SoCal 's monthly San Bernardino rotary meet: Second Saturday of each month.
Renesis
Joined: Jan 2007
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From: Rancho Cucamonga, CA.
Hey Viper can you post my rims in the for sale section in the EVO forum, i am unable to. I can email you exactly what i want. I posted in the Lexus forum and got a friend to post in the Subaru forum already.
casey... thanks for the pics..... how did you save yours.. his site has "protection" from trying to save it to my computer...... help me computer wiz
I know most of you RX-7 guys dont care about us RX-8 guys 
but I thought you would all want to see this.
I posted this on the RX-8 forum:
The time has come……
Not many people know because I didn’t want to be the boy who cries wolf again, so I waited till it was a lot more of a for sure thing. For the last couple of month I have been contemplating getting rid of the RX-8. It looks like I will race the August 19th race and then start dismantling my car for sale. ( removing the aftermarket parts, and installing stock stuff)
It’s getting rather hard financially, and I just cant warrant keeping the RX-8 any more. Don’t get me wrong, I love my car and of course I love the rotary community, but the $550 a month car payment and the $150 a month insurance payment is just a little much right now for a car that gets driven on meets and autocrosses. Yes I know I could get rid of the Cobalt and start driving the RX-8, but the 15 miles a gallon vs the 30 miles a gallon just kills that. Not to mention that frees up $300 and the RX-8 frees up $700. It’s time for me to move on.
I do however have a backup plan at least. I will be making the switch from RX-8 to Miata. Yeah I know that sounds funny. Put a fat man in a little car, but the miata is one of the fastest cars at the auto cross track. You put tires that are damn near the same size as the one I run on the RX-8, you slap those bad boys on a miata that weighs 1900 pounds, and you’ve got your self a freakin go kart at a fraction of the cost.
With the sale of the RX-8 and the sale of the aftermarket parts I will be able to buy a 90 miata from a guy in Arizona that he will be dropping a ’99 engine into. With performance clutch, light flywheel, race header, and a MS clutch type LSD. Then of course I need to buy my own suspension, wheels and tires. Also do some weight removal and junk like that, and I got myself a pretty wicked little track car.
Another advantage of doing it this way is I will be able to afford to do things again. I will be able to run auto cross practices again. I want to start doing San Diego auto cross a little more. I would love to go run on a “real” track. We miss being able to go to Laughlin or Vegas, we miss being able to go out to dinner. Having that extra $700 a month will help with all of that. (of course for the first few month it looks like it would go into the miata.)
Last but not least, we a wanting to have kids in the somewhat near future, if we have any chance of that happening we need to free up some cash. The RX-8 is not due to be paid off for almost 2 ½ years. If we get rid of the RX-8 we can start working on getting that cobalt paid down. (or trade the cobalt in for a little bit more baby seat friendly car and start paying that down.)
As long as I get to race, and I get to do the things I enjoy, and I get to hang out with my friends (yeah, that’s all of you) then I am a happy guy. (well that and something else that Michelle helps me out with)
Anyways, I just wanted to let you all know what was going on, sorry to keep y’all out of the loop for so long, but again I just didn’t want to be the guy that cries wolf since I already did this process once before a few months ago.
Now as for the meet, the meets are still on. I don’t have any intension of ditching the RX-8 (and 7) friends I have made. I figured we would just show up in the Cobalt, and hitch a ride with someone that has an open seat or two. Worse comes to worse, we cruise the back of the pack in the slowbalt.
A list of parts for sale will be posted in another thread when the time comes, but pretty much everything is for sale. You all know I have a lot of parts on my car. You guys get first dibs of course.
but I thought you would all want to see this.I posted this on the RX-8 forum:
The time has come……
Not many people know because I didn’t want to be the boy who cries wolf again, so I waited till it was a lot more of a for sure thing. For the last couple of month I have been contemplating getting rid of the RX-8. It looks like I will race the August 19th race and then start dismantling my car for sale. ( removing the aftermarket parts, and installing stock stuff)
It’s getting rather hard financially, and I just cant warrant keeping the RX-8 any more. Don’t get me wrong, I love my car and of course I love the rotary community, but the $550 a month car payment and the $150 a month insurance payment is just a little much right now for a car that gets driven on meets and autocrosses. Yes I know I could get rid of the Cobalt and start driving the RX-8, but the 15 miles a gallon vs the 30 miles a gallon just kills that. Not to mention that frees up $300 and the RX-8 frees up $700. It’s time for me to move on.
