Loki

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$1000. Apex seal failures usually scrap the engine. $500 if it's an automatic.

Itsfeggy

Is there a way to make any decadent money from my car? It needs a rebuild... I do not want to pay for it

Loki

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Sell the parts that are in good condition.

NotAPreppie

Depending on the condition of the body/interior and how motivated the buyer is, you might be able to get $500 - $1500 for it.

If everything else under the hood is in good shape and the owner does all the work, it would be about $4k to get the car up and running with a Mazda reman engine.

Keanski

Hey all, serious dumb question for ya. Is it possible to put an R3 front bumper on a series 1, how much modification would be required and is it worth it?

gjk62

They don't use oil do they. I was told antifreeze in the engine will make it last much much longer

gjk62

For my corporate lawyer sister...
How many lawyers does it take to screw in a light bulb? Hint Most everyone gets the correct answer on the very first try...

So the other day I went to the doctor to get the results of my IQ test to make sure I was smart enough to buy and maintain an RX8.
He welcomed me in and said. Greg the results of your IQ test are absolutely off the chart!! A quick rush of Adrenalin and fist pump later he was telling me that I might want to sit down. His next sentence qualified me as a new RX8 owner fer sure. Sorry to tell you our chart has not been properly calibrated to display negative numbers...









Punch line lawyer joke I did for my corporate lawyer sis....
The correct answer is....... I don't know.....

In fact nobody knows. To this date no one has had enough money to pay a lawyer to actually screw in a light bulb... P.S. U don't wanna know how much her company bills for her services it will make your head spin. Needless to say you could pick several rx8's for a weeks work. Weeks work for her is over 80 hours though so it comes with a heavy price tag called no life..

gjk62

Nice job little more involved that I would have guessed.
gjk

gjk62

unfortunately the number of dead eights are mounting. Very easy to find a slew of dead one's for sale real cheap... If the parts are good you may try to part it out. That too may be hard to do and for sure would be very time consuming 4 u... Sure others will have more intelligent answers but coming from someone recently in the hunt for an rx8 in good condition I ran across way more dead one's in my area than I ever imagined before my quest.
gjk

arakawa

Does the S2 have auto-leveling suspension, or something of the sort?

My car sits about an inch lower in the rear left, local specialized shop said it could be something wrong with that. I can't find a single reference to that anywhere.

Steve Dallas

Nope. Nothing fancy in the suspension.

The shock is probably blown on that corner. The shocks are gas pressurized, and once the gas leaks out, the suspension sags. This is especially common in the rear.

speedieone

Agreed it is a blown shock.

WankeyYankey

Since I’m sure there’s already a page for it somewhere, a reply with a link would be totally acceptable, but I’m really not too sure how the tuning process works. What exactly do I need to do it/get it done and how would I go about doing it? I’m putting a Turbo on and it’s got some other considerable modifications... as well as a manny swap 😅

Brettus

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https://www.rx8club.com/series-i-eng...x8-ecu-265430/

WankeyYankey

Is there one a little more basic? I’m new to tuning all together and just want to get a basic understanding.

Loki

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I think you may need an expert to work with you. If you haven't tuned a car before, tuning a turbo rotary build os going to end in heartbreak. Any rotary shops in your area?

WankeyYankey

Im not sure I wanna go ahead and do it myself, I just wanted to kinda get into it and learn more about it. Also I live in San Diego, so I’m not sure about any shops nearby but if anyone else knows of some good ones I can check out I’d love to hear about them.

Anarchist26

I was gonna make a separate thread but I found this one while searching for answers.

After going through the stickied New and Potential Owners START HERE! and searching for "Short Trips" or "Hot Start" and all I found were for moving the cars for washing, access to other cars, and actual hot start problems and still coming up empty, so I'm here posting a dumb question.

