# Mazda rx-8 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Show\ **Created:** [September 15, 2008, 2:44am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mazda-rx-8/19589 "2008-09-15T02:44:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kkcs88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@kkcs88](https://community.cartalk.com/u/kkcs88)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 2:44am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mazda-rx-8/19589/1 "2008-09-15T02:44:21Z")
so i have a mazda rx-8 and was dogging it doughnuts burnouts and the such, car starts beeping i come to a stop and try to put it into gear and it wont go into any gears so we push it into a parking lot let it sit for a little turn it back on and its real tough going into gears, i know i burnt the clutch up, but when i go to accelerate theres a weird noise coming from the front tire area kind of like no traction and it shakes like its going to stall out…what did i do? ---
**Author:** ![realbinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a87d85/32.png) [@realbinky](https://community.cartalk.com/u/realbinky)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 7:49pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mazda-rx-8/19589/2 "2008-09-18T19:49:42Z")
drove like an idiot? I’d say the transmission is toast. ---
**Author:** ![Joseph\_E\_Meehan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/joseph_e_meehan/32/21_2.png) [@Joseph\_E\_Meehan](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Joseph_E_Meehan)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 8:29pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mazda-rx-8/19589/3 "2008-09-18T20:29:39Z")
Unless they made a lot of changes on the 8 from the seven, the clutch an transmission are up around there. Have them both checked, and next time, treat it will a little more respect. I loved my RX-7 ---
**Author:** ![clammppit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@clammppit](https://community.cartalk.com/u/clammppit)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 6:49am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mazda-rx-8/19589/4 "2008-09-19T06:49:22Z")
you pays your money, you take your chances. I hope the dumb moves taught a lesson. ---
**Author:** ![common-sense-answer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/common-sense-answer/32/716_2.png) [@common-sense-answer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/common-sense-answer)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 3:22pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mazda-rx-8/19589/5 "2008-09-19T15:22:54Z")
[b]Zoom, Zoom, Boom![/b] Dumb de dumb, dumb… ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 3:20am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mazda-rx-8/19589/6 "2008-09-20T03:20:10Z")
When I was a kid, we did this stiff in my friend’s 1967 Pontiac Tempest and it ran just fine. What’s up with Mazda? Hey, boys will be boys, ya know. ---
**Author:** ![common-sense-answer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/common-sense-answer/32/716_2.png) [@common-sense-answer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/common-sense-answer)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 12:11pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mazda-rx-8/19589/7 "2008-09-20T12:11:47Z")
No driver age or gender known… Questioner didn’t state age or gender. He/she could be young, middle-aged, elderly, nun, Elvis impersonator in Vegas, very dignified-looking CEO/CFO, super model, hippie, police officer, etc. We do know that whoever it is likes doughnuts and pushing cars, though. ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 11:34pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mazda-rx-8/19589/8 "2008-09-22T23:34:18Z")
As I recall, the '67 'Tempest rear end weighed about 15 pounds and the rear tires were bias ply and about 2-1/2 inches wide. It took little to break the rear end free. And old fashioned non-posi differentials were so robust that only GM has ever managed to figure out how to design an unreliable one…my '72 Vega!