My name is Jon, I currently drive a 93 240sx and I bought my wife a 2005 Mazda RX8. The car is beautiful, only had 36,000 miles and we got it for 14,300 out the door. So i figured that is less than 10,000 miles a year on this car and I couldnt pass it up. Who ever had it before me barely drove it!

The car is a 6-speed manual and it seems as if it has a short throw shifter stock from the factory? I had been doing some reading now that I got one and Im under the impression I got the one with 238 advertised hp? How exactly would I know, or do you know that because it has the 6spd in it? Just wanted to introduce myself. Im looking forward to putting some mods on this thing.

 

9000rpm redline = 232hp

 

Where in FL?

 

There, I fixed it.

 

lol@ kjb Im down in St Pete..

 

Congrats, Welcome, Reading Time.

Check the link in my sig for what to do with the next $100, and the link to the new and future owners thread.

The car is great, I would not want anything else. These references, and the others you find, will help you with many hears of Zoom.

 

I have a question. Do rotaries lose power in the heat and humidity? I know Honda VTECs suffer horribly. My brothers 350Z ran the same 14.3 @ 99 in south florida heat as the corrected magazines times.

 

All internal combustion engines lose power in high ambient temperatures. Cooler air is more dense.

EDIT: There might--pure BS speculation here--be more of a difference with rotaries and VTECs because of the dependence on high RPMs and the resulting high airflow.