So, I kept on reading that the RX8s don't really like short trips so I've been pretty selective when to drive the car or just using the family beater.
Anyway, am I restricting myself too much? Basically, I'd like to know if I can do the following:

1. Get groceries (spend 30 minutes), drive back home, shut-off car, realize I forgot something, drive back to store, get the silly forgotten item (spend 5 minutes), drive car back home.
2. Similar to above: drive mom to a doctor's appointment that lasts 30 minutes, drive the car another 30 minutes to another appointment that lasts 30 minutes, and then go home.
3. Go out for lunch, spend 45 minutes to an hour, go back to work.
4. And the worst: drive 10 minutes, shut off car for 5 minutes, then drive the car 10 minutes again.
5. And the ABSOLUTE worst: drive car, shut off for a minute or so, turn on again, drive another minute or so, turn off again. (My brother likes doing car photo shoots with his Mazdaspeed3, so I tag along with my 8)

All of these includes warming up the car for the very first trip.

TL;DR: What's the shortest time between shut-off and turn-on that can I do to the car without endangering its engine life?

Now that I think about it... I turn it off, and then turn it on within a few minutes when fueling up. So, these shouldn't be a problem, right? XD

I want to drive my car more, I just don't want to shorten its lifespan.

Thanks in advance.

IamFodi

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What you need is for the initial drive to be long enough that the car spends at least 10-15 minutes AT operating temp (NOT counting the time it takes to get up there) -- the longer, the better. After that, letting it sit for up to an hour and then short-tripping it should be okay. It's not ideal but it's not horrible either. What's bad is shutting it off before it's at temp.


If you mean idling until the car is at operating temp, that's a bad idea. Oil films and combustion quality are marginal at idle, especially on a cold start. The thing to do on a cold start is to idle for like 10-30 seconds and then drive off gently, keeping things slow and mild until there's some heat in the engine.


Repeated starts with little driving in between will wear down your battery, and maybe your alternator over time (constantly having to work hard to charge an overworked battery), but it's not that hard on your engine. Again, the thing that's problematic for rotaries is shutting them off before they're at operating temp. The reason hot starts come up in discussion isn't that they're harmful per se; it's that they're often the first place you'll see symptoms of bad compression.

Anarchist26

So basically, if my drive duration is enough to get it to operating temp and I can let it rest for about an hour before another short trip it's okay.
For my consecutive, shorter trips, it's better to use the family beater.

I could've sworn I read in the manual to warm up the engine. This was what the dealers I visited 6 years ago said too. "Make sure to warm up the engine before driving off."
Re-visited the manual after you said this and it's not there.
Re-visited the newbie guide by RIWWP, and it looks like warming up's for hard driving only and light throttle driving is okay.

Thank you for your answers.
It made me re-read things I thought I fully understood.

It seems I can't take this car to consecutive short trips like I did with my 1st car.

dannobre

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Just don't shut it off cold.... you can make short trips as long as it is warm when you shut it off..

IamFodi

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When he says to let it warm up before hard driving, he means to go easy on it until it's warm -- not to idle it until it's warm. Very important distinction.

Hayzertoo

Okay hear me out on this one. I know there has been a discussion on hybrid engine renesis. But im in the process of doing a NA hybrid renesis build. I have the 84 s4 gsl se housings. Now what if on the LIM i removed the apv valves and the held the ssv valve open, that would allow more air into the motor and with a proper tune on an ecu, i have the rx8 adaptronic, it should in theory run very powerful at the top end for a higher horsepower NA hybrid build. I would need a custom exhaust manifold adn the mpgs would be terrible but who buys a sports car especially a rotary for mpgs.

would this be possible? And im going for more of a track oriented build so i wouldnt care so much about the low end power.

Nisaja

Hey guys. Been away from the club for ages coz I didn't drive my car a lot. Bad news. While it was sitting, rats got to it. Now it's got no power steering and the little button next to the door handles don't work.

I saw some foam on the driver's side footwell. That made me think the rats ate something there. But I couldn't find any wires leading to the steering. All I can see is the steering metal bar. The pole. Don't know what to call it.

Any ideas where they'd eat the wires? Tried looking for wiring diagrams but no luck.

Thanks!

Loki

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Doh! That sucks, sorry to hear it.
Possible they ate the power steering wires going to the rack, under the hood?