And so it ends!
The RX-8 was sold today to a local buyer, who looks like he will take good care of her.
75,333 miles on the clock as I left to deliver the car this morning.
The night before was spent bleeding the clutch (which had a little air, and was quite a bit nicer after the bleed) and taking off the rear license plate bolts. More like grinding the heads off with a Dremel. The bolts were seized up in the metal nuts, and the nuts were spinning, broken free of their plastic mounts. Took me forever! Was able to pop in plastic license plate bolt holders, purchased from Advance Auto Parts for $2.08 the next morning.
Took some good-bye pictures:
Looking back...
But did she look beautiful and did she drive great and did she rev ever so willingly!
... started with:
Peaked at:
Did this:
And only one of this:
But a bunch of this:
And it was all fun!
If I had to do it all over again, I would go with coilovers instead of springs + shocks. Racing Beat exhaust has been nothing but awesome--what a great note! I'll miss that sound!
Time to shed a tear and raise a glass for her.