got a major problem here, just installed a unichip my rx-8 and 2hours later my check engine light goes on, bring it back to the dealer and the guy says that i fried a cylinder! :Eyecrazy:

now i'd like to know if anyone ever had that probelm?
it's chip # 1320013 by UNICHIP
i've got a cold air intake by AEM, and a cat-back by Borla,

thanks

well, my first question to the dealer would be, how hell do i have a fried cylinder, as the rx-8 doesnt have any?????

Take your car to another dealer. Hell, I would call Mazda North America and file a complaint as well. Any dealer with service guys who don't know the 8 doesnt have any cylinders shouldnt be working on any cars.

How long have you had the car? Cause it sure doesnt sound like YOU know much about it.

I agree! Dude, no offense, but you'd be as bad as the salesman if you didn't know your 8 doesn't have any cylinders!

And you installed a unichip in it? Under what settings/parameters?

fried a cylinder?!?!?!? Oh, this is too much....... :scratchhe

Did you remove the unichip before going to the dealer?

I was afraid of the same thing happening so I just took them all out..... LOL

now i'd like to know if anyone ever had that probelm?
it's chip # 1320013 by UNICHIP
i've got a cold air intake by AEM, and a cat-back by Borla,

thanks

In case the dealership says anything about your CAI, the RX-8 comes stock with a Cold Air Intake system.

sure he didnt mean you fried a coil pack?

sure he didnt mean you fried a coil pack?

alright, that's a more constructive answer, thanks. now what do you think about that?
and yes i did remove the chip before bringing it to the dealer. i'm actually good buddies with the guy in service @ madza, it's only that, if he brings in an official MAZDA techiniciani'm toast, cause he might open up the engine and it may reveal that the car's ECU may even have been tampered with, hence bye bye warrantly. and i dont' even want to think of what a new coil pack would cost... :Eyecrazy:

any ideas?
anyone seen this before?

coil packs arent that expensive.....and they have been known to get fried with some earlier versions of the canzoomer ecu.....it will run you a few hundred if thats the case but i would double check exactly what is wrong with your car.....it helps over here so you dont get toasted by all the flames.....i had an ecu in mine and took it out when servicing....they never noticed so if you put it back together the way it originally was i wouldnt stress it....try searching the canzoomer issues or coil pack related issues if that is what your problem is....im sorry i cant get more specific cuz im not sure what the problem is....give us more info to help you out with

dont worry you still have 3 good ones left.

Can you provide the website that has the unichip for sale?

Can you provide the website that has the unichip for sale?

www.ULTRACAR.com

http://www.dastek.co.za/

or

http://www.unichip.us/

i cant say i have heard of anything with an rx-8 with the unichip but it was a great mod for celica's and matrix's.....i used to have a matrix xrs and had friends get positive results from their piggyback systems.....

Never one to miss a chance to flaunt his ignorance, he asked:

What's a "coil pack"?

Lets see, you clearly have no idea what you're doing when it comes to mods, nor do you have any clue what kind of engine the car you drive has, yet you want Mazda to foot the bill for something that was probably caused by an improperly installed mod? Yeah...

Can you please explain to me why anyone would purchase this shit when there are a couple of real tuners on this board having enough troubles modifing the stock ECU to make the car run better? This thing is a gimick and you spend 25-30k on a car just to put this shit on it, sorry but whatever this thing fried you should foot the bill for it, not Mazda.

Good luck with your "cylinders"

Good luck with your "cylinders"
:yelrotflm

Can you please explain to me why anyone would purchase this shit when there are a couple of real tuners on this board having enough troubles modifing the stock ECU to make the car run better? This thing is a gimick and you spend 25-30k on a car just to put this shit on it, sorry but whatever this thing fried you should foot the bill for it, not Mazda.

