RX-7 REW-13B Conversion Install in RX-8
05-23-2012, 01:45 PM
#26
Uncontrollable drifter
05-23-2012, 03:17 PM
#28
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i am not sure where the ac compressor sits on rew, but I would imagine that you would need custom ones
Vac for brake booster? Post throttle? Why is that hard? I am sure the FD has a brake booster....
Throttle ... think about that for a sec ... the rx8 is drive by wire ... the FD isn't ... you can keep drive by wire if you bolt up the rx8 throtle body ... but then you need to keep the rx8 ECU
Vac for brake booster? Post throttle? Why is that hard? I am sure the FD has a brake booster....
Throttle ... think about that for a sec ... the rx8 is drive by wire ... the FD isn't ... you can keep drive by wire if you bolt up the rx8 throtle body ... but then you need to keep the rx8 ECU
Dash Cluster, Air Bags and Module, Cruise Control, HVAC, T body??
Let alone the CAN system is different again for Series 2.
A Frankenstein RX-8.
05-23-2012, 09:58 PM
#31
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05-24-2012, 01:35 AM
#33
Uncontrollable drifter
2. Air bags and module-
3. HVAC
4. Cruise control and T-body-
Last edited by dznutzuk; 06-18-2013 at 04:15 AM.
05-24-2012, 04:50 AM
#34
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1. Dash cluster-All you really have to do is leave the stock ecu in mount the stock trigger, leave the stock water light and stock pressure sensor.
2. Air bags and module-have nothing to do with an engine swap
3. HVAC-has nothing to do with the swap as long as you leave the stock ecu
4. Cruise control and T-body- with an adapter plate it can be bolted onto the swapped engine's intake.
2. Air bags and module-have nothing to do with an engine swap
3. HVAC-has nothing to do with the swap as long as you leave the stock ecu
4. Cruise control and T-body- with an adapter plate it can be bolted onto the swapped engine's intake.
And electric Power Steering.
As none will function/work without OE ECU (PCM).
05-24-2012, 07:03 AM
#35
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05-25-2012, 11:20 AM
#38
There is but if I can remember correctly the harness are a tad different. Also its like impossible to find a low mileage usdm motor that's rebuildable. So that's out of the question so.jdm would be better. Less things that are.broken accessory and wires and such.
05-25-2012, 12:04 PM
#39
The $$$ factor is what's going to make or break this "kit".
Mazdatrix is working on their market-ready "kit", based on Kyle's REW-powered 8, but I'm sure it'll be overpriced, as is the rest of their products.
I just had Mazdatrix install a zero-mileage OEM reman motor in my 8, which I would gladly sell, if I could essentially buy/build an REW setup for roughly the same price I paid.
Mazdatrix is working on their market-ready "kit", based on Kyle's REW-powered 8, but I'm sure it'll be overpriced, as is the rest of their products.
I just had Mazdatrix install a zero-mileage OEM reman motor in my 8, which I would gladly sell, if I could essentially buy/build an REW setup for roughly the same price I paid.
05-27-2012, 06:33 AM
#42
Uncontrollable drifter
Using the "good old PowerFC" would mean you'd have to use "shitty, hard, brittle, complicated, unreliable old FD wiring". Get a nice new standalone and custom harness and forget about that crap.
05-27-2012, 01:01 PM
#44
Haltech? Interceptor x? Adaptronics?
I talked to Scott on the phone he said he could build me a harness for the interceptor x to mate it with the rx8 computer and 13b rew.
I know a lot of people don't like him, but Damn isn't he the first to do a production 13b rew motor mount for the rx8?
05-28-2012, 03:31 AM
#46
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Don't know about the other Adaptronics and about the Interceptor X, but Haltech did put this connecting diagram out there that's below.
Well I personally never had any dealings with him, nor have I ever said anything about him, I really like his engine mount(unfortunately for me I have a bre engine which has side mounts and can't use it) and a couple of people got it and were happy with it.
05-30-2012, 05:31 PM
#48
this kit should have an option for a single turbo manifold that fits the rx8 with a high mount turbo and vmount intercooler/rad. all that fits properly. that would be a true solution to a rew swap minus fuel/electronics.
