Spice boy, why did you decide to "punish" your 8?
Krazie, you get her back yet? she all fixed?


P.S. as you can see, i had Michelle take a sexy picture of me. :D

 

ha ha punish.. I am more punishing my self .. the office wated me to come in for a bit .. apart from workign for home.. Apple valley to san diego is a long haul..I prefer to put that milage on the piston save my rotors.. for the fun days...I only go to san three days.. so it is not that bad.. Hmmm are we meeting again b4 the next official one.. Hmm we should all go visit kave at his home .. so he can feal the vrooomm vrooomm :p again..ha ha kave get the beers out.. we on de way... :D

 

he he he,
no meeting before the next meeting, but I will be going to the formula drift event if anyone is interested.

P.S. and zoom zoom live on sunday.

 

Okay, so i got my car back yesterday, and everything seems to be okay except for when i got her home, the fornt end of my car was abnormally hot... i mean... i put a couple drops of watter on the metal (under the hood) and it steamed right off. I dont know if that normal or not... but they fixed the body damage, and all that stuff...

they say the check engine light is turning on because of small gas leak from the vgas cap to the engine... some where alongthese lines, there is a microscopic leak that is causing the light to turn on... but i think trhey're lying to me >_<

now, i'm at 27 miles and the light hasnt turned on yet. the past 2 times, it turned on at aprox. 30 miles after picking it up from the dealership...
so, 3 more miles and i'll find out if the replacement gas cap solved the problem...


and yes, i will see you all at Zoom Zoom Live (If that bloody light doesnt turn back on)


question: does redbarron have a black rx8?

 

no red barron has a silver 8 and a red 7.
nice to see you got your car back! hope all is well in time.

 

then who has the black 8 that came to one of our meets (besides kwescott)?

I'm at 29.8 miles now, and no check engine light.

 

that was TR1GERx1 he had the mint blue body kit, and the seibon hood. and he only came to one meet.

 

Hey everyone, just wanted to let you know that i found a firly fun run for our next meet. hope the road doesntpack up like they usually do on the weekends.

 

oh yeah, by the way. I will be at the next meeting as the solo event is now on the 11th and not the 10th like i thought it was going to be.

also anyone notice that this thread has gotten OVER 10,000 VIEWS?! yeah baby!
also almost 1,000 post. WE ROCK!

 

Fairly fun run for next meet? OMG I WANNA GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I pray that my car will be fixed by then.. but I doubt it! BOOHOOOAODISFJASF;LKAJSFAJ

 

And, he no longer has that car as he traded it in on a CRX. He still posts on the forums, but is under a new name. He does indicate that he is "formerly known as Trigger" however. Just a small tidbit of somewhat useless information. :D

 

Krazie...it's funny how they think a small part like a gas cap will solve the problem. But it reminds me of when I had a 95 Chevy S10 which would "pop" out of 5th gear at freeway speeds. I would be driving at about 70 mph and the stick would just drop from 5th and go into nuetral. It made no noise, was subtle...and I rarely ever noticed it move, that is, until the big revs of freeway speeds in neutral. The dealership kept telling me it was my inability to get into 5th gear properly...and that none of the techs could ever get the truck to do what I said...of course they never drove it on the freeway...anyways, to make a long story short, they kept replacing stupid little parts like the carpet around the shift boot, and then changed the stock hard plastic shift boot, with a flimsy soft boot off a Cavalier, before they finally replaced the entire transmission. Sorry to bore you guys, but felt like sharing .

 

youve got to be kidding me? why would you..... never mind.
i thought he was turning his car into some bad *** Sema show ready car? what happend to that?

 

Speeddemon,
Is the drift event in Irwindale?
If so, I'm jealous!!!
You have this to look forward to this weekend...

RX-8 Drift Car

Please take your video camera! :D

- Cesar -

 

yes it is here at Irwindale. yeah thats Ryse (spellimg) millins dad. Ryse millin drives the yellow GTO drift car (and of course is world famous for his world championships in rally and other racing) Steve millin is Rod millins brother (i belive) which is better know as STILLIN. Stillin makes many many Nissan parts.
anyways, just a little info for you.
ans yes i am looking forward to seeing the RX-8 and all the drift cars. :D
ha ha, i am going and your not.... HA HA HA!
he he

check back a couple pages i posted an "event list" that i plan on attending. there are more races on there. mostly drag races though.



