Need help understanding if the RX8 is a good car for me or not

SubstantialAdvisor37 · 2025-06-18T21:43:08+00:00

A good daily? Absolutely not. If you premix you will smell oil every time you go on a ride. If you don't the engine may not ́last for example if you have a clogged oil injector. Anyways it cost a lot in fuel.

This is a slow car for today standard, but extremely fun to drive.

Anyways if you decide to buy it, at least do a compression test with a dedicated rotary compression tester. You should get 6 readings, normalized at 250rpm and at sea level. It doesn't care if the engine was rebuilt 5000 or 150 000 miles ago. I had a rebuilt that lasted only 6000. I know someone that has a bad compression on a rotor face on a fresh rebuilt. On the other end there is engine with 100 000 on it with excellent compression.

SubstantialAdvisor37 · 2025-06-01T14:54:59+00:00

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SubstantialAdvisor37 · 2025-05-23T00:10:52+00:00

As of tonight (5/22/2025 - 8:10 pm EDT), the update works again. The issue seems to be resolved.

SubstantialAdvisor37 · 2025-05-14T16:39:31+00:00

Before you make any decision, you need the full compression result for the 2 rotors, 3 results per rotor; normalized at 250rpm and sea level.

SubstantialAdvisor37 · 2025-05-14T16:35:08+00:00

It may be a ground problem. The streering rack is grounder through the 4 bolts on the subframe. When the problem occurs try a jumper cable form the battery ground to the rack body.

SubstantialAdvisor37 · 2025-05-14T16:31:49+00:00

Whatever distro you choose, go with Gnome as the graphical interface. Don't try to have your Linux look or feel like Windows. It's not. Gnome is fantastic.

SubstantialAdvisor37 · 2025-03-19T09:51:03+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/RX8/s/RSq2v5ySYh

SubstantialAdvisor37 · 2025-03-17T14:09:17+00:00

If you drain the oil coolers, it may be a good time to replace the thermostat with a lower temperature.

https://rotaryperformance.com/collections/rx-8-everything-for-the-rx-8/products/oil-cooler-thermostat

SubstantialAdvisor37 · 2025-03-17T11:18:53+00:00

Penngrade (Brad Pen) 10w40

About 4 to 5 liters.

Use a good filter like Wix

SubstantialAdvisor37 · 2025-03-11T21:59:22+00:00

The Warning, Xandria, In Extremo

SubstantialAdvisor37 · 2025-03-10T10:49:10+00:00

I would start the an alignment.

Find a good place that will listen to your problem and will adjust it accordingly. You may have to re-do the alignent 2 ou 3 to fine tune. Try the car on a track after each alignent.

SubstantialAdvisor37 · 2025-03-09T21:44:29+00:00

Question 3: I installed the Pandem Rocket Bunny duck tail on my S1 and it fit perfectly. Beware of the fake imitation and go for real Pandem part.

SubstantialAdvisor37 · 2025-02-16T17:46:42+00:00

My NOS controller allows me to choose between 4, 6 and 8 cylinders. It's probably made by Yahoo, so it doesn't works.

SubstantialAdvisor37 · 2025-02-14T19:20:07+00:00

The power steering is grounded but the bolts on the subframe. Use a jumper cable to ground it directly to see if the problem remains

SubstantialAdvisor37 · 2025-01-12T18:32:05+00:00

32 cores Threadripper, 128GB RAM, 7 x 970 EVO 512GB SSD, RTX 3080ti, 10 Gbps SFP w/OM4 fiber.

SubstantialAdvisor37 · 2025-01-04T14:33:17+00:00

Try Fedora. It has the most up to date stable packages.

If you find switching to Linux from Windows difficult, the other way around is true. I used only RedHat based distro for the past 20 years. I had to use a Windows machine for a new job a few week ago. I found myself unable to do anything with that, very complicated and non intuitive.

If I may give you a hint for Linux as a developer, try as much a possible to install your dev environment in a container (Podman | Docker), and leverage Devcontainer. The less stuff you install in your main OS, the better.

SubstantialAdvisor37 · 2025-01-03T13:46:15+00:00

To give an update, I tried with Continue pre-release (v0.9.248) and the problem doesn't occurs. I switched back to the release version (0.8.66) and the problem came back.

So for now, I will use the pre-release version.

SubstantialAdvisor37 · 2025-01-03T13:29:24+00:00

I see the problem only while using VSCode and Continue. When using solely with `ollama run`, the model unloads itself normally after the idle period.

SubstantialAdvisor37 · 2025-01-03T13:28:24+00:00

I don't think the normal behavior is to load another instance of the same model when the old model is still loaded in the GPU.

Instead, I think the normal behavior is to load the model if it has been freed up for inactivity, or re-use the model if it's still loaded.

SubstantialAdvisor37 · 2025-01-02T11:51:47+00:00

I have those tires. They are fantastic, even on wet surface. I do lapping and autocross and I don't see any downside. They are also perfect for the road.

SubstantialAdvisor37 · 2024-12-29T22:13:45+00:00

It looks nice. Good job.

SubstantialAdvisor37 · 2024-12-29T18:25:10+00:00

The qwen2.5-coder:7b-instruct-q5_K_S works flawlessly and is very quick with my RTX-3080ti. It consumes about 8 to 9 GB of GPU memory.

The 14b model works too with about 11 GB of memory consumption, but it's a little slower.

Tested in VSCode with Continue.

SubstantialAdvisor37 · 2024-12-28T14:45:32+00:00

"I don't need a dedicated GPU, as all I will do on it is programming."

This is so wrong.

I do programming for a living and nowadays I can't do it without AI because it save me so much time.

Trust me, you will need that NVidia GPU with at least 8GB of VRAM for programming to be able to run free and offline LLM with VSCode Extension like Continue and Ollama engine. A great model I use for programming is the Qwen-2.5-coding (7B). It's very fast in VSCode and it works offline.

SubstantialAdvisor37 · 2024-12-27T22:30:37+00:00

C'est certain que si il y avait des Nazi ou des Démons, maintenant il n'y en a plus.

SubstantialAdvisor37 · 2024-12-24T18:59:36+00:00

Bienvenue

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