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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 03 August 2012, 12:51:33
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This is Mrs Opti's new car. She has joined the RX-8 owners forum..........they have informed her that the RX-8 does not come with a trip computer, apparently owners would find them "depressing" ;D ;D
I find it slightly cramped, but I'm six-one. Anyone a little shorter should be fine. :y
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Very nice. :-*
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very nice motor, health to enjoy it
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Really nice and a great colour to :y :y 8)
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nice colour,and looks great too :y
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Your lass is worth weighing in (gold rings).
Very nice Oti 8) 8) 8) 8). Coupe, but not a Coupe, different :y
It's gone take you both a long time to go any where, the speedo only goes up to ten :P ;D
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Looks fantastic, like new from the factory!
Very temping buys them, sooo cheap, lots of rev happy power too.
If you DIY service wonder what running costs would be like :-\
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very nice car and the piccies are prof quality :y
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Well done Opti, that looks the part - all the best to Dusty and her new car. :-* :y
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Very swish 8)
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Very nice :y :y :y :y
Best buy a box of four cans of Trade Club oil! ::) ::) ;D
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Congratulations to you both on your new aquisition! :y
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Looks very clean and tidy,very nice indeed :y :y
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Great car to drive but bloody thirsty for a 1.3 ltr :D :D
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When I first saw this car it was sitting in a double garage next to an equally immaculate 1989 ZX-10.The guy had it main dealer serviced every 12 months despite rarely driving it.
The Mazda DSR printout shows.
2010.........5696 miles...........12,500 mile/12 month service completed.
2011.........7501 miles...........25,000 mile/24 month service completed
2012.........8384 miles...........37,500 mile/36 month service completed.
How crazy is that?
The previous owner certainly didn't seem short of a bob or two. :y
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How is Mrs Opti with her newly aquired MV6? ;D
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Very nice :y :y :y :y
Best buy a box of four cans of Trade Club oil! ::) ::) ;D
;D ;D ;D. It came with an unopened one litre pack of something called......Mazda Dexelia Ultra 5w30. It even came in its own zip up pouch.
Personally, I've never heard of this Mazda Dexelia shite before. Is it any good?
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Smashing little pocket rocket :y
P s ... i like the garden , bet it takes ages to mow that :)
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Smashing little pocket rocket :y
P s ... i like the garden , bet it takes ages to mow that :)
Yes & the garage needs a hair cut ;D
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When I first saw this car it was sitting in a double garage next to an equally immaculate 1989 ZX-10.The guy had it main dealer serviced every 12 months despite rarely driving it.
The Mazda DSR printout shows.
2010.........5696 miles...........12,500 mile/12 month service completed.
2011.........7501 miles...........25,000 mile/24 month service completed
2012.........8384 miles...........37,500 mile/36 month service completed.
How crazy is that?
The previous owner certainly didn't seem short of a bob or two. :y
Annual servicing regardless of mileage. It's the minimum I would expect from a FSH car.
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Very nice, love the colour. I've driven a workmates 54 plate, really liked it. I thought it was pretty roomy and I'm 6.2
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Smashing little pocket rocket :y
P s ... i like the garden , bet it takes ages to mow that :)
Yes & the garage needs a hair cut ;D
That's Russian vine, Pete. The "Mile a minute" plant. It's the anti-christ of the botanical world. Pure evil in plant form. :(
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Smashing little pocket rocket :y
P s ... i like the garden , bet it takes ages to mow that :)
Yes & the garage needs a hair cut ;D
That's Russian vine, Pete. The "Mile a minute" plant. It's the anti-christ of the botanical world. Pure evil in plant form. :(
Send me a clipping & I'll secretly plant it in the neighbours garden ;D
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That's Russian vine, Pete. The "Mile a minute" plant. It's the anti-christ of the botanical world. Pure evil in plant form. :(
Tell me about it. Our garden is full of the bloody stuff from next door's garden. :(
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More than nice , beautiful . It looks like new and for the purchase price an absolute steal.
