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[M194 XTM]

Hi all,

I sold my Mazdaspeed Type-RS A-Spec a few years ago and frankly have regretted it every day since. I saw it pop up for sale a while back but was living in Delhi at the time so couldn\'t do anything about it.

Anyway, I\'d love to find it again and see if the owner is thinking of selling/how it\'s doing in general as I flipping loved that car but circumstances meant I had to sell at the time. Damn house purchases!

It\'s a black Type-RS with the factory Mazdaspeed A-Spec front end, registration plate M194 XTM. I know it\'s still insured so it\'s out there somewhere!




Thanks.

Gave the Opie chaps a call, and they said its fine to top it up with a bit of Castrol GTX 10W-40 Mineral, as its all the same stuff, just with different additives in it.

Reassuring to know!

Surely someone must be able to answer me this?

Bit of a stupid question this one.

I have Racing 76 10W-40 Mineral Oil in the FD at the mo, its been running on this stuff all its life, changed every 3k, but i can\'t get hold of any for a bit.

I know Castrol do a Mineral 10W-40, is it okay to add a litre of this to the Rex to top it up or is it not wise to mix the two?

Cheers

Cheers Jono, i\'m off to a place down the road called ValVil at 4pm, apparently they\'re cheap and good, but if they\'re more than you or are arsey about making a non-standard size, i\'ll mail you tonight.

Cheers

Evening all.

I\'m trying to find somewhere that will make me a vinyl number plate for the front of my FD.

I want standard font, spacing, etc but i want the plate to be 12x3"

Anyone know where i can get one made up?

Initial-D, can your vinyl mate do these?

Thanks

Aha, touche....

Reading it is then.

Hi all, iknow i\'ve asked before, but the Rex is now due an MOT (well, it will be in Jan when i\'m back after the xmas break).

I know about Thames Valley in Reading, but someone mentioned \'Sicknote\'s place\'?

Anyone have details of this garage, like a phone number, location etc? He\'s apparently quite \'RX7-friendly\'....

Ben, any chance of you posting up that first pic in 1280x1024 size, as its just itching to go on my desktop.....

Don\'t mean to sound like an ass? Well you do i\'m afraid, with this phrase:

"IMHO if your worried about wheel spinning in the wet with your FD, you shouldnt have one"

I bought an FD for the same reasons as you - its a pure drivers car, and yes, because its not easy to drive, it takes skill. Which is why most of the time the traction control system would be off. I would use it when its torrential rain, icy, snowy or the like, where no amount of skill or restraint or self control can stop the inevitable happening sometimes.

And if the £600 system saves me from one crash alone, its worth it IMHO.

Frankly i don\'t care whether you think i\'m a pansy by fitting it, the only thing i\'m worried about it whether it will damage the car.

If there\'s even a chance it will, i won\'t fit it, its that simple.

So lets keep it to the technical comments please, not a \'my cock\'s bigger than yours\' type discussion...

Thing is, you can have all the bravado in the world, but if it makes my FD easier to drive on a daily basis through the winter months then its a bonus and i\'ll take it.

The bloke at Racelogic has said that they\'ve fitted it to 2 RX7\'s on the continent, and they\'ve had no problems with it. He\'s offered to fit the system for free if i go to their HQ, so i\'ll probably do that.

Of course, it may have to be afetr xmas now, bloody xmas presents.......

Cheers Gareth, i think i\'d just go for the standard set-up without launch control, but its good to know someone else will be trying it out.

I may be getting it fitted in a couple of weeks, i\'ll let you know how i get on!

Its true that you can always bin your car, but this system would have stopped me binning it due to diesel on a wet roundabout....  

There\'s no substitute for a decent driver and a bit of nouse.....

Yep, thats what i thought.

Just wondering if anyone has tried it on here....

Afternoon all,

I\'m considering fitting a Racelogic Traction Control system to the Rex, to make it a bit less of a nightmare over the winter.

The system is around £550, and looks pretty interesting as you can vary the level of interference, down to none at all.

The website says you can fit it to any car with electronic fuel injection and ABS, so i\'m assuming that includes Rotaries, but i\'m awaiting an email back from them to confirm this.

Has anyone looked into this, or fitted it to theirs?

Any help gratefully appreciated.

Tim

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