Hey RX8Club, it's a pleasure of mine to finally be a part of you guys. This is my rotary as long as my first car. I'll do my best to maintain her the best I can and to learn from all the information that this place has to offer.

Here are some pictures.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/5029184...hoto4816528479

 

 

if you live in a hot climate youll love how much cooler the car stays being not black or red. If not congrats either way, hopefully soon youll have a new engine too lol.

 

Looks great and welcome

 

With 71k on the odometer, I may very well need a new engine soon.

Thanks for the welcoming responses!

 

dont forget to replace everything with the engine. oil cooler lines, radiator hoses, coils, plugs, wires, clutch, air filter, and get all your fluids changed from radiator, to transmission and diff. Itll be a great oportunity to start fresh if your willing to pay to do so. Also if they do put a new engine in and you can afford go for some royal purple before they fill it with stock oil, and premix from the start. Itll be a great oportunity for you to have a fresh start mechanically.

 

Congrats! Keep up your reading and all will be well. Unless you have low compression, don't rule out your engine yet. Happy revving!

 

Corpsmen always want to flush everything out. Semper Fi!

OP: Welcome!

 

I would really like to flush everything out and start over fresh but I'm not sure how much all that would cost. Can someone give me a rough estimate?

 

i love my 8

 

^yeah new wheels..

 

^ +1

 

Congrats! Ti Gray is the best color. After all, James Bond drives gray cars.

 

depends on if you do it yourself or pay someone to do it. Im more than sure you can do the oil change, and if you use a pump you can get more than the lube rack will. Oil will depend on what you want to use. The stock oil mazda uses is castrol 5w20 but a lot of people seem to like 5w30. Royal purple will cost you 7-8 dollars a quart, castrol you can get for 22 dollars for 5 quarts usually. Trans fluid will have to be a decision you make, use the search engine on here to decide what weight you want to try. I use 75-90 but a lot of people have different takes on this so that will greately depend on you. Just remember to do that yourself as well as the diff. All in all you can do most of this for less than 100 dollars. It just depends on what you want to do. The radiator is a little more tricky. You need to buy a gauge. it looks a lot like this one

http://www.amazon.com/K-Tool-Interna.../dp/B000TRORG2

what it does is allows you to set your radiator fluid to the proper level for where you live. You should never have the level indicator colder than the coldest winter you will ever get. So here in texas I have mine set at about 28 degrees. Really in the summer you can set it pretty high like around 50 or 60 deg and just make sure you fix it later on. This allows for the coolant to flow a lot better. 50/50 is good but actually setting the antifreeze to the proper ratio will help your engine a lot. Try using wix air filter. My dad and I used to use them on the roush mustang we had which was only for the track. It was an 8.5 second quarter mile car and these filters worked just perfect. You have tons of options and price ranges but wix are great and cheap. They work just as good as any K&N. If you do all this yourself you will save yourself a lot of money. You can even bleed your own brakes and flush your own radiator if you take the time to do it. just remember when you bleed your brakes flushing the entire system isnt necessary. Just bleed them until the fluid is as clean as what your putting into the car and youll be just fine.

 

Thanks for the informative post. I'll be sure to do my research on which transmission oil I should use.

This is something I plan on doing as soon as I have the funds to do so. Instead of spending money to mod my car, I'm going to spend it on getting the car back to perfect condition (in stock form, anyway).

Thanks for the comments, everyone! =D

 

maybe you just need a silver bullet to help remind ya what us docs are here for:P

 

cars should not have eyebrows, sorry guy with the yellow.

 

Been there, done that.

Doc's are the best!!

 

then i guess you shouldnt look at most 8s on the forum

 

maybe they chose yellow because they didnt want such a beautiful car to get smashed. not that it seems to help but its the thought that counts right.

 

New wheels, repaint calipers to black or silver, and remove that ugly billet grill.

 

18 inch PHANTOM style Custom Wheels in BLACK fits 2004 Mazda - DriveLineCustoms

 

He did his bad, ive seen some ones that look good. but his looks like it actually has a set of hairy eyebrows. i think they aren't butted up well to the paint liine of his fender

 

No way.

 

What's up with your gas cap? Did you paint it white or light yellow? haha