So Devilboi, what is your deal exactly lol. Your active in the Colorado forum so i assume you must spend some time out here to care to pop in the Mountain thread. And at the same time your tag says Ohio and you said your not out here? Moving for business? (Don't read that in the wrong context please, just a curious question)

I currently live just East of Cleveland and am going to be transferring to Colorado Springs for work as soon as I can find a place. So far the banking system has not been my friend. The first house I found in Peyton in March fell through after the bank wanted more for the house than the asking price in a Short Sale. And a couple weeks bad I bid on a foreclosure in Briargate with an amazing view to find out that the bank would not permit an inspection prior to sale. Should be out there again in a couple weeks to do this little dance all over again.

It kills me that my baby is limping along right now. I would love to get more involved and maybe do some meets but I don't to be the slow kid that everyone's stuck waiting for.

With that being said, if anyone has an oem cat in the Springs or Colorado I can borrow just to get through testing and engine replacement I would be great full.

That's crazy devil. Sounds like a headache. And ender I'm mobile so it's hard to go back, what kind if mid piece are you running on your car currently?

It had a test pipe on it when I bought it. I had a magnaflow cat with a new O2 sensor about a month ago, got a CEL about 5 mins after it was done. Reset the CEL and it came back. Saving up to put a Davesport cat, that one is verified on the board for no CEL, or the cat midpipe from the Rx7 store. The midpipe wouldn't be the problem would it?

Do both of these places of a few RX8s?


Ender - What are all of your problems? Is your car drive able right now?

Im not 100% sure but a couple months back I got a few little things from dons sports car they only do salvage of sports cars if they don't have it they could tell you the next best place.

My car is now in the shop for a bad o2 censor p0171... went down to woodman Nissan where i bought the car and thew a fit and now they are gunna pay for it. Ender I would help you out but my wife would flip if if I pulled my cat off my car..sry man good luck

So I've been stuck in Denver since 10pm last night. Tryiing to get a flight out at 11:15am.

Who said you could leave?
Denver is the Roach Motel of the West, didn't you know? ;)

BC.

Seems like Central Foreign Auto Parts is the closest salvage yard with several RX8 motors in their facility:

http://www.centralforeign.com/

I got linked to them via carpart.com

BC.

Hi, I am planning on coming to Colorado in a few weeks and I was just wondering if you guys have seen those mobile emissions testing vans anywhere? I want to try and avoid those areas as much as possible lol. I know there used to be one all the time at i-70 and kipling in arvada when I lived there a few years ago.

I don't know if they have any type of power to get an out-of-state vehicle in trouble for emissions but I would rather not find out.

Ok back finally, been very busy this summer and have had several issues with my 8 already, but thats all sorted.

Hopefully gonna have some free time coming up on the weekends if you all have been doing stuff.

Also, are any of you good with car audio? My 8 came with an aftermarket system, that has just stopped working, and I am stumped :wallbash:, even for an IT guy lol

They don't have any power over a vehicle without out of state plates.
Most of the time, they barely have any power over vehicles with CO plates.

Don't worry about it at all.
They don't send out tickets, or anything like that.

All they do is capture a plate number, and record the emmisions levels associated with it. If the plate isn't a CO plate, then the info is dumped. If the vehicle was accelerating too quickly, the info is dumped, regardless of state.

If they actually get info from a van, and the vehicle is within 10 months of registration renewal, they then need 2 Passing certs from a drive by test to no longer need to go to an emissions testing facility to renew their registration.

Thing is, you can defeat the system really easily.
Just put your plate on ANY vehicle that is cleaner, and drive by two vans on the same day, and you're set.

BC.

Those vans make me laugh... I usually pass them at 8 grand.

Well thats good news Bladecutter. I was worried they might send some info to Nevada or something. In my old car I always passed them going as fast as possible. With a midpipe I might be to much for that van to handle though lol.

In case you're curious, here's the website for the rapid screen vans, and even has a pull down menu to give their locations for each week:

http://aircarecolorado.com/rapidscreen/

BC.

Thanks for the link, nice to know its actually pretty harmless. Hopefully I will see at least one of you on the road out in Colorado. :P

Well, if you tell us when you're going to be in town, we might be able to make sure you see us!

BC.

Well I finally got the call this week that my house went through so I should be out there by the end of the month permanently. Of note...when I got the call on Monday i was on the Cherohala Skyway and ran into a guy formerly from Colorado Springs. He said that the Cherohala Skyway and Tail of the Dragon were nice...but didn't compare to what you can find around the Springs. So the gauntlet was put down...yall got some big shoes to fill!

Congrats!

BC.

I will be coming out on the 11th of August for a week. Do you guys have any type of meets out there?

Technically, no.
We are all kind of lone wolves out here, roaming our territory on our own, marking our land, and not sharing our kills.

But, I'm sure if you pick a date you want to hang out, announce it, some of us might be able to tell you if we're available. ;)

BC.

im gonna be out e until the 16th, around aurora and lakewood. Maybe I will see someone.

