Hey,

I finally made it to a position where I can contribute to the forum via some sponsorship to help keep this favourite place of ours running. Not big forum sponsorship, but it is a start. You might have noticed my little banner on the footer of the site every so often. That give me a little more leeway in the advertisement of prices and disussing products etc.

So, here is a list to start with, in chronological order of there release to public.

All prices in Australian Dollars

Grill Kit
The "mod" that started it all. The original, and still the best!
Provides protection to the exposed air-con condensor and oil-cooler.
Suitable for with or without fog lights.

Price: $190 including delivery within Australia

"Cat-back" Sports Exhaust
As published by a happy US customer: "The best hand-made RX-8 catback available!"
Beautiful tone, lovely sporty note. Not too loud, not too quiet. Available in aluminised mild steel construction, or polished stainless steel. Both systems use the same 100mm (4") stainless steel double wall polished tips.

Mild Steel: $550 + shipping

Stainless Steel: $850 + shipping

As a guide, shipping is $60 for Sydney/Melbourne. Local buyers (i.e Brisbane) can have it fitted by our master-craftsman Les for $40. More than one happy customer has even driven their pride and joy from NSW for fitting :)

Short Shifter ** PM for availability **
Manufactured by Richard Paul's Axialflow Engineering, and exclusivley available in Australia via Hymee Enhanced, these CNC machined shifters give your 6-speed RX-8 a very sporty and positive shift with the 30% reduced throw. Features high quality Dulon Delrin bushings, and stainless steel shaft. Re-use your original gear knob for the "untouched" look, or fit your own custom knob.

Price: $380 includes o'night express postage within Australia.

sCANalyser
Tap into the RX-8's onboard computer system and configure your own digital dashboard displaying a live feed of all of the ODBII mandated operational parameters supported by the RX-8, including wideband 02. Check and reset "MIL" trouble codes (Check Engine Light). Log live data to file for post analysis. Display calculated parameters such as instantaneous fuel consumption.

Currently in limited beta release by RX-8 owners around the world.

Price: TBA


P/D Supercharger
Currently in development, the twin-screw supercharger provides instant boost, hence torque when you need it! Utilises the "Rolls Royce" of superchargers, the Autorotor by Opcon.

Price: TBA

http://www.hymee.com/rx8
(One day I'll make it a bit more interactive!)

International Enquiries
For all Hymee Enhanced products in Europe, visit http://www.enginepsd.com/Hymee.htm

For North American enquiries for Grill Kits and Catbacks, visit http://www.mazdaparts.com
(also go there to hear the sexy chick talk about the exhaust ;) )

For North American enquiries for Short Shifters, visit http://www.axialflow.com/rx8shift.html


Cheers,
Hymee.

(Now taking resumes for a marketing guru) j/k

Hymee can I use some of these info in my website?
Interactive webpage??? (http://www.step-hen.com/myrx8.htm) :cool:

These are very nice mods. I just counted I have nearly all of those. I am most impressed with the sCANalyser, the short shifter is good too but it is hardly to Hymee's credit ;).

Hymee is the most reliable seller I know, not only reliable, but also he knows his stuff and willing to explain to you in length.

All loverly stuff Hymee, I now have one of each of the released Hymee Enhanced products on my '8, and looking forward to the PocketPC version of the sCANalyser to make it four :)

Cheers,

Tonym.

Hymee can I use some of these info in my website?
Interactive webpage??? (http://www.step-hen.com/myrx8.htm) :cool:

These are very nice mods. I just counted I have nearly all of those. I am most impressed with the sCANalyser, the short shifter is good too but it is hardly to Hymee's credit ;).

Hymee is the most reliable seller I know, not only reliable, but also he knows his stuff and willing to explain to you in length.

Thanks taka. Go for it - it is your website!

As for the shifters, well, not much of my design, except I went to the USA and met Mr Paul, visited his workshop/manufacturing facility, checked his quality, met his partner, and established the means for getting them here at an affordable price. So that is how I enhanced them :)

I forgot to mention, all the above products are also the only real way to get the official HymeeEnhanced computer cut vinyl decal :) :D :cool:

Cheers,
Hymee.

