What should I do this winter the RX8?
 

Hello all, my car in question is a 2004 Mazda RX-8 with 176000 km on her bad ass self!

This will be my 3 winter. Each winter i tinker with it a bit.
At time of purchase spring 2020 I changed the battery, oil, transmission oil, and dif oil. Repaired rusted rocker panels , added a fiberglass body kit and did fender flares.
winter 1 I did silicone hoses, the Bennett built coolant reservoir, missimoto fans, missimoto radiator and racing beat dual resonator mid pipe.
winter 2 I did racing beat sway bars, megan racing coilovers, megan racing tie rods, all the rear arms also done in megan and bigger sway links. I also did the big 3. Zero gauge wire for battery to ground, battery to charge and engine to ground just in case I do a sub or something.

Now that you know what's done my wife has me on a 3k per year budget (3k ish)

This winter I could do new wheels and tires sinse the supenion is all done and i have the flares.

or
i could do a big old wing and roof scoop
Or
Stand alone ECU from audiotronics to clear up a check engine light related to the PCM and prepaid for future tuning potentially also have enough left over to get megan adjustable upper A arms.

Or
a cat back
I'm open to suggestions if I'm overlooking something.
I plane on doing all just each OR is its own winter. I also plan on taking 2 winters budget for the rebuild on the engine. I'll just shoehorn that in when ever it dies. During the rebuild I'll do pullies header and sohn adapter.

I'll probably do the vynle wrap last.
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If the roof scoop isn’t functional then I’d definitely wouldn’t do that

oh it will most certainly be functional

Street only car or does it do some lapping ?

I'd paint the body kit. There's no point beyond personal preference for the options listed. None of them make the car faster or better and introduce more points of failure. There's nothing wrong with the stock ECU, you can tune it with Versatune or MazdaEdit to clear the codes.

A catback will also not give you anything beyond sound.

What do you use the car for?

just street now. But lapping looks like something I would love to get into. I'm about 90 mins away from a trade that does lap days on Tuesdays i also have Tuesdays off but also have kids aged 6 and 3 so..... at some point.

right now I use it to take the kids to school and go to work. I do spirted drives along the river right now. I eventually wanna get into doing track days.

If it were me I would go wheels tires and paint if possible, nice stuff! Good plan with everything else too for the future

plot twist......clutch

lol good idea if it’s got issues.

dont go with a big wing unless you plan on dropping a turbo or 20b in for time attack! Duck bill or oem wings. Please let us know how you spend your money lol