Wow, this thread is gawd awful. Research was limited at best and the rant is based from a person who didn't even attempt to tune it themselves. Now i could understand if he attempted himself and realized he hated it for legit reasons - but it's apparent that someone else told him it sucks so now he's relaying the message.

how wonderful. I heard rx8's suck too...i wonder if i should start a thread

 

which I suggested on the 1st page

 

 

If the OP bought the Cobb AP from MM he would have be happier

 

Tuning for a 7 is very different from tuning an 8. Sure they are both rotaries, but there is a lot more to it...... If I was talking to a tuner and they said "I Have never tuned an RX8 before, but I know how to tune a 7 so I can tune your 8", I would thanks them for their time and get out of there. That would just tell me that the guy was in way over his head, and he didn't even know it. I am not trying to dis your friend, just offering you some advice. Take it or leave it. On the other hand, there have been some members here that did figure out how to tune their own car using the Cobb. Check out those threads in the "engine tuning" section.

Edit: After reading this whole train wreck I see that this has been mentioned many times already.

 

Didn't you just moved to Daytona????, if so FL is heaven for any rotorheads, there are MANY shops that specialize in rotaries ONLY. Come to the "Central Florida Rotaries" meets, we got people with years and years of experience that have done it all, superchargers, turbochargers, porting, swaps, you name it, someone has done it to their Rx8, just ask around, I'm sure some one can help you with the Cobb.

 

lol - the OP fails

 

$594 (not $700) and $299, respectively. lol

 

Name of this thread should be "How to waste 700 dollars by doing no research"

 

Hey Charles, I'm curious as to why you say this? Can you elaborate? I'm just curious..

 

If I may...

The factory tunes are over rich in order to save the cat as federal law requires them to be warrantied for 100K miles.

With a mid-pipe, or a person willing to replace cats more frequently, the tunes can be leaned out quite a bit to get better MPG's as well as more power.

 

Oh right, I knew that.
But I thought Charles was referring to maps made by Cobb and that for some reason they had to abide by some federal regulations...

 

ummmm.... actually you can do that, we have a dozen or more member on this forum that are doing this right now. there is even a thread practically dedicated to it.

 

Winnar!!!!

 

 

That's a Mazda Messiac

 

Who reads?

And you won't get better MPG at 60 because your already running at stoich or close to it.

 

Thats an MX3.

 

Jeef use to play with them too.

 

Wow makes wv look bad :/ The only reason my car runs is because of AP and MM

 

SuperchargerManiac

 

ay, I remember reading about his sc mx3. my beater is an mx3, almost made me want to f/i it. haha

 

https://www.rx8club.com/rx-8-parts-sale-wanted-44/fs-cobb-acessport-192388/

 

Mm im stuck on what i should do.. It is agreed i made a bad un-thought out move before buying it..im trying to sell it but alot are telling me to get you to tune it lol whats the process on tunning it

 

Purchase the service here (at the bottom):
http://www.mazdamaniac.com/cobb/accessport.htm

Instructions here:
http://www.mazdamaniac.com/cobb/instructions.htm