Hymee can I use some of these info in my website?
Interactive webpage??? (http://www.step-hen.com/myrx8.htm) :cool:

These are very nice mods. I just counted I have nearly all of those. I am most impressed with the sCANalyser, the short shifter is good too but it is hardly to Hymee's credit ;).

Hymee is the most reliable seller I know, not only reliable, but also he knows his stuff and willing to explain to you in length.

Hey taka - didnt realise you are running Michelin Pilot Sports.... how do u find them?

Count me in for sCANalyser.
Are the prices in Australia and Europe same? I ask couse of shipping and handling maybe.

Hymee

Put me down for a Hymee Enhanced sticker so one on Apanas car (Andrew )and it looked :cool: :) and if i manage to see your Scanalyser in action i may be interested as well .

I would offer you my Marketing expertise but dont know if you could afford me ;)

cheers
michael

I don't like stickers on my car


ROFL! Of course you can get a sticker. Is there anything I bring to market that is not way cool? :cool:

Marketing Expert??... Ex is past tense, and a spurt is a drip under pressure. :) Hehehehe

Cheers,
Hymee.

ROFL! Of course you can get a sticker. Is there anything I bring to market that is not way cool? :cool:

Marketing Expert??... Ex is past tense, and a spurt is a drip under pressure. :) Hehehehe

Cheers,
Hymee.


I dont like .........Some.......... stickers on my car :D

Your humour at times :p NOT :cool:


cheers
michael

You know we "play hard" and all have a good time ;)

Thanks for the transaction Hymee.. :o

now i cant wait to try the stuff.. :D

Hi Hymee,
I received the short shifter safe 'n sound 2 days ago. Thaks so much!! Now to find time to fit it.............

Can we sticky Hymee's list of goodies/prices?

hymee when will the can-scan tool be released?
do you have a version yet without the bells and whistles?
I've started messing around with the intake and want a way to monitor changes good or bad. I don't want all the gauge front end stuff, just logging numbers.
can you supply the can you supply the cables and software for this yet?

I would not mind a lite edition that simply lets me know the fuel consumption, avg speed, avg consumption and fuel tank range remaining...

We're almost done - I put in the last feature last night - we're in testing and packaging mode so the release won't be far away.

The great majority of our costs are the hardware and cables - a "lite" version wouldn't be any cheaper.

Like sco said, this "lite" version of the software we are almost giving away for free. The majority of the costs are associated with the high quality hardware and cables we supply with the kit.

And the current version about to be released does give an indication of instantaneous fuel consumption, based on live air-flow and air-fuel ratios, and current speed. When stopped, and the display of liters/hour of fuel can be displayed. When moving, it changes to litres/100km.

Future, upgraded versions have plans for more of a trip computer type functionality.

Cheers,
Hymee.

sweet. Are the fuel rates convertable to imperial? Does the same go for all, some or how many of the other parameters?

One of the last bits I am supposed to be working on is moving the display of fuel consumption to a digital gauge (similar to others) and also to allow for metric/imperial. All the ODBII parameters that have units of measure can be changed between metric and imperial, either individually, or all together.

Cheers,
Hymee.

I now have some more shifters in stock.

Cheers,
Hymee.

Heya Hymee

How was your trip? Hope all went well and business will be booming...you deserve it.
Speaking of, can I expect a nice shiny delivery soon? :) or do you need to make some more 'zorsts up?

cheers
brett

Lucifuge,

Thanks - my trip was nice. Not enought time yet to post a really good account of it on the forum... :(

Spent some really nice time with the following US members:

Snap-on
rxeighter
Thew
Richard Paul

In addition to the real purpose of my trip which was sucessful as well :)

Cheers,
Hymee.

In addition to the real purpose of my trip which was sucessful as well :)



So Elvis IS alive then?!!

:D

I'm glad you had a nice trip..I really enjoyed meeting you and I hope I helped in some small way..

If you are ever in this area again I would like a second chance to chat.

Keep in touch.

Cheers

Hymee --
Glad to hear you made it back home. The pleasure was mine, and hope for future opportunities.