Good luck with your "cylinders"

The unichip isn't a gimmick, TurboXS makes quality stuff, but without a proper tune and on a RX-8 you're just asking for trouble.

yes i did remove the chip before bringing it to the dealer. i'm actually good buddies with the guy in service @ madza, it's only that, if he brings in an official MAZDA techiniciani'm toast, cause he might open up the engine and it may reveal that the car's ECU may even have been tampered with, hence bye bye warrantly.

http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/dre400/e490/e49047ddswo.jpg

The unichip isn't a gimmick, TurboXS makes quality stuff, but without a proper tune and on a RX-8 you're just asking for trouble.

just out of curiosity, how is TurboXS related to unichip? i looked all through the site and didnt' see a single mention of TurboXS.

And of all the chip tuners out there I never hear of unichip being labeled in the same class as the leaders, so maybe it is not a gimmick but they are not 1st class.

Hey guys, don't be so hard on ultra. Of course the RX-8 has cylinders!!

Off hand, I can think of the master brake cylinder, master clutch cylinder, clutch slave cylinder and just look at your brake calipers. They're full of pistons.

Just like the pistons guys have brake rotors on each wheel. We're all just one big happy automotive family. :grouphug:

I'd like to know how the chip fried either a brake or clutch cylinder. That must be one badass chip.

You know what the worst part is? He's posting all of this on shit here too.

If Mazda's group of whores read this thraed and put two and two together, they'll abbid his ass goodbye. (http://www.rx8club.com/showthread.php?t=69015)

Its comimg to all vehicles soon.Just like the BLACK BOX in all the major passenger jets.Hell the Toyota Camry has a black box.Its how insurance companies decide if they have to payup when there is no witnesses at an accident. Face it , were doomed from our own advancing technology. it sucks. oh well, I just got off the threads main topic :)

just out of curiosity, how is TurboXS related to unichip? i looked all through the site and didnt' see a single mention of TurboXS.

Spaced for a second, it's not manufactured not by Turboxs but they did use it for a while. It's just older technology, so not a gimmick or shit, but certainly not anything special.

Geeeez......I wish you guys would grow thw hell up!! Can't ya'll be serious JUST ONCE??. The guy obviously needs our help. If that is below you, then stay out of this thread!


Ultra....seriously, don't listen to these jerks. I still have 14 chips left. If you want, I can send you a couple. I sold the 3 with the image of the Virgin Mary and the one with Jesus on ebay, but two have Jay Leno images. I'm letting the entire batch go for $120 or $10 apiece. PayPal razpewton@aol.com. :rock:

http://www.mazdanow.com/temp/chips.jpg

You still have friends on here, dude. Let me help you.

raz, i'll take 2 - if i use 2 at once i can double the horsepower gains!

raz, i'll take 2 - if i use 2 at once i can double the horsepower gains!

Yep....especially the Jay Leno one....

Yep....especially the Jay Leno one....


The chin effect

Geeeez......I wish you guys would grow thw hell up!! Can't ya'll be serious JUST ONCE??. The guy obviously needs our help. If that is below you, then stay out of this thread!

Maybe this is a good time for me to bring up that I *hate* your avatar Raz. Always enjoy your posts, but I have to scroll the header up off the screen; otherwise - yuck. I'll send you a whole bag of chips if you'll photoshop a burka onto your avatar.

Maybe this is a good time for me to bring up that I *hate* your avatar Raz. Always enjoy your posts, but I have to scroll the header up off the screen; otherwise - yuck. I'll send you a whole bag of chips if you'll photoshop a burka onto your avatar.
just block his image if it is so bad :Freak_ani

block this link: http://www.rx8club.com/image.php?u=8180&dateline=1112205903

If you fried a coil pack, you are considerably better off $ wise than had you "fried a cylinder" which I would take to mean that some severe and irreparable harm has come to one of your Rotary Chambers. But, I cannot see how a chip could have caused that so you must have coil pack issues.

Its comimg to all vehicles soon.Just like the BLACK BOX in all the major passenger jets.Hell the Toyota Camry has a black box.Its how insurance companies decide if they have to payup when there is no witnesses at an accident. Face it , were doomed from our own advancing technology. it sucks. oh well, I just got off the threads main topic :)

How 'bout the BMW that sends a message when the car is ready for scheduled maintenance. Anyone see that commercial? The wheels on the bus go round and round...

