hey that emseril header looks familiar like i've seen something similar somewhere ...

https://www.rx8club.com/attachment.p...1&d=1241060909

check it out

https://www.rx8club.com/attachment.p...1&d=1241060909

oh here let me take it out of the bag for you

https://www.rx8club.com/attachment.p...1&d=1241060909

check out those welds :)

https://www.rx8club.com/attachment.p...1&d=1241060909


but seriously let me turn it over so you can really see it
https://www.rx8club.com/attachment.p...1&d=1241060909

here let me put them side by side for ya :D:

https://www.rx8club.com/attachment.p...1&d=1241061610


that really is my hands holding that UIM :D:

prize for the person who first says where those pics are from and what car the IM came from :)

Yeah its a renesis IM thats been shopped down around 8 inches?? now whos car or where it came from not sure. lol

Oh wow! That is a truly interesting concept!!! I can tell its a Reni LIM that has been modified to shorten the track and even out the height of all 6 runners but I have no idea about the UIM....or who made it....and why does it have a hole on the top as well as what looks like a small throttle body(could be a bypass valve) on the side? Perhaps its meant to work with a supercharger? or with a dual boost system? Please do explain....otherwise I will not be able to sleep tonight... :D

I am very intrigued...

Thanks for posting.

Chris

:) yes lets see if anyone else has guesses.

edit- yanked this out of the Esmeril thread so as to not muddy that one

In an attempt to win the prize....It came from your car, right?

And I assume its for a custom supercharger install....

Chris

MNAO White supercharged renny that Racing Beat built?

damn, Nemesis beat me to it!
White SC RX-8

i wish Chris:)

Kevin is correct (i think he may have cheated ;))

it was on this car

https://www.rx8club.com/picture.php?...324624&thumb=1

and here is the SC that used to be attached to the IM

https://www.rx8club.com/attachment.p...1&d=1241108328https://www.rx8club.com/attachment.p...1&d=1241108328

Its a roots- why they didn't try a twin screw we'll never know- and who knows maybe they did since they had done a turbo as well on a different car.

that is a bypass

and the intercooler

https://www.rx8club.com/attachment.p...1&d=1241108328

the piping to the intercooler was really short the straight from the SC into one side and right in to the SC on the other..

that IM was really well done. the secondary was cut into in the original section and they machined it back into the flange. kept the aux as well but the vdi was removed.

Off Topic.... but is that a custom hood that is on that 8?

yes.

haha - I win!

When you said: "check out those welds" I knew right away. :D:

On topic:

How did you get those pics, and is it sitting in your living room?

no thats completely stock- yours dont look like that?
































just kidding :lol2:

you can get a replica of the scoop from hookup shop in either carbon fibre

http://www.hookupshop.com/project/RX...nHoodScoop.jpg

or fiberglass

http://www.hookupshop.com/project/RX...dHoodScoop.jpg

I like the stying of it, but the seam around it where it connects makes it look to "stuck on" then one whole piece.

you can blend that in fact if i ever get around to actually doing it ive talked to a aluminum fabricator guy i know who'll make one up for me, weld it on and blend it in for me (although i could do the grind and smoothing myself)

I do work in a sheetmetla shop and work wiht aluminum alot. I am wondering if i could take a stock hood and modify the "rotor" shape in the middle to make a functional opening that looks like this. Maybe when my project list gets shorter i will have to try it on a second hood.

there was a .au magazine article pre-rx-8 release that discussed the manifold options mazda tried out. they had pictures of the test manifolds. mazda tested many designs even plenum's and finally settled on the long smooth runners.

I can see how it would benefit a SC but would turbos and N/A really benefit? I can also see it causing problems with a MAF based system.

:eyetwitch

that's because you have a bag over your head team.

So do you own these parts now, Zoom?