Hymee , would your sCANalyser be a suitable mod for a Greddy turbo kit ? If so , How?

Hymee , would your sCANalyser be a suitable mod for a Greddy turbo kit ? If so , How?

absolutely :D...you can monitor all your engine sensors while you are tuning :D

I'll let the engineers elaborate

and again thank you Hymee...the exhaust is incredible!

How accurate is it ? I hear the onboard computor is plus or minus 20% out . The reason why I say this is some US guys are getting dodgy AFR readings.

Hymee's opinion on onboard Wideband O2 sensor accuracy is here: http://www.rx8club.com/showpost.php?p=863154&postcount=421

Were those AFR readings using lambda or were they using an estimate of the stoichiometric ratio for the fuel?

The AFR readings were used in accordance with the Canzoomer canscan and the LM1 which were used on the car using a bung in the exhaust
They discovered the onboard ecu was sending conflicting AFR's

Do you guys have a minimum spec for the PC needed to run the Scanalyser software? Some of us will have problems accessing a quad Pentium 4 4Ghz with 1Gb ram and 3Tb of disk space... :D

I was running it on a 700mhz, 128mb laptop with a crappy older Nvidia graphics chipset and unfortunately the resource hungry Windows XP...

ran perfectly with 4 gauges up, the graphics of the needle sweeping was not as smooth but gauges were reporting properly with 6 gauges up...this was in full graphics mode with a fancy background image on the program and a maximized window...when optimized I think even this laptop could display 6 gauges perfectly in a maximized window.

I've got a 333Mhz Pentium II laptop with 128MB RAM at the moment... I'm going to test on that and report back.

truemagellan has hit the nail on the head... you can run sCANalyser on low end machines, but if the machine is not fast enough the gauges won't refresh quickly and can become "jerky" in appearance. It all depends on your video system, CPU, resolution and colour depth.

xxup - what sort of system are you planning to run it on?

While I have a big, grunty Tosh, I am quite keen to try it on an old ThinkPad 240 (300 Mhz Celeron) I have lying around, as it's little (10" screen), light and can be hidden easily.....


.....when it comes ;)

While I have a big, grunty Tosh.................




Timbo, keep it clean! There could be women and children listening in.

:D

ooops! (...as the actress said to the bishop..)

...xxup - what sort of system are you planning to run it on?

I do have an old laptop (Dell Pentium II 233Mhz Windows 98) that we take on holidays for mobile internet services and for route planning using the Magellan Discover Australia software.. It is a bit tired and we are looking at replacing it... I just wanted an idea of how powerful the beast needs to be.. I was thinking of a small screen thin notebook running XP with a video out that fed to a screen like yours through some sort of video switch... I noticed that Scanalyser seems to need .NET..

Adrian

I do have an old laptop (Dell Pentium II 233Mhz Windows 98) that we take on holidays for mobile internet services and for route planning using the Magellan Discover Australia software.. It is a bit tired and we are looking at replacing it... I just wanted an idea of how powerful the beast needs to be.. I was thinking of a small screen thin notebook running XP with a video out that fed to a screen like yours through some sort of video switch... I noticed that Scanalyser seems to need .NET..

Adrian
Hymee once told me that .NET was available for Windows 98. I have an even older laptop running Win 95 and I'am thinking about upgrading it to 98 for the only purpose of running engineering software, like sCANalyser Live.

Hymee

When can we expect the sCANalyser for an iPAQ pocket PC?, and how much can we expect to pay for the connector plus software ?

Laurence

Don't distract him, he's meant to be working on my exhaust!

Don't distract him, he's meant to be working on my exhaust!

it is a damn fine exhaust indeed :D I love it!

Hymee

When can we expect the sCANalyser for an iPAQ pocket PC?, and how much can we expect to pay for the connector plus software ?

Laurence
Pocket PC version is under development. Availability date and pricing are both yet to be set... as soon as we have something firmed up I'll make sure we post it.

