Well, as some of you may know - i've gone and got myself a banana RX-8! :yeah: :beers:

Today was the day of the pickup so nipped down to Stafford to sort a few bits out beforehand, and the transporter brought it back up! Got my work cut out for me over winter, it's in need of a full interior,...

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I experienced a P1688 error code earlier this year and my car went into a (very unpleasant) “limp mode”. The error code pointed to the ECU detecting the OMP not working correctly on a start-up check. I checked all the electrical connections were OK, then checked the 4...

*No Meeting tonight Friday 20/03/2026*

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This is a regular meeting convenient to those in Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Hertforshire, Northamptonshire and surrounding areas.

Address
The Furzton Lake ,
Shirwell Crescent,
Furzton,
Milton Keynes,
Buckinghamshire,
MK4...

PSA.

most of the pictures in this thread are now geolocked from being viewed in the UK/EU. this is a policy decision by IMGur due to the online safety act.

i MIGHT go through at least the last few pages of this thread and change the hosting of the pics, however with 6500+ pics in my IMGur...

Not to kick the hornets nest but why is the forum down so often?

I think recently I've had about a 50% success rate at actually accessing the forum. Normally I just see the database error, move on and come back later but seems more and more common.

I used to be a linux system admin so if someone...

Link to Mark's Championship White FK8 Type R GT

I finally had a prototype board running in RX yesterday - figuratively speaking as more running on the seat\console
but A|C controls, Hazards, Dimming all properly plugged in and functioning with standard OEM wiring harness(es).

I still need to update the code to allow for recovery from low...

PSA.

most of the pictures in this thread are now geolocked from being viewed in the UK/EU. this is a policy decision by IMGur due to the online safety act.

i MIGHT go through at least the last few pages of this thread and change the hosting of the pics, however with 6500+ pics in my IMGur...

well ive picked this up.

doobeedoobedo was in the process of converting it to a EV drivetrain out of a nissan leaf. unfortunately life got in the way and he got no further that mocking up the ev motor and sorting out some of the transmission.

and now ive got a real job on my hands :D

i did...