OMG! Just installed it this afternoon... SO loud, SO Cool!

I need Borla to come help me now ;-) ;-) and CanZoomer...

Are you plannin' on dynoing it in March, Jercs? That would be cool to see an independent dyno run. I'd even pitch in if you want to un-bolt the RE & bolt it back on between dynoes. I'd love to run a check on RE's provided dyno. :) Just for our own information......

--Landon

Yeah I'd be down for that... only problem is I threw out a tube that's needed for the stock air. It's a tube and has some can of box in the middle connects from this green solenoid vavle to a white nipple on the engine... :)

Also I've been driving with TSC and DSC turned off, it's been a lot more fun!

FYI, that's a vacuume chamber that helps the vacuume-actuated air duct that's under the bumper to open. Getting another one from Mazda shouldn't cost very much. But I don't know that bypassing that when you put your stock air cleaner back in will make that much of a difference in the engine's output.

I'll also be very interested in what you get on the Dyno. My elevation here is ~5100 ft, which obviously makes a difference. What's yours?

I'll be dynoing my car in the near future too, so it'll be interesting to compare what we get.

4,330 here in SLC. Yeah, we're faster than you, Paul. :) heh heh. j/k.

Still way too high, though. Really throws some goofy variables into the mix when tuning.

--Landon

well my first post so i am going to do it in this thread. i will be picking up my velocity red rx8 (grand touring pacage with aero kit) next wednesday (st patty's day).

i made my deposit at d.dahle mazda, my dealer was josh, (some really big dude) but was very nice.

i payed 31,365 before taxes, with taxes it ended up at 34100.

do you guys feel like i got a pretty good deal, or just average. also it would be nice to get to meet my other fellow rx8 owners.

Welcome to the Mountain forum, kikiboi, hope to see you a lot around here... and CONGRATS on your soon-to-be RX-8!!!

Sounds like you got a pretty good deal. As I recall, your car would sticker at around $32500 - $33000, so well over a grand in discount is not bad at all. And regardless, once you have it, you'll see that what you paid is FAR less important than the fact that you DO have it. This car really hooks you. :D

Well put, Omicron. :)

Welcome to the forum, kikiboi!!

Sounds like you got a GREAT deal. Josh is a pretty good guy, I think they ended up giving credit for the sale of MY velo red rx-8 to Dave Whitmer, but I really dealt with Richard for the most part. Congratulations on your purchase! I only got about $500 off sticker....that's the price of buying early, I guess.

If you're interested, a bunch of rotaries will be down at Modern Garage this weekend (4677 S Cherry St. (440 W.) ) for a "dyno day". I'll be down there, too. We have 1 RX8 dynoing, his username is JERCS on this forum. This would give you a chance to meet the "rotorheads" of SLC. :) Sounds like there will be about 10 cars dynoing, mostly 7s, couple of FDs, FCs, etc. Let me know if you're interested.

Again, welcome to the forum!

--Landon

Welcome! I started the paper work for mine the day they were selling at D Dalhi... mine was sticker and they wouldn't budge! So about 35k after taxes and I don't have aero kit. :) Welcome!

i went to d.dahle first. big mistake. josh was the guy i worked with and i assumed since he was a friends brother he wouldnt try to do me in the ass. i was wrong. he wouldnt talk finite numbers with me until i had 'agreed to purchase' a car from him, he kept trying to sell me a green rx8 i told him i didnt want, and he wouldnt even tell me if they could find one i wanted until i agreed. after about 4 hrs i left the dealership. long story short i ended up buying from freeway mazda (after another adventure with bountiful mazda) at $250 over invoice. they gave me no hassle and were very pleasant to deal with.

josh still sends me letters every week trying to get me to come buy a car from him.

thanks you guys. and with project, i kind of agree with you with josh, he is kind of pushy in a sence. i really wanted velocity red, which i am getting, but he kept on pushing for the sunlight silver, which by no means is a bad color.

he also sent me all these letters at first, because i was going to purchase the sti instead, but just couldnt fall in love with the car because it looks like any other wrx, but with a high spoiler.

but the rx8 doesnt look like any of the cars that mazda sells.

well anyways, i am sure i cant make it to the rx meet, but i would love to see you guys soon though.

if you guys want you should stop by the Mikado restaurant (cottonwood) i am the manager there.

you guys/gals can have the best sushi in utah. and i can see what i can do with a discount or something like that.

you better be careful with the sushi discounts around me. ill eat you out of house and home. :)

nice, well then you better not come to mikado's then hehe. jp.

Mmmm fish. Usually we ear at Tsinuami (sp?)

