where the hell did you find one of those things?!?!

just the person I was looking for! I have my ways..

how did you have your midpipe done redefine?

al

you ever figure this out?

yeah jim (redefine) gave me a call..

I guess I just expected more to come from a midpipe that people payed $500 for...

I'm getting straight bolts all around.

so no spring studs? that sucks, there's no room for movement like that.

Mazsport owner here. The original design on the flanges sucks. I have blown out the manifold to midpipe gasket several times now. Scott did not take the time to source real OE flanges that have the inner recess for the crushable metal gasket that say, Racing Beat sells with their exhausts.

Currently I have mine rigid bolted in the rear also. In my opinion, this is not good. Rigid bolted means there is no flexible joint to allow for engine movement, hence I have blown gaskets repeatably.

I have my OE midpipe, and the Rotary Performance Supercat Midpipe. Both have the OE flanges. When Racing Beat comes out with their version of the dual silencer midpipe, I'm sure it will incorporate the OE flanges.

OD, which ones you get?

I have the same problem. Blow the rear gasket out all the time.....

So I got some bolts and nuts that hopefully are up to snuff for the application.

I too am interested in what gaskets OD used..

Also.. anyone else wanna share what they did?

I'm surprised that people have experienced blown gaskets.
I've never experienced a problem with my mid-pipe and it still sounds great.

Here is my mid-pipe after taking it out of the packaging (notice the bubble-wrap circles):banghead:
https://www.rx8club.com/attachment.p...4&d=1215550107

I was under the impression the midpipe came with no hardware? Apart from the very early orders?

^mine came with all hardware and gaskets from mazsport, got it last spring or summer

Everything you see from my pic above came with the midpipe (except the pool table :))

ah okay.. that makes sense.. because there were a few people that said they got it new and got no hardware with it...

i need to find something similar to those gaskets :(

a generic 2 bolt 3" ID gasket is okay for the catback I assume, yes? But how about header side..

generic for catback is probably fine
for the header side you have to use that gasket...I am not sure where to get it however since it is not a mazda part...I'm sure racing beat has it

I believe it was the earlier people who didn't receive hardware.
When I purchased mine, I called a couple times to check on the status and they told me that they were starting to ship the pipes with hardware and were just waiting for them to come from over-seas (if I remember correctly).
I'm assuming they were referring to the gaskets because there is no reason to get bolts over-seas.

I must now source -one- of these.. hm.

OD said he got some from mrgasket, hopefully he can chime in when he logs on.

found one, mazdatrix, 27 bucks

http://www.mazdatrix.com/8exhaust.htm

oops, nm its just the flange, sorry

^ I believe that is the flange itself. Maybe useable?

I'm pretty sure it was over-seas.
I thought Scott mentioned it in the thread too.
I'll see if I can find it.

yeah my bad, it's the flange, i'll keep looking

I sent an e-mail off to Jim at Racing Beat, hopefully he's got something.

What do ya'll think of this:

http://www.mr-gasket.com/ProductDeta...minselection=2

Found a crapload here:

http://www.mr-gasket.com/ProductsLis...minselection=2

Not sure which will work the best in this application.

those are close but not exactly the right shape...look at the pic above of Jon's for comparison