In the market for a used 2004 rx8 engine
02-07-2012 | 10:37 PM
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In the market for a used 2004 rx8 engine
I have a 2004 mazda rx8 automatic.
The blocked cracked so I am looking for another used engine.
What options do i have i.e. can I put any year model rx8 renisis engine in the car or not. Thanks in advance.
The blocked cracked so I am looking for another used engine.
What options do i have i.e. can I put any year model rx8 renisis engine in the car or not. Thanks in advance.
02-08-2012 | 08:25 AM
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because the manual 6 port engine has 2 more ports, therefor a different upper and lower intake manifold, different injectors, and a completely different tune among other things.
I suggest you start reading the stickies and the other auto to manual threads. Your questions have been asked and answered before and in much more detail than you're going to get from me.
If you're asking these types of questions, you need to do some serious research for yourself. You sound like you're already in over your head.
I suggest you start reading the stickies and the other auto to manual threads. Your questions have been asked and answered before and in much more detail than you're going to get from me.
If you're asking these types of questions, you need to do some serious research for yourself. You sound like you're already in over your head.
02-08-2012 | 10:35 AM
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What good is the message box below if you cant ask questions. I am pretty sure every new question has already been asked once.
So if you dont mind I have another question? Why or how am i getting in over my head?
thanks in advanced.
So if you dont mind I have another question? Why or how am i getting in over my head?
thanks in advanced.
02-08-2012 | 10:45 AM
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Oh! I thought it was because I only been a member since '08 and only have 12 post. Probably because Ive done more searching than asking questions that apparently people have already asked.
I figured i could get someone like you to help me out. So here is another question?
What color coolant should i use?
I figured i could get someone like you to help me out. So here is another question?
What color coolant should i use?
02-08-2012 | 10:53 AM
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you know, i was being polite and answering you questions nicely. I even said that you should search because there were more detailed answers out there than i could give you. But since you're being i whiney xxxxxxxx xxxx about it, i'll level with you.
Your post count or join date means jack ****. There are users here that have 2011 join dates and 4500 posts that don't know the have a left hand let alone anything about the car they drive.
Had you done any reading what so every about the car at any point in time, you'd know that 04 and 05 autos have a 4 port. If you had any concept of how an engine works and how the ecu controls it you wouldn't have to ask why the ecu from your 4 port won't run your 6 port. You don't have to be a mechanic or engineer to read and understand that, or figure it out for yourself. Based on these two things i deduced that you haven't read anything and are in way over your head trying to swap an engine out yourself. Since your trying to defend yourself against a polite suggestion so do some research, and then trying to throw you join date and post count in my face, i've deduced that your acting like a whiney, xxxxxxxx xxxx.
Your post count or join date means jack ****. There are users here that have 2011 join dates and 4500 posts that don't know the have a left hand let alone anything about the car they drive.
Had you done any reading what so every about the car at any point in time, you'd know that 04 and 05 autos have a 4 port. If you had any concept of how an engine works and how the ecu controls it you wouldn't have to ask why the ecu from your 4 port won't run your 6 port. You don't have to be a mechanic or engineer to read and understand that, or figure it out for yourself. Based on these two things i deduced that you haven't read anything and are in way over your head trying to swap an engine out yourself. Since your trying to defend yourself against a polite suggestion so do some research, and then trying to throw you join date and post count in my face, i've deduced that your acting like a whiney, xxxxxxxx xxxx.
02-08-2012 | 11:07 AM
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Domestic,
Fuz really was giving it a shot. It turned personal for him when you were just asking him to spoon feed you information. From your reaction, I'm guessing that you don't understand how it turned personal, or even see it as "asking to be spoon fed". The problem is, you are just another in the daily stream of people asking for information that is so basic to this car while refusing to actually look for answers on your own. Maybe not consciously refusing to look, but you clearly haven't bothered trying. Perhaps this bit from my new owners thread will help you understand why your responses provoked that reaction from Fuz:
https://www.rx8club.com/new-member-forum-197/new-potential-owners-start-here-202454/
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Why are we so hard / harsh on newbies?
