We have been working very closely with this company and thier product. We have tested it on our project cars and other cars as well and the good news... now it is CAN supported. The crazy thing it the RX8 has a crap load of sensors. Even a wideband O2 built into the ECU. The scan tool allows the user to view sensor information in real time via PC, palm, or pocet PC. Monitor sensors in a grid, graph, and gauge format. Trouble shoot engine codes. and More.

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That's sweet! If the scan tool can actually use the factory wideband, and if it's accurate, that would be a KILLER tool to tune the car in with. Really nice price, too!

Dale

 

Wow I love it!!! You could diagnose your own problems without going back to the factory for everything. You could also see if anything you did different to the car effected the ecu at all and then fix it. Anyone developing parts for this car should have one, especially for the price.

 

Hi,
I recently purchased an auto enginuity scan toll and tried it on my RX8 a few days ago.
I get no trouble codes but the catalyst temperature reading is always into the red.
Any ideas as to what could be wrong? What other checks could I do?
Should I take it to the garage?

 

WOW Sweet. I might have to pick this up

 

This is just read out only right, doesn't reconfigure anything?

 

I have found that you can reconfigure the temperature range but I do not know what would be considered "normal temperature range" for the RX8

 

why would you want to ge the temperature? You mean make it run colder?

 

I do not want to change the temperature. I just want to know if the temperature it is running is normal or whether there is a probem with the catalyst.

 

I think he just wants to know the normal temp range so that he can change the range of the readout to better reflect the actual status of the cat.

 

Very well put. Thanks.

I would appreciate if anyone who knows the answer can post a reply.

 

oh ok, I didn't think there was a way to change running temperature.

 

I don't know if the Cat. Tmep is high. The software only changes graphically to red to show you that it's operating at 90%of the maximum value. In some cases this is normal. Mazda would have this on their service site. Email me your values and I'll logon and verify what you are seeing.

BTW The new CAN 6x sampling rate is not supported by the Mazda line. That's too bad because we are now seeing 36 samples a second with our newest release. I wonder if anybody has tried this with a newe '05 model year. We only have access to an '04.

 

The values in the "B1S1 Catalyst Temperature Configuration'' window are -40 - 11756 F

 

Hey guys,

I'm resurrecting this because I'm looking at getting a CAN scan tool for my 8. Searching around the forum and some of the vendor site I'm torn between the Hymee Scanalyser from Mazdaparts.com and the Auto Enginuity ScanTool from Vividracing.com.

http://www.autoenginuity.com/products-scantoolpc.html

http://www.performancedesign.com.au/?content=scanalyser

I wanted to get some feedback from folks that have either of these tools on whether they have been happy with them and what limitations they have found. My primary goals are to read CEL's (had one this weekend during the monthly drive) and log engine data to analyze.

I like the fact that the Hymee tool is based around the RX-8 and the digital gauge readout is cool.

I like the Autoenginuity's bluetooth feature and the dyno feature. (I have a gtech so it's not a breaking point for me though.) It doesn't say anything about the Mazda specific codes and I wonder if it has them all or not.

So are there any problems or limitations I should understand about either of these units? I'm not sure how to accurately compare them.