Just bought an rx8 to build a track car.
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Just bought an rx8 to build a track car.
Picked up this 06 to build a race car. Mechanically everything seems fine and it runs great. I'm going to do a track day with it next week as is (other than track pads and fresh brake fluids) to get some seat time in the car before I tare it apart this winter for full build. Probably get a spare motor and send to Pineapple for race build and also do S2 tranny swap. It wasn't easy finding a manual without sunroof locally. there were a few rx8 with blown engine that i was considering getting to do engine swap. but i thought about and that would take longer and delay my race next season. so i'm going to give the renesis engine a try next year and see how it goes.
Last edited by trackjunkie; 10-24-2017 at 09:02 PM.
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Beautiful! Going to make a gorgeous track car (until someone trades paint with you!). Subscribed to learn all your secrets... 😁
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I'm from South PA. I was looking into getting a 09+ JDM engine and trans combo. They generally have low miles. I can swap the S2 trans and send the engine core to pineapple for race build
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I'm not interested in doing the entire S2 engine swap. I would just use the engine core. Is the JDM core the same as US? How can I tell it's the high hp verion? Verial number?
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Here's the run down on 6-port high power vs. 4-port low power differences: https://www.rx8club.com/series-i-tec...engines-15652/
Last edited by Loki; 10-25-2017 at 02:38 PM.
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Got cha. I'll check with pineapple to make sure before I go that route. Would I have to worry about the omp if I was going to run premix at the track? Thanks for the heads-up.
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There's no real benefit to removing the OMP, and if it's unplugged from the computer, the computer will go into limp mode. People *have* removed the OMP from the engine but left it connected sitting in the engine bay somewhere. At that point you may as well just leave it attached.