It's SSX RG and Brillo blogging time again!!!
09-19-2007 | 08:44 PM
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09-20-2007 | 10:29 AM
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It looks like Mazdatrix has their porting DVD for sale now. They'll be selling it at SSX. I think I'll have to pick that one up. I've ported engines for years but it's always good to see different techniques. They will be running it as a loop in their booth.
This time tomorrow I "SHOULD" be on the plane. I can't wait! My plane is overbooked in coach by 5 seats and I'm flying standby. First class has no open seats and I'm trying to fly first class standby. It's not looking good. Here's hoping I get on. We're supposed to get in around 11 am. If not, I don't know what time I will get out there. It could be as late as 8:30 pm.
Brillo is flying out on the early flight. He bought his ticket months ago when it was cheap so he'll be there with the car in the morning. I'm not looking forward to the stress of tomorrow.
This time tomorrow I "SHOULD" be on the plane. I can't wait! My plane is overbooked in coach by 5 seats and I'm flying standby. First class has no open seats and I'm trying to fly first class standby. It's not looking good. Here's hoping I get on. We're supposed to get in around 11 am. If not, I don't know what time I will get out there. It could be as late as 8:30 pm.
Brillo is flying out on the early flight. He bought his ticket months ago when it was cheap so he'll be there with the car in the morning. I'm not looking forward to the stress of tomorrow.
09-20-2007 | 11:37 AM
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Does anyone here live out there near Irvine that could potentially help out for the night? I can easily catch the 6:50 pm flight out tonight but I don't have a hotel arranged until tomorrow. It's just an idea as I suspect I'll be trying my luck with flight after flight tomorrow.
09-22-2007 | 07:52 PM
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Since no one has updated, the show this year was fantastic!
I have LOTS of pictures to post and I guess I'll hit some of the highlights now. I actually took fewer pictures this year than I have in the last 3, but that's because I know everyone and their mother will be posting stuff..
I think that I can probably post the one thing that will make everyone go wild though... so I'll do that.
I normally take about 400 pictures. This year I apparently only took 96.
So anyway.. see my next post.
I have LOTS of pictures to post and I guess I'll hit some of the highlights now. I actually took fewer pictures this year than I have in the last 3, but that's because I know everyone and their mother will be posting stuff..
I think that I can probably post the one thing that will make everyone go wild though... so I'll do that.
I normally take about 400 pictures. This year I apparently only took 96.
So anyway.. see my next post.
09-23-2007 | 01:51 AM
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Nothing has changed for RP.
Hymee's kit looks fantastic. It's definitely evolved since earlier. He's building a larger throttle body for the kit (electronic) so as to get better top end response.
Petit did a supercharger install at the show in less than 3 hours.
Paradox was very well set up. We had a great time hanging out w/MM and Charles. Good guys. Charles needs to get his car tuned though after RG's port job. Hope all comes out well from there.
About the Kabura and the Rotary... Jim O'Sullivan was at the show... he asked if we wanted the Kabura produced (resounding yes) and Franz, the Kabura designer, told us we need to bug Jim to get a Rotary in it.
You ought to read the rotary news article about the tokyo auto show on rotary news. We've gotten some very good confirmation from the powers that be that they are correct. The name you should become familiar with is 15C. We're hearing it's a 1.55 liter rotary and it's coming, and may even be in that blue Kabura/Ryuga combination that they show in japan.
ANYWAY.. I have lots of pictures of hymee's product.
I'm currently reinstalling my image resizing application so we can get them all posted. I'm really tired though so it may be tomorrow.
Sorry bout that.
We'll see.
Hymee's kit looks fantastic. It's definitely evolved since earlier. He's building a larger throttle body for the kit (electronic) so as to get better top end response.
Petit did a supercharger install at the show in less than 3 hours.
Paradox was very well set up. We had a great time hanging out w/MM and Charles. Good guys. Charles needs to get his car tuned though after RG's port job. Hope all comes out well from there.
About the Kabura and the Rotary... Jim O'Sullivan was at the show... he asked if we wanted the Kabura produced (resounding yes) and Franz, the Kabura designer, told us we need to bug Jim to get a Rotary in it.
