I've been busy lately, but wanted to let everybody know that since last saturday 9/16 I took the plunge and I've now offically joined the darkside. Converted from one of Honda's finest to Mazda. Woo HOO! +1 to the dysfunctional community. Rotary wannabe no more. Finally the is over.

MY06 White Water Pearl Mica Shinka.

I wish there was a way to have both an S2000 and an RX-8 as I will be missing the roadster from time to time.

But all is good now... for the rotary is here. Let the rotary madness continue!

 

cool...just curious why the switch?

 

I dunno. LOL actually I think it all started way back when watching Initial D a few years ago (notice: one jdm product promoting another subliminally). From there the rotary interest started snowballing to the point where now when I see Veilside's Fortune FD in Tokyo Drift and I go There's just something about dem 13b's....

That and I'm looking long term needs. 2 extra back seats, bigger trunk, less noisy roof, paranoia of soft top associated stuff, theft, ect.

Oh yeah also that car was a weekend warrior. Didn't get much miles on it. Felt the money could have been better spent, so lo and behold, got the crazy idea of an RX-8 as a DAILY DRIVER! Chevron is gonna love me even more.

So far it seems like it's a very good car. I would have bought this initially in 2004 had it not be for a lot of first year run problems that Mazda was addressing. So I opted for good ole Honda reliability. Can't go wrong with that.

But now curiosity has gotten the better of me... burning oil... what's that you say?

 

lmao...i was gonna get a s2k a few months back but decided to hold off.

 

"Fortune's FD "

wtf is fortune's fd? its the POS Veilside Fortune FD. lol... congrats man.

 

Veilside's Fortune FD is nice. How is it POS?

 

I also was thinking about switching to a s2k a little while back. Test drove one and liked it but I decided to keep the 8. Something about that rotary!

Enjoy your new 8!

 

Yes let me be witness to all that the Rotary compels you!

 

It's an awesome car.

For all the bitching I do, I love the 8. What a chassis.

Bring us FI Mazda....bring it.

 

Funny, sometimes it seems we have more S2000 fans here than RX8 fans.

I always liked the S2000, when it came out I was driving a Miata with mods and immediatly considered switching. But that soon faded. When I first saw the RX8 in '03 I was also stunned, but the appeal never faded as I expected. Finally bought one a year ago.

You may miss the convertible aspect every so often though, as I do.

 

OK.. different strokes for different folks. IMO its a POS.. why? because they ruined the lines of a FD with some wannabe exotic body peices. hell, they didnt even use the FD's own sound for the movie. they used Speed Machine's FD to record the sounds.

 

What is FD, and what is NA? lol.

 

FD - 3rd gen RX7
NA - Naturally Aspirated

 

I have always loved the RX8 when I was reading about it as a concept back in 2000, I still to this day can't believe that I own one. This is the first car I ever bought with my own money. I was thinking about the S2000 or the 350Z, I chose to go with my heart, I get a lot of idiots in civics trying to test me when I drive esp the 2 door coupe si

 

Oh no... youre not a rotary enthusiast!

 

Well everyone starts somewhere dont they?

 

Ofcourse.

 

hey, I am looking to switch to the S2000. as soon as somebody buys my car. there's something about that VTEC...

 

Unfortunatelly the S2000s don't come with 9k rpm redline anymore.

By the way, VTEC / or i-VTEC (Acura RSX) are nice. A friend of mine has an old 95 integra GS-R ..... VTEC power baby!!

Although the 8 has it's own version of VTEC.......... at about 5k and then again at about 7.2k RPM>......wind up that rotary and you won't be dissapointed....

 

[QUOTE=puch96]Unfortunatelly the S2000s don't come with 9k rpm redline anymore. QUOTE]

They never did.

 

2000-2003

 

8900

 

Congrats! One of the first members on this board to get the RX-8 switched from the S2K back in the Spring of '03. It was a guy from the UK living in Japan. I believe his words were the something like "The RX-8 is f...ing awesome!"

Enjoy!

 

Er, I was almost positive the aux. ports didn't open until 7500rpm?

But meh! I COMPLETELY forgot about the 5000rpm VDI! Ohh, thanks for reminding me.. :-O

 

I did for over a year. It was a great experience...however, I will venture to say that the day to day characteristics of each car are so similar that you won't notice anything missing other than the open top.

If you do drive spiritedly or on autocross courses you will probably miss the hard edged S2K...but the RX-8 is no slouch.

Enjoy your new 8...I miss mine...I traded my 8 in at the beginning of the year for a more family-ish car.

That silky smooth rotary should keep you happy for a long time.