ilovemy8

has anyone read or heard of one being made for the 8?? i have my car in the shop for my tranny syncros and i ended up getting a brand new tranny instead well at first i told the guy who is a good friend i would like a performance tranny and he said cool.. well the other day he told me he found one on the internet and will be installing it.. i havnt spoken to him again to find the name but i will keep posted.. so has anyone??

05rx8mazda

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The only one that i known of was the one mazsport had.. but i havent really looked up on that subject.. im of no help hhah

umm just read a bit on it thats what i can say, he didnt tell you what brand? Gearing you wanted? 5 or 6 speed tranny?

ilovemy8

same 6spd. but like i said i hadnt yet spoken to him again about it!!

no prob man thanx tho.

I8U

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I don't know of any "performance" trannys out. Mazsport did have their 5 speed conversion which was a good idea just not worth the price and the fact that they are out of business now doesn't help. I know a few guys that have done custom 5-speed swaps using 3rd GEN RX-7 trannys but that's all. The 5 speed gearing works really well with this motor. I always wanted to do the swap myself.

ilovemy8

i kinda like the whole six speed thing but i mean why right?? as far as performance wise what does it do for the drive?? i am referring to the 5 speed.

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5 speed , less shifts , longer gears usually.

swoope

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https://www.rx8club.com/mazmart-88/2009-rx8-gearbox-stock-new-168126/

the shifts are dreamy..

beers

ilovemy8

okay so update i found out the tranny im getting replaced with is a.......

rc4ael with ppg gears

anyone know of this??

ilovemy8

ok well i looked it up the RC4A-EL is the model tranny we have in the 8 from 04-05.

ppg is pfitzner performance gearbox and the one he found was has a 500 rating pretty nice!

im not sure how much of performace this will help with but atleast it sounds nice! lol

I8U

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It's a stock tranny, nothing more.

G3tR3DDY2GR3DDY

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yea thats the exact same stock tranny lol. i hope you didnt replace a brand new one and pay for this one...

BHR has sights on a performance tranny that is the only place i know of, mazsports solution was nothing more than the FD tranny modified to fit..

bose

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If they had ppg custom make some gears to fit the 8's trans then it would be possible, but ppg doesn't make gear sets for our car's the last time I checked.

If it really does have ppg's then you have a virtually indestructible trans. The gears they make for the WRX are rated 700+ hp. Won't make your car faster really, might because you'll be able to launch and bang the gears, they don't mind.

kersh4w

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right. premodified fd tranny, so all one needed to do was plug and play. nice, but not at $3,000.

shazy

Isn't the FD transmission much better than our old piece of **** Jeep Aisin Transmission?

G3tR3DDY2GR3DDY

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stronger a tad, better maybe a little. jeep? miata

shazy

Well I wikid the Aisin Transmission and said those were from Jeeps and stuff, the Aisin 6 speed is like a modded version from that. Remember, Wikipedia is always right

ilovemy8

yea i no it was a stock lol i said that.. just a ppg gear set.. i;ll tell oncein!

kersh4w

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aisin makes trannys for a lot of cars. even porsche afaik.

Charles R. Hill

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Yeah, I was talking with a company who modifies the Aisin/Jeep trannies for rock-climbing (and other applications as well) and all that and, although they are well-connected with Aisin, it was tough to get anything going so I decided to focus on a few other things before dumping a lot of money into tranny development.

I may soon try again, though, as a few dynamics have changed.

shazy

Their automatic Transmissions were good in the 6speed auto in the mazda 6. But I meant the shitty one we got in the 8 and our weak *** 2nd gear. No more 2nd gear wheel hop and tire peeling shifts anymore ...

ilovemy8

why not?? i still chirp in 2nd to third! even tho its been awhile cuz my tranny was eff'd up.

also no i didnt pay for this tranny. i took it in for a warranty job. i asked for a performance tranny if applicable. got this instead.

i was just going to try to get the syncro's done but got a brand new tranny instead. cant be too mad at that huh??

kersh4w

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chirping and wheelhop is bad for your driveline.

enough of it will ruin ANY setup.

shazy

Yeah I'm running on the crappy Re040 tires that came with the car, I think they have like 80% wear and the crappy ones in the back, I just recently purchased a special set that's better and is rated higher.

alz0rz

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