The Great Renesis Porting Project!
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Originally Posted by Snoochie
I'm kinda bummed about the oil deposits, makes me wonder how bad I'm treating my baby but I'm glad I know it now rather than later.
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Get the clutch, call FedEX. Hell I once threatend the customs guy at Vancuver airport with a breaker bar for holding my rain tires. He called his boss, his boss called the Mayor who was at a party. The Mayor said "yes I know about that race, it's a big race, give him the tires. Didn't even pay duty.
Ya gotta push these things along. Don't take no for an answer. Fly to the factory, bribe the girl at the front desk with a tee shirt. Give all the girls tee shirts. Don't let go. If the race is tomorrow how will you make it without a clutch? Steal from a competetor? Not unheard of.
Ya gotta push these things along. Don't take no for an answer. Fly to the factory, bribe the girl at the front desk with a tee shirt. Give all the girls tee shirts. Don't let go. If the race is tomorrow how will you make it without a clutch? Steal from a competetor? Not unheard of.
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I'll call the dealership 2mara then. I get out of Nordtstrom at 2:30 the latest and I work at PUS at 4:00 so I'll swing by and take it up. Anyone know if there's traffic on the 15N is it shut down again? thanks
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Originally Posted by Snoochie
I'll call the dealership 2mara then. I get out of Nordtstrom at 2:30 the latest and I work at PUS at 4:00 so I'll swing by and take it up. Anyone know if there's traffic on the 15N is it shut down again? thanks
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HE did ! and they seem to be much harder to come buy than you think..
Originally Posted by Richard Paul
Go to a dealer and get a damn clutch already. Someone has to have one. Forget that vendor, let your fingers do the walking. Call one of the aftermarket clutch suppliers. After all this hauling *** from a sick dude no less, we wait on a disk? A racer you'll never make.
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Yeah I contacted the dealers and no one has any on hand. I'm doing my best to get one asap trust me I want it back more than anyone else.
I either use Chevron 91 or Shell V-power. Mostly Shell but the one next to my work has been closed for a whiel so I've been using Chevron. I heard Mazda recomends V-power and Chevron is good also.
I asked the dealership about oil and they use 5-20 but the brand was weird. Like motortech or something. I had never heard of it but you all probably have. Is it good quality? Royal Purple from now on anyways.
I either use Chevron 91 or Shell V-power. Mostly Shell but the one next to my work has been closed for a whiel so I've been using Chevron. I heard Mazda recomends V-power and Chevron is good also.
I asked the dealership about oil and they use 5-20 but the brand was weird. Like motortech or something. I had never heard of it but you all probably have. Is it good quality? Royal Purple from now on anyways.
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Charles Hill bought an aftermarket clutch and said the disk looked stock. Get hold of whoever that vendor was and get their disk. PM Charles it will be faster then looking through all his threads. No I take that back, I'm sure it's in his nitrous thread. Look it up there.
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Alrighty well I finally got one!!! NO MORE HARASSING ME lol j/k. I checked Charles' VbGarage a while ago and I swore he said he got it from Racing Beat and I checked and they didn't have anything. So then I spent the last hour and a half contacting everyone and their mother about getting something. Probably emailed 7 different places and called 10 and finally I checked back to Charles' garage and he got it from srmotorsports. So I called and they actually had the ACT disc in stock. 145 I think and I had em overnight it (UPS was about to leave when I called but they caught them) and I'm getting it 2marow morning at 10:30 the latest. Even if it is the oem disc like Charles said it looked like. It's still cheaper than what the dealership was telling me. $250 ouch!!
Thank you Matt for helping me out but I needed something asap. I'm sure I'll be buying more stuff through you. Awesome costumer service I recommend anyone to shop through www.rx8garage.net
I CAN'T WAIT TILL THIS IS DONE....
