FINALLY! Chickenwafer's RX-8
 

I've been meaning to do this for a while but I FINALLY got off my lazy ass and took some pictures.

I really wanted everything to be perfect, but I just decided to do it. I used my crappy Casio Exlim so image quality isn't the best, but I spent a while in PS touching them up.

All in all I'm pretty happy with how they came out.

Hope everyone likes em! (EDIT: Added quick interior shot!)

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Added Dyno (02.28.09)

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302-rwhp, 231 ft-lbs of torque @ 9 PSI and 91 octane pump


Teh Parts:

Engine
-Cobb Tuning AccessPORT with custom Turbo maps
-Custom GReddy manifold, downpipe, charge piping/MazdaManiac-Garrett GT3071R internally-gated turbocharger
-GReddy Type-RS Blow-off valve
-Custom 28"x10"x3" core air-to-air front-mounted intercooler
-ATP 5-ply blue silicone couplers
-Staged 290/380/730 Denso fuel injectors
-K&N Polished MAF Tube
-Custom CAI with Vibrant 90-degree pipe and K&N filter
-Uber Custom LS2 Yukon Ignition system
-MSD 8.5MM Silicone spark plug wires
-NGK BUR9EQP FD RX-7 plugs in the Leading hole
-Agency Power polished crank pulley
-Snow Performance Stage 2 water/meth injection kit, custom mounted pump/tank
-HKS Hi-Power single-outlet exhaust with Titanium tip
-Custom 3" cat-delete pipe
-Custom trunk mounted Optima Red Top, 1/0g power wire, sealed trunk box
-BHR (Griffin) oversized aluminum radiator
-GReddy 1.3bar radiator cap
-GReddy polished air diversion panel
-Racing Beat water temp and oil temp/press gauge adapters
-Custom rotor-shaped oil fill cap
-Richard Sohn OMP adapter with custom mounted US Plastics tank (stock battery location)

Trans
-Fidanza billet aluminum lightweight flywheel
-ACT Heavy Duty street full face clutch
-ACT Heavy Duty street pressure plate
-Rotary Performance braided stainless steel clutch hose
-AxialFlow Engineering short-throw shifter

Suspension
-Koni Yellow adjustable sport shocks
-Sprint Performance lowering springs
-GReddy GREX Triple tube polished front strut tower brace

Wheels/Tires/Brakes
-Gram Lights 57 Maximums Light Gray painted 18x8.5' +45mm, 17.9lbs
-BFGoodrich Riken Raptor 245/40ZR-18 tires all four corners
-StopTech slotted brake rotors
-Hawk HPS Ferro brake pads
-Mazdatrix braided stainless steel brake lines
-G2 Gold brake caliper paint

Exterior
-Genuine Mazdaspeed front bumper
-Genuine Mazdaspeed side skirts
-Seibon KS Evo-style carbon fiber hood
-Rockblocker 3M clearbra on entire Seibon hood
-GT Factory Diablo vertical door kit
-NRG Carbon fiber hood dampers
-JDM Clear Corners

Interior
-Custom Boxcar Solutions mini CarPC (under passenger seat). Don't ask me anything about this I know nothing about PC's!!
-PIE Aux-in audio adapter (lets me play MP3s on the CarPC through the factory head unit)
-Eonon 7" LCD TFT Color touch screen VGA monitor
-Mazdaparts manual flip-up dashtop concealable screen mount
-Voodo shift knob
-Racing Beat fiberglass ashtray 3-gauge pod
-ProSport water temp and oil temp premium series warning gauges
-AEM UEGO wideband AFR gauge and sensor
-AEM electric boost gauge (a-pillar custom mounted)
-GReddy E-01 electronic boost controller
-Viper 5900 2-way paging LCD alarm


Whew! That's about it. I'm sure there's stuff I'm forgetting. I acutally remembered when uploading the photos I forgot to take any pics with the doors open! Opps. Next time for sure.

Overall right now I'm really happy with how the car drives, handles, and looks. It's semi-scary fast, handles on rails, and the looks are clean and subtly aggressive. I'm still not done yet, and thinking of moving the water/meth tank and pump to the trunk, new seats, water pump, AST, rad hoses, etc. It never ends!!

And yes, I know my catch can has no hoses hooked up to it! Hoses are on order!

I have to thank 8Club, Arizona Mazda Club (AZMC), and all my friends for helping me with my dream car. She's not done yet, but pretty much there!

Dave

Very Niceeee!

DAMN! your 8 is is crazy good!

Thanks for comments guys.

I will hopefully have a dyno up by the end of the month, since I just know someone is going to say something about that!

I also tried some interior pics, didn't come out too good :(

Looks good man :smoker :

I don't remember seeing this little beast at SevenStock....;)
Just messin' with ya Dave, car looks awesome

looks great man!

Now you just need to work on that ass ;)

BEAUTIFUL!... lol, Is the exhaust tip painted black by the way? kinda
looks like it.

yum! the engine bay is perfect!