I do have an old laptop (Dell Pentium II 233Mhz Windows 98) that we take on holidays for mobile internet services and for route planning using the Magellan Discover Australia software.. It is a bit tired and we are looking at replacing it... I just wanted an idea of how powerful the beast needs to be.. I was thinking of a small screen thin notebook running XP with a video out that fed to a screen like yours through some sort of video switch... I noticed that Scanalyser seems to need .NET..

Adrian
First let me address a couple of things:
1. Yes, sCANalyser is running on the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1
2. I don't think there is much in the way of new laptops you can get these days that aren't grunty enough to run sCANalyser. I regularly run it on a 1.6Ghz Pentium M at 1400x1050 with no hassles.

I've just finished a bit of testing with the 333Mhz Pentium II notebook I mentioned earlier. By the looks of it, 333Mhz isn't enough grunt to run the gauges properly. Everything else works fine. Both truemagellan and I have had success with a 700Mhz Pentium, so I I'll set the minimum system requirements at that.

I'll have a look at the performance post initial release and see if there is anything I can do to get it working better on slower machines.

How does the following sound? -- How about an option where there are nice big text displays for the readings (but no sexy gauges) for slower machines?

.... How about an option where there are nice big text displays for the readings (but no sexy gauges) for slower machines?

Yes please... :)

That'll broaden your market to those of us whose wives control the money and say "what do you need a new one for??? The old one still works perfectly fine!!"

Many of you already probably know but just in case.. we've launched sCANalyser Live... www.hymee.com/scanalyser.htm

I've had a report that sCANalyser worked on a sub 400Mhz notebook with Windows XP... however, it's not an "officially supported configuration".

I've got on my list a task to see what we can do to improve performance on low end machines (on top of text only readouts). Things may improve for low end machines in a future release if I can find some way to squeeze some more performance out of the software on low end machines.

...I've got on my list a task to see what we can do to improve performance on low end machines (on top of text only readouts). Things may improve for low end machines in a future release if I can find some way to squeeze some more performance out of the software on low end machines.

A week ago I thought that this was a good idea, but the reality is that even a Pentium 500 must be at least 5 years old.. With a Pentium II 233 It is certainly time for me to upgrade..

I am not even sure that the palm\Ipaq etc is a good idea.. While the small size is good - you probably can't read anything from a distance and displaying six gauges is going to be impossible..

It is a good time to buy notebooks at the moment... The sales are on... The biggest risk for me is the USB to Serial.. Choose the wrong one and your life can be a misery..

I wonder if the development effort might be better expended on getting a "remaining range" option in version 1.3??? :) Graphs are good, but please don't use any MS Office functions as I only use OpenOffice and I refuse to pay $1,000 for software to do a home budget and some (rare) letters..

When graphs are integrated into the product they won't be relying on any external functionality.

I have certainly run sCANalyser on an IBM Thinkpad 240, which I think was introduced in 1999. It has a 300mHz Celeron processor, with maximum RAM of 192Mb shared between the processor and the display.

sCANalayser works pretty well with this configuration, in my opinion -- it would be 'adequate' for the hobbyist dipping toe into the capabilities of the software. The main issue is the display noticeably slows when you have 6 gauges up, and live. However, there is no problem with logging -- this little unit will happily suck in the data for as long as its battery lasts ;)

I just tried this little machine to see if it would work, and it does. However, I have used sCANalyser more regularly with my Toshiba M2, which is a Pentium M 1.6 with no legacy (serial) ports -- about a $3K machine, probably less today. I use a Targus USB-Serial adapter which works fine so long as you remember the adapter becomes Comm4 in setting the port on sCANalyser (which is not always easy to figure out when you are sitting out somewhere in your car :o )

sco, the performance challenge is going to arise when you port this to Windows CE (or whatever it's called these days), although I assume the objective there is use a Pocket PC as a logging device more than a live display ....although you should be able to fit 6 digital guages on a PDA screen :p

Timbo - you raised a good point... I also need a notebook that provides a power source from the car's 12V system... I have used an Inverter to change the notebook on long trips, but they can be a bit "dodgy"... What are the brands that also provide a 12V source as an option????

timbo, thanks for posting that info.

