After many years of want, several months of investigation, and a good bottle of wine for my wife, I finally got my RX8.
It is a Diamond Gray 2009 RX-8 GT manual transmission with 60K on the odo. I have not driven it much, it will not be my daily driver, but I have thoroughly enjoyed my time with it thus far. It's a spry little car, and I think it will do the job I want it to do, and that is a fun car to take kid-less road trips in. That being said, I'm more interested in reliability and longevity than I am in all out performance, but I would not mind an improved intake and exhaust, but I'm not particularly interested in putting a turbo on.
I've got my spare quarts of oil in the trunk and a spare tire kit on the way. One thing I would like to do is improve the engine cooling of the car as I live in the relatively humid and quite often hot in the summer North Texas.
I've reading up on the airflow redirection/blocking from the radiator through the engine compartment, but I am a visual learner and I have not seen any pictures of what that looks like that makes my brain go, "Ah ha!" Also, I am researching the ecu tuning for getting the fan to turn on earlier, and possibly making the water pump and thermostat changes with the mazmart parts, if it's really worth the effort.
I have been thoroughly informed and occasionally entertained but what I've read on here, and I appreciate the wealth of knowledge that the experienced 8 owners and diy'ers have brought to bear on this car.
Thanks.
It is a Diamond Gray 2009 RX-8 GT manual transmission with 60K on the odo. I have not driven it much, it will not be my daily driver, but I have thoroughly enjoyed my time with it thus far. It's a spry little car, and I think it will do the job I want it to do, and that is a fun car to take kid-less road trips in. That being said, I'm more interested in reliability and longevity than I am in all out performance, but I would not mind an improved intake and exhaust, but I'm not particularly interested in putting a turbo on.
I've got my spare quarts of oil in the trunk and a spare tire kit on the way. One thing I would like to do is improve the engine cooling of the car as I live in the relatively humid and quite often hot in the summer North Texas.
I've reading up on the airflow redirection/blocking from the radiator through the engine compartment, but I am a visual learner and I have not seen any pictures of what that looks like that makes my brain go, "Ah ha!" Also, I am researching the ecu tuning for getting the fan to turn on earlier, and possibly making the water pump and thermostat changes with the mazmart parts, if it's really worth the effort.
I have been thoroughly informed and occasionally entertained but what I've read on here, and I appreciate the wealth of knowledge that the experienced 8 owners and diy'ers have brought to bear on this car.
Thanks.
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