Omicron

Enough. Worthy of note is that Charles was able to make his point without attacking anyone. Perhaps you could try that.

I don't suppose anyone noticed that the supposedly oppressive mods chose to look the other way here?

Charles R. Hill

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Omi, a detail that I probably didn't quite get across was that I completely empathize with the administrators and owners of this forum and can totally see the protections that must be taken so as to limit legal liabilities, most especially in our litigious culture. My comments are always directed at other members with, as you point out, an interest in defending my position and personal opinion and not in flaming or otherwise offending other members. Additionally, I wouldn't come down hard on XeRo because he didn't necessarily mean the administration as much as he may have meant the way some members like to police the posts made by other members. In that case I would invite those members who wish to police others to become moderators and when they begin deleting certain posts and threads, we'll see who sticks around and puts up with it. Let the free market decide, if you will.

I have no complaints about the way you and other moderators have treated me but it seems as if some may feel that preferential treatment has been handed out. Since I cannot read every single post on this forum, nor would I want to, I have no response if that is the case.

Thanks for being cool about all of this.

CRH

Charles R. Hill

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MM: Vegas, Baby, Vegas. You are so money you don't even know it.

CRH

Charles R. Hill

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MarWar, my guess is that you probably picked up about 15 h.p. by removing the cat.

CRH

TORacing

So even though Philodox isn't around at this time, has anyone else down this? Those who haven't are your experiencing any problems? Do we have the Greddy code yet? I have an SR HF CAT I was planning on installing once my turbo got here but I think I read something about them causing problems with the emanage and the turbo, anyone have any ideas, should I keep it or not?

philodox

I'm still alive.. just been busy with things lately.. sorry for the lack of posts guys



On another note, I humbly request that everyone please get back on topic. Please save the spamming personal opinions about non-related issues to PM's or another thread. It makes it hard for people who come to this thread to learn about the Greddy Turbo kit and related issues. Thanks in advance guys/gals.

-Jon

rudy8

i will start. regarding the hi flow cat from SR...i have been having terrible problems with backfiring and unevenness of vacume/boost transition...(as has philidox and others.)
no one has mentioned the SR cat so far but maybe that is an issue.
MM has suggested that i bypass the temp sensor "fooler" (see pict).
i am truly stumped and wonder what is the next step might be. can i get a decent tune on this (leaner and cleaner and smoother) without becoming a computer expert?
philidox, if you have any suggestions since you had the same issues, could you PM me? i PM'd you a day or two ago.
thanks

Greddyturbo1

Help,Quick question if anyone is out there. I know it's in this thread somewhere , but I don't have time, I'am working right now installing Greddy turbo,

Are we supposed to use our original air pump gasket into the greddy exhaust, or use the one supplied in the kit...

smrx8

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**** i just bought the sr cat flow i should be putting in next week when i take my car to jr
i will let you guys know how i do.

XeRo

you might have wanted to go with the Rotary Performance one...

swoope

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i have read this thread from the begining. use the gasket on the car. not the gready

beers

rudy8

i never read that...are you sure? im having tuning issues but never heard anything about the sr cat?

MazdaManiac

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Hopefully this will clarify rather than confuse:



Hopefully, I got that right. I can't remember for sure.

philodox

Use the factory gasket for the air pump. The greddy gasket will give you a CEL for secondary air flow.

Omicron

I take no issue with how you handle your forum conduct Charles, and appreciate your attitude. I just get tired of people taking every opportunity to snipe at the administration of this forum, and periodically get annoyed by it. But point taken, and I have edited my comments, as well as deleting the response made by said individual.

rudy8

thanks...ill give it a try

Hou-TX-RX-8

Charles R. Hill Amen...to ya

Broke_Apex_Seal

Well with a straight thru exhaust my car could not control boost. So I don’t recommend doing it. Mazda maniac does not have an issue but I did. Also I welded in a high flow cat in my mid pipe and really makes the car sound stock and still has the power Still got the cel for the damn air pump. I am probably going to remove it soon. I don’t give a **** about emissions so less **** in the engine bay the better.

-Ryan

Broke_Apex_Seal

Also, Jeff & I removed the dongle on my car a few weeks ago and it seems to work real nice with out it

Charles R. Hill

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Rudy mailed me to ask for labor help with his particular problem of boost and A/F ratio control. Is it too much to ask you guys to re-cap a couple of pointers for us so when we get together to fix his problems we have some solid info to guide us? That would be appreciated.

Thanks,
CRH

Broke_Apex_Seal

Biggest thing on the greddy kit is get a cat of some sorts it needs backpressure to control the boost. That was alot of my problem when I got the kit on. Now it is great! Jeffs maps are real good. So down load the latest spec from jeff and dial her in. I would tune from11.5.1 to 11.8.1 on a baileys wideband. Remember all widebands are different so this number is only good for the baileys and maybe an FJO. Dont trust that can scan it does not go to the range it needs to be. All cars are DIFFERENT!!!!

Broke_Apex_Seal

Also F! the dongle!

TORacing

So this will solve the problem with the High Flow CAT? What does the dongle do normally?

Broke_Apex_Seal

it does something with the vtec and temp sensor to the stock ecu if I remember correctly!

MazdaManiac

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This little black box tries to force the car into open loop at 1200 and 4900 RPM - points at which the RX-8 PCM tries to operate in closed-loop, even at WOT.
It attempts to accomplish this by fooling the PCM into believing the coolant temperature has suddenly dropped below 160° in those RPM ranges.
This doesn't work on most RX-8s.
It has nothing to do with the CAT.

BTW - I'm thinking about putting my CAT back on. Not because of boost control issues but because of smell.
When I start my car in the morning, if I don't IMMEDIATELY back it out of the garage, my whole house reeks of exhaust fumes for hours.
Even stopped at a light with the sunroof open yields watery eyes.

I didn't notice it so much in the winter...