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What is the silver box UNDER the Air Pump?

Old 07-11-2010, 12:51 AM
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What is the silver box UNDER the Air Pump?

I'm in the midst of quite a few transitions on my car; taking it back to a more-or-less stock form, from a turbo kit that I personally didn't install. As such, I'm missing a lot of parts, and I'm discovering them one at a time.

I just discovered what is hopefully the last missing part (thanks to a friend with a mostly unmollested RX-8 that she let me poke and prod at in order to figure out what mine's missing), but I don't know what it is, nor what it does. It is a little silver box - looks like a tiny computer box of some sort. It's roughly 2"x2"x1", and it's bolted to the chassis, right underneath the air pump. What is this part, and what does it do?
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CIA tracking device?
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Fuel Pump Resistor
Mazda's p/n N3H118831
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^ What he said.
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Thanks guys. I've got it ordered. Hope this fixes my problem...

If I didn't have this installed, would it possibly be the cause of rough, bouncing (200rpm-2,000rpm intermittently) idle, and stalling whenever I hit the gas?
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Just a heads up to you two who helped me; I got this part it, threw it on the car, and she runs beautifully now. Thanks for the help in identifying my last mystery piece!
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