I rec'd a call on Tuesday from Mazda North America. The guy wanted to talk about my latest dealer visit to take care of my punchlist of issues.

He asked me about hard-starts, pinging, lack of power, etc. I told him the M flash helped with a lot of these issues. I told him my A/C is still iffy, and I have not had the fix for it yet.

Anyway, he asked if I would be willing to let a Product Engineer from Mazda inspect my car. Said I was one of 6 people in the US he was contacting for this.

Anyone else get this call?

Oh, he also said that Mazda US and Japan monitor this site, and gather market information from it.

Chrisbert

I wish they would contact me. I love the car, but it certainly has a lot of quirks. I have had every fix Mazda has come up with and my AC is also still iffy. Last night after driving for 30 minutes, I went into the video store for 20 minutes. I came out and had to crank the engine for 5 to 6 seconds before it barely caught. What is with this car and starting?

What is with this car and starting?

Well, have you ever seen the pit crew trying to start up a Formula 1 car?
Must be something to do with F1 cars and the 8 having "highly strung" motors. :)
Shame they don't share the same HP's though.

Yeah, but why would you want less HP? The F1 car has the rev limit down at around 6500.

As far as mazda inspecting the car.... they may get a very different viewpoint of the car depending if they hit on someone with an older model who may have problems vs newer ones who are running fine.

wonder what they're trying to do

Yeah, but why would you want less HP? The F1 car has the rev limit down at around 6500.

????????????????????? :confused: :confused:

http://www.formula1.com/insight/technicalinfo/11/467.html

I feel as if I have been having more issues after the last
ECU reflash. My engine doesn't want to start on the first crank, and I have a much rougher idel than before. All in all I feel as if the engine has become more quirky than ever.

the mazda star cars use the same renesis engine as found in the rx-8, but they lower the redline (and thus hp) because it's a spec race, driver skill not car performane wins.

the mazda star cars use the same renesis engine as found in the rx-8, but they lower the redline (and thus hp) because it's a spec race, driver skill not car performane wins.
I believe the gentleman above was referring to a Formula 1 car, not the Star Mazda car. I believe that's where the confusion over the 6500RPM came in. As we all know, F1 cars rev to the stratosphere around 3 times the 6500RPM figure.

I feel as if I have been having more issues after the last
ECU reflash. My engine doesn't want to start on the first crank, and I have a much rougher idel than before. All in all I feel as if the engine has become more quirky than ever.

Have you had your plugs checked? They sound fouled to me...

the mazda star cars use the same renesis engine as found in the rx-8, but they lower the redline (and thus hp) because it's a spec race, driver skill not car performane wins.

I believe Luis Schiavo disproved the lower redline myth a while ago:

http://www.rx8club.com/showthread.php?t=32841&page=4&pp=15

ask him whats up with me getting 200 miles out of a full tank (if im lucky)

ive never seen the 19mpg as advertised

I told him that many cars are getting much lower than expected MPG. He said he had heard of it, and that Mazda has seen folks complaining about it here.