There's isn't going to be an open lapping day on a Saturday or Sunday again until October.

The last one is TOMORROW.

BC.

I would suggest everyone get involved with the RMSolo. I am going to be starting my first season this year. Would be great to have some more 8 out there. Currently, I think I will be the only one that has one.

The rx7 guys get together every other friday or sat at the chaple hills mall parking lot. Im sure thoes guys would be down to party

@8ya, I'm in Silverthorne and don't get to Denver too often or know the area other than the West end around Lakewood and Co Mill Mall. But I'd be down to getting to know and see some other 8's!!

hey guys, new here but thinking about getting an rx8. its yellow completely stock 04 with 55,xxx miles. i was wondering if you guys have any advise about what i should do or make sure to look at or check out before buying. it is coming from a dealer. anyways i live in denver and if i do get it look forward to being around here more often. thanks.

go for an 06 or newer. that 04 is about to loose its warentee, but if you do go for any rx8 Get a compression test and a vacuum test.. make sure they have great maitenance records and pay extra for the best warentee the dealer offers.. and read all the stickies on this site. Good luck

I would also take a look and see if there have been any aftermarket mods done to the car that you can see. Not that anyone here has any mods or anything *cough* but in my experience in Cleveland a number of the cars that had aftermarket mods didn't hold up very long. Specific mods I would watch out for most would be the "cool ass Cold Air Intake" and K&N stickers. If proper maintenance was done you will find a hose the goes from the front of the oil cap and down toward the passenger side, if not it will go to the driver side. If it goes to the driver side verify that there is no oil in the upper intake manfold, just unscrew the according tube and swipe your finger on the inside. Lastly...if the car is a manual...take a look at where the clutch pedal attaches to the firewall. There is a known issue with the clutch pedal snapping off where you can see the cracks forming. If you see three spot welds for the clutch pedal I wouldn't buy it until they replaced the pedal with a repaired one. Best of luck!

The track days being on a Friday probably puts a lot of people out for a meet there. Im open to a meet south of hear, but maybe not all the way to the Springs this go around. Time is a little short at the moment with track season being upon us.

I'm down for headin North for a meet...I dun mind. I just figured that everyone went through the same cycle that we did in Cleveland where every March/April everyone put on their cool new parts that they acquired and drooled over all winter. With things being so mild...I guess not.

Well, I think money has been a little tight for some people lately, and they probably don't have a huge pile of parts sitting on their lawn waiting to be installed.

What we could do, if there was any interest, is have a day where people can bring their cars, say, to my house, that want to have simple maintenance done. Plugs, wires, coils, brakes, diff and trans fluid changes, oil change, etc.

As Iluvrevs can tell you, I know my way around a car, and have a decent enough garage to get a couple cars in and out in a short enough period of time. Heck, I would even be willing to hold a once a month "How to work on your car" training class.

I just showed iluvrevs how to change his brake pads, front and rear.
I showed slvrmzdrx8 last year how to change ignition coils.

We could probably do something once a month, if there was someone who needed parts installed. Its that, or we take apart a good car, and put it back together.

BC.

I can vouch for BC here as well as the bomb a@# Yak and Yeti Indian food nearby.

Maintenance/mod days monthly would be awesome.

Sounds good to me. Where abouts Denver are you located?

Arvada/Westminster.

South on Sheridan from the Highway 36 Exit a couple major intersections, so pretty easy for anyone to get to.

BC.

Hey guys so i got the 04 rx8. I live in denver around colorado blv and I 25. its a yellow one with no mods... yet... anyways hope to be on the forum a bit when im not slammed with work. hope everybody has a great day and i will hopefully see everybody around.

Congrats. Maybe you should meet me/me and BC at the track next month and get real appreciation for this machine. Or we could go over it with a fine tooth comb at his place if we get meets going there.

yea that sounds good. i have driven gti's m3 a delsol with a h22j dropped evos and sti and i have never had the same feeling as in my rx. its my 4th day in it and loving it. what tracks do you guys go to? i have a buddy with a s4 that goes to one down south. anyways yea i am off on sundays and usually ether tues. or thrus. so maybe we can meet up. look forward to it.

The 8 for me definitely feels more at home being pushed hard than my other cars which included BMWs, Audis, an EVO VIII, Z28, and a couple of Nissans. Its certainly not what I’d call a fast car, but get it into the turns and it excels.

BC and I go to HPR http://highplainsraceway.com/. But, no weekend track days until October. I will usually just take off a Friday once or 2x a month but not everyone has that option.

http://www.rmsolo.org/

I am registered for my first event this Sunday. Would love to see some other 8's out there!

I'll be there this Sunday;Saturday I'll be doing a Time Trials event at High Plains. What a weekend!

What class are you running? I'll be in 'X' class in a 2007 Stormy Blue Mica 8.

Mark

STX, and my friend James (used to run a supercharged integra in STU, now has kinch's old evo 8) will be co driving.

I will try to make this.

If you guys can, check with me for rides or anyway I can help. Sometimes the run/work schedule doesn't allow for it to work out , but check.

Mark Mauro

Awesome, I appreciate that! I'll definitely look for a ride if it works out.

In Cleveland I used to go to AutoX events and take photos for the event and have free reign of where I was both on and off course, with a spotter. On the site it doesn't identify the "spectator" area. Is this area in a decent enough location for it to be worth my drive down to take photos? And if I were able to make it down would someone be able to spot for me, as my spotter is in Cleveland on business?

Photos can be found here if anyone is interested...

http://devilboi.crackmonkey.us/bevy/

I can't answer any of those questions definitively, but I would say that something could be worked out if you were to come. My guess would be you could get set up with a corner worker and they could keep an eye out for you, but you would have to ask someone that knows better than I.

