how do you turn off the rear abs sensor? disconnect them?

 

Yah disconnect them then zip tie them off. It only takes a minute if you got it off the ground. Don't drive around town like that though.

 

i got the cel to turn on but its wierd it only turns on during kicking the car sideways and then it goes off, anyone else heard of this?

 

Wow this is getting interesting.I know its not accurate but have you tried a gtech?After dring my z and new maxima I realize how slow the 8 was.

 

My car runs great but my CEL blinks everyonce in awhile inder boost and then goes right away ...... I dont know though think its major ???

 

Geez, not this guy again. No, your Z isn't a rocket ship. I took a drive in a friends Maxima, it's not that fast. Not to mention the interior is god awful, like many of the other Nissans. And yes, my turboed RX8 was substantially faster than it.

 

well after looking at the turbo w/ the built in wastegate, where woudl you plumb a BOV? Where on the intercool piping and how will i do that?

 

On the pipe entering the throttle body. Most of us (if you look at the pictures of the turbo builds) put in in right before/middle of the pipe that goes into the engine, but I have seen ine where they put it in right after the IC.

 

haha i love it when people think whomever has the highest dyno hp will always win, cause thats not always the case along with power you need to have the wieght ratio and suspension and traction. i dont think my rx is fast by any means compared to some of the cars ive had before, but the car is quick and handles excellent. and to continue with the thread, i think im just gonna disregard any cel's they are annoying. here are some pics of the bov location, that someone was asking about and another of what i think about cel's :D

 

what the hell kind of BOV is that never seen that before i like my RS its nice and shinny and pretty

 

hahha its the greddy type R, i initially used the type S but no matter how i adjusted it, it cause my car to stall at dead stops and gave it a sparatic idle. i had the type R laying around so i slapped it on to see if it would help, and it solved my problems, i mounted it that way incase i decide to recirc it. it is a monster though i would have rather went with something smaller but it works so im happy.

 

right on fred!

i had the turbo and the power was great!!! still, i chose to go back to NA because the rx8 is great car...even in slower mode.
after all, if it was only about HP, we would all have big old V8's, V10's and so on.
btw fred, let us know how your new map works out with your SR cat, etc
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So are you geting rid of it primarily because you don't feel like dealing with all of the problems it has? Or is it because it changes the car's feeling so drastically?

 

just dont want to deal with tuning it...have had some minor probs but mostly, miss the car i really loved since ive owned it.
it is very different and very fast now...i will miss that power but oh well.
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ahh **** man i didnt even read all these post, but please get rid of the damn Greddy TYPE R you do not need that. You are not running insane amounts of Psi. I used that when i ran 35 psi in my SRT-4 and that thing bearly made any noise. Get the Greddy type s and you will see a huge difference.

 

This thread is getting very close to the edge right now. Please bring it back on topic or it will be closed down. Please stop the back and forth insults. I've gone back and cleaned the thread up. Keep it this way.

"no more banning" If you have a bias against the RX-8, then that is your own opinion and right. Please don't start to internet race, challenge, or insult any RX-8 owners here that don't agree with you though. This is a warning. The next one will make your name a false statement.

Fanman, evilbada1, this isn't an official warning but please don't encourage a potentially insulting remark with hostile responses. Just let them go.

 

he started it ( innocent look ) :P

 

Also a new BOV from Greddy, the Type RS. Same price as the Type S, slightly larger, but not as large as the Type R.

And what evilbada1 said :D .

 

questions for upgradesRX:

1. why did you cut off girl in the 1st pic. we didn't get to see her face..lol

2. The front Strut Tower Brace is Cusco. Where did you get it and how much did it cost? thanks!

 

I did not mean to get this off topic.I have only seen 3 dyno charts for FI 8's and this of corse is the lowest.It seems the out of the box tune for the greddy is poor and that was my main comment.

On a side note i dont knock the car in general,but its sad cause it could have been so much better.I feel very cheated from mazda and i think they are getting off easy.Let an american car manufacturer make a car with 160 whp and 16-20 mpg and people would burn them down.Well anyway i dont mind leaving you guys at green lights though.

 

I think what the ZTard doesn't understand is that dyno numbers are for people who like to measure their dicks.

We're more interested in TRACK TIMES - and the fact of the matter is, the best I've seen a twin-turbo Z put down is a 12.8 - why? Because it has poor traction, **** balance, is heavy, and launches like ****.

I see mid 12s easy from a properly tuned RX-8 with enough boost, and far less horsepower than the Z.

 

to answer some questions, i didnt take the pic with the girl in it, shes one of my friends fiance and the cusco strut bar is the type OS i have the front and rear and also the cooling panel(dont think this does much, but looks pretty) im a dealer for cusco products but i think you could get them through nukabe automotive (www.napsusa.com) im pretty sure they do retail sales and i think retail is around $165.00. and as far as the bov i posted few pages back about why i have the type R on the car right now, because the type S i have was leaking air at any adjustment so i tried the type R just to see if it would help and it did so im using it right now, i will prob be replacing it with a SARD bov later. and as far as the srt4 running 34lbs and the bov not making anynoise, i think the wrong springs were in your bov, my type R releases at even 0.00 bar. but anyway the type R is hideous and will be removed later after i get several other things.

 

4 posts in one day, none of which are constructive or otherwise worthy of conversation. I see the ban stick coming your way soon.

 

Where are the other posts of the Greddy Dyno's? I've looked through many posts and haven't yet found another Dyno chart.

 

Anybody notice a/f ratios in the 12:1 range? Just my opinion but I think that's a little on the bold (pronounced lean) side. It would be fat for n/a but Iwould be looking to get it closer to
11:5 to 11.2 to be safer.

Charlie Shatzen
Mazcare Inc
Marietta Ga