Silly Wankels!

So, as most of you know the RX-7 was delivered to its new owner Monday last week. Timing happened to be really good and I found a great RX-8 for a great price on Wednesday. I wanted to surprise you guys with it Tuesday night, but the 30 page paper I have due next week is kicking my butt.

I ended up picking up a grey '06 base RX-8 with 6K miles on it. I was debating on trying to find a sport package/performance package with traction control, HIDs and fogs, but I could care less about the fogs, always found myself turning off the traction control on the M3 (until I removed it) and I'll probably add some aftermarket HIDs sometime.

The car is bone stock minus the Voodoo knob from the Miata (don't like the feel of the triangle shift oem knob) and my ricey SCCA stickers. :cat:

I know it must seem like I'm jumping on the B-stock band wagon, but I'm going to continue running the CSP car. The problem is that it will never be competitive at Nationals. So when I decide to go, it might be in a RX-8.

I've wanted an RX-8 since I drove apex2apex's car on a fun run last year. Thanks a lot man! ::Rant:: I dont' think there's a better performance car out there for the money.

Congrats Thomas!


So Loren... have you thought about registering DFWWankers.com? It appears to be available! ::Banana::

congrats! looks like a nice car.

Congrats Thomas! Enjoy! ::Flag::

Congrats, Thomas! When are you going to stop dumping money into that uncompetitive junker of yours and see the light? Come play in the most competitive class in North Texas! :mrgreen:

Congrats Thomas. Can't wait to see it.

Maybe we need to change this forum to DFWMazdas.com. ;)

You know what's kind of funny? Out of the five people I've let drive mine so far, two have bought one of their own (you and tailchaser), and a third bought a ride in mine for the rest of the season. They're addictive. :wink:

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Originally Posted by altiain

Congrats, Thomas! When are you going to stop dumping money into that uncompetitive junker of yours and see the light? Come play in the most competitive class in North Texas! :mrgreen:

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Trust me, it's tempting. But I wouldn't want to embarass you guys. ;) ::BaHump::

Seriously though, I love racing the Miata.

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Originally Posted by altiain

You know what's kind of funny? Out of the five people I've let drive mine so far, two have bought one of their own (you and tailchaser), and a third bought a ride in mine for the rest of the season. They're addictive. :wink:

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I was sold on my first drive! Even without the R-comps. I've probably run 5 runs or so in apex2apex's car (some stock, some on the wider falkens), 1 with yours on R-comps, and 3 on Joe's with the springs and shocks on Falkens. All of them have been great.

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Originally Posted by Miatamoto

Trust me, it's tempting. But I wouldn't want to embarass you guys. ;) ::BaHump::

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I'd love to see you try. :wink: Speaking of which, did you ever decide if you were going to go to Walnut Ridge or not? It looks like B Stock is going to have a good class there.

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Originally Posted by altiain

I'd love to see you try. :wink: Speaking of which, did you ever decide if you were going to go to Walnut Ridge or not? It looks like B Stock is going to have a good class there.

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Sorry, I'm not going to make it to Walnut Ridge. I'm just too busy right now. I'm not even going to make Houston and the Pro Solo this year. I'm pretty upset about it, but I'm going to try to make all the divisionals this summer.

BTW, I think I'm going to try a set of Hankook Z214s. They've been perfecting the compound and tire construction from what I've heard and they are just a little bit cheaper than 710s since the Kumho price hike! The better gearing and width of the 225/45/13 size doesn't hurt either.

You kids and your drab colors! ;)

Nice car Sparky!

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Originally Posted by POS Racing

You kids and your drab colors! ;)

Nice car Sparky!

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Thanks! I didn't want to drive around in a Pikachu car like Wagner. ;)
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Originally Posted by altiain

uncompetitive junker

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Can I call dibbs if you ever decide to sell that junker?

I did think that my next car after my 2000 se was going to be an RX-8. I wanted one so bad. When I was in Florida I had the car salesman offer to have someone steal my car and burn it to the ground just so he could get me in one. (I was to far upside down in the car at the time and the insurance/gap insurance would cover the total cost of the car) I thought about it really hard and elected not to go that route, even though I was really tempted.....A few months later that dealership got shut down by the police for shady dealings....

Congrats!!

Don't forget I've got dibs on your Miata when you sell it...

Don't sell it to Bean.
We don't need another Miata-in-the-box.:clown:

Congrats Thomas! Welcome to the RX-8 club. ;)

Do I get referral money from Mazda? ::Clown::

I think both Iain and Jon drove mine on instructor runs before they bought theirs too. :D

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Originally Posted by Radio-Active

Don't sell it to Bean.
We don't need another Miata-in-the-box.:clown:

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Quiet you! ::BigWhack

That's one car that would nicely be taken care of...

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Originally Posted by Treibenschnell

Quiet you! ::BigWhack

That's one car that would nicely be taken care of...

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