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??

 

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?

 

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

no prob man thanx tho.

 

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.

 

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.

 

5 speed , less shifts , longer gears usually.

 

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

the shifts are dreamy..

beers

 

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

rc4ael with ppg gears

anyone know of this??

 

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

 

It's a stock tranny, nothing more.

 

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..

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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 ...

 

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??

 

chirping and wheelhop is bad for your driveline.

enough of it will ruin ANY setup.

 

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.

 

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