So this summer I picked up
a 10 rx8 with 13k on it. I have a full built 511 awhp focus rs that I built for track and street. But I fell in love with the rotary. So fist thing I did was catless midpipe, black halo coils and plugs, cooler tstat, and swapped coolant for engine ice. I also run amsoil 0w40 in the crank and premix 8oz of amsoil 100:1 In The tank. Also swapped all trans and rear fluid with amsoil.
Now that that done I put some racing beat shocks and springs and a fresh set of track tires.
Finally got it out to gingerman raceway for a open track day. Boy was it fun. I did however run the car extremely hard. I was very often at the rev limit for short periods.
Im loving this car and this week before the track it’s getting a shoria battery to drop about 30lbs

 

Sounds like you've caught the rotary bug. Rx8 is a great chassis too. It's even better now that parts are dirt cheap, don't have to worry about going off track as much. Enjoy.

 

Well finished my second weekend with it at gratten and that track is we’re this motor shines didn’t feel out powered nearly as much. It was a lotus event so I got to make a lot of those look silly.
Need to swap out my leather seat for something a bit less slippery and get some pilot sports I. It and I’ll be set.

 

For ease of install you could look for an oem cloth seat from either a series 1 or 2. When you look at a proper racing seat, to install it correctly you have to start modifying things. A bit harder to find but work great at the track are the OEM series 2 R3 seats. I used mine for a year before upgrading.

 

Great minds think alike I’ve already been shopping the cloth seat replacement form a series 1

 

I just stripped down the OE cloth seat rails, welded some tabs to them to allow bolting on aluminum Kirkey Intermediate Road Race seats, along with a formed aluminum tube (seat adjuster pull bar) at the front riveted to the rail adjuster tabs similar to OE. The sit very low yet have no real clearance problems, almost too low even. I seem to recall that I had to bend in the outer shoulder support wings slightly; which for me made a better fit, but with a stripped interior this may not be necessary. I think changing the front adjuster pull bar was necessary to have clearance from the race seat. It was 10 years ago and the details are fuzzy now. It might not be as easy with composite seats.

There was a pair of cloth seats listed in the FS area not long ago. Back when purchasing a set for myself, I asked the person selling the seats to strip them down to the bottom sections only to save on shipping and toss the rest into the trash.
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