redline attempt....problems...
 

hey guys, was just on a longass straightaway and i was in 3rd gear, so i decided to go WOT but wen it reached around 7000rpm in 3rd...the engine light started blinking......but it wasn't like a sudden loss of power or anything...temp was fine..everything was fine...then it went away, and i tried to redline a couple more times engine light didnt come on....is something wrong?...or is my 8 running too rich or something...anybody had this?? its haunting me...dun think i can sleep T_T....thanks guys

ken

im having the same problem. i dont know why either. in park my car redlines to 6000 and the check engine light blinks.

yea =T...its never happend to me before but after i redline in 1st or 2nd and even neutral...nothing comes on hmm...

engine light blinking are misfires.

change your coils and/or plugs.

100% that's the issue? u sure?

I wouldn't doubt it. Don't think I've ever seen alz0rz wrong :eyetwitch

Yep!

happened to me on a long road trip
just had the plug replaced last week
im replacing the coils this week
should solve the issue right up, i hope replace the coils soon enough to prevent screwing up the plug

WOW Ray, always looking for a way to spotlight your coil kit! :lol:

I wasn't making fun Ray...just playing around with you. Damn, no one can take a joke around here anymore.

Do you have the MazdaSpeed Cold Air Intake?

Winks are for gays!

Enough of that sillyness, replace your plugs and coils and you're A-OK. The BHR Upgrades is what would solve this issue for years.

haha....winks are for gays you guys are something else yes BHR has all the solutions you need....coils plugs etc......all good to go after that..

how full was the gas tank? if less than .25 then that is likely the problem.. if over. well charles hill has you covered.

beers :beer:

I don't know to take that as a compliment or what :uhh: :eyetwitch :)

yup. Ask all the trackers coming back from Roebling.

YUP...funny thing though....looking to see if the CEL is lit is way down on the priority list at 100+ MPH in a corner when the power goes for shit :lol:


I'm usually trying to make sure I don;t stuff it into a wall or something :(

No thanks, I have one, and it screws with my car pretty bad.

Those screens come out of whack too easily, over time the AIR pushes them open.

Also throws misfire CELS when that happens, was wondering if the OP has one, because mine throws random CELS near redline too.

Those screens are OEM too, not AEM... just for the record.

Actually the ones in the Mazdaspeed that Scott (tubingchamp) has aren't OEM..they are quite different. They have rubber borders and are quite dimensionally unstable. They seem to warp and distort after a while in the intake...dunno what's up with that

What dan said.

We fiddled with it, re-installed it and it bogged and such, so I fiddled with it some more, made 100% sure the screens were IN THERE straight (after experimenting with one screen out, etc, which made it just stall). It ran for a little while normally but now again its starting to go all wonky and bog abit under 30% throttle or so above 5000RPM, and issues after i redline, it seems to bog the next gear.

nope, gas was at half a tank...and the light didnt stay on, it was just blinking....i couldn't feel any loss of power or anything...which is why i was confused....

just contact BHR and get those coils changed 9 times out of 10 a blining CEL means a misfire which is caused by coils....the OEM coils in this car are shit and do not last very long

Any chance misfires and other plug/coil issues would cause/exacerbate cat issues? I get P0420's occasionally (they sometimes self-reset,) and this morning noticed major misfiring (below freezing air, engine warmed up, major power loss at 6+k with blinking engine light.)
I'm going to get new plugs/coils obviously, but think there's any chance it'll take care of the P0420's as well (at least for a little while?)

i had the same problem happen at around 6500rpm's getting on the highway and my engine severely bogged down and it wont rev high in any gear that i could feasably try (1-2-3), and my engine light blinked and stayed on....now im sitting in a mazda dealership...any ideas other than the fact that i probably shouldn't be at the dealership?