Looks like I am going to have a house out here next week. I have run into the same red RX8 twice this week up at Briargate. Almost waited around to see if I could drive it because I miss my car but needed to get back each time.

So as I prepare for my move out west I magically come in line with another maintenance period for the 8. Out here in Cleveland we have a local oil change place that is stupid enough to offer me free refills. Do you guys have any places out there with similar setups as I really do like this free top off every two weeks?

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Had my 8 for awhile but new to the rx8 club.
Live in Fort Collins.
I've read some of those last comments haha lone wolf marking territory thats me alright
I claim my profile name as my territory haha
any time you see a blue flash speeding by you on Rist its a good guess its me
my signature picture is her parked at sky corral on old flowers dirt rd. probably the most beautiful ranch ive seen
Never seen an 8 up that high before only 4wd wranglers
nice to know other 8 owners are in CO:)

Hey, I saw a white 8 on 119 today so I went into the parking lot by Lowes, and it was in the Panda Exspress right there. Is that someone on here? Also saw another/ same car on main street headed North.

^that was me! It had an ms wing right?

Ive not ever come across such a service here or anywhere. Sorry man.

Ive seen a red and a graphite series 1 over at the Level 3 campus in Interlocken a couple of times. Always seem to be very polite.

Possibly, cant remember off hand. However im willing to guess that if you were at The Panda off 119 by Lowes it was you lol. Do you live in Boulder or in Longmont area?

There was a white RX8 the previous Monday just screaming down the Diagonal heading into Boulder at 9am, doing everything he could to get through traffic.

That would have been Aug 8th.

I was leaving work after an hour at IBM, and just wasn't feeling good, and watched as this white rx8 came flying down the temporary right lane to get around traffic just as I was about the merge onto the Diagonal.

RX8 got off at the Foothills Parkway/Diagonal split heading into North Boulder on Iris.

So, anyone here willing to admit to being speedy gonzales?

BC.

^that was also me... i was like 2 hours late to work and im a supervisor....

slvrmzdrx8- yea that was definitely me. i live in Lyons but my lady lives right behind best buy so im there a lot

Lmao, busted by another member. That's funny haha.

Passed on coming another graphite series 1 today heading north on Weld County 15 (I was heading south) at the intersection in front of Safeway in Frederick/Firestone.

Im a new rx8 owner but had a couple FCs I have a white 05 n live in
Aurora by Buckley Air Force base

Welcome to the club buddy. How do you like your 8?

I just got back to vegas from my colorado trip, saw a few rx8s in colorado but not sure if its anyone here. Saw one I think it was silver but not sure, first 3 letters of the license plate were "TEZ" that was on the 225 in horrible traffic. Saw a green one on the 16th or 17th going down colfax as well.

I was over in aurora near buckley a lot on my trip, surprised I didn't see you sarriaga. I was mostly near tower & mississippi.

Figure I should make my introduction here.

I will be purchasing a 2006 Brilliant Black Shinka next weekend. Really excited to own the car. It is a bit overwhelming trying to figure out where I want to go with the car. My "plan" is to try to leave it alone for a year or so, then start modding it. But we will see if I have that amount of self control.

Anyways, how many strong are we in Colorado? Any meets planned? I'd love to organize something, especially if there are more members in CO than my last car club.

We seem to be growing as we go along which is great, maybe instead of being lone wolfs, we can be a pack lmao. Idk, recent numbers show somewhere around 5-8 off the top of my head, might be a high guess though. I dont feel like counting the posts to see lol.

I might be moving back to Colorado at some point, it just sucks because my car felt gutless out there. I don't know if it is because I did not reset the computer or what, but I figured 7 days out there was enough for it to learn it was in higher altitude without a reset.

there are about 10 different rx8's in longmont but i don't know if any of them are in the club, every time i try to get their attention im ignored.

Well I live by 6th and centertech by cca but i see alot of 8s beaing sold at gateway mazda they had 4 or 5 around and they all seem to have been sold over the last month or so

thanks i love the car I just came back from vacations in Mexico and it graved a lot of attention at the drag strip over there

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A local Mazda Club. Would be nice to see you all on there.

Dam jimmy i havent seen you on in a while! hows the new restaurant?

It's going. Not on 8club much. Pop in once and a while searching for good deals on parts. I need a few things for the other 8 still.

Sheesh...you guys are everywhere. Ran into two red Series 1, one in Monument and one in Springs down near Peterson, and a black Series 2 in Springs at Briargate the other night. I can't believe you guys don't get together more.

I told you guys...

We're lone wolves, scouting our territory.
When we spot another RX-8 in our territory, we start doing massive burnouts, donuts, and power slides to scare them out of our territory.

Eventually, we chase them up or down the nearest canyon until they vanish off in the distance, which usually takes a good long time, because both cars are equally great in the twisties.

So, its better that we stay alone, otherwise things can get fun, oops, I mean hairy.

BC.