Does anybody here drive a blue rx with a wing on the back and a exhaust, flash there brights at a yellow rx on alameda around brodwayish a few days ago? anyways if you did nice ride... and if anybody is board tomorrow night i drinking at the old chicago on colo. blv. for my birthday getting there 10ish so just an open invite.

Thanks again for the ride and tips today Mark! It is very impressive what seat time and tires can make with the same vehicle.

I have a lot to learn still, and a lot of places to improve my abilities. But it was a lot of fun, and am excited to get back out there--if only to redeem my last run. Boy that was embarrassing haha.

It was great to meet you and to see you out there.

I would recommend looking into the autocross school as it give you a ton of seat time as will the driver's school at HPR.

Let me know when you will be out again and I'll help out however I can.

By the way, the run you rode with me was good enough for 3rd in 'X' class if it had counted, so you picked a good one.

Mark

Hi Flying? Was it you and your father I met at a winter Autox last year? (Mark and Mark?) I spent last weekend at the the Pirelle World Challenge with Don Walker who has 2 Rx-8s. I had a great time out there helping out and watching. I have an itch to go do some AutoX again and even some open track days at PPIR and HPR.


Hey, That was me. I was driving home from Chipotle on Logan. If you are on here join up at CMZC.net. We have monthly meets and in the summer we usually do a few cruises. I have the Blue 8 you saw (TC) and another grey 8.

I love the yellow 8s. They are rare. Wish I could find one cheap. I'd snatch it up.

Yea, we met last year, but I am the father. My son is driving a X Prepared 3rd gen RX-7 that he is fine tuning at this point. He had the fastest raw time on Sunday, but he coned on all runs. He is trying to learn some new Avon slicks that are very fast, but are very different than Hoosiers.

My car is not running well right now, since I put the BHR coils in. I am going to pull them out and send them back to Charles to check them out. Power is just down overall.

Hope to see you out again sometime soon.

Mark Sr.

Hi Flying 8 - Do you have an AP tune? If so you might want to touch base with Jeff as there was an issue found with the older tunes. Something about Dwell settings being waay off causing power loss.

HydrO, when will you be out next? I wanted to see this last round, but work went sideways.

Next event is sat May 12th at Front Range again. I am planning on attending.

No, I have to run everything else as stock to stay in the stock class.

Supposedly, you don't have to change the dwell on completely stock cars, (which of course you can't do anyway), from what I have read.

Ah...sorry...I assumed that the BHR coils pushed you out of stock. And yes...dwell must be changed for FI...but I have seen NA cars have problems without the dwell being changed from Jeff's old default.

thats not a problem anymore with the new BHR coils
that was only the old coils they were using

No, last year they tried to disqualify the BHR coils, but I wrote to the SEB over the off season, and they approved any coils that mount in the stock location.

I am going to pull them off and send them to Charles to have him look at them and he said he would evaluate them.

I appreciate all your input.

Mark

slvrstreak - Ah...shows you what a little time away from the forum will do ya.

Mark - yea...I'm sure you weren't the first to take issue with that ruling. Some of those rules for stock are rough. I understand stock is stock...but to bump people up to an uncompetitive class over some of the items is just silly.

they just started using the new coils after May 2011 so any kits after then will have the new coils :)

Of course I purchased these and they were shipped in May or June,2011 and then the SEB sent out a tech bulletin that may the coils illegal right before Nationals, which ticked of a lot of people and I'm sure, as you said mobilized a lot of people.

After I installed my coils, the car started slower, idled just as rough as before, felt down on power and got lower mileage. I ran a complete grounding kit to ensure that they were properly grounded also. It could be that some of these new coils are not up to the level of the old ones, but they weren't performing as well as my 40,000 mile stock coils.

We'll see what Charles comes up with after I pull them out.

Looks like I am not going to be at the autox this weekend, some things came up that I have to take care of. Plus, looks like it is going to be raining all weekend, unfortunate.

The coils are not illegal for Solo2. In fact the revsion correcting their original assessment is in fact another improper rule change that will again need another revision to straighten out this mess.

Thanks for the heads up. Let us know when you will next be out.

I won't make it out till June. The next one is the 19th, but I'll be at HPR doing the driving school.

Also, I might want to take Bladecutter up on his offer of getting a wrench weekend organized. I have my ss clutch and brake lines ready to install, and I might want to switch over to HP+'s after the track event.

Ok, cool. I will be at HPR on Friday the 18th so I will try to rubber it in for you. Id be down to help out at BC's shop session too to pick up some experience.

Well, Iluvrevs has the perfect tool to make that job way easier when it comes time to bleed the air out of the system. Get him involved, too, and the day can be a great group event, all we would then need is some witnesses, if there were any interested.

I has BBQ.
It could be awesome.

BC.

anyone have experience in making Hawk Ceramic pads quiet? Warm or Cold my pads squeek when applied lightly, stomp on them and you're fine. Not so annoying in the winter months with the windows up...but super annoying now.

Thanks, lets hope the rain holds off and I can put your tires to use :cool:

Well, lets pencil something in, and make it more official when it gets closer. Let me know what weekends work for everyone. I'll bring some home brew.

No experience but my new EBC's are the same way as were my OEM after my first track day. It doesnt bother me but for giggles Ive greased their backs, between them and the shims, between the shims and the caliper, and between the pad and the caliper and it doesnt last long. Im using CRC synthetic and its running out it looks like.

The Yellowstuff pads, with those fiber backing pads that I had to cut to shape are actually working really well at keeping everything nice and quiet, surprisingly enough.

Every now and again I get a bit of a squeak, but nowhere near the amount the OEM pads do, or that the redstuff pads are currently doing on my gf's PT Cruiser.

BC.