2012 SE Florida Lounge
#32
Looking to pick up an RX8 at the end of this semester..going to be getting rid of my Ninja in place of a car
Hopefully the RX8 can satisfy my needs for the next few years. West Palm Beach here.
Hopefully the RX8 can satisfy my needs for the next few years. West Palm Beach here.
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the flames are due to the car naturally running rich so unburnt fuel igniting in the exhaust. part of the smell you get when not having a cat is from those unburnt gases (there are other reasons as well). the CEL is because the second oxygen sensor in the cars exhaust stream red-flags to the computer (pcm) that the cat is below efficiency threshold (no **** because its no longer there).
(BHR midpipe) The second sensor is still there but is no longer getting Hot enough which is why it's below efficiency. The computer then forces the car to run richer to keep the motor safe. Once you get the Cobb flash tuner and Mazda Maniac's base tune the check engine light is eliminated as well as the enrichment of the fuel.
Note when I had the midpipe on with no flash tuner my gas mileage was ruffly the same but the car did shoot more flames. With the MM stock tune less flames unless I was racing like this past weekend then tons of flames...LOL!
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Well, ladies and jerks you missed an EPIC adventure at Sebring this past weekend!!! I am speechless but here is a 5 second description of the weekend:
Porsche's...TONS...including the several GT3's and a VERY rare GT3 RS 4.0 (OMFG)
Ferrari's...Scuderia (I haz vid)
Z06 Racecar (I haz vid)
Me (I haz vid)
A memory to last a life time.
Porsche's...TONS...including the several GT3's and a VERY rare GT3 RS 4.0 (OMFG)
Ferrari's...Scuderia (I haz vid)
Z06 Racecar (I haz vid)
Me (I haz vid)
A memory to last a life time.
#35
Seriously.. FML..
I've had the car since 06 and I still feel the same way I did back when I first got it. Good times.
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Pics and Vids will be up soon...If you have me on facebook I have all vids and pics posted.
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Sebring Autocross
I couldn't tape the second day since my camera mount broke in the 4th vid...LOL! I guess I need to get a GoPro!
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I really wish I could have recorded day two!!! GRRRR!!!! I got some advice regarding my driving on day one and let's just say I got REALLY brave on day two and it paid off cause I took on the Tokyo Drift persona during the hairpin. It must have been soo entertaining that for a split second while I was driving I saw a few people at one of the stations clapping...LMAO!!! I should have put that song with the Asian girls singing FAST AN FURIOUS!!!!!
I'm the new DK of the autocross!
Now the truth is I was trying to down shift into first but I kept on messing up the throttle blip (heal toe) into first gear which essentially made the rear tires spin all of a sudden and put me into a perfect drift in the hairpin...I discovered it by accident...I should have kept using it cause I was much faster in the turn that way...LMAO!
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I found a pic of caveman at the event
here
apparently he got a paintjob....and a veilside kit....and some skillzzz
here
apparently he got a paintjob....and a veilside kit....and some skillzzz
Edit: I just remembered how I drifted the car too...LMAO!! Apparently while I was trying to figure out what went wrong I was doing this (One hand drift):
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I'll post the next one in a few.
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Dates
01/22/12 - 01/22/12
Location
Bankatlantic Center, 1 panther parkway, Sunrise, Fl
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sasha.ortega@me.com
Event Description
PCA/GCR Autocross 1/22/2012 Sunday Bankatlantic Center, 1 panther parkway, Sunrise, Fl
Credit card payment/clubregistration.net
CHECK-IN AND TECH INSPECTION 7:30am TO 8:45am ONLY Must arrive on time to get all your runs!
There will be a $10 cash processing fee/late fee if paid the day of the event.
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#48
Firecran posted this in another thread, but I figured I'd post it in here. CFRC's having an autocross on February 4th. $35 to drive, $10 to watch.
http://cfracingcomplex.com/autox/
http://cfracingcomplex.com/autox/
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Tune #2 COMPLETED
On a side note...Check it out!!!
Tune #2 (not including the base calibration...should have about 1 or 2 more tunes left)
All I have to say is...this tune is made of LuLz!!!!
1) Idle has never been this steady even with a stock engine and tune.
2) Everything in general is smoother across all RPM's.
3) I'm detecting some definate power increase here.
I gotta dyno this thing after the final tune for S&G's...
@Chris - Not sure I can make that autocross...Already would have done 3 in the span of a month and a half and rent is due that week so I need to hunker down and get my tax's done so I can keep this momentum going of fixing up the car.
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Important!!!
One of you weenies better make it out this Sunday at Bank Atlantic for the autocross so we can take some good video (my camera mount broke) of my drifting skillz!