Imagine the dealership calling you telling you to slow down and by the way the police have been notified, waiting at the next exit for you and your warranty is now void for racing.
:nono:

So, nobody is going to tell me what a coil pack is?

Ignition Coil Pack

Coil packs are about $50 bucks a piece. You can order them from Trussville or Rosenthal. They are located under the plastic intact duct thingy. You can replace them yourself.

If you need to find the bad one you need a multimeter and check it like you'd check a transistor.

They contain an LC circuit to produce your spark. (In simple terms)

Maybe this is a good time for me to bring up that I *hate* your avatar Raz. Always enjoy your posts, but I have to scroll the header up off the screen; otherwise - yuck. I'll send you a whole bag of chips if you'll photoshop a burka onto your avatar.

How about this one?

EDIT:

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um lets see who has had unichip? how about-

takahashi (http://www.rx8club.com/search.php?searchid=1066651)

and our freindly neighborhood Brazilian Turbo'd RX-8 with over 250 whp (http://www.rx8club.com/showthread.php?t=67950&highlight=unichip)

it first became available here int he states about March or april of this year when this thread was posted http://www.rx8club.com/showthread.php?t=57950&highlight=unichip

Taka said it was dissapointing I thought? but he didn't fry an Icoil but then again he had an experienced tuner watching out for him :) :)


as for the brazilian...hmmm going to have to look into it

Maybe this is a good time for me to bring up that I *hate* your avatar Raz. Always enjoy your posts, but I have to scroll the header up off the screen; otherwise - yuck. I'll send you a whole bag of chips if you'll photoshop a burka onto your avatar.

Sorry if my avatar is disturbing to you. I can't change her, though. She's been with me for soooooooo long.

I deleted the Possessed-Girl-In-The-Cow's-Mouth picture. I don't want to push anyone over the edge. :) Hope you know I was kidding. :kiss:

um lets see who has had unichip? how about-

takahashi (http://www.rx8club.com/search.php?searchid=1066651)

and our freindly neighborhood Brazilian Turbo'd RX-8 with over 250 whp (http://www.rx8club.com/showthread.php?t=67950&highlight=unichip)

it first became available here int he states about March or april of this year when this thread was posted http://www.rx8club.com/showthread.php?t=57950&highlight=unichip

Just because a couple people tried it doesn't make it worth anything. Sorry just don't think messing up a motor on a chip with one dyno or a couple references is worth it.

Sorry if my avatar is disturbing to you. I can't change her, though. She's been with me for soooooooo long.

I deleted the Possessed-Girl-In-The-Cow's-Mouth picture. I don't want to push anyone over the edge. :) Hope you know I was kidding. :kiss:

Ooops - I missed the other pic. Was away from the forum for the weekend. I was kidding (mostly - sure you can't give her a face-lift?) so I figured on some kidding back. ;)

Ooops - I missed the other pic. Was away from the forum for the weekend. I was kidding (mostly - sure you can't give her a face-lift?) so I figured on some kidding back. ;)

All is well, then.

On a side note, I'm getting my wife a new Ryobi cordless tool set for Christmas. I think she's getting me a sewing machine or sumthin'. :rock:

douche bag boi dont even know bout his rx8... heres some adive to live by, dont get nething new.... u should have bought a FC or FD, spent half the money and have something that can hanfdle a chip... doyour research... lol shitty rx 8

douche bag boi dont even know bout his rx8... heres some adive to live by, dont get nething new.... u should have bought a FC or FD, spent half the money and have something that can hanfdle a chip... doyour research... lol shitty rx 8 whoever wrote this sounds like they are on crack :yelrotflm

whoever wrote this sounds like they are on crack :yelrotflm

And meth...
Hopefully after being banned, we can send him back to school to finish 3rd grade.

RotorKing just got demoted to RotorCourtJester

I was interested in the UniChip untill I read Takahashi's writeup about his results.