I live in the Kansas City area and have a Mazda dealer within about a mile of my home. I stopped by the dealer this past Saturday and noticed a car on the showroom with a cover over it. It was obviously an RX8 so I asked the sales manager, who I have gotten to know a bit over the past year, why the car was covered. He told me that it was their project car that they are setting up with a ProCharger, body kit and other goodies.

In case you are not aware, the ProCharger is a centrifugal supercharger. I happen to know that Accessible Engineering Inc. (ATI), who develops intercooled ProCharger kits for many vehicles, is located just a few blocks away and asked if they were in on the project. The sales manager indicated thay they were and that his dealership had provided ATI with an RX8 for development purposes.

I was given a look under the cover and found a silver RX8 sitting on 19" Racing Heart wheeles with Pzeros. It looked awesome! The sales manager told me they had just received the MazdaSpeed body kit and were ready to install it.

He was throwing out some estimated HP numbers, for the ProCharger modification but I will not repeat them as they would have to be pure speculation. I later stopped by ATI and spoke to some of they guys in the shop. They claimed no knowledge of a ProCharger kit being developed for the RX8. It may be possible that someone is workng on this independently using components from ATI. Or perhaps this is just a side project they are doing but not developng a kit for resale at this time.

I hope to have a more extensive conversation with the dealership since they were quite busy on Saturday and it was difficult for me to get any time with the Sales Manager. Anyway, I will keep my eye on things here and keep you all updated.

 

Hey KCROTOR,
Was this SunFlower Madza?

 

Wow sounds interesting. Keep us informed.

 

Yes it was. Do you have more info?

 

No, I'm in OP area myself, so I was going to go by and take a look at it. I bought my RX-8 from indep mazda.

 

in loop

beers

 

huh? Waz e meene?

 

TTIWWOP!

 

hmmm.......nice to hear

 

That seems to be pretty common on this board. Why do people feel the need to post topics in two or three different forums?

 

or he could be shitting you..need some hard evidence!

 

Got a job offer out their but no nothing about the area.

you like it..

Misouri right...?

let me know b/c no one has been able to tell me anything about that city..

Living, nightlife, shopping, ect... oh and of course the car scene.:D

thanks,

Paul

 

I live on the Kansas Side. Send me your email address and I will be happy to discuss with you.

 

I stopped by the dealer again this Saturday. Not much better luck in getting time with the Sales Manager as they were very busy again. They did, however, have the car on display this time with the body kit installed.

I spoke with one of the guys from the service department that was hanging around there. He said they plan to have the ProCharger installation completed prior to the Kansas City Auto Show the first part of March so they can display the car there.

He also said they have an agreement with ProCharger to do installations as a dealer package and that the factory warranty would remain in place for this upgrade. Not sure yet about the price or performance of the package.

One other note - they had written on the windshield of the car "Jet Engines Don't Have Pistons Either".

 

wow...under warranty??? is this for real?