To be honest, It's unlikely there will be really cool gauges on the PocketPC. The gauges we're using aren't supported on Windows Mobile (Windows CE). Minimising battery power use by minimising CPU is a big issue for the PocketPC too, so avoiding the grunt required to drive gauges is probably a good thing too.

You can get 12v switchmode laptop supplies (often as an airplane/car option) - I'd be looking at one of these, although I do currently use an inverter and haven't had any problems with it. Got it 1/2 price at a Jaycar sale.

On the MS office thing... the cheapest way to get office is OEMed when you buy a PC. I'm not that I'm saying you should give up your open source stuff... just if you ever want to acquire a copy of Office, when you get a new PC is ideal.

So, not to bring up an old thread, but a search did not find any other posts regarding this. I am looking for the sCANalyser Live USB, and everything I see says 'coming soon'. Does anyone know how to find this to buy or does anyone know of a comparable tool with similar qualities?

This link may be useful:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=sCANalyser

According to Hymee's site (Performance Design Australia) it retails for $99 USD + shipping or $149 AUD including shipping and can be purchased by direct contact.

http://www.performancedesign.com.au/scanalyser_live.html

Still loving my Hymee SS Exhaust it so sweet :) hope you are well..

I'm doing OK. Big life changes.

If anyone wants the famed Hymee SS Catback, I will make more if I get 10 (minimum) pre-paid orders. This is the only way I can support having more made. Please spread the word!

Cheers,
Hymee.

^ Glad to see you around :) Whats the price of this?

I'm doing OK. Big life changes.

If anyone wants the famed Hymee SS Catback, I will make more if I get 10 (minimum) pre-paid orders. This is the only way I can support having more made. Please spread the word!

Cheers,
Hymee.

Good to Hear. I still have a few more of your Grill kits here if you know anyone that needs them. I think Jason still has it listed on MazdaParts.com.

Big Life changes here to.. Send me a PM I would love to catch up..

^ Glad to see you around :) Whats the price of this?

If you can collectively all rustle up a minimum order of 10 units (worldwide) I will do them for $1250 AUD each, plus shipping. So spread the word, and I can make it happen. (I own the jig, so you cannot get them anywhere else ;-) I gotta resurrect something out of life!)

PS - 2 more SC kits going for a discount.

Cheers,
Hymee.

hmmm.... how much of a discount? :FIREdevil

Count me in on the Exhaust... are you going to start another thread for it?

Hi Hymee
I am looking for the cat back ss exhaust for my 2007 RX8. Is there any prospect of this becoming available?
Regards Steve

I have had a PM from Hymee. He would do another run if he can get 10 buyers from anywhere on the planet. I am in if this if it could be organised fairly soon.
Steve

First word from hymee in a long time.

How about answer my emails?

Hope everything is ok with you.

Hymee has indicated to me that he will produce the units if a group buy can be organised. Maybe if one of the moderators here (or someone who knows more about the process than I do ) could move his post above to the group buy section (does the group buy have to be approved?) then I think we could get this up and rolling?
We also need a similar notice on RX8.com.au to ensure he gets the numbers he requires however at the moment I cannot log on there so I assume they have a technical issue.
Steve

This Thread dose not get a whole lot of visibility on the forum. I think we would have a Fighting Chance of making the exhaust happen if someone was to start a thread in the Group buy section.

Mark, if they can get a group together you can ship to me again I am happy to distribute them if Jason ( MazdaParts.com) does not or cannot.. Just let me know..

Please put me down for one. My 40th anniversary needs a Hymee. :)
Im in Brisbane so i can pick it up too. :)

TThis means we now have two of us from Australia and one in the US after a couple of days.If we can keep this up we will have the numbers in less than a week! Is there anyone reading this who has the knowhow to get this listed in the group buy section on this site.
By the way the proposal is now an approved group buy on the Australian site .
Steve

Do you guys have a link to the Aussi site?

damn the weak us dollar :( so is it 1338.8750 for just a catback?