Pics or it never............. oh right.

Looks great man - def wanna see the interior.

And we demand videos....

that bay looks amazingly clean! very tasteful.

BerryyyNiceeee
post the interior pics anyways :)
i want to see lol

nice car. i think i'm just gonna buy the turbo from Jeff. do you not have to recirc the BOV with the COBB? i was under the impression it needed to be to work right together.

Looks great!

looking good chickenwaffle!! hahhah

Very Nice car

Congrats dude!

Every single mod was perfectly chosen and you can tell you did your homework.

Now that the car is done how do you feel? Most of the time when there is nothing else to mod ppl get bored and part it out.

About time you came out of the closet Dave. :uhh:

Nice moddin,,,, very well thought out without being over the top.... nice job

Simply AWESOME........ I absolutely love the engine bay.... Superb mods there...

nice pics.. love the vanity plate :icon_tup:

looks very clean. I like.

You'll have to give me some hints on how to clean up the battery lines. I relocated mine to the trunk, but I have all the OEM wires in the usual spot and it looks messy.

Very, very nice!

Nice work!! Sweet looking car

Looks Beautiful!

- Very Interesting how you have the TEIN Hood Dampers Mounted backwards, does it make it easier to close the hood for you?

- Ditch The rad tank and get an AST!

- How do you keep the Alternator so shiny? I love it!

1 hahah I noticed that too, I dont think the function is restricted either way
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3 mabe because its Photoshopped? , if he bumped the contrast up alittle you can pull that look off easily

I wondered that also but he doesn't have the Teins installed they are the NRG's

"Brown Soil"?
I don't get it. :lol:

Lookin good, CW!

Where is the battery?

The Trunk.......

And to the OP. Car looks damn good! Congrats on such a clean build.

Looking good, I look forward to seeing it the next time I'm at a AZMC meet!

awesome car looks good

looks great man!

haha, i like that interpretation a lot better than burns oil. :lol:

I love what you did with your bay!

Got the looks, and the speed! You have one very sexy car my friend.

Very clean man.

Haha, come on now!

Exhaust tip is burnt titanium, it's prolly just dirty, LOL

You should recuirc the BOV with any MAF based setup, but call me a ricer, I love the sound. And it only makes shotgun-style backfires.

No problem, man. I just stuck the battery connections under the front brace so they are hidden, and routed the main 1/0g power wire under the PCM case and hidden in loom. I hate seeing wires.

Not Tein, NRG dampers. I found that installing them like I did prevents the hood brackets some trying to swivel to the side as much.

Carbing AST, Blue silicone Samco hoses, and MazMart water pump are next on the list!

Powerball mini, works wonder for the Alt and other small places.

Rofl, thanks buddy! Now lets schedule some dyno time, beotch!

Thanks! Told ya the parts would be put to good use! Thanks again for the hook up


Thanks to everyone else for the kind werds, I really appreciate it!!

Better pics including interior shots and video are in the werkz, hopefully soon!

can you get some more pics of the intake setup? more specifically what components you are using and how its routed into the bumper. i'm talking to CRH about fabricating my MAF tube.

very clean setup. looks great.

Yeah, I think I might have some pics. It's just a 3.5" ID Vibrant aluminum 90-degree pipe connected to the K&N First Gen intake pipe (Part that holds the MAF), with a silicone 3.5-3.5" coupler (nothing fancy, doesn't see any boost).

I had to oval-out the Vibrant 3.5" pipe because the BHR rad so huge it takes up some space in the pass-thru. I just wrapped the piece in a shop towel, put a brick on top of the pipe, and used a hammer to give it some good whacks. The brick applies weight to the pipe and keeps you from denting it.

On the other end of the Vibrant pipe is a 3.5"-3" reducing coupler connected to a 2" long 3"-3" aluminum straight pipe with a K&N Ru5111 air filter on the end. This was the only filter I could find that fit behind the bumper. My intercooler is too large and too far back to drop a filter behind it, like the AEM setup requires.

PM me if you have any more questions, Nuke

Also added a quick-n-dirty interior picture.

Amazing 8 bro!!!!

looks great!

Very nice!

pics are nice, Dave. They heed a bum to finish out the gettoness of them.

Car looks looks great. What kind of power numbers do you expect with this kit? How much boost are you presently running?

Not really feeling it, it's an 8 so it's okay.


















Yeah right, that thing is gorgeous, man. Beautiful ride. I salute you sir.

Cool! I was unaware that SAMCO made hoses for the RX-8....I only see they are made for the RX-7.

Thanks man! You can dress up next time!

Thanks. Looking at right around 300-rwhp with 9~9.5 psi (what I currently run on the street). I have tried 12psi and it's kinda scary fast, and makes it hard to watch gauges and the road.

I did 202-rwhp NA and my motor has amazing compression so I'm hoping to be a little above-average with the turbo as well.

looks great man.