Just picked up a 2004 RX-8 :)

***ZGN*** · 01-15-2013, 01:37 AM

My brother-n-law is heading out to Kuwait for a year or so and I just purchased his RX-8. This is the third rotary I have owned. I belive it is a GT version. It redlines at 9K with moonroof, spoiler, fog lights, 98K miles, new transmission, spec clutch. Not sure what I am going to do with it yet but it drives great!

FC Zach · 01-15-2013, 03:48 AM

Congrats! Nice car!

reddozen · 01-15-2013, 07:57 AM

nice man. The 8's really make a nice daily driver.

t_g_farrell · 01-15-2013, 09:07 AM

Nice, my favorite color! Has it had the engine swapped out yet under warranty?

I guess you have a decision to make for DGRR now

rdgt99 · 01-15-2013, 10:41 AM

REW swap ???

9krpmrx8 · 01-15-2013, 11:19 AM

Congrats man.

rx7 vinnie · 01-15-2013, 01:28 PM

Congrats...... I love DD'ing mine but it's also nice to roll coal in the diesel too.

reddozen · 01-15-2013, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by rdgt99

REW swap ???

If I was keeping mine past the new RX7 release, I would be doing this. Especially since there's a mounting bracket to bolt it right in....

rx7 vinnie · 01-15-2013, 03:17 PM

Wife gave me the green light on the new RX-7.... Yay.

reddozen · 01-15-2013, 03:36 PM

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Originally Posted by rx7 vinnie

Wife gave me the green light on the new RX-7.... Yay.

We'll be twins!!! YAY... lol

***TitaniumTT*** · 01-15-2013, 05:46 PM

Kewl man!!!! Sooooooooo hot runs @ night this year in the 8? I'm bringing mine down without a doubt :

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Originally Posted by reddozen

If I was keeping mine past the new RX7 release, I would be doing this. Especially since there's a mounting bracket to bolt it right in....

Mounting it isn't the problem at all.... it's dealing with all the electronic trickery associated with it. I would LOVE to turbo mine, or swap something else in there, but it's just toooooo much of a PITA, plus.... it's my daily so no thanks.... after I get like an M3 or something along those lines for a daily, then I'll REALLy start to play with the 8, until then..... alllllll bolt on's and remain emissions legal

djmtsu · 01-15-2013, 07:11 PM

And why didn't you buy mine Kevin??

Whizbang · 01-15-2013, 07:48 PM

after working on this LS1 swapped 8, i kinda want a 8

reddozen · 01-15-2013, 07:49 PM

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Originally Posted by TitaniumTT

Mounting it isn't the problem at all.... it's dealing with all the electronic trickery associated with it. I would LOVE to turbo mine, or swap something else in there, but it's just toooooo much of a PITA, plus.... it's my daily so no thanks.... after I get like an M3 or something along those lines for a daily, then I'll REALLy start to play with the 8, until then..... alllllll bolt on's and remain emissions legal

Yea, I know what you mean. I'm happy I have gotten over 30k miles on my bridge.

From what I've read about the REW swap, it shouldn't be too bad at all. A guy in Greece did an RE swap and said that he only had to modify like 2~3 things to get all the factory dials etc working. With an access port you can be "emissions legal" and disable all the engine codes, or do you have actual sniff tests? We just have OBD2 plug in to scan for engine codes.

Here's the guys thread, but it seems like he posted the list of things to modify in a different thread...
http://www.rx8club.com/major-horsepo...e-swap-159291/

***TitaniumTT*** · 01-15-2013, 08:34 PM

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Originally Posted by djmtsu

And why didn't you buy mine Kevin??

Because he knows you need a rotary car to be @ DGRR

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Originally Posted by reddozen

Yea, I know what you mean. I'm happy I have gotten over 30k miles on my bridge.

From what I've read about the REW swap, it shouldn't be too bad at all. A guy in Greece did an RE swap and said that he only had to modify like 2~3 things to get all the factory dials etc working. With an access port you can be "emissions legal" and disable all the engine codes, or do you have actual sniff tests? We just have OBD2 plug in to scan for engine codes.

Here's the guys thread, but it seems like he posted the list of things to modify in a different thread...
http://www.rx8club.com/major-horsepo...e-swap-159291/

Mounting it and doing all the mechanical things shouldn't be very hard at all.... it would be tricking all the factory ECU shit to work properly that I think would be a royal PITA.... We've done one here, which now resides in FL I believe and I heard some horror stories from that project.... however, now that it's been done and learned, it shouldn't be that bad. We've actually got one here that's getting an REW swap that we've started on.... and by started on I mean we stripped it down and then pushed it outside for a few months while we wait on parts and money

I'll let you know how that goes.

We don't have a sniff test for OBDII... just plug in and scan....

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