St Louis area 8 owners
12-12-2011, 09:26 AM
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The plan I had was along those lines; buy-in is $10 per person. Person with the lowest compression wins the pot. Lowest compression will be determined by average of all rotor faces normalized to 250 RPM. In the event of a tie, highest spread in numbers will win.
Does someone have a place in mind where we can do this? It'll require taking out the ESS and a couple spark plugs; most likely need to be able to jack up the car.
Does someone have a place in mind where we can do this? It'll require taking out the ESS and a couple spark plugs; most likely need to be able to jack up the car.
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12-13-2011, 10:28 PM
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12-13-2011, 10:54 PM
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12-14-2011, 08:48 AM
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Can you guys from St. Louis recommend someone , a dealer or other, who does a good job with RX8's and is reasonable in costs? I called 3 Mazda dealers in the St. Louis area for the cost of the 30K service and got three different quotes from a low of $500 to a high of $800+ including plugs. Maybe you know someone who will do it for less?
12-14-2011, 09:36 AM
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Honestly, most of the 30K check up is easy to do yourself. Plugs, coils, wires, and an oil change should cost you around 230 if you do them yourself. And you should be able to rotate your tires on your own.
Personally, I haven't dealt with any of the dealers around here, so I am not much help there..
Personally, I haven't dealt with any of the dealers around here, so I am not much help there..
12-18-2011, 06:17 PM
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Wankels,how do they work?
Dobbs in St. Charles last winter ended up flooding the 8 when they did a front end alignment. I went to pick it up and I could not get it to run. First they wanted me to pay for them to get it running after I almost killed the battery trying some of the deflooding DIYs on here. I ended up blamed them for not knowing about the car or rotary engines and picked it up the next day without problems or added cost.
12-25-2011, 02:33 PM
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Wankels,how do they work?
I might be getting rid of the 8. I had problems last night. Started the car and had a high idle and no response from the gas pedal. After restarting the car a few times it was back to normal.
12-25-2011, 02:59 PM
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that was DIRTY!
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It's common for the 8 to rev high when its cold outside. And its common for the throttle not to respond until it warms up. There are some YouTube videos of other 8's doing the same.
Merry Christmas everyone.
Merry Christmas everyone.
12-25-2011, 11:45 PM
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that was DIRTY!
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Ya only 10 minutes is weird, also not positive about the non responsive throttle, try doing a search because I know this is an issue that has been discussed on here.
12-29-2011, 10:58 PM
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Are they the ls2 coils? If so let me know how they affect performance.
If its nice out would you guys wanna go for a quick cruise? I was thinking of doing highway DD if its really gonna be 60 degrees out
If its nice out would you guys wanna go for a quick cruise? I was thinking of doing highway DD if its really gonna be 60 degrees out
12-29-2011, 11:22 PM
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Yea thanks! it makes it easier to tighten the bolt at the top of the struts too since I hear they can get loose and make noise lol. TBH i mainly just got it cuz it was shiny haha. so did your dad ever get that shop?