You may notice that many new owners join this forum and promptly create a thread that generates lots of negative feedback from the people already here, the newbie ends up getting butthurt about it and claims it's a "mean forum" or "we are all dicks", etc... Not every newbie of course, and just the fact that you are reading this thread means you probably won't subject yourself to that. But why do we do it?
Here is a fantastic post from TeamRX8 on why.
Most of the people that are being the hammer for those nails use either the New Posts feature (https://www.rx8club.com/search.php?do=getnew) or the Live! feature (https://www.rx8club.com/misc.php?product=vblive) (both are in your top bar under the banner), and see posts with issues pretty quickly. We do not use these features with the express intention of flaming and bashing. We use them so that when someone posts up an actual issue that needs actual help, we can react quickly to their request.
We do not do this because we are paid to do it, we do it because we believe in our community (at one level or another). We want to improve it and make it better, so as we have time during our normal lives we look for issues we can help with, we look for new ideas, new projects, etc... But, in the process, we see all the garbage that people clutter the forum with because they feel themselves above reading what has already been posted, and that garbage gets to us. So thank you for reading, and your help is certainly appreciated in guiding people this way too.
__________________________________________________ __________________________
I should note in there that the primary reason that we don't "just stay out of the thread" is because if we do, inevitably someone else with complete misinformation jumps in and spreads that misinformation, leading to more problems etc... We end up having to join the thread to try to correct the damage of someone that doesn't know what they are talking about.
Fuz really was giving it a shot. It turned personal for him when you were just asking him to spoon feed you information. From your reaction, I'm guessing that you don't understand how it turned personal, or even see it as "asking to be spoon fed". The problem is, you are just another in the daily stream of people asking for information that is so basic to this car while refusing to actually look for answers on your own. Maybe not consciously refusing to look, but you clearly haven't bothered trying. Perhaps this bit from my new owners thread will help you understand why your responses provoked that reaction from Fuz:
https://www.rx8club.com/new-member-forum-197/new-potential-owners-start-here-202454/
__________________________________________________ __________________________
Why are we so hard / harsh on newbies?
You may notice that many new owners join this forum and promptly create a thread that generates lots of negative feedback from the people already here, the newbie ends up getting butthurt about it and claims it's a "mean forum" or "we are all dicks", etc... Not every newbie of course, and just the fact that you are reading this thread means you probably won't subject yourself to that. But why do we do it?
Here is a fantastic post from TeamRX8 on why.
This involves several issues. The first being that you can't see beyond your own immediate needs and wants. This is not Wiki8Club. It took many of us years and years of involvement and reading to amass the knowledge.
Imagine somebody coming here daily, in fact it is often multiple people daily, asking if not demanding the same information over and over again. We are not your on demand servants. We are people just like you with other priorities and demands in our lives, limited time, our own personal interests for being here, etc. Why should we spend that time catering to people that come here seeking instant gratification?
That leaves us with two options. We can either ignore you completely or we can tell that the info is here if you bother to make the effort. However, over several years of telling people this you eventually get fed up dealing with the continuous stream of people seeking instant gratification yet you still would rather point them in the right direction so you just bark at them to get the point across. Imagine someone coming to your house, going to your living room, pulling their pants down, and taking a dump right there on the carpet just because they didn't know any better. You might be annoyed and yet also understanding because they didn't know any better. Now imagine this being a different person doing this every day. It wouldn't be long before you just as soon they go away and never come back.
Almost every day there is some clueless dolt posting a tech or troubleshooting question in the DiY area, despite there being a sticky thread at the top saying to only post threads there with DIY instructions and subsequent discussion of same. The real issue is that people think they are free to just come here and do as they damn well please and there's no need for etiquette, rules, structure, or organization unless it serves their own personal interest.
