Take this with a grain of salt, it is from an internet car blog, but the author claims that once upon a time, there was a prototype Mazdaspeed turbocharged RX8.


Gotta love the hood vents

From the article: "There are a few oddball prototypes down here, including this Mazdaspeed RX-8, which is interesting because there never was a Mazdaspeed RX-8. This prototype was turbocharged, and in turbocharging it Mazda had to move where the intake was, and moving where the intake was screwed up the engine somehow, so it never made it into production."

https://jalopnik.com/i-went-into-maz...ary-1825665166

 

Why does it have clear corners? Rice!

 

Yeah Mazda built a few marketing cars. But that car is not one of them being LHD, not a real MS bumper, etc.

 

I knew they built cosmetic Mazdaspeed cars that showed all of the dealer bolt ons and accessories, but this is the first I had heard about a turbocharged one. IIRC, there was a supercharged one with a strange hood scoop. Perhaps that one was made after this one's engine difficulties?

 

The whole engine intake story makes no sense. This looks more like an employee's project car.
So does the "prototype" 3.

Maybe this place is interested in buying 9k's car. It's a working prototype.

 

Yeah there was the turbo S2 that Mazda built well, and a few "Mazdaspeed" named ones. And the MZ custom RX-8 as well was a dealer option in Japan.

 

This was an official Mazdaspeed RX-8.

 

This was the turbo S2.

 

But IIRC Mazda also built a 3 rotor Mazda 3 so people should not read too much into what they build,

 

Mazda - keeping it weird since... forever

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

I do love that MZ custom front bumper. But shipping is a killer

 

That that is a nice kit. It would be be very dope to see it in the states.

 

https://www.japanparts.com/parts/detail/27479

1000+ shipping. Not terrible? Hard to believe they have stock, but... I'm kinda tempted. S2 parts fit on an S1 right?

 

Youre not the only one, I have that bookmarked myself. There is a red one over in the UK. Has lambo doors, but otherwise quite nice.
So much want

My understanding is you need S2 fenders and s2 headlights to do the swap. We can ask 9k, he did an R3 swap on an S1.

 

Mazda has an independent design team in that very office, the same team was responsible for each of the Miata concept cars, such as the Super20 and Super25, and even the Spyder that is visible in one of those pictures. Most of their concept cars are LHD, including the last four ND MX-5's shown. I wouldn't doubt that they made some test mules that used aftermarket components and deviated from their established components. Why do you think the bodykit isn't MazdaSPEED OEM?

Some more pictures from a different website:
Mazda Basement Tour ? Road Cars ? revlimiter.net

 

Yep. The hood is the same and you will need to do some wiring on the fogs and such as well. Not hard though, the rear is a bit harder because you have to cut the metal for the tail light openings to fit the S2 tails and you need the S2 rear bumper and brackets. Overall easy though.

 

Side note, I was in Cali last September and tried for two days to get into the garage museum. I kept getting the same woman on the phone whom insisted she had no idea what I was talking about and refused to ask anyone else. It isn't really open to public, but Mazda has always been friendly to their enthusiasts, so I was hopeful the right person would be inviting.

 

Thats blue car is Mazda's car. It had a turbo and sat out for all the world to see at 7stock, 2 different years I think. Most people didnt realize what it actually was but a few intrepid folks (hmmm) made a point of figuring it out after seeing the boost guage . someone (cough rotarygodcough cough) might have even felt it up through the wheel well to find the downpipe...

then of course there was the white "renegade" supercharged one. I actually held most of that one in my hands after digging out the header from a closet and the intake mani and sc from the back of a shelf. i had pictures on here of those parts

 

I feel like there are some missing pieces to this story. You had the supercharger on a shelf?

 

[QUOTE=zoom44;4859443]Thats blue car is Mazda's car. It had a turbo and sat out for all the world to see at 7stock, 2 different years I think. Most people didnt realize what it actually was but a few intrepid folks (hmmm) made a point of figuring it out after seeing the boost guage . someone (cough rotarygodcough cough) might have even felt it up through the wheel well to find the downpipe...

then of course there was the white "renegade" supercharged one. I actually held most of that one in my hands after digging out the header from a closet and the intake mani and sc from the back of a shelf. i had pictures on here of those parts




This is the one I remember. It was on the cover of Speed magazine. Boy did I want that thing to come out bad. (and still do!)

 

yeah i still love that bumper. the blue one was on hand at 7stock 7 and 8 i think, so 2004 and 2005. I forget which one had the "Renegade" sitting in the Mazda lobby(maybe 13?). Later myself and RG and a few others got to dig around a place where lots of Mazda projects get put together and tested. The parts I mentioned were sitting around having been taken off the white car by that point. I found them gathered them together and took some pics.

 

digging for pics I found one of another SC . Anyone remember which one this is?

 

Please share?

 

hahahah i foudn my old pics they're only 8 years old HAHAHA and i had to find them by digging through like 8-9 months of my posts... which is alot ... really alot.

NNN EEE way here's the pics of the sc and intake from the white car . when you see hands/arm in the pic those are mine. the one combined is a comparison of the REnegade SC UIM and the one from Esmeril. I thought it interesting that the route each chose was so similar




Esmeril UIM left , REnegade UIM right

 

ooh another one of the SC in the yellow car