You ought to read the rotary news article about the tokyo auto show on rotary news. We've gotten some very good confirmation from the powers that be that they are correct. The name you should become familiar with is 15C. We're hearing it's a 1.55 liter rotary and it's coming, and may even be in that blue Kabura/Ryuga combination that they show in japan.
ANYWAY.. I have lots of pictures of hymee's product.
I'm currently reinstalling my image resizing application so we can get them all posted. I'm really tired though so it may be tomorrow.
Sorry bout that.
We'll see.
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09-23-2007 | 01:36 PM
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Nothing has changed for RP.
Hymee's kit looks fantastic. It's definitely evolved since earlier. He's building a larger throttle body for the kit (electronic) so as to get better top end response.
Petit did a supercharger install at the show in less than 3 hours.
Paradox was very well set up. We had a great time hanging out w/MM and Charles. Good guys. Charles needs to get his car tuned though after RG's port job. Hope all comes out well from there.
About the Kabura and the Rotary... Jim O'Sullivan was at the show... he asked if we wanted the Kabura produced (resounding yes) and Franz, the Kabura designer, told us we need to bug Jim to get a Rotary in it.
You ought to read the rotary news article about the tokyo auto show on rotary news. We've gotten some very good confirmation from the powers that be that they are correct. The name you should become familiar with is 15C. We're hearing it's a 1.55 liter rotary and it's coming, and may even be in that blue Kabura/Ryuga combination that they show in japan.
ANYWAY.. I have lots of pictures of hymee's product.
I'm currently reinstalling my image resizing application so we can get them all posted. I'm really tired though so it may be tomorrow.
Sorry bout that.
We'll see.
Hymee's kit looks fantastic. It's definitely evolved since earlier. He's building a larger throttle body for the kit (electronic) so as to get better top end response.
Petit did a supercharger install at the show in less than 3 hours.
Paradox was very well set up. We had a great time hanging out w/MM and Charles. Good guys. Charles needs to get his car tuned though after RG's port job. Hope all comes out well from there.
About the Kabura and the Rotary... Jim O'Sullivan was at the show... he asked if we wanted the Kabura produced (resounding yes) and Franz, the Kabura designer, told us we need to bug Jim to get a Rotary in it.
You ought to read the rotary news article about the tokyo auto show on rotary news. We've gotten some very good confirmation from the powers that be that they are correct. The name you should become familiar with is 15C. We're hearing it's a 1.55 liter rotary and it's coming, and may even be in that blue Kabura/Ryuga combination that they show in japan.
ANYWAY.. I have lots of pictures of hymee's product.
I'm currently reinstalling my image resizing application so we can get them all posted. I'm really tired though so it may be tomorrow.
Sorry bout that.
We'll see.
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09-24-2007 | 12:46 AM
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Fred,
It looks like all the news has been reported, so if you don't mind, I'd like to share for everyone my experience as a SS virgin:
This weekend, I had the pleasure of attending Sevenstock X, one of the biggest (if not the single largest) gathering of Mazda Rotary enthusiasts. I decided to make the trek after the Pike's Peak Hill Climb in July left me itching for more car ****, and it's not like anyone that day would have known what the hell I was talking about if I started blathering about apex seals and peripheral ports and whatnot. There wasn't any rotary representation at the hill climb, and as an RX-8 owner who spends his free time going cross-eyed at tech articles and drooling over RX-7's, Sevenstock seemed like the perfect way to kill a weekend. I bought my ticket that day.
I was pretty excited for the trip as September 21st drew near, but I was a little nervous that I wouldn't quite know what to do with myself when I got there. I didn't realize it so much at the time, but I had left a lot to chance. I had no transportation lined up for the weekend, nor did I know much about the area or who or what would be there. All I had was a boarding pass, a hotel room, and a banquet ticket. I was pretty much winging it.
