Meet.

Day out with the Boys.
My RX8 231, (Featured)
Dan's Civic EP3, (Featured)
Martin's Yaris Tsport, (Featured)
Milly's Lupo Gti. (Not yet Featured)

Fresh out the Paintshop.

Car is back from bodyshop with front and rear badges smoothed out and a full machine polish,
I love the look of the car now, just need to get it lowered!
Decat has been ordered, Coilovers next. anyway heres the pics and a short video clip.
Pip.









Also here is a quick photoshop of how the car should look dropped.

Wheels, Exhaust and Smooth.

Fair sized update on the RX8,
Got Some new shoes, Fates in 8j and 9.5j flavour et35.
Wearing bridgestone potenza 225/40/18s
offest and width work pretty well. maybe some spacers but unsure.

Coilovers are next to sort the arch gap but before that;
I've bought and fitted a ToyoSport CatBack exhaust, which gives a pretty good tone all the way through the rev range, (sports cat soon?)

The car is currently in the bodyshop getting smoothed rear and front, So no badges all round. not many RX8's with this done i think.

Some pics of the wheels and the exhaust, iPhone quality sorry.
HQ pics will be shot when car is back from paint shop ^_^

Pip.

Rotary Power

Yes, After losing interest in my underpowered FWD Celica,
Got myself a Mazda RX8 231Ps (227bhp)
Just getting used to the FMR setup. Love the Rotary Power 9500 Rpm is awesome!
Here are a few images then some specs,

Wheel Specs,
Rims - OEM RX8 5 spoke, 18*8j et50
Tyre - Bridgestone Potenza 225/40/18

The wheel and tyre setup seems pretty stable, although the back can skip a little on launch, a staggered setup should improve this.
Proposed future set up
Rims - Front, 19*8.5j, Rear 19*9.5j
Tyre - Front, 225/35/19 Rear 255/35/19

Have been looking at these Riviera wheels,




They fit the specs and have 2.5inch lip front and 3.5inch lip rear with an offset of 35, these should give the car a much more aggresive stance, Possibly may look a little VIP too.
For Track Days ill probably be looking at some "Time attack" style 5 or 6 spokes like Advans.

First few things to car, gave it a good clean and Valet Both the exhaust pipes were filthy,
Although they cleaned up well, I think I'll be looking for a new backbox, with 4" pipes rather than the standard 2.5"

That's all for now, I know its been a long time since the last update but there were no mods to my Celica as i had lost interest.

Also I <3 RWD ^_^

Pip.