maybe we have very dirty gas in Ga? I always buy from the top tier brands at stations that are busy. But gas quality does vary from place to place--no doubt.
I took the actual fuel filter apart on one a few years back. You could wipe black **** off it. An engineer friend i met through this forum happened to work at Denso. I sent him a symptomatic ( fuel starvation on track on high g left turn) pump assembly and the flow rate was down 40%. The fuel pressure was ok during low demand times--but dropped during the high demand times--i cant remember how much.
Its an old thread on here somewhere.
Mazmart has a low mileage S2 model now.

 

I'm also still running the Walbro... and probably will continue to do so until I deem it necessary to replace. I have been Pre-Mixing the entire life of the pump so far ~3000 miles and haven't seen any pressure drops worth noting with it.

When I replaced the stock unit with the walbro pump I also noticed that my sock was VERY clean; like almost brand new clean. Using Shell 91 octane fuel as often as possible since ownership of the car...

 

Next time look down before you wipe it .

 

rofl

 

Aside from Brettus having his head buried down under ...

 

Pulling the turbo as soon as I get a chance and I am sending it to Turblown for an upgrade/rebuild with a properly orientated CHRA, hard lines for the coolant, etc.

 

What happened now? You haven't even gone into boost have you?

 

No boost, turbo just took a ****, when cold it leaks oil into the exhaust and a bit into the charge pipe. Bad rebuild I guess but I've already sent it back to AMR once so I'm done with messing with them. So Turblown it is.

 

A very wise choice, Sir.

 

Yeah this is what I get for trying to be different. Live and learn I guess.

 

I am excited to see your new set up. Hope to be home in time to help with the install.

 

I had a dream that my oil drain line was bent perfectly to fit my CHRA...

When do you get back mike?

 

Hopefully We have a lot of **** to install.

 

lol yeah no joke.... just wait till the engine gets done woot woot.

DC I should be home soon. I now qualify for four different slots within the company set to be open starting last month. Just waiting for the final go ahead and thumbs up at this point.

 

Woo-Hoo! You can take his bolts out !
Jk dude--but you have to admit --that event has become a legend.

 

Nice dude!

I'm hoping to qualify for some slots to night as well... Best night of the year to be single!!!

 

So I got my fuel pressure gauge going, 65psi at idle and reving right now
I'll post more if you like later

 

cough - drain pump fail - cough .

 

Nah, I reclocked it, eliminated the coolant lines temporarily, and even with the drain perfectly straight down it still does it. Setup both ways it only does it for a minute or two at start up and then goes away. It hasn't even seen boost

But I'm done screwing with it so it was BNR or Turblown and I chose Turblown. So we shall see how it goes Live and learn.

 

Live and Learn-- I am familar with that statement. Dont get discouraged man--we all had to go through that to get to where we want to be. Its worth it. I think.

 

I'm not discouraged I knew I was taking a risk going with someone who was not familiar with the RX-8 and how the turbo mounts on the Greddy. Sending pics of how I wanted it wasn't enough, I assumed we were on the same page and we were not so it's my fault really. I could have it redone by AMR but I think it's best to just let someone familiar with the 8 handle it.

It wasn't my first mistake modding and it won't be my last

 

long live the terrible investment decisions

 

Well I had over 20k in a turbocharged Civic so I have been making these types of decisions since 1993

 

I've got over double that in my FD3S in parts alone @ cost...

You only live life once.

 

Yes, I have been told that FD's are bottomless money pits

There is a guy locally who had well over 100k in his 20B Turbo FD and he lost his job and had to sell it for around 40k. I felt really bad for him, he tried to hold on to it for as long as possible but he was just jobless for too long.