I will probably be up late tonight and get up at 05:00 as well. Going to need some coffee tomorrow!

 

So meeting at the starbucks at 930 still or 9?

 

damn dude.

 

9:30

 

good. 930 is pushing it for me...

 

Any earlier and I would need to come up tonight

 

HAHAHAHAH! R o f l indeed PDX.

 

Well, I was gonna show up, but it looks like I'm the newest member of the second motor club. And my car is an 06! Car is still at the dealership, so I'll catch you guys on the next one.

 

That sucks. Any idea why the motor failed?

 

Brilliant Renesis engineering?!?!?!?!

 

Good new and bad news

No dyno for me tomorrow but I'm coming up. I fixed one issue with the car and now I'm running lean. I will need to send the datalog to MM and get a new tune.

 

It's very very odd. This isn't typical compression loss failure. I was getting a metallic rattle at 2000-3000RPM. I took it in suspecting the transmission, suspecting something on the input shaft side since it was RPM related, not vehicle speed related. My transmission has always been abnormally noisy IMHO for a rx8 trans compared to other rx8's I've driven.

The dealership thinks its the motor. After a few days they did a decarb and it seemed to improve the noise, but not make it totally go away. They are trying to get Mazda to approve a motor replacement now.

I'm rather stumped to what the actual culprit is internally, and I will likely never know since I'll never be able to see the teardown of the motor. The only thing that is odd about the motor lately, is my gas mileage has been on the decline. Power is still good.

 

what did you "fix"

 

Pdx nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :'(

 

Yeah it sucks. I was really looking forward to getting on the dyno tomorrow. Still coming up though

 

Well I get to hear teh z00m z00mz.

 

How much is a pull. I might want to see what my stock-mobile will do. If there's room for me

 

You can have my slot

 

dannobre made me wake up at 4am yesterday and drive him to the airport

and that was after food and beers with and1kidd and getting home at midnight.

 

and1kidd might join us too. nem i suspect there's more than enough time for others?

 

yep - plenty of dyno time w/o tuning - anybody that wants to go fast nowhere like me, can roll up!

 

ok so imgetting off of work early forsure! just the question is how early. wana try and make it up to the dyno if i can! when is everyone planing on heading to dicks?

 

I think the dyno pull is from 10-12 so I would think we'll be at Dick's around 12:30-1:00. If I am wrong please someone chime in!


How fast do you normaly go on the dyno?

 

How much is it for a pull?

 

Sitting at the caravan meetup spot waiting for pdxhak. Maybe I should have slept a little longer