I do however have a backup plan at least. I will be making the switch from RX-8 to Miata. Yeah I know that sounds funny. Put a fat man in a little car, but the miata is one of the fastest cars at the auto cross track. You put tires that are damn near the same size as the one I run on the RX-8, you slap those bad boys on a miata that weighs 1900 pounds, and you’ve got your self a freakin go kart at a fraction of the cost.
With the sale of the RX-8 and the sale of the aftermarket parts I will be able to buy a 90 miata from a guy in Arizona that he will be dropping a ’99 engine into. With performance clutch, light flywheel, race header, and a MS clutch type LSD. Then of course I need to buy my own suspension, wheels and tires. Also do some weight removal and junk like that, and I got myself a pretty wicked little track car.
Another advantage of doing it this way is I will be able to afford to do things again. I will be able to run auto cross practices again. I want to start doing San Diego auto cross a little more. I would love to go run on a “real” track. We miss being able to go to Laughlin or Vegas, we miss being able to go out to dinner. Having that extra $700 a month will help with all of that. (of course for the first few month it looks like it would go into the miata.)
Last but not least, we a wanting to have kids in the somewhat near future, if we have any chance of that happening we need to free up some cash. The RX-8 is not due to be paid off for almost 2 ½ years. If we get rid of the RX-8 we can start working on getting that cobalt paid down. (or trade the cobalt in for a little bit more baby seat friendly car and start paying that down.)
As long as I get to race, and I get to do the things I enjoy, and I get to hang out with my friends (yeah, that’s all of you) then I am a happy guy. (well that and something else that Michelle helps me out with)
Anyways, I just wanted to let you all know what was going on, sorry to keep y’all out of the loop for so long, but again I just didn’t want to be the guy that cries wolf since I already did this process once before a few months ago.
Now as for the meet, the meets are still on. I don’t have any intension of ditching the RX-8 (and 7) friends I have made. I figured we would just show up in the Cobalt, and hitch a ride with someone that has an open seat or two. Worse comes to worse, we cruise the back of the pack in the slowbalt.
A list of parts for sale will be posted in another thread when the time comes, but pretty much everything is for sale. You all know I have a lot of parts on my car. You guys get first dibs of course.
yup.... I do. and you have a very valad point.
you stand right where I stood when you built your FC.
only differance is I am knowingly buildint it as a track only car.
you stand right where I stood when you built your FC.
only differance is I am knowingly buildint it as a track only car.
SOME SAY....
Joined: Oct 2005
Posts: 2,099
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From: ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE 15FWY, NEAR THE 215
at least he is staying mazda, and if i know casey, that car will have a ported 13b in it by years end . u gonna still have it for sevenstock? and whats the plan this year for it? now that i live in rancho
no 13b in it any time soon. maybe some day, but not any time soon.
either that or a v8.. he he he
RX-8 will be gone by seven stock. (or at least modded parts striped off)
either that or a v8.. he he he
RX-8 will be gone by seven stock. (or at least modded parts striped off)
Miatas rock. Go for it.
Don't put a heavy engine in the nose. Take a lesson from Porsche, Ferrari, Lambourghini, BMW and, heck, even the little guys know better. At least the ones that make good track cars. I mean, when a Porsche was slightly tail heavy, they put a 20 pound weight in the nose. When they made a front engine Porsche, they pushed the tranny all the way back to the diff. The exotics move the entire engine to the back. Honda put a hand assembled 4-banger in the s2000 that's more expensive than a rotary (also hand assembled, but simpler). Why do you think they did that when they could have gotten the same power out of a cheap 3 liter V6? And of course Mazda put a tiny engine in the Miata, which they increased in size only after putting a huge cavity in the back of the engine bay so they could push it back farther.
Don't put a heavy engine in the nose. Take a lesson from Porsche, Ferrari, Lambourghini, BMW and, heck, even the little guys know better. At least the ones that make good track cars. I mean, when a Porsche was slightly tail heavy, they put a 20 pound weight in the nose. When they made a front engine Porsche, they pushed the tranny all the way back to the diff. The exotics move the entire engine to the back. Honda put a hand assembled 4-banger in the s2000 that's more expensive than a rotary (also hand assembled, but simpler). Why do you think they did that when they could have gotten the same power out of a cheap 3 liter V6? And of course Mazda put a tiny engine in the Miata, which they increased in size only after putting a huge cavity in the back of the engine bay so they could push it back farther.
SOME SAY....
Joined: Oct 2005
Posts: 2,099
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From: ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE 15FWY, NEAR THE 215
i now live in rancho, so we could do it like last year where u guys meet at pirate, and then the other half at the arco off of 4th(right down the street from me:P). just let me know