I wish you and your dear wife all the best with it ,and yes I am very envious......... :y
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That's Russian vine, Pete. The "Mile a minute" plant. It's the anti-christ of the botanical world. Pure evil in plant form. :(
Tell me about it. Our garden is full of the bloody stuff from next door's garden. :(
Ooooh. Maybe it's not such a good idea :-[
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Lovely example. :y
How many times have you checked the oil level? :)
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If you want to know how painful noise can be,take the exhaust of it and then start it. :o ;D
I used to marshall at a race track years ago where several people raced Mazda rotary engined cars (RX3 ?) with straight through exhausts,and the noise was excruciating. Maybe I should track them down and sue them for my Tinnutus. ;D
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Mazda furai anyone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4Xl0i4uNGU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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If you want to know how painful noise can be,take the exhaust of it and then start it. :o ;D
I used to marshall at a race track years ago where several people raced Mazda rotary engined cars (RX3 ?) with straight through exhausts,and the noise was excruciating. Maybe I should track them down and sue them for my Tinnutus. ;D
A mate of mine used to have a Westfield with a 13b in. It was as loud at idle as mine is at full chat. 120+ dBa at 1m. Revved like an angry wasp, though. :D
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That's a lovely looker that, great mileage by the sounds of it too :y.
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Looks cool!! :y
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Mazda furai anyone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4Xl0i4uNGU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Wow! The sound alone could wake the dead. :-*
Let's hope they take it to Le Mans one day. Need some more proper noisy cars there these days. All those boring Audi tractors. ::)
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Plenty of potential if mrs opti wants the slammed look :) :-X
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I do like the RX-8's and I am very tempted to get one after the Omega, Drove one in work and they driver really well and pick up nicely, can get decent ones for not a lot of money and the majority are well looked after, people get put off by the rotary engine after the RX-7s but don't seem to realise these more modern rotary engines are much more reliable than the earlier ones, they do tend to flood if you turn them off whilst the engine is cold though.
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..., people get put off by the rotary engine after the RX-7s but ....
..... and NSU RO80s ::) ::) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSU_Ro_80
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..., people get put off by the rotary engine after the RX-7s but ....
..... and NSU RO80s ::) ::) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSU_Ro_80
I remember reading about them before, very poor reliability which in turn reduced the value of the car and all that was needed to solve the problem was a revised tip seal design, its amazing how something from so long ago when the rotary engine was so new to the public can have a lasting effect on people thoughts towards the engine.
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... and all that was needed to solve the problem was a revised tip seal design, .....
I think they probably tried at the time. 30+ yrs of technology in between has helped though ;)
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Plenty of potential if mrs opti wants the slammed look :) :-X
To be begin with she'll stick it in top (6th) at 20 mph and wonder why the 93 year old district nurse overtakes her in an elderly Hillman Imp. ;)
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... and all that was needed to solve the problem was a revised tip seal design, .....
I think they probably tried at the time. 30+ yrs of technology in between has helped though ;)
Didn't Mazda win Le Mans with a rotary car in the eighties?. It seems to ring a bell. :y
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I do like the RX-8's and I am very tempted to get one after the Omega, Drove one in work and they driver really well and pick up nicely, can get decent ones for not a lot of money and the majority are well looked after, people get put off by the rotary engine after the RX-7s but don't seem to realise these more modern rotary engines are much more reliable than the earlier ones, they do tend to flood if you turn them off whilst the engine is cold though.
Would of thought they had fixed that problem by now ??? Guess when it does eventually start up there's some serious flames out the pipes ;)
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... and all that was needed to solve the problem was a revised tip seal design, .....
I think they probably tried at the time. 30+ yrs of technology in between has helped though ;)
a common "cure" for an ailing rotary engine was to simply swap it for a Ford V4 "Essex" engine (as found in Mk1 Transits) since it was one of the few engines compact enough to fit in the Ro80's engine bay. Thus in an ironic twist, one of the smoothest engines in the world was replaced by one of the roughest.
