Hi all I'm a new RX8 owner from up in Alberta Canada, picked up a 2004 MT for what I thought was a decent price, picked it up cheap knowing it was a project. A closer inspection found a few more issues than I was hoping i would have to deal with, more visual imperfections and stuff that I don't like to deal with, I'm a drive train builder kinda guy, I hate bodywork and paintwork.
Last few weeks have been:
1.Picked up new: headlights, taillights, exhaust
2.Pulled off the bumper to straighten the front section so that the headlights would bolt in.
3.Cleaned out a cheap set of used tails, sealed them up and put them back on.
4.Made a new under tray out of some spare aluminum sheet metal as the stock one was missing.
5. Fiddled around with the bumper alot to improve the fitment and its still pretty bad.
Still on the lookout for a new bumper though as the one on it is crap.
anyways on to the questions
1. Its got a few scratches and stuff I want to fix, none of my local autostores keep the paint in stock, velocity red, whats a good online resource to bu this from? Also does anybody have experiance with how well scratch repair paint matches these cars that are now 10 years old?
2. Flooding issues. I haven't looked up the deflooding procedure as I've always been able to restart it the few times it has done it within a minute by craning and switching between full and no throttle. Every time I've flooded it has been a cold shut off (start it to pull into the shop and shut off before it warms up). I haven't had a flooding issue with a hot shutoff though Is not warming up the car fully before shutoff that big of a mistake or is flooding after a cold shutoff an obvious sign of an issue (starter, ignition, compression)?
3. Rebuild question, now before you tear me apart I have tried searching and I know self rebuilds are not generally recommended. My question isn't can I rebuild my own engine...etc.
I'm more currious about the success rate of rebuilds, as in if you pulled a part a running engine with no glaringly obvious issues (as in a bit of idle hunt, flooded a couple times, slightly ruff idle, but no misfiring issues) does a full tear down, cleaning and reseal generally lead to better compression?
Last few weeks have been:
1.Picked up new: headlights, taillights, exhaust
2.Pulled off the bumper to straighten the front section so that the headlights would bolt in.
3.Cleaned out a cheap set of used tails, sealed them up and put them back on.
4.Made a new under tray out of some spare aluminum sheet metal as the stock one was missing.
5. Fiddled around with the bumper alot to improve the fitment and its still pretty bad.
Still on the lookout for a new bumper though as the one on it is crap.
anyways on to the questions
1. Its got a few scratches and stuff I want to fix, none of my local autostores keep the paint in stock, velocity red, whats a good online resource to bu this from? Also does anybody have experiance with how well scratch repair paint matches these cars that are now 10 years old?
2. Flooding issues. I haven't looked up the deflooding procedure as I've always been able to restart it the few times it has done it within a minute by craning and switching between full and no throttle. Every time I've flooded it has been a cold shut off (start it to pull into the shop and shut off before it warms up). I haven't had a flooding issue with a hot shutoff though Is not warming up the car fully before shutoff that big of a mistake or is flooding after a cold shutoff an obvious sign of an issue (starter, ignition, compression)?
3. Rebuild question, now before you tear me apart I have tried searching and I know self rebuilds are not generally recommended. My question isn't can I rebuild my own engine...etc.
I'm more currious about the success rate of rebuilds, as in if you pulled a part a running engine with no glaringly obvious issues (as in a bit of idle hunt, flooded a couple times, slightly ruff idle, but no misfiring issues) does a full tear down, cleaning and reseal generally lead to better compression?
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