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Project RX8 by Vivid Racing legend Huff is now being retired. Read more below -

"Vivid Racing has built many incredible cars that have been featured in Magazines, Internet Sites, and TV Media. We have had a successful run with our Project RX8 and now it is time to retire it. This car h

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With the dissappearance of Huff to corporate America, we were forced to put Project RX8 on hold. We put fliers out, did newspaper ads, and even created a MySpace account called "Where's Huff". Out of no where, The Huff rolled in

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The original piece that was written here got deleted. But to get the jist of it. Our faithful Mike Huffman had left Vivid Racing in the early Summer of 2004 to persue other career interest. Huff and his RX8 have served Vivid Racing extremely well and we wish him the best of luck. Don't thi

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Being an everyday driver as well seeing some track use it’s obvious that the fuel maps could be leaned out a bit to give up a little more H/P and better gas mileage. As of this writing there is no such item available though separate companies are scrambling to come up with some form of engi

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By now the summer Phoenix weather is just about to go into full swing and with that comes the scorching sun and mind cooking heat. Typically throughout the summer we see temps averaging around 110 and often in excess of 115 degrees. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what that does

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Vivid Racing has been honored by having its well known Project RX8 featured on Mazda USA's official website along side some of the most popular and coolest Rotary cars in the states. The full page feature has several pics of the vehicle along with a mod list and interview of VR Employee and c

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When it comes to the business of strut bars there are select few companies to choose from that are worth a damn. Since the JIC coilovers have been doing us well so far we decided to use another suspension weapon from the JIC war dept. They gave up two offerings one of trick carbon fiber and t

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With a few more miles on the car and a few more track sessions under our belts we felt that what the car lacked in power could be made up braking. Sensing this as an advantage and now almost a necessity we couldn't help but go with a trusted name like StopTech for an upgrade for the brakes. Now t

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Since the body kit was installed it became apparent that the mirrors were the only thing that didn't match the flow of the lines on the car. Luckily we knew how to fix this issue. Ganador, a Japanese company, makes aftermarket spo

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Now that the RX-8 has had some tweaking done to the power and handling departments it's only fair to spread the wealth and put our own spin on the exterior, Vivid Racing style! We really get a kick out of being the first to pull something off on our project cars and with that being said we check

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So now with the exhaust in place and adding some extra power and sound it was time to look at the intake system for an upgrade. Since there wasn't much on the market at the time from the big players in the industry we started nosing around and found that America's favorite air filter maker, K&

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So now that were rolling in style nice and tight with our new coil overs, we looked to opening up some hidden power in the exhaust department. The stock system like most new cars has restrictions and emissions that rob our dual rotor of power. With the impending onslaught of exhaust systems fr

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I'll be the first one to admit that Mazda did their homework before they designed the suspension platform on the RX8. For daily driving the dampening rates are pretty good. Fortunately for us, we typically stretch the term "daily driving" to it's thinnest, and by now we knew two things; 1) the c

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Now that we’re riding on some of the most kickin wheels in the universe some thing wasn’t right. The USDM RX8 comes with the ugly amber colored side markers. To stay true to our JDM passion we ordered a set of clear side markers from Mazda of Japan. These arrived sometime thereafter wrapped up

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The stock wheels on the RX8 are not bad, in fact not to heavy, and looked good with the car. Some would say they were enough, but we knew we could do better. Since the 6spd comes stock with 18s we had to go at least one plus size just because…well we had to. From the moment I decided to get the c

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Let me quickly think about the past 2 years of Vivid Racing Cars. 4 Cars, over $75,000 in parts, and $100,000 in cars...NO MORE!!! But how could we say that. We are Vivid Racing. Builder of the sickest, best looking, and all around performing JDM cars. First to the magazines, first to the forum