Someone please talk some sense into me

If you are in eastern europe then I wouldnt trust that neither

I’m a total Mazda fanboy and even I say there are way better options than the rx8 for your money. Also this
This so much. THIS. SO. MUCH.

>Current engine just hit 70k and the compression is still good
Nice, hopefully you can at least get 100k out of it. Sounds like you might make it.

The triangle might fuck you in the long run, but come on, its a rx8, good times all around.

It's an absolutely amazing car. They're fun to drive and have spectacular handling for the price, and even regardless of price they hold their own in the corners. Throw on some nice wide, sticky tires and you've got a car to absolutely rule the touge. It has plenty of power for the street as long as you don't plan on drag racing like an unskilled idiot. If you keep it on the touge and play the gears to keep rpm high you will almost never feel a need for more power. It never struggles to pass or get up to freeway speeds, even on shorter on ramps or up hills.

It just doesn't hurt to have about 3-4k sitting in a new engine fund if you don't know how it was treated, but really in 21k miles the previous owner would have had a hard time toasting it. You should easily be able to get it to 100,000 with premix and good maintenance regardless of how it was treated. Plus, as long as compression is acceptable you should be able to pretty much bring the wear to a dead stop if you treat the engine right.

First steps would be making sure it has an up to date ECU flash, full ignition system, and an oil change with idemitsu rotary synthetic oil, in addition to premixing with idemitsu rotary premix. From there, just go through replacing all of the wear components and fluids. Anything rubber like hoses and belts might as well be replaced just due to age, and it never does any harm to have all fresh trans/diff/brake/coolant fluids. Preventative maintenance is your friend with an RX-8, since total failure of almost any part can make the somewhat picky engine decide to commit sudoku.

As a second/third vehicle it would be amazing, since you can drive it only for good hooning runs on weekends and have no issues with keeping up on maintenance. I've figured a running cost of mine of about a US quarter per mile, and at least one weekend of maintenance for every 2000 miles as an average. I for one hope you go through with it and thoroughly enjoy your new car!

Most likely, it hasn't even begun to have hot start issues yet and I'm still using the slower oem starter.