Edit:

here it is again and updated

AUG
13th San Bernardino meet
21st Solo2 Norton
27th Formula D Irwindale
28th Zoom Zoom live Pomona (sighned up for the 3:00 with cesar and krazie)

SEPT
10th San Bernardino meet
11th Solo2 Fontana
24th Solo2 Fontana

OCT
8th San Bernardino meet (this time in Irvine, also known as SEVEN STOCK 8)
22nd Solo2 Fontana
22nd NHRA Pomona (most likely be at the solo 2)
23rd NHRA Pomona

NOV
12th San Bernardino meet (dont know what to choose, most likely the meet)
12th Street Drag Racing Fontna
12th IDRC Palmdale
13th IDRC Palmdale

DEC
3rd Street Drag Racing Fontana
10th San Bernardino meet
10th Solo2 Fontana
16th D1 Irwindale
17th D1 Irwindale

 

Speeddemon -

You forgot one.

Dec 10th - Solo2 Practice

- Cesar -

 

there, its been fixed.

Cesar we can do your banner for you anytime your ready. just let me know when.
Scotty, Michelle is picking up your magnet today.

 

Well, we can do it next week, since I won't be home this weekend. I'll call you when I'm leaving Palm Springs to let give you an idea what time I will be at home to get my car and then leave for ZoomZoom.

BTW - I saw you mentioned magnets to Scotty, I meant to ask you if you're going to put a #32 on your car for Sept 11th.
I got #33, and was trying to find a good price on magnetic sheets to make the number. Any suggestions where to get them?

- Cesar -

 

i was thinking about it, but i didnt know if i should considering that is not a perm number. Scotty, what do you think. are thay going to tape some numbers on anyways, or no?
If so then i can just make myself a magnet to. Cesar i can make one for you of course.

 

kwescott, i was wondering what the mabliu runs are like compared to our runs in the IE. I see there is one coming up on Sept 4th. I am slightly worried about the recall before I go on any strenious runs?

 

I'm glad you mentioned the recall.
I was just coming here to post the latest info and I saw that you're thinking about it too.

Here's the Letter from Mazda.

Here's the Service Bulletin that states which VIN #'s are affected.
If you read the service bulletin, it seems like something you can do yourself to check if it's a problem.

*******************************
B. REPAIR PROCEDURE
1. Raise and support vehicle.
2. Check the cast numbers on the under side of both front lower arms.
• If the either of the front lower arms have the combination of both K4 and (diamond) 1 as shown, go to
step 3.
• If the front lower arms DO NOT have the combination of K4 and (diamond) 1, lower vehicle and return
vehicle to inventory or customer.
*******************************

I'm not sure, but I will take a look at it this weekend.
The service bulletin shows picture's and more details.

For those who don't want to do any extra reading, here's the VIN#'s affected.

2004 RX-8 vehicles with VIN range JM1 FE17** 40 100053 – 129716 built from April 23, 2003 through December 27, 2003

I definitely need to check this before the next run and the Solo2 event on the 11th.

- Cesar -

 

i have been hearing anoise coming from my right front the last few weeks. i wonder if thats the problem? i figured it was the springs or something. ill take a look to..... if i get time.

 

okay... so i guess my last post didnt work, so here is the info again...

Zoom Zoom Live Caravan:

SUNDAY


Where: AMPM at Archibald and I10
When: I will be leaving the gas station at 2:15PM

so this means that all you fontana folks can meet here

it's right off the 10 freeway.

 

I'll be coming from Palm Springs. I plan to leave my house around 1pm to get there extra early.

- Cesar -

 

zoom-zoom i am scheduled for saturday morning but since everybody else is going saturday afternoon(?) i might as well too. especially since there will only be a few mazda cars there compared to all the GMs, maybe the lines will not be as long.

As far as teh ball-joint recall i dont think my car is effected, but someone might want to confirm for me vin: JM1FE173640138052