Right by our house

Where is Mikado? I'm sure I've eaten there before, I attempt to try all the sushi bars I'm aware of....My Grandma's Japanese (I'm 1/4) and I was exposed to the wonderful life of sushi at an early age. Give me an address and a time when you're working and I'm THERE, kikiboi. :)

--Landon

well there are 4 locations, and i am at the cottonwood one. we are at 6570 s big cottonwood canyon road (3000e).

a little tid bit about Mikado.

1) we are the first japanese restaurant in utah, we also get voted best sushi, and japanese in utah, we got voted best of state from the city of utah.

so if you come by then you will be in for a treat hehe.

i am there everyday besided wed and sun.

hey if you want we are having a special for st. pattys day.

we are calling it "o'sake" hehe
its all you can eat sushi for $27.00 so if you have time that day come by and have fun. i will be bartending and managing that day so it will be okay.

Awesome. I'll be in Cancun for St Patty's day, but maybe I can make it down before then. If not, I'll for sure come stop by when I get back!

--Landon

just got back from utah window tinting. they did a sweet job. only problem is i noticed a little speck of something between the tint and window on the back. it doesnt look too bad and i wouldnt care except im worried about it bubbling. should i be worried about that?

also there was a red rx8 pulling into the stall that i left. was it one of you guys?

Not me. Was there a "JERCS" sticker on the back? =)

In this warm weather(50 is nice in Utah these days), you shouldn't have any bubbling problems. Nice thing about Utah Window Tinting, though, they will replace it if you have any problems.

--Landon

Wasn't me! ;)

How far in is it? If it's close to the edge, you may be able to gently pry it up, get the booger out, and wet it again and stick it back down. After you wet it, be sure to squeege all the water out. It takes new tint about 3 days to really cure, and if you're careful, you can fix little bobbles like this pretty easilly.

its pretty close to center in the drivers side back window. its a tiny little fragment of fiber from a cloth. its tiny so as long as its not going to cause problems later i dont mind leaving it. also one other thing, ive never had my windows tinted before and i was noticing some large light/dark streaks. is this normal while it cures? im kinda feeling nervous since i had less than legal tint put on and paid cash and i doubt it came with any guarantee...


also i saw a sunlight silver around 4pm friday heading east on 2nd south. any takers?

It should even out within a week or so, but don't hesitate to take it back and have 'em redo it if it isn't right.

youre right it all went away cept for one big streak that happened to be outside of the tint and wiped right off.

in other news...

ive been outside since noon (its 7 now) washing and zainoing my car. my wrists back and arms are killing me and i have a nice sunburn on my freshly shaven head BUT hot damn does my car look good.

i started with a dawn wash, the the claybar which removed all of that nasty adhesive the dealer left on there. then i zaino car washed it, slapped on one coat of z5 and 2 coats of z2. as i was buffing out the last coat there was a classic utah sunset (ours are the best anywhere!) and i could see every detail perfectly mirrored in my car. i would have taken pics but i dont have a camera. :( :(

while i was out there, i had several neighbors walk up to admire my car. sadly none of them were attractive females. oh well, ill take my victories where i can get them... :)

lol. I'm down in St George for spring break... my friends and I went to the lake here and goofed off (duh! it's still winter).

I think we hit about 85 today... poor CO folks!

Nah, we got to 74 or so today, and it was georgeous. No envy here! :)

phew... poor eastern folks that had snow days today then :D

Sup fellow mountain guys,

I have seen some opinions on some dealers here in utah. There are two that I have been strongly considering on buying from, one was the Freeway Mazda in ogden, and Allen Patch Mazda in orem. Has anyone had experience for the one in orem. Right now that is the closest and I know the two I am considering are on different sides of the valley and the closest to me right now is the one in orem. I live in price, but my parents live in kemmerer,wy so I spend queit abit of in wyoming and ogden is closer. The things i just said might sound stupid but I am willing to travel almost any dealer in utah to be treated right right and good a good price. To bad my favorite dealer is a GM only dealer. This also will be my first non GM vehicle.

When I first heard of the rx-8 and started reading about it the more I wanted it. Then in december i finally test drove a Black one and loved, I live how when i got on the throttle how the front would rise slightly (maybe i just thought) but was just amazed. The rotary has always been my favorite engine and I have spend alot of time researching and studying the rotary and consider myself every knowledgeable on this engine. I loved hitting redline in the car. :D

Sry to bore you guys I just can't wait any longer, depending on constuction season I might be able to get one, Price of the car isn't the problem, its the insurence. The car i am looking at getting is a Winning Blue rx-8. 6Spd, Leather (going to have a shop redo the seats to match the car, like in the red ones).

