GR888T

I'm close to 10K miles on my 2004 RX-8 and I feel the engine is more eager to rev than earlier. I don't know if it's just my imagination but the car just feels smoother and faster. I noticed this about my car last week.

I don't know if it has anything to do with the software upgrade I got a thousand miles back along with the oil change.

I read a road test a while back where the author compared the 0-60 time when he first got the car with a few hundred miles on it with another 0-60 test after putting 10,000 miles on it and guess what... the times are lower at 10,000!

Have any of you guys felt that?

Glyphon

https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.p...ight=30k+miles
the concept has been brought up before

cas2themoe

Alot of people have felt the same way. I noticed it as well. I'm at 19000 now!

Mugatu

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its not faster than your wife's Crossfire though, right?

rx8wannahave

Ohhh boy, I can't wait...so far I've heard that:

10K, 20K, and 30K are magic numbers for the Renesis.

As far as for me, since I hit 5K my last 3 out of 4 fill up have given me 20+mpg in all city driving.

Well, the last one had about 40 miles of highway.

Hotsauce

http://www.caranddriver.com/article....&page_number=4

Raptor2k

Can we assume the numbers keep improving over 40k? The Renisis keeps gettin more and more interesting...

Mugatu

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if that's true, you're gonna see people driving cross country to get to 40k miles quicker. and shaving a 1/2 second off 0-60 and 1/4 mile times is easier that way!

KYLiquid

Ive got 9800 miles on the car now...it does feel smoother at idle and such, but I think a lot of that is due to my change to all syn fluids at 8k miles.

It wouldnt suprise me that the car runs better with more miles, everything tends to have a 'sweet spot' and cars are no different. you spend the first ____ miles running the car in and then your into that range where it runs its best, say 20k-80k, then after than things wear out and it starts to go down.....im just quoting random numbers here, but i think you get the idea.

vectorwolf

I'm almost to 30 now, and have yet to notice any sort of difference at any mileage points? Idle is becoming steadily more rough, though.

KYLiquid

getting close to 30k ? are you still on your stock plugs?

at 30k I would change plugs, plug wires, fuel filter, run a good injector cleaner thru the car, get an oil/filter change, change the fluid in the trany and diff, flush and refill the cooling system and reset the ecu, both NV and K ram (or whatever they are called) and change the air filter. That should help you get back to that new car feeling.

Thats if all those parts are factory, I follow a much closer change for those things, but if It were my car I would change any of the above that were factory every 30k.

mikeb

I dont know
I think alot of it is in your mind
I thought mine was faster after a couple of the earlier flashes

XDEEDUBBX

I've got 20k now and my rev's seem a lil smoother..but i wouldn't count on any of this..

therm8

I've hit 10, 20, 30, 40k and haven't noticed a thing. Now a nice dry 45F night...that I can feel.

MazdaRich

You do realize that Mazda specifically states not to use synthetic oil in the Rotary engine.

mikeb

you do realize this has been a ongoing conversation for about two years

staticlag

Sigh.

Glyphon

longer than that.

czr

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The dealer just hooked me up with the updated spark plugs and I think there is a difference at idle. Either it runs smoother or I'm going loco.

Mugatu

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looks like 40k is the magic number to start street racing

Gerael

hrm... renesis must have some self upgrading technology in it.... w00 w00..