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Next time you are flipping through the Mazdaspeed accessories catalog, resist the urge to buy the Mazdaspeed billit alluminum oil cap. The thing is heavy. I'm guessing a solid 1 to 2 lbs. Not enough to slow me down, but enough to question if I really needed to spend the $28.
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Haha, take that STI's! http://www.wwscc.org/event_results/2010/scca-1.html#NS5
RWD car in the rain and it's my 2nd season... If Keith hadn't coned I'd be in 6th, but he did so I took 5th, which means I trophied... even though I couldn't pick it up that day Next event they'll have our 2010 Trophies anyway which are apparently no longer the pint glasses.
RWD car in the rain and it's my 2nd season... If Keith hadn't coned I'd be in 6th, but he did so I took 5th, which means I trophied... even though I couldn't pick it up that day Next event they'll have our 2010 Trophies anyway which are apparently no longer the pint glasses.
It was nice to see Karl at the top. Next NWR event we'll be in the RX-Snake, should be interesting to see how we do in NS5.
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Racing Beat Intake, Custom 3" Midpipe with Davesport Cat and 12" Vibrant Performance Resonator, with Borla Exhaust.
http://vimeo.com/10646731
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Here's a clip of it taken today.
Racing Beat Intake, Custom 3" Midpipe with Davesport Cat and 12" Vibrant Performance Resonator, with Borla Exhaust.
http://vimeo.com/10646731
Racing Beat Intake, Custom 3" Midpipe with Davesport Cat and 12" Vibrant Performance Resonator, with Borla Exhaust.
http://vimeo.com/10646731
LOL @ the ricer launch w/ wheelspin and the "fly by" in the neighborhood!
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Yah, if the May 1st-2nd weekend is dry, Packwood should be really interesting. I'll have my sways and endlinks in by then (I hope!). A lot of the reason I was able to stay competitive in last Sunday's event is because of how tough the course was and in particular how tough it was to figure out what to do with the turn-around. I'll see if I can scan in the course map, but there was a super ambiguous cone where the ONLY thing that told you to go to the left side of it was the map and it counted as a Gate if you missed it (we worked first, and despite having watched that section and having gotten it right my first run, I got it wrong the second run).
Edit: Forgot I had the videos of this. It's at 0:39 in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZKudDJ1Qtw#t=0m39s
Edit 2: Hm, looking at the scores, they didn't record a cone... interesting, since he definitely knocked one over. Karl still beat him after PAX though, which is what matters.
Last edited by Anijo; 04-03-2010 at 02:20 AM.
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Here's a clip of it taken today.
Racing Beat Intake, Custom 3" Midpipe with Davesport Cat and 12" Vibrant Performance Resonator, with Borla Exhaust.
http://vimeo.com/10646731
Racing Beat Intake, Custom 3" Midpipe with Davesport Cat and 12" Vibrant Performance Resonator, with Borla Exhaust.
http://vimeo.com/10646731
Thanks man, It doesn't seem to unbearable. Mine should be a little quieter I'm running Trust Titanium and its barely noticeable over the stock exhaust.
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^That may have been the better choice for another reason. I seem to have a slow oil leak somewhere around the rear of the transmission. I'll get it on a lift soon to see for sure, but I suspect that the cat, which is right next to the tail end of the tranny, is baking the seal. Hope I'm wrong, but looking under the car the front of the tranny is clean.
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^That may have been the better choice for another reason. I seem to have a slow oil leak somewhere around the rear of the transmission. I'll get it on a lift soon to see for sure, but I suspect that the cat, which is right next to the tail end of the tranny, is baking the seal. Hope I'm wrong, but looking under the car the front of the tranny is clean.
I learned the hard way the first time too:
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/THE-11620/
You have to worry about more than the seal; the reverse and neutral switch wiring and the transmission internals too
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Last edited by TeamRX8; 04-07-2010 at 11:43 PM.
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Well you can try it. I have it on the cat section running by the trans area in the OE position and it works for me.
All in all between rule changes, sound regulations, and just doing some things right/differently my STX car is quite a bit heavier than the previous STU build ever was. Almost Stock Class weight. I may have to put some thought into reworking a few things if it proves out that the shop scales were accurate. I was expecting to be at least 50 lbs lighter based on the weight difference calculations
All in all between rule changes, sound regulations, and just doing some things right/differently my STX car is quite a bit heavier than the previous STU build ever was. Almost Stock Class weight. I may have to put some thought into reworking a few things if it proves out that the shop scales were accurate. I was expecting to be at least 50 lbs lighter based on the weight difference calculations
#1116
Hi everyone:
im new here. i want to convert my car to stx from stock. any suggestion wut i should do first? i have heard that Bilstein or Ohlins(non custom-made) are good for autoX. is that true?
btw, does anyone know the stock spring rate for rx8?
Thanks
im new here. i want to convert my car to stx from stock. any suggestion wut i should do first? i have heard that Bilstein or Ohlins(non custom-made) are good for autoX. is that true?
btw, does anyone know the stock spring rate for rx8?
Thanks