Then, I made the single smartest decision that weekend, and I did it before I even left. I read a thread on the RX-8 forum about all the forum members meeting up before the event for dinner, and I sent a private message to rotarygod, who had started the topic. I told him my situation and asked for a ride to dinner on Friday. The next day I came back and found a message from him, saying that he would not only give me a ride, he'd come get me from the airport as well, and I could tag along with him and his friends all weekend.
rotarygod was as good as his word and better. From Friday night when I piled into his rented Chrysler and took off at the blistering speed only Mopar can deliver to the show the next day and moseying around SoCal Sunday, I felt like I was with old friends. Meeting people you've spoken with on the internet is a strange phenomenon. Unless you've pissed someone off in the online arena, you're close acquaintances with people you've literally just met. You need not even have spoken with them directly, as such conversations are the exception on internet bulletin boards, simply sharing a common passion and base of acquaintances is enough. The two-dozen-plus forum members at Sevenstock were as every bit as functional as a car club that meets in the flesh.
The show itself was awesome. Mazda rolled out the red carpet (er, car, rather) by bringing out the Kabura, with a herd of famous rotaries, including the RX-792, two Cosmo Sports, a Eunos Cosmo (the difference, of course, lying mainly in the number of rotors), an Mannheim Racing RX-8 in "patchwork" livery, and a Miata stripped-out racer with an all carbon-fiber front. Mark "Hymee" Pickering made the trip from Australia to show off his new supercharger, which is very impressive and in my opinion one of the best machined forced-induction kits I've seen. Paradox Performance showed off three black RX-8's, with a supercharger, turbocharger, and ntirous respectively. Lots of vendors made my eyes bigger than they already were in comparison to my wallet, and I walked out of there willing to sell crack to Iranian commie terrorist **** drunk-driving children to get my hands on a few of those FD's. The SpeedSource team also held an hour-long Q&A session and auctioned/raffled off parts of their cars that had met unfortunate ends on the tire wall. I will also inquire further on their supposed piles of leftover parts.
The banquet featured the bigwigs from Japan who have been at the helm of Mazda motorsports for decades. I feel bad not remembering their names. Sylvain Tremblay presented a montage of the SpeedSource victories from last year, and another man I don't remember the name of tried to sum up what it means to have a great car.
"A great car isn't perfect," he said. I couldn't agree more. If you listen to some of the people around here, you get nothing but complaints about the RX-8's acceleration, or its torque figures, or gas mileage or reliability or whatever. If you want to look at it this way, fine. Sevenstock, even though the emphasis is traditionally on RX-7's and this applies for them too, has shown me the magic one car can work. It's not everyday you find a car that brings people together from across the country, inspires people to quit their job and be their own boss, brings a man across an ocean to show off his hobby-come-business, forms the unlikely basis of a champion race team, and makes a bankrupt, teenage cadet fell like a ten-year-old at a fireworks show and dinosaur petting zoo. While cars like the Evo might be more technically capable, I challenge you to find a Mitsubishi gathering that will do all that.
Like Koby-san said in his broken English, "We build cars with passion, spirit..." and he's right. Mazda might get better power and gas mileage with a V6, but they didn't use one because they didn't want to, and that's what passion is all about: building a car based on desire more than numbers. And if they had used a piston engine... what would we do with that weekend in September?
It looks like all the news has been reported, so if you don't mind, I'd like to share for everyone my experience as a SS virgin:
This weekend, I had the pleasure of attending Sevenstock X, one of the biggest (if not the single largest) gathering of Mazda Rotary enthusiasts. I decided to make the trek after the Pike's Peak Hill Climb in July left me itching for more car ****, and it's not like anyone that day would have known what the hell I was talking about if I started blathering about apex seals and peripheral ports and whatnot. There wasn't any rotary representation at the hill climb, and as an RX-8 owner who spends his free time going cross-eyed at tech articles and drooling over RX-7's, Sevenstock seemed like the perfect way to kill a weekend. I bought my ticket that day.
I was pretty excited for the trip as September 21st drew near, but I was a little nervous that I wouldn't quite know what to do with myself when I got there. I didn't realize it so much at the time, but I had left a lot to chance. I had no transportation lined up for the weekend, nor did I know much about the area or who or what would be there. All I had was a boarding pass, a hotel room, and a banquet ticket. I was pretty much winging it.
