I haven't driven an elise yet, because I know I'll want to buy it ASAP. I have been planning to sell my 8 this summer and buy an elise. But I live in a suburb outside of DC so parking isn't an issue.

 

A friend of mine wants to sell his Elise. PM me if you are interested.

John

 

An update from RP would sure be nice.

 

Richard....PM sent

 

I usually drive my friend Elise at least once a week. With a little more power the RX-8 could be able to produce the same experience. But I do love the way the Elise is able to accelerate with no effort pretty much.

 

Juggy - wow - what a great friend to let you drive his Elise on a regular basis - that is probably better for lowering stress than meds. It's encouraging that you think a 'charged RX8 can provide a similar experience. The Pettit 'charged RX-8 I was in - I was only a passenger so I didn't get the full experience, but what I can say is thay it had instant throttle response and felt like being in a rocket - and that was a prototype with no intercooler. So I think the AFSC will be even better.

Back to the Elise - the funny thing is I kept redlining it by accident, hit the fuel cuttoff several times. I am just so used to driving the 8 that my instinct said I had more RPM's to go before shifting - and I don't even redline my 8 that much!!!

The other funny thing about getting back into my 8 after the ELise experience - is that the 8 felt like too much of a luxury car. In just 2 days of driving that car my preconception of what a car should be has been completely screwed up.

Back in my 8 -I kept feeling like "why do I want all this fancy dashboard stuff - these power seats, sunvisors, glovebox, etc."

Give me bare aluminum and a manual seat a few inches away from the road surface!

This weekend I was out in New Jersey and able to open it up a bit.

Maybe most owners don't have this experience - but to me the 8 is not a good putt around, 30 MPH car - it doesn't feel right unless you are semi (or better yet fully) pushing it.

It needs to go fast- rev high and hit corners at high loads to make sense (and come alive)

I think the low torque adds to this uninvolving experience in stoplight to stoplight traffic. The Elise was better in this respect. I am hoping the charged 8 will be a better car all around.

 

Looks like we'll be running the a Red 04 Rx8 in the One Lap of America come this May. Sure wish Mr. Paul had managed to make it into production for us to have added a bit of bhp to the car. My suspicions being what they are, I'm pretty sure a lot of the other entries in the small bore 3.5 liter and under sports car class will be packing extra heat .... probably a lot of extra heat. I guess we'll just have to try and get by on good brakes, light tires and coil over suspension mods.


Cheers

 

I've already lost the faith...custom snail in progress...hopefully this will see the light of day...it should be pretty nifty...

 

im with eviltwinkie. this is taking quite a while but mr paul seems to quite enough knowledge to pull it off. it may be coming quite soon though i stated that the corksport double din dash kit would never come and it looks like april 4th it will be released ...praise jesus lol

 

Guys the SC is DONE. The problem is engine management. The only available solution right now is $1000 - $2000 for JUST the management. And then a another few thousand for the SC. That's a big leap in price.

Check out ALL the thread start dates for all the super chargers or turbochargers. They have been working on them since the 8 came out.

All FI projects have moved this slowly. Because our car is tricky as hell to work with.

If you want to get FI now get a Mazsport kit. If $10,000 is to much then give RP a break. Part of what's taking so long is keeping the AFSC from being a $10,000 kit.

 

I'm curious what RP was running for management to road test the unit?

 

when I saw it last summer he had the Int-X (which he HATED with a passion). I think he toyed with one of the E-manages as well.

 

Right and I certainly think that hes doing the right thing by getting the engine manglement working properly and thus make the kit cheap for everyone. Again more power to him and I am sure the AFSC is going to rawk and roll...all night long...baby...

I just needed the juice yesterday and instead of going with a kit...I can do my own...for about the same price if not a touch higher. The main difference with me and the other joes is that I know enough to really screw things up and lack the wisdom to stop myself...haa haa

I am still rootin for the AFSC...I am just out of time...the antesys in the pantsesys got the better of me...

 

That's cool. Keep us updates (with picts) with what you end up doing.

 

Last I knew...based on heresay let me state...was that they wanted to go with the Cobb AP 2.0 for the RX. Again for a very very good reason. If you can tune w/o an aftermarket engine manglement unit it will make it much more affordable for everyone. Its a brilliant plan if you ask me. So to answer the question of whats the current status...

Ask Cobb...once they release...I would imagine that you would see the AFSC shortly thereafter...

All heresay and whatnot...

 

Somebody, anybody help the Cobb people to get their AccessPort on the RX-8... http://www.cobbtuning.com/products/D...id=3120&v=more It's half the price of the Int-X and would solve many, many problems.

Oh... They or somebody needs to come out with some type of in car mount option on the RX-8... Just a thought....

 

what rock are you living under?

http://www.cobbforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31354

 

According to the thread you posted, they still don't have all the software written, hence the holdup...

 

In this photo, is there really a need for the resonance chamber on the flex tube now that you are supercharged?

 

Is this thread scheduled for closure also?

What is the resonance chamber's function anyway?

 

Resonance...tuning of the intake basically...

 

not sure if they're shutting this thread down...

 

We're not sure either. We're really targeting lounge and regional threads first and threads with good info (even if it is mixed in with tons of off topic stuff) should be spared for now. If we do, a new one can be started and this one will be linked to it.

 

Noise cancellation at a certain frequency. It's not a power tuning device.

 

hmmm - I wonder what frequency? Maybe if I remove it it will scare off Hondas like the the deer whistles do - LOL