Nice try but no can do. Have to get tires for the family SUV. Anyway's, I like all that cool air my air filter now sees.

 

13B out of car and waiting for stud kit machining before GT35R kit done on RX7...can come by the camarillo subaru meet with Trans Am or Porsche....may bring ReZ my brother over. PM him guys....hehe....let me know when next meet and time are???

 

does anybody have a spare N370 ECU?

 

+1 let me know date & time

 

droppin' by camarillo tonight to drop off teh GF again. back to CSUCI she goes. =P

 

Greg i think i saw you today on Gonzales haha. I felt embarrased driving my car because I was missing one headlight cover due to the fact i started my RE Amemiya headlight swap and needed something from the store lol. Anyways, the RX8 was looking clean today!

 

Haha I just confirmed with my friend Jess, he mentioned he gave you a thumbs up He has a white turbo rx8 on black with polished lip HRE wheels. I was in Santa Monica all day today. Haha small world

 

Haha yea it is a small world, i thought it was you cuz the car looked almost exactly like yours haha. Tell him his car sounds nice for me haha.

 

got the message, im the white rx8 you thought was greg haha.

i saw you coming out of the intersection and i was like oh a fellow rx haha, the car looks clean, nice job!

im out here in sb but sometimes im in the oxnard area as well haha.

 

Hi all. Does anybody know of a shop near by where I live that can replace the bearings in my rotors and drive shaft gears? I live in Lompoc, (near Santa Barbara) and I'm trying to rebuild my 89 mazda engine. I've taken the rotors and gears with new bearing to the local machine shops, and when they see the rotors, I see and hear fear and questions in their eyes. I explain that it's supposed to be simple, just press out old one and press in new one, but then they say, things like, "well I'll have to charge you also for the specialized tool that I'll have to order or make, and that will cost a lot" I sure wish there was a nearby engine shop with rotary engine skills.

 

Mariah motorsports in SB is a rotary specialty shop, it's on milpas. Not the greatest shop out there but they should be able to take care of you.

 

Is there a common issue with Mariah? I work in Santa Barbara and usually see older race cars in there. But never heard anyone rave about this place.

 

No issues. Just high prices and they take a long time.

 

You can press those in yourself or a local machine shop with half a brain could do it.

 

ok, I'm heading out that way today. I'll check them out, thanks "Rotor Brothers"

 

I haven't kept up with them the last several years but at one point I had a couple friends that worked there. They would tune customer cars with power fc's using just a commander on the street, and charge similar hourly rates as much more experienced tuners equipped with apex pro software or datalogit. They should be fine for NA cars, stockish T2's and stock FD's but they certainly wouldnt be my first choice for a moderately modified turbo car. But to be fair I haven't had any experience with them in the last several years, it could be a totally different story now.

 

Well went there. It was the first "Rotary Shop" I've seen. It looked really good. Jim Hagerty, Owner, was there. He was very professional and friendly. I think the price for the work I wanted done was pricey, but at least I was confident that I was leaving my job with a reliable shop. (It seems just because you have a "rotary engine" that the price of the work that needs to be done is doubled. Has anybody else ever noticed that?) He even invited me to tour his shop and look at an engine he had there that was being done at the present time. I looked (peeked) at customers cars he had there. Didn't touch or get nosey out of respect for the car owners, but I thought the way Jim helped me was very friendly.

 

Does anyone have any solid recommendations on a good quality bodyshop?

 

Buena Vista Collision Inc, 3900 Market Street, Ventura, CA 93003-5145,(805) 644-3901

Since moving here from out of state 20+ years ago, my only experience is w/ this body shop and that was just recently. Couldn’t be happier w/the work done. The job was to repair damage from a rear end collision. The bill ~$4K. I also had some ”minor” damage to the front end not related to the accident. I asked the owner to touch up the bumper at least to improve the cosmetics and that I would pay him on the side. To have this “minor” damage repaired correctly, would have required replacement of the bumper cover and other underneath parts. Cost would have been @ least $1.5K. The shop owner ended up doing just that. The cost? ~$200. Tell the owner that Ralph D. w/ the white ’07 Chrysler Pacifica sent you.

 

clubuser thanks for the recommendation..gonna pass this info to a friend that is in need.

Any locals going to sevenstock???

 

Yup, hopefully I can get my turbo kit put in before then...I felt weak rolling up last year being all stock lol.

 

any current pictures? Im trying to clean up a few things before sevenstock as well still lots to do and it may come close.

 

No pictures at the moment but Ill try to get some when I have some time. It'd be nice if all the Ventura Cty guys could meet up and cruise down together to SS this year.

 

You can try Steve at Star Body and Paint off east 5th street in Oxnard.....He's done work on our Bullitt Mustang and Lexus ES300........

 

I would love to go to SS. Ive had my FD for 6 years and haven't made one yet, always working