mazda rx 8 (231) - Page 5 - Saxperience

marcusd · 12th March 2015, 15:00

Bad rep puts alot off. If you decide for yourself there are worse cars out there. I love mine apart from the mpg at times but sod it it's a fun drive

marcusd · 20th March 2015, 10:57

little update, final got new discs and pads today, gonna fit them a bit later...

and yesterday weather was good so cracked out the cleaning stuff..

also ordered uprated engine mounts which will be being put on in few weeks when I have more time off

marcusd · 24th March 2015, 16:22

bit of tarting up under the bonnet, before engine mounts go in and a few other bits...

next up is fit now sturdier engine mounts and find some more money for rest of plans

marcusd · 26th March 2015, 15:54

engine mounts arrived... fitting april when I got holiday

and ordered front and rear drop links as my rubbers don't look too good, so as wheels are off anyways may aswell replace

plan is to paint up calipers, and poss put on braided brake lines depending how confident I feel on the day

marcusd · 11th April 2015, 12:35

well as usual things didn't go quite as planned so started drivers side engine mount but nut got seized on and couldn't get the thing off, so had to order some new toys to be able to remove this stubborn sucka.
also wasn't in mood after struggling with that mount to do the drop links so just ended up painting calipers and as you can see I don't think I caw in correct mood for that either a lil sloppy with paint

decals added

also started spraying up engine covers some more, but now they are sprayed I think I now need to do something with centre parts. thinking orange in the grooves to match??

the lastly sprayed window wipers as they were a bit tired and manky

ordered this catch tank to fit, it arrived but no one was in and some orange hose.

next plans are to sort engine mount and replace drop links. in aug get body work sorted out. and hopefully inbetween times get some lowering springs to get the height looking better. and if the wheels I want should appear well happy days

marcusd · 14th April 2015, 15:57

new grills arrived ready for fitting. think their lockwood. either way they protect my radiator and oil coolers.

and catch tank all fitted with orange hosing

marcusd · 17th April 2015, 18:27

well finally after 6 hours the other day and a good 3-4 hours today this little bastard finally came free

which them allowed to me to finally replace engine mounts, then after an hour I managed to swap old for new.

so now new mounts are on no vibrations on idle and car feels new again.

managed to mount catch tank as well with this, its a lil tight to get too but does the job well

next up was drop the bumper and fit the lockwood oil cooler grills and lower rad grill, they are stainless but sprayed black as didn't like em silver

saxo-dude-16v · 18th July 2015, 00:02

Found your thread at long last, i have to say i LOVE the engine bay.

marcusd · 18th July 2015, 08:36

I've done alot more since not updated in a while. Will try update bit more once coils are on and holiday out way

marcusd · 14th August 2015, 16:08

started premixing to hopefully help lube things up

new bhr 585 coils and magnecor 8mm leads pain to fit as very limited space so lost prob a whole pack on nuts on this job

reached the 300 mile club. actally it carried on to 326 miles to one full tank, but that was boring 65-72 mph drive on mototrway

marcusd · 10th September 2015, 18:57

done a hell of a lot to the car but just cant remember half of it nor find the pics.

so had damage fixed finally

finally back to nice paint work

been toying with these mirrors for last few weeks on and off their mazspeed rep mirrors, or to most evo look-a-likes

still not 100% on colour but will fit and see and prob change to colour coded

then lastly I ordered some new suspension, new struts and lowering springs so arch gap should be closed up a little more

and new front end pic just cos it looks nice

marcusd · 19th September 2015, 12:10

been a busy few weeks with buying and fitting and work, managed to buy a nexus install

started on front suspension

started rears but all went wrong and everything was seized, so off to mechanics Monday for rears, and drop links

also trial fitted the new side mirrors and think they need to be colour coded

stevo67 · 19th September 2015, 14:14

Liking what you've done to it so far mate.

marcusd · 24th September 2015, 11:49

grinder comes out for these bloody drop links

sadly once was off and all swapped over, sway bar was turned wrong way resulting in this

but ordered some new ones arrived day before my day off so rear jacked again and replaced

and new on

so was able to drop down and see results 20mm drop sits perfect now I feel.

and a little sticker for the bay

replaced front drop links too

marcusd · 29th September 2015, 14:13

after all the suspension fun I also managed to break the rear headlight sensor, usually they break on the silly flimsy arm as its lowered down but no this my work, it managed to break the silly free moving bolt to the rear of the sensor. thus making it an expensive fix as these sensors aren't cheap.

then a bit cosmetic work for interior as a new boot

marcusd · 19th October 2015, 17:33

only a small update now as chrimbo is coming, mot and insurance are due too

new badges on

only due a mini service now

RobVT · 20th October 2015, 11:05

I like this!

marcusd · 31st October 2015, 20:17

Quick update. Well chuffed passed mot with flying colours after shitting it for a week. Did a oil change and then got car up on stands and undersealed the under side of car ready for winter.
Managed to also get a bargain on insurance too and now also save 12p a month on road tax so with the saved pennies this all goes toward some more toys. I fancy some new side skirts and a aem cold air feed when they pop up for the right money

marcusd · 16th November 2015, 20:41

finally got to add new gear knob, was ordered months and months ago but my ocd didn't like the way it fitted, so ordered a adaptor to bridge the gaitor to stalk think it looks ok

and new club sticker

-kane- · 17th November 2015, 14:52

here is my old rx8 i had a few years ago it was also same engine as yours with a decat stainless straight through i could use a full tank in two days thats not doing many miles aswell.. i was young tho and i was driving it very hard to shoot flames out the back..

the engine on mine would not start if it was warm its hard to find a good one now on ebay as they need a engine rebuild at every 60k