Hybrid-RX8

The Revi intake will not fit with the piping that comes with the Greddy Turbo Kit turbo......

Fanman

Don't bother wasting your money on pullies. I have the SR units on my car & when I dynoed them they gave me about a whopping 1 hp (posted on this board a long time ago). Not to mention it tripped my CEL. Better off spending your money on other stuff.

You do realize that when you get the Greddy, the RB REVi intake will be replaced, & useless. Also an HKS PF-Con Pro will replace the Emanage (but not the E-01 if you use it as a boost controller (in which case you may want to look at the Type S unit or B Spec, as it is much less expensive than the E-01 unit, which is both an Emanage & Boost Controller). Unless you are planning to go beyond the stock boost settings (about 7 psi in the rev range & 5 on the top) there is no need for the boost controller.

Hybrid-RX8

Also note if you wanted to use the HKS F-CON PRO.. you can only go to a Pro Dealer to tune it... which are very very limited.. There is only about 12 shops in north america that can do it.

GrRx8MaZdA

Custom tubing and custom placing the bov...I have asked the mechanic here who is many years in rotors and this is not such difficult thing..And from what i have heard the airinix isn't the best choice...

Fanman what do you suggest me to do??I am installing the canzoomer midp-4 Tuesday and i really don't know what else can i do till the fi os sc day come...


Yeah i ve read it in the other post you ve made and this is the sad part of the story...Mate...I am in GREECE!!! :o

Fanman

For the $400 you would have spent on the pullies, there really isn't much more you can do to an NA RX8 that can later be used for a turboed RX8. You pretty much have all the parts. About the only thing that you can still use right now is the Canzoomer piggyback unit, but then that becomes useless once you get the turbo kit, as the kit comes with an E-Manage unit (similar to the CZ). Save your money & if you are going to go turbo look at gauges, gauge pod, BOV, etc.

GrRx8MaZdA

Thanks for the suggestion..
I am holding my breath till i finish my summer mods and then i can start collecting money again... :D I hope everything goes out well..

Oh i forgot to say that as an addition to the greddy kit as long with the bov,oil pan,oil catch can,maybe pulleys, i ll send my oil pump to rb to modify it as they say on their site...

I am in the stage of reading like mad everything about the greddy turbo-superchargers etc etc and i believe the feeling of the turbo is the best and offcourse the sound of the bov!!!I can't stop thinking that sound!!!Sh*t i can't sleep now... :D

Hybrid-RX8

[QUOTE=GrRx8MaZdA]Custom tubing and custom placing the bov...I have asked the mechanic here who is many years in rotors and this is not such difficult thing..And from what i have heard the airinix isn't the best choice...

You don't need to go to any rotary mechanic to retro fit a custom intake on... any standard fabricator can do it.. but it would be kinda a waste to place so much effort, time or money trying make it fit..

Your from Greece..wow.. hows the avaliability for parts and tuners there?

army_rx8

i bet teh cost is up there which kinda sucks. bu good luck with everything..i lvoe reading this thread..lots of great info in hereD:D

RotorManiac

availability is... well, ok. but tuners suck, big time!
many pretend to know a lot, but very few of them are trully good... their prices are amazingly high too, for parts and labor time. You can get your engine easily blown to pieces...
that's why we have redeemed ourselves through the car clubs and the internet. God bless America! haha

Fanman

Yeah, in the thread about the Malibu cruz/drive in the West coast forum there is a video of a bunch of us driving on a really fun cruise. There is a small clip of me revving my engine & the BOV popping off. Also pictures of my car, where you can see the front mounted intercooler. Thanks Keith.

https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.p...&page=13&pp=15

punishr

Whats the word Manuel?
Any new news?

RX8PR

Sorry to everyone!
But remember that I was on Disney world for the last week I just arrive yesterday to Puerto Rico it was a vacation trip with my family...............I'm so tired but I really enjoy to see the face of my kids.

Hybrid RX8,

the injectors are 850 cc, with this injectors when you open the hook you can hear them working.................


GrRx8Mazda,

As Fanman says, you would not see any HP improvements on replace the pulleys. When I installed the pulleys it was looking that the car rev's up faster..............
On the other hand I'm using the greddy type S boost controller.
We use the type S because we just want a boost controller and is so simple to set it.

punishr,

There is something new.............
When we replaced the factory air flow sensor with a new one that works with the new ECU, we found that when we disconect the factory one our alternator light came "on"
we just connect it again and the light came "off". It's connected doin nothing...........
I really don't know what detects the factory ECU that turns on the alternator light.

We also installed a new oxygen sensor to tune the car this week. This is the third sensor
that I installed, my friends on mazda give them on warranty, but for me they are not good ones.
We just need that the sensor works well during the tuning once the car is finished the sensors is not goin to do big changes on our ECU settings.