Thank you Matt for helping me out but I needed something asap. I'm sure I'll be buying more stuff through you. Awesome costumer service I recommend anyone to shop through www.rx8garage.net
I CAN'T WAIT TILL THIS IS DONE....
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I use Shell regular exclusively. I have just over 25k miles on mine and I'm wondering if my rotors have the same buildup yours does....I was quite surprised to see the photos.
I understand from reading the responses from those "in the know" that I'll have to run mine up to redline regularly to keep it clean.....aw geeee.......what a shame. :D
I understand from reading the responses from those "in the know" that I'll have to run mine up to redline regularly to keep it clean.....aw geeee.......what a shame. :D
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If his powerband turns out anywhere near what Ito's dyno showed, cleaning out the deposits shouldn't take too much convincing.
Speaking of which, I've never heard of the water cleaning method described earlier...anyone have a link with specifics? Does it just sort of work like the water injection you'd use with a turbo?
Speaking of which, I've never heard of the water cleaning method described earlier...anyone have a link with specifics? Does it just sort of work like the water injection you'd use with a turbo?
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Using regular will be better for deposit avoidance. The higher the octain the slower the burn and if you don't need the higher number then you will make less power and get worse miles per.
Now here is a place that the spread in power ratings may be explained. Here's how it works, you're going to the dyno so you get the highest rating fuel you can. You think this will make more power. You were wrong, it always makes the most power with the lowest oct you can get away with not detonating.
If the car runs with regular it will make the most power there. I had the hardest time getting my kid to stop using 104 racing gas in his spec go kart. They all buy that fuel at the races. got him to go to 92 and he runs faster. Still will not belive me and try the 89 maybe the 87. There is more fuel and less additives in the regular. More BTU's more power. Up until you run into abnormal combustion. The unburned additives leave deposits too.
If you pack more air into it then you need the better fuel. It's a balance thing. Here we may have two birds with one stone, more power and less deposits. Don't think you are treating your car poorly on regular if that is what it wants. I see Snoochie runs premium. and ol spiff runs regular. So if ol spif is getting away with regular he has more power and less deposits.
This is good theory but it would be nice to find out on the dyno. I bet no one out there has run on the dyno with regular. If no one else does it I will.
Now here is a place that the spread in power ratings may be explained. Here's how it works, you're going to the dyno so you get the highest rating fuel you can. You think this will make more power. You were wrong, it always makes the most power with the lowest oct you can get away with not detonating.
If the car runs with regular it will make the most power there. I had the hardest time getting my kid to stop using 104 racing gas in his spec go kart. They all buy that fuel at the races. got him to go to 92 and he runs faster. Still will not belive me and try the 89 maybe the 87. There is more fuel and less additives in the regular. More BTU's more power. Up until you run into abnormal combustion. The unburned additives leave deposits too.
If you pack more air into it then you need the better fuel. It's a balance thing. Here we may have two birds with one stone, more power and less deposits. Don't think you are treating your car poorly on regular if that is what it wants. I see Snoochie runs premium. and ol spiff runs regular. So if ol spif is getting away with regular he has more power and less deposits.
This is good theory but it would be nice to find out on the dyno. I bet no one out there has run on the dyno with regular. If no one else does it I will.
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sorta kinda... the water injection is old school--like 60's-70's kinda old school. muscle car doods have been doing it for decades.
on a side note:
i hate cops. i hate pasadena.
pasadena cops= can you square hate?
i got a modified exhaust ticket today.
the really shitty part is the only reason i was down there is to give a friend a battery. he couldn't really afford to buy a new one and i just got the braille, so i gave him my 3 week old "old" battery. no good deed goes unpunished, i swear!
on a side note:
i hate cops. i hate pasadena.
pasadena cops= can you square hate?
i got a modified exhaust ticket today.
the really shitty part is the only reason i was down there is to give a friend a battery. he couldn't really afford to buy a new one and i just got the braille, so i gave him my 3 week old "old" battery. no good deed goes unpunished, i swear!