It is a classy piece of equipment.Have a look at his web site (see Hymee post above for address) I recently paid AU $1400 plus for Toda stainless steel headers for a Civic EG 6 and you can carry those under one arm! Lol . I figure that since the RX8 is a relatively up market , undeniably unique car it deserves a quality exhaust which delivers the soundtrack it should have come with from the factory.
Steve

We now have 6 orders .Only 4 more needed.Come on people we need to get this over the line.Hymee has just put a long post in the Lounge section of Rx8 club.com.au which explains why he has had a somewhat lower profile on these pages in recent times.Now is the time to step up and support a long time backer of this community and at the same time get yourself a quality automotive product.
Steve

No response in 2 months, no support or response for people who already bought ProTuner at a heavy price tag, this has been an ongoing issue for several years so you might want to think twice ...

Thanks for your input.He has recently been through some major relationship and business issues and has even had to relinquish his RX8 ( see his public post on RX8.com.au) He is in the process of bouncing back and his friends in the RX8 community here in Australia have stepped up and given their support based on their dealings with him over a number of years.I do not personally know Mark however I have received a number of assurances from those that do know him indicating he is a decent trustworthy guy. It should also be noted that the moderators at RX8.com.au were very happy to allow this group buy process to proceed which I personally found very reassuring.

Edit Re above post. I meant to refer to Rx8club.com.au (left "club"out ....think I had what we here in Australia refer to as a "seniors" moment.)

We have been through all this before. A bunch of people hyping his stuff up who really had no idea IMO. ProTuner is one example. It is really nothing more than an early partially derived beta project and all the people who bought into the $1k price tag ending up getting hung out to dry. I never was able to even get a base starter map, which basically means I ended up with absolutely nothing for my money. You can see above that customers still can't get an email reply from him By all rights he should be getting slapped with a Bad Guy thread.

Yes this is really frustrating,

Atleast I got so mutch that I can tune my RX-8 but as Team says its an early beta release and shouldn't been released to the public atleast not for that kind of money.

Leaving his customers hanging for long periods of time isent the best way to make business.

Sorry to hear about your personal problems but don't let that get in the way for your business in these long time spans.

We are just about ready to go on this .Payment process etc will be posted soon.If anyone is nervous about paying up front rather than sending the money direct to Hymee the Rx8club.com.au has offered to hold funds in their account. (thanks Andrew)
If anyone is wanting to order please PM me or go to the Australian site to see how things are progressing.
Thanks to those that have stepped up and placed their orders.
Steve

USB Scanalyzer - incomplete beta project

ProTuner - incomplete beta project

SC kit - incomplete beta project

Yet they were marketed and sold as being complete. He clearly is in touch with you, yet continues to selectively ignore past customers who expected and need support. Does this sound like the kind of person to trust with your hard earned money?

Fool me once; shame on you. Fool me twice; shame on me.

Hi Guys. I am not in any position to comment on the difficulties you have experienced in the past.I can say that I have continually been told by some members of the RX 8 community that Hymee is a decent ,honest guy who has in recent times had some personal difficulties.Having said that I have to tell you that the group buy project I initiated in Australia based on his post here has caused me a great deal of angst. A couple of days ago I was at the point where I was ready to direct the participants to forward their AU $1250 plus freight costs to Hymee. Regretably he unexpectedly posted at the eleventh hour advising the cost would actually be $1495 including freight. He indicated his web site prices were 1 to 2 years out of date . Effectively the new price was around $100 more than the web site prices and approximately $150 to $200 more than the price quoted on this forum. I have asked him to publicly explain why the price recently quoted will not apply and to date there has been no response. A moderator of the Australian forum has given me good support after I contacted him over this matter and is ,I understand, attempting to make contact with Hymee. I am far from happy.......:mad: Please note that I do not wish to get into an ongoing public denigration of the guy however since I was seeking buyers from the USA ( and had at least one) I feel obliged to tell you all what has occurred.
Steve

/\ bugger !

I have been advised that attempts are being made to honor the original quoted price which obviously was very attractive. I will advise further when I have more information.
Steve

I have come to the conclusion that I can no longer support this group buy project after Hymee unexpectedly revised the quoted price upwards.The PMs I have received confirm that many people have lost confidence in his ability to deliver as promised . I hope over time Hymee can get his business back on track and I would like to thank all those RX8 owners who stepped up to be involved in this.I am sorry if people have been inconvenienced by this saga.
Steve

I never thought It was a good price but I was willing to give it a go. I think most likely now I will pick up something else.