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I saw an Ro80 on the road fairly recently. By the noises it was making, it didn't have a Ford V4 under the bonnet either (an easy one , that!).
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... and all that was needed to solve the problem was a revised tip seal design, .....
I think they probably tried at the time. 30+ yrs of technology in between has helped though ;)
Didn't Mazda win Le Mans with a rotary car in the eighties?. It seems to ring a bell. :y
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_787B#Engine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_787B#Engine)
4 rotors and 10500 RPM. :D
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And don't forget the success that Norton had. :y :y :y
http://www.nortonmotors.co.uk/Rotary%20Racing.htm (http://www.nortonmotors.co.uk/Rotary%20Racing.htm)
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Want want want!! But don't have the balls... :-[
The amount I see on t'ebay as "spares or repairs", with grumbly-bits, scares me off :'(
But yours looks like a fine example, well paid for (I'd be looking at round about the £2k area, I.E. the "Danger Zone"... :-X "
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... and all that was needed to solve the problem was a revised tip seal design, .....
I think they probably tried at the time. 30+ yrs of technology in between has helped though ;)
Didn't Mazda win Le Mans with a rotary car in the eighties?. It seems to ring a bell. :y
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_787B#Engine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_787B#Engine)
4 rotors and 10500 RPM. :D
700-930 BHP........850 KG........should go pretty well for 1991. :y
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A steel grey one just drove straight through the petrol station while i was filling up this morning , very quiet i thought :-\
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A steel grey one just drove straight through the petrol station while i was filling up this morning , very quiet i thought :-\
Just goes to show how economical the modern rotary is....... ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ;D ;D ;D
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Rotary Nortons.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvlmeixnHfs&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Note the secondary pipes on the exhaust. Cooling using exhaust gases to pull cool air through the engine. Exhaust internals used to visibly glow red hot. :)
A cross between two and four stroke if ever there was one.
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One showing variable inlet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvlmeixnHfs&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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A steel grey one just drove straight through the petrol station while i was filling up this morning , very quiet i thought :-\
Just goes to show how economical the modern rotary is....... ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ;D ;D ;D
Yes i did think that after putting my £10 in with drips :-X He had a big smile on his face for some reason :-\ :-\
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A steel grey one just drove straight through the petrol station while i was filling up this morning , very quiet i thought :-\
Just goes to show how economical the modern rotary is....... ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ;D ;D ;D
Yes i did think that after putting my £10 in with drips :-X He had a big smile on his face for some reason :-\ :-\
It's the double-dip recession, EMD. :-\ :-\ Still, £10 should be enough to get you home. ;D ;)
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A steel grey one just drove straight through the petrol station while i was filling up this morning , very quiet i thought :-\
Just goes to show how economical the modern rotary is....... ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ;D ;D ;D
Yes i did think that after putting my £10 in with drips :-X He had a big smile on his face for some reason :-\ :-\
It's the double-dip recession, EMD. :-\ :-\ Still, £10 should be enough to get you home. ;D ;)
Fired the old beast up and fuel gauge sitting pretty at first mark after fill up , watch that needle going down like its being pulled by a magnet into red ::) never go much above 50 ' dairent :(
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This is Mrs Opti's new car. She has joined the RX-8 owners forum..........they have informed her that the RX-8 does not come with a trip computer, apparently owners would find them "depressing" ;D ;D
I find it slightly cramped, but I'm six-one. Anyone a little shorter should be fine. :y
(http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae183/janbowles/P1010061.jpg)
(http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae183/janbowles/P1010063.jpg)
(http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae183/janbowles/P1010064.jpg)
(http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae183/janbowles/P1010071.jpg)
(http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae183/janbowles/P1010054.jpg)
(http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae183/janbowles/P1010050.jpg)
(http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae183/janbowles/P1010047.jpg)
(http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae183/janbowles/P1010053.jpg)
(http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae183/janbowles/P1010070.jpg)
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Nice enough, but what has her sister got?................ ;) ;)