Well guess what? We're not here to cater to new uninformed people that come in here trampling all over everything regardless if they're ignorant, just don't care, or whatever. This is like any social community and so if you make waves you better expect to deal with it. If you don't like it then get the f' out because the established community could care less about some newbie whining about not getting what they want immediately. We do care about you clogging up the search engine with useless threads on already established subjects, which there is a dedicated thread on this very subject in this same forum area no less. It took me 10 minutes to explain this. Now imagine multiple people daily requiring it, so you make a Sticky thread at the top that says "read this first" and yet every single new person just like yourself thinks they are beyond trying to fit in properly so that this forum operates smoothly for all of us.
You probably don't read Japanese, but the line in my sig is a well known Japanese proverb that reads "the nail that sticks out gets hammered". You made yourself that nail.
Imagine somebody coming here daily, in fact it is often multiple people daily, asking if not demanding the same information over and over again. We are not your on demand servants. We are people just like you with other priorities and demands in our lives, limited time, our own personal interests for being here, etc. Why should we spend that time catering to people that come here seeking instant gratification?
That leaves us with two options. We can either ignore you completely or we can tell that the info is here if you bother to make the effort. However, over several years of telling people this you eventually get fed up dealing with the continuous stream of people seeking instant gratification yet you still would rather point them in the right direction so you just bark at them to get the point across. Imagine someone coming to your house, going to your living room, pulling their pants down, and taking a dump right there on the carpet just because they didn't know any better. You might be annoyed and yet also understanding because they didn't know any better. Now imagine this being a different person doing this every day. It wouldn't be long before you just as soon they go away and never come back.
Almost every day there is some clueless dolt posting a tech or troubleshooting question in the DiY area, despite there being a sticky thread at the top saying to only post threads there with DIY instructions and subsequent discussion of same. The real issue is that people think they are free to just come here and do as they damn well please and there's no need for etiquette, rules, structure, or organization unless it serves their own personal interest.
Well guess what? We're not here to cater to new uninformed people that come in here trampling all over everything regardless if they're ignorant, just don't care, or whatever. This is like any social community and so if you make waves you better expect to deal with it. If you don't like it then get the f' out because the established community could care less about some newbie whining about not getting what they want immediately. We do care about you clogging up the search engine with useless threads on already established subjects, which there is a dedicated thread on this very subject in this same forum area no less. It took me 10 minutes to explain this. Now imagine multiple people daily requiring it, so you make a Sticky thread at the top that says "read this first" and yet every single new person just like yourself thinks they are beyond trying to fit in properly so that this forum operates smoothly for all of us.
You probably don't read Japanese, but the line in my sig is a well known Japanese proverb that reads "the nail that sticks out gets hammered". You made yourself that nail.
Most of the people that are being the hammer for those nails use either the New Posts feature (https://www.rx8club.com/search.php?do=getnew) or the Live! feature (https://www.rx8club.com/misc.php?product=vblive) (both are in your top bar under the banner), and see posts with issues pretty quickly. We do not use these features with the express intention of flaming and bashing. We use them so that when someone posts up an actual issue that needs actual help, we can react quickly to their request.
We do not do this because we are paid to do it, we do it because we believe in our community (at one level or another). We want to improve it and make it better, so as we have time during our normal lives we look for issues we can help with, we look for new ideas, new projects, etc... But, in the process, we see all the garbage that people clutter the forum with because they feel themselves above reading what has already been posted, and that garbage gets to us. So thank you for reading, and your help is certainly appreciated in guiding people this way too.
__________________________________________________ __________________________
I should note in there that the primary reason that we don't "just stay out of the thread" is because if we do, inevitably someone else with complete misinformation jumps in and spreads that misinformation, leading to more problems etc... We end up having to join the thread to try to correct the damage of someone that doesn't know what they are talking about.
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