Thank guys sry to take up time and space, I to confess my love for this car. Oh one last thing who likes to listen to 97.1 ZHT, I still laugh at the "What michael jackson is doing at this moment" and the "Martha Stewart in Jail" things they play, and I agree utah sun sets can't be beat.

Chevy. Im gunna recommend bountiful mazda and ask for Jack Peake

Have any of you been able to get your dealer to do the "L" flash? when i took mine in for recall work they said they couldnt reflash it with out a certain problem, cuz it could cause problems.?

just claim a CEL light

CEL,as JERCS said, and also tell them you had trouble with flooding. According to Mazda, if the customer complains about flooding this L flash is the definitive fix, and will be done if that's mentioned.

Freeway was awesome to deal with from the very beginning, and like you I was willing to travel to any dealer in the state to be treated right. I will admit though that I never visited the Orem dealership.

For insurance I use Bear River Mutual. They are a very strict insurance company (they will not insure rx-7's for instance) and they gave me a rate that was half of what Geico etc gave me. You might want to look into them.

Just a question, how come you left at D Dahle?

edit: EDITED FOR ME NOT READING!!!!! Nevermind. :D

Thanks for the replys.

Omicron. i replied to your PM but im gunna post here also incase you didnt get it.

I did get your last message and thought i replied sorry for the confusion. Also i thought i was signed up on the club web site. I remeber my name on there when it first came up. Any way im sorry but at this point i will have to pass on the group buy. Thanks a ton though. Dragon

Not a problem, Dragon. I got and replied to your PM too. :D

Thanks fellow utah guys for the dealship recomendations. I wish I could get the 8 tomorrow but not ready yet since i am 6'5" I need to test drive somemore. I am playing to do that soon. Last one i test drove was a buy back it was black, cloth seats, and manuel and had 2,400 miles on it. It felt great to me. I just can't see why people are complaining about the clutch is more difficult in the 8. I dirve a manuel truck and it is alot different then a car. The only other manuel car i was drove was a stupid honda civic (yuck I really hate those cars) I didn't have any problems with the clutch in the 8. I was like this is awesome when the clutch started engaging. I will have to see what I finally decide on. Nothing is going to change my mind on this car the engine could blow up every 5,000 miles and I still wouldn't care. The car is plenty fast for me but I am not buying it for speed, I am buying it for the rotary, and that fact that is so much fun to drive. Thanks for listening to me. I gotta plan a trip to Copper globe, goblin valley and other cool places like that. I wish I could take me friends 8 but need to take my truck because of the dirt roads. My number one rule, this car will never touch dirt, that is what trucks are for. I love utah, such awesome scenery in my back yard, that poeople travel all over the world to see. Thanks again for you help.

I second Freeway Mazda. Ask for Bill Packard and tell him Matt, the guy that gave him the ride in a Ferrari, sent ya. He should hook you up. There number is: 621-1100

Hey 8's the SLC rotary club is more then likely going to have a meet on the 18th. Going to go to the Auto-X at the E-Center. If anyone is down, just go to SLC Rotary Club and go to the Events page!

See you there!

edit: ok im obviously not 'precious' nor do i live in iowa.

ok that last post was from me... wierd.


who did i wave at on friday at the creek rd / highland dr intersection? also who did i wave at this morning driving a yellow on i-15 nb near the 600 s exit?

I was in that area on Friday... I don't remember anyone waving at me. What color was the 8?

mine is sunlight silver and yours would have been titanium...

I wave at another red around there... lol

HELP!!! Why are people able to post as me?? AW! :confused:

Not to worry, it only seems to happen to brand new members. After you've been here a while, it won't happen anymore. =) It's some sort of glitch that I haven't heard has been able to be fixed yet. <shrug> At least there wasn't anything obscene posted as your user name. :) Let's look on the bright side.

Welcome to the forum, Precious. :D

--Landon

Thanks Landon!

Nothing obscene as of yet!! Although it's happened a few times. :)

Project, when this happens, just log out of the board and log back in as who you should be. If it keeps happening after this, go into User/CP, Edit Options, and set "Automatically login when you return to the site? (uses cookies)" to "No."

Hope this helps!

Aight, guys... I know nothing about cars, let alone rotary engines. So, don't crucify me for my ignorance... (Thanks in advanced. :D)

I was driving past Sinclair on West Temple and 9th south... I noticed that natural gas is sitting at 91 cents a gallon... What's the possibility of converting a rotary engine to natural gas? Does the mechanics of the rotary engine prevent that?

Just a random thought I had...

Actually, if I remember correctly, the general rotary engine design is better for a multiple fuel setup (you can put different fuels in the one engine, with differing results, of course). But, I don't know how hard it would be to convert the specific Renesis design to natural gas.

---jps