therm8

Would the MS S/C be covered under warranty. I'm assuming it would. And there are plenty of vehicles out there with FI and under warranty (Volvo, Saab, Evo, WRX, 3 or 4 S/C GM models, Porsche, Cobra just to name a few)

Psylence

Well, TRD continues to do it with their supercharger kit, so there is no reason it can't be done.

Will it? No, probably not. Would be nice though!

WHealy

Keep in mind two things.

Some manufacturer's issue performance parts through their performance divisions that they note void the warentee. Chrysler (please no flames, I know this isn't DC ) does that with performacne parts for their PT.

Some manifacturer's issue performance parts that are covered under warentee. Unfortuantly, the price is very high. We all aready know how much parts are from the manufacturer compared to third party and the cost difference. But in this case, they basically build in an additintal warentee cost to the purchase price. I'm thinking of the S/C Mini.


But in any case, I'm all for it. I just assume we'll be complaining about price if we get there.

93rdcurrent

10000RPM,

I am trying to figure out who is living in the land of "make believe" here. If Mazda puts out a MazdaSpeed version of the 8 with F/I do you think that they will not offer a warranty with it? I tend to think that they will. I also think that they will back the product up by keeping it under the warranty on others who want to upgrade to it.

Acura did this with the NSX. Actually they went a step further and offered aftermarket parts through the dealership and kept the cars under warranty from the manufacturer. It has been done by many auto manufacturers in the past and Mazda is on that list with other MazdaSpeed options. If Mazda will only warranty the MazdaSpeed version of the car there will be a lot of us 1st year pruchasers who will be pissed off.

The idea of this thread was to let MNAO know that we 8 owners want more hp and we like F/I. They don't really care about "Make Believe Land" and I don't either. Mazda wake up we want more!!!

I prefer Turbo (especially in cold weather conditions) and I would like a turbo timer to be included as well. But if turbo is not going to happen then I would settle for a supercharger. If it isn't made available in the next year then I will go with aftermarket. I won't wait 2 years for the hp I want.

Oh and NOS is not as stable as F/I and no manufacturer will be responsible for a loose cable connection or hitting it at the wrong rpms. It takes a fairly experienced driver to handle a NOS application and really its only good use is drag racing. I am sure that if you were racing your car MazdaSpeed would support you with NOS just not under warranty.

10000RPM

My reply was not intended for those that have "factory installed" supercharges, I worked for Ford for many years so I am quite aware of warranties & F/I Cobra, Lighting ect. It was for those who are wanting to install F/I on there 8's or what ever and expecting to keep there warranty who are dreaming it's just not going to happen. As for N.O.S it's only as dangerous as you make it ,same with superchagers & Turbos, set it up rite and your golden

93rdcurrent

You are quite right. The only problem is that you have to make sure there are no hiccups. I have had friends who raced with NOS and they had varrying levels of success. The best was a friend who literally blew his engine up hitting the NOS at too low an rpm. He was also drag racing a Ford Mach 1 and his setup was already pretty lean.

I ran my MR2's engine too lean at 24 psi on the turbo... you can guess what happened there . Needless to say you don't have to be running NOS to turn your engine into a grenade. But the average person will be able to keep there engine from detenation with turbo and if you were to tweek too much with NOS... KABLOOIEE...

You are very right though there are some safe levels of NOS and 25 or 50 shot would be ok on most cars.