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!

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?????

 

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.......

 

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

 

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?

 

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...

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?

 

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 **** 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 **** 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.

 

 

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.