Then, I made the single smartest decision that weekend, and I did it before I even left. I read a thread on the RX-8 forum about all the forum members meeting up before the event for dinner, and I sent a private message to rotarygod, who had started the topic. I told him my situation and asked for a ride to dinner on Friday. The next day I came back and found a message from him, saying that he would not only give me a ride, he'd come get me from the airport as well, and I could tag along with him and his friends all weekend.
rotarygod was as good as his word and better. From Friday night when I piled into his rented Chrysler and took off at the blistering speed only Mopar can deliver to the show the next day and moseying around SoCal Sunday, I felt like I was with old friends. Meeting people you've spoken with on the internet is a strange phenomenon. Unless you've pissed someone off in the online arena, you're close acquaintances with people you've literally just met. You need not even have spoken with them directly, as such conversations are the exception on internet bulletin boards, simply sharing a common passion and base of acquaintances is enough. The two-dozen-plus forum members at Sevenstock were as every bit as functional as a car club that meets in the flesh.
The show itself was awesome. Mazda rolled out the red carpet (er, car, rather) by bringing out the Kabura, with a herd of famous rotaries, including the RX-792, two Cosmo Sports, a Eunos Cosmo (the difference, of course, lying mainly in the number of rotors), an Mannheim Racing RX-8 in "patchwork" livery, and a Miata stripped-out racer with an all carbon-fiber front. Mark "Hymee" Pickering made the trip from Australia to show off his new supercharger, which is very impressive and in my opinion one of the best machined forced-induction kits I've seen. Paradox Performance showed off three black RX-8's, with a supercharger, turbocharger, and ntirous respectively. Lots of vendors made my eyes bigger than they already were in comparison to my wallet, and I walked out of there willing to sell crack to Iranian commie terrorist **** drunk-driving children to get my hands on a few of those FD's. The SpeedSource team also held an hour-long Q&A session and auctioned/raffled off parts of their cars that had met unfortunate ends on the tire wall. I will also inquire further on their supposed piles of leftover parts.
The banquet featured the bigwigs from Japan who have been at the helm of Mazda motorsports for decades. I feel bad not remembering their names. Sylvain Tremblay presented a montage of the SpeedSource victories from last year, and another man I don't remember the name of tried to sum up what it means to have a great car.
"A great car isn't perfect," he said. I couldn't agree more. If you listen to some of the people around here, you get nothing but complaints about the RX-8's acceleration, or its torque figures, or gas mileage or reliability or whatever. If you want to look at it this way, fine. Sevenstock, even though the emphasis is traditionally on RX-7's and this applies for them too, has shown me the magic one car can work. It's not everyday you find a car that brings people together from across the country, inspires people to quit their job and be their own boss, brings a man across an ocean to show off his hobby-come-business, forms the unlikely basis of a champion race team, and makes a bankrupt, teenage cadet fell like a ten-year-old at a fireworks show and dinosaur petting zoo. While cars like the Evo might be more technically capable, I challenge you to find a Mitsubishi gathering that will do all that.
Like Koby-san said in his broken English, "We build cars with passion, spirit..." and he's right. Mazda might get better power and gas mileage with a V6, but they didn't use one because they didn't want to, and that's what passion is all about: building a car based on desire more than numbers. And if they had used a piston engine... what would we do with that weekend in September?
Last edited by Rootski; 09-25-2007 at 07:49 PM. Reason: Sanitized for chain-of-command consumption
09-24-2007 | 08:56 AM
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Just off the plane and straight into my office. God, I need to get some shut eye. Great time I had... Great time!
Salute to everyone whom I have met, and everyone I haven't. This was one fantastic and unforgettable weekend.
Salute to everyone whom I have met, and everyone I haven't. This was one fantastic and unforgettable weekend.
09-24-2007 | 11:29 AM
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very nice travis , sounds liek me at 7stock 7
and i just want to say this like a thousand more times before tokyo-
LONG STROKE- 1.55 litre, direct injected, TALLER with a longer STROKE(thats TORQUE to the rest of you
) Renesis 2 
they've been workign on it literally since the Renesis went into production. It will be at Tokyo
and i just want to say this like a thousand more times before tokyo-
LONG STROKE- 1.55 litre, direct injected, TALLER with a longer STROKE(thats TORQUE to the rest of you
) Renesis 2 they've been workign on it literally since the Renesis went into production. It will be at Tokyo
