A little RX8 front end trivia...
 

For all those mechanically inclined, here is a little educational game -for me at least. I jacked up my car today to check on a few things I thought may have gone sour after a little Armadillo encounter....well, anyways, I started looking around and decided to take pictures of several things. Some of them I can't even remotely name or recognize them, some others I have a vague idea of what they are or what are they called. Anywho :o let's see who is the first one to list all of them correctly by name.

Here are the photos, each one of them with at least one component circled and numbered:

Edit: I am getting these fixed..... :mad:

https://www.rx8club.com/attachment.p...id=48268&stc=1
https://www.rx8club.com/attachment.p...id=48269&stc=1
https://www.rx8club.com/attachment.p...id=48270&stc=1
https://www.rx8club.com/attachment.p...id=48271&stc=1
https://www.rx8club.com/attachment.p...id=48272&stc=1

No photo's show up here !

You guys don't see the pics? I do. oh wait I'm seeing things again.
Damn..

Fixed!

3. Crank pos sensor

5. head light level sensor

6. front swaybar link

7. lower "A" arm

8. Starter

9. Solenoid

I don't see any 'dillo remains... :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

#3 Crank Angle Sensor
#5 Front Suspension Travel Sensor
#6 Front Swaybar End Link
#7 Front Lower A-Arm
#8 Starter Motor
#9 Starter Motor Solenoid

What happened to #1 and #2?

Snap-On, you are not supposed to answer. It ain't fair! :D So, am I getting this right: #5 is one of the headlight level sensors? attached to the lower A arm?

BTW, the armadillo just managed to tore the undercarriage engine cover to pieces...I was worried about the O2 sensor and any of the other things which are exposed down there. I drove by the 'scene' later on today, and saw the poor old thing on the road...belly up. :(

8 starter motor
9 starter motor solinoid
5 self leveling head light control box arm
7 wishbone
6 anti roll bar rod
3 eccentric shaft position sensor

Manic almost got me...

The same sensor is on the left rear the level the headlights.

They were all too easy(er)....

Oh, I didn't realize it was a test. I thought you were wondering what those parts did.

I did get you, Mark! For some reason my post showed up almost 15 minutes after I posted it.http://www.mazdamaniac.com/images/smiles/banghead.gif
Oh well, I got http://www.mazdamaniac.com/images/smiles/owned.gif.

damn i kne wthem all but the headlight level sensor. i was looking it up but you guys are too quick.

Half and half. I assumed what half of those were, and didn't have a clue on the other half. Here a couple more....
https://www.rx8club.com/attachment.p...id=48277&stc=1
https://www.rx8club.com/attachment.p...id=48278&stc=1

And this just plain looked funny...
https://www.rx8club.com/attachment.p...id=48279&stc=1

10 ppf

That's what Charles Hill is (was) working on, right? See, this must not only be helpful for me but for others who scratch their heads wondering "what the heck are these people talking about?"

First pic is the leading plug along with a seriously over-engineered engine ground..

The bottom of the pic has the oil level sensor.


Third pic...an Rx-8 on 5 armadillos?

I bet they work good for wheel chocks..

oh yeah the not numbered pic has a serious ground point but i didnt answer since nothing was circled. yeah that s what charles is talking about. the point of that is it helps chasis rigidity by locking the entire power train together. charles wants to make a lighter one.

Not an armadillo, but an opossum. Will it suffice?

https://www.rx8club.com/attachment.p...id=48280&stc=1

That's the kind of engineering I expected from Mazda! :p

:eek: I wonder what would have happened to that O2 sensor if it was mounted on the stock cat...after the opossum

Here are two fun ones:

https://www.rx8club.com/attachment.p...id=48282&stc=1

https://www.rx8club.com/attachment.p...id=48283&stc=1

1 G-force sensor
2 computer

Not exactly...

Jeff..looking at that crossmember I'd say the was not an opossum..unless he was eating the Maryland highway. :p

This one gets asked a lot:

https://www.rx8club.com/attachment.p...id=48297&stc=1

1 Yaw sensor ?

2 DSC/TCS controller

Heh. The cross member is a victim of my steep driveway which crests just as it enters the garage.

The blood and guts might have been a pedestrian, but I'm pretty sure it was a rodent.:p

Mazda actually calls this a boost sensor...ah how we can dream.

Well not Maniac. He lives our dream. Psst

Strange! The FSM has it by its proper name, however. I wonder what the true calibration on that is? Its operating range is .2 to 4.8v, but at what pressures?

Original or Extra Crispy????

https://www.rx8club.com/attachment.p...chmentid=48301

Eeew! KFC in yo' grille!

2. eManage?

Dannobre got it right in post #27.

Interesting...then, what's #1?

It is the yaw sensor. It detects the spin/rotation of the chassis for the DSC/TCS.

Funny, that "boost sensor" looks almost exactly like the Boost control Solenoid on a WRX...

Does it really have something to do with air pressure?

Mazda calls it a boost/baro sensor.

It monitors the intake pressure...be it negitive or positive.

It measures the ambient air pressure. It isn't connected to the intake. It just measures the static air pressure so that the MAF will be referenced to something other than just air temperature.
It has an intake tube about the size of a crayon extending straight down where it sits between the ECU cover and the air pump.
That is why it is called a barometric pressure sensor.
Why Mazda corporate would call it a boost sensor is beyond me. It isn't listed as such anywhere in the published literature.

Ok Jeff..you got me.

:p

Brothervoodoo has just turned this thread into Rotten.com. Yuck.

CRH