Manuel

Hybrid-RX8

how many 850CC injectors did you get?

RX8PR

4 injectors............

Manuel

devious12

Good job on the turbo can't wait to hear more.

On a side note do you have any pics of the interior that you were talking about with all of the carbon fiber peices, just curious what you have and how it looks, don't mean to highjack.

Thanks

RX8PR

Devious,

I really don't have pictures of the interior of the car........

The car is on the shop but I think that we're goin to work on it tomorrow,

I would try to take some pictures.................


Manuel

RX8PR

Devious,

here are your pictures .................

Manuel

RX8PR

Yesterday we work hard on the car ..........

We set the low boost at 11 psi making 288 HP
and in high boost we maked 305 HP, but at 16 psi of boost. I don't have plans on use the high boost until we try a few thinks.......... I think that we can make the 305 HP at
11-12 psi.

We really spected more HP from our settings but our car is running to rich our FAR is on 11.0-11.2 range, we try to run the car more lean to find more HP but we can't.............

On my understanding we need that the turbine supplies more CFM (air).
One of the options is to change the propeller to a bigger one.
This kit was designed to run 5-7 psi and the piping it was designed for
that, the air need to run near 3 feet before find the propeller, we would
try to increase the piping size and make it shorter before try to change the propeller, To do this we need to put the battery of the on the back of the car.

We need to tune the car a little bit but all looks ok, I'm goin to use the car for a few weeks to see if there is any problem until we deside what we're goin to do...............

Manuel

MazdaManiac

iTrader: (3)

This is really cool. I am really enjoying what you are doing Manuel!

As an off-topic aside - I can totally hear your accent when you type. It isn't bothersome at all - your misspelling of words just shows how you would pronounce them naturally and I find it fascinating! Really.
Normally things like that bother me but, for some reason, I think it is cool this time.
Maybe it is because you are consistent.

rotarygod

Let's see here, someone in the very recent past tried to argue with me as to how this turbo can flow 400+ hp on a rotary while I said that number only applied to a piston engine due to it's different use of air. I also stated that based on the differences I felt that this turbo could do no more than right around 300 hp or so. This shows 305 at 16 lbs of boost! Close enough. He has also confirmed what I had said that this turbo can not flow enough air in cfm to make much more than this. It turns into a giant heater. At 16 psi, I guarantee that it is blowing some very VERY hot air. He expected more power with his settings. If you expected your turbo to be able to do 400 hp then yes you would probably expect more from a lower boost number. Note that RX8PR was not the one arguing with me and I am not bashing the Greddy turbo. He just proved my point though that this turbo is not made for the high horsepower numbers over 300 hp that some are thinking it will regardless of what it is "rated" at on a piece of paper somewhere. It was designed with it's efficiency at around the boost levels it comes at and for a cerain power level. It does that very well. I'd love to see a response from the person who argued with me in the other thread about this! :D

rotarygod

I don't know how I missed this comment nearly a month ago! That is not true. The port size does not change at all with the sleeves removed. The sleeves have a radius at the end of them that helps direct air into the engine. With these sleeves removed this radius is now gone. There is now a nice right angle leading into the engine. to make matters worse, the sleeves take up alot or area inside the intake runners. While this may sound bad it isn't. They are sized pretty good on the inside of the sleeves and gently taper into the engine. Without the sleeves, the intake runners in the end plates are much larger than the runners in the manifold. This gives us less intake velocity. The transition point from the runners to the ports is also much larger and worse and flows less. By removing the sleeves, power will be lost with or without forced induction. Luckily the turbo will regain some of that but leaving the sleeves out is a bad idea. It can not help you at all and can only hurt you. Leave them in at all costs. If you don't want working auxillary ports then find a way to leave them open but definitely leave the sleeves in place.

MazdaManiac

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^^Uh, that was my point.
Without the sleeves, he now has big, mishapen, open ports all of the time.

Who was it, anyway? I can't remember the thread.

In the meantime, I'll argue with you.
Blah blah blah. Mine goes to 11. I can boost bigger.

Oops. I forgot. I have a T3/T4 hybrid, not the little Mitsu in the Greddy kit.
Never mind!

knonfs

Manuel,

Those are good numbers, what ECU are you using?

demon

What flange is on Greddy's exhaust manifold? It looks like either a T3 or a T25. There must be other turbos that can be bolted on with larger compressors...

RX8PR

Jeff,


-Out off topic-
English is not my first language...............
If you check my first post on this thread I tell every one about that,
sometimes other members of the forum that speak Spanish write something
on Spanish and I always answer them in my bad English just for respect to
the other members that don't know Spanish.

Manuel