Well I'm sorry for your trouble. It was never my intention to crap on your thread, but if Hymee intends to make a come back then the first order of business is to set the past straight.

I understand where you are coming from team, I dont blame you and have been struggling with my kit for a long time but I do want to see him come back and do not think he will ever be able to write his wrongs to the extent most wish he could..

Guys I certainly do not blame anyone from the US for the failure of the group buy program .:)
Steve

Well surprise, surprise.

It's a shame that the one product he's marketed that actually does what it says on the tin cannot now be bought due to the usual disorganised approach.

Good ideas, poorly executed by a bloke who means well but cannot deliver.

And we all have personal problems!

.

And we all have personal problems!

So true . For some this is always the excuse to fall back on , others just get on with it and get the job done .

+1 victim on pro tuner =( ah well

I for one am a friend of Mark and he has visited me in California, stayed at my home and distributed my product. In all the years he has always done as he says he will. He has been dedicated to the Rx8 community on many levels.
Unfortunatly as a single person entity his personal problems filter through to the buisness end more easily.
I've suffered the same fate as he and can tell you that after 20 years I am not recovered. I'm not making excuses here just want to loby for support of the man.
He is by all accounts a hard working man of integrity and resorcfullness.
I have his catback and scanilyser thingie, both of which have worked well for years. People still get down on ground to look at that catback.
Taking on the SC as a one man show is a crazy thing to do (just look at me) I gave up on it. I think I had more resorces than Mark yet found the cost in time and money just far outstripped any possable return. There could never be enough Rx8 sales to recover costs.
Lets see if we can give support to Mark in his hour(s) hard going.
I know he will somehow make it up to you.

I for one am a friend of Mark and he has visited me in California, stayed at my home and distributed my product. In all the years he has always done as he says he will. He has been dedicated to the Rx8 community on many levels.
Unfortunatly as a single person entity his personal problems filter through to the buisness end more easily.
I've suffered the same fate as he and can tell you that after 20 years I am not recovered. I'm not making excuses here just want to loby for support of the man.
He is by all accounts a hard working man of integrity and resorcfullness.
I have his catback and scanilyser thingie, both of which have worked well for years. People still get down on ground to look at that catback.
Taking on the SC as a one man show is a crazy thing to do (just look at me) I gave up on it. I think I had more resorces than Mark yet found the cost in time and money just far outstripped any possable return. There could never be enough Rx8 sales to recover costs.
Lets see if we can give support to Mark in his hour(s) hard going.
I know he will somehow make it up to you.

I agree, I have tried in the past to help but things did not work out in the end. He still emails me once in awhile to see how things are going with my project. Mark is truly a good guy and I wish nothing but the best for him.

If he had taken the time to contact me and let me know I might feel different. Instead like so many others emails went unanswered etc no different than the MM/turbo kit situation. You could say the same thing about Mazsport. The guy got in a tough spot and went under. If you were one of the people who got the sharp end of the stick then your view might be different from a bystander. This is true in almost every similar situation. I paid $1k for PtoTuner and never got the base stock tune which means the same as getting nothing at all for my money because without that you are dead in the water. I only bought it because other people raved on about it. That was my RX8Club baptism on clueless fanbois. Lesson learned.

If he had taken the time to contact me and let me know I might feel different. Instead like so many others emails went unanswered etc no different than the MM/turbo kit situation. You could say the same thing about Mazsport. The guy got in a tough spot and went under. If you were one of the people who got the sharp end of the stick then your view might be different from a bystander. This is true in almost every similar situation. I paid $1k for PtoTuner and never got the base stock tune which means the same as getting nothing at all for my money because without that you are dead in the water. I only bought it because other people raved on about it. That was my RX8Club baptism on clueless fanbois. Lesson learned.

I understand your feelings. I have a Very expensive piece of his hardware and am having to go it alone largely unsupported. I could have just gone with the pettit kit for the price I paid... but I guess I have to be different.