The Mazda "pearl satin gas door"
 

Oh how I regret getting this piece. I haven't even installed it yet -- let me say why before y'all open up with the flamethrowers ;)

I had a '94 miata, and on it I had the Mazda chrome gas door. It was a great piece, machined aluminum, with a ring which stayed stationary, and a door that opened. The ring had a gasket around it. The hinge was solid billet with a pin through it. It screamed quality.

Now I got the RX8's gas door, and bleah! It's cast! It's one piece, the hinge is plastic.. it looks, frankly, quite low-rent. Feels low-rent.

Is *anyone* making a really nice gas door, or is this all there is? If it is, the stock door stays until someone does make a nice one.

This one goes back to the dealer, and if he won't take it back, off to ebay with it..

sparco makes one, but you have to mold it in. use a motorcycle one too...mold that in!!! but i don't know of any bolt on ones.

Mold that in..?? I'll look at the sparco site.. I hope someone (or mazda) makes a nice one. This one's about on-par with Kia.

Edit: Is your avatar The Bride's kung-fu instructor in Kill Bill? :D

yes...Pai Mei

someone was making a different fuel door awhile ago. did you try a search here?

Prolly the funniest character in the flick(s) :D

Sure did, and all I found is the MS carbon, the Mazda pieces, and the JDM one.

All of 'em look fake fake fake, imo.

The deal is this:

I want one where the rim remains stationary, and the door, and only the door, pops open. Like the gas lid on a bike. This ... thing.. of the entire piece opening makes it so incredibly cheap it just screams "I was bought at wal-mart, right next to the 13" spinner hubcaps!"

Hardly what I'd like to put on one of the sexiest cars out there, right up there with PininFarina, Scaglietti and Figoni et Falaschi. (yes, I think the 8 is as sexy as the Delahayes of the 30's were!)

this is the sparco one

http://www.teameci.com/version2/imag...west/img11.jpg

i found this on eBay...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...spagename=WDVW

Ooh purty! That'd be my last resort.. I'd rather engineer a proper one myself, have a few hundred made, and sell 'em to offset the cost.. :D

I just can't believe we went form the gorgeous piece the Miata got, to .... this... thing..

Thanks! I'll keep it in mind.. and that certainly would work for a frankencar.. :D

(I'm always thinking about getting an old alfa or whatnot and go nuts on it..)

i personally like the motorcycle gas lids. maybe off of a blue R1?? :D

next time search more grasshopper:D 3rd thread on a search for "center opens" turned up this thread-

https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.p...t=center+opens

rosenthal mazda one of our forum vendors sells one that the center opens. check it out:)

Ha. I did read the first ... oh 1 page of *that* thread. It was so chaotic, I went to others. You gotta admit, that was one seriously bipolar thread! :D

But did you read the *whole* thread? I just did.

There is no such piece. There were prototypes and that's it. Mazda did *not* use the same guys as the NA, because they were too slow to get back to mazda.
That's a little further back than the first post linky below.

Viddy this.. ^.^

Man I do wish they'd make the other one! :D

damn i was sure tommy had the ones that opened hmmmm......

Back to square 1.. oh well. I do wonder what it would take to make one.

:D