustang dyno. Too bad you could not have made it!

 

Would've been nice too had seen the numbers from a couple more 8's. My reman had the second highest HP and the highest Torque of all the 8's run yesterday, moded or not.

 

I believe 7 of 9 rx8s went of the dyno so that is fairly decent!

IIRC we had 3 8s in the 160s, 2 in the 150s, and 2 in the 140s.

 

Oh, I think I may have been miscounting.

 

my dynos:

https://www.rx8club.com/showpost.php...5&postcount=19

 

Yea - should have made the cruise. The fire marshall has shut down bonfires on the beach this year. You can only have 3'x3' fires for cooking only! Dang Fire Marshall Bill killed our fun.

 

Here are my pics. Sorry no time to edit any of the pics.

 

Dondo thinking, "I can take this BB and no one would ever know!"

 

Well i got the 7k power loss figured out.....it was the mid pipe's gasket that I put on. It got so hot that it caught on fire, turned to dust then melted the metal inside the 2 layers and clogged the pipe a little. I cleaned it all out and put the cat back on. I also seafoamed the engine and did an oil change. It went to 8k no problem afterwards. I'll run it tonight and see if it took care of it finally.

It was a fun trip down there and hope we can do another before the end of June. I leave for MI July 3rd!

 

exactly!! it was already running too!