Do me a favor and drop a LS1 into the Rx8. :-)
Wont have to worry about blowing apex seals or the lousy 189hp they brag about. hahaha

 

ewww, that things ugly

 

Gotta agree here. I spent years as the lead driving instructor at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in GA. We used all automatics and did some really wild things in them. I (and many of my instructor staff) raced everything from SCCA to stocks and dirt track during our time off and the same techniques we taught were the ones we used in our stick shift race cars. I may catch flak from some here, but street racing is NOT cool. It is stupid and extremely dangerous to your license and life. You never know when Ma and Pa Kettle might wander into the middle of a race. There are tracks all over the U.S. where a person can push their car fast and most offer training in the right ways to do it. (I taught all of my kids proper racing techniques and it's made them safer drivers on the street.) I'd recommend joining the local real Mazda club and go to their sanctioned events.

 

dude im in the same boat as you just i dont have an rx8 i have an fc but hey man if u got tha money and the time make it fast. thats my problem no money but if i did i swear id have a cosmos motor

 

oh yeah and im 17

 

well i bout my first 88 gxl non turbo when i was 17 for 750 bucks. does that mean im spoiled cause i had an rx7 for my first car. i bought it myself though. man did that baby give me the speed bug. since then ive bought an awd turbo talon, a turbo 2 and now im driving a turd civic. what are the odds of that? its all good though ill be back to the rotary camp real soon.

 

RX-8 and FC are two different price catagories. So thats hardly a comparison.

 

same here, why rice out a car? a mojority of the time, riced out cars look like trash and they aren't any faster than when they were first bought.....wether it's turning or going straight.

 

needs a 20b heh

 

To me a mild bodykit can be tasteful (and the widebody 1st gens look great). But alot of people really over do it and make the car look gross. But I have seen a few cars with body kits that looked fantastic. The big wings usually look gay though.

Plus its something to do last, Im doing a body kit on my TII since it needs new bumpers and sideskirts and I really don't wanna go back to stock, itll be very mild though.