Have your say in the running of the club, complimentary drinks and lunch, plus access to Shuttleworth's aviation museum and gardens.
And as it happens you'll also be able to admire many other cars as it's Shuttleworth's 'Drive-It'...
Ladies and gentlemen please form an orderly queue because the 2025 Calendar is now getting ready to shine!
12 of you lucky ones will have your vehicle featuring in our RX8 Owners Club UK calendar!
If you want to showcase your pride and joy please email me the shiniest and most brilliant picture...
Thought this would be of interest, I won't put a huge blurb here, I'd rather update it all in the website with any comments and questions you have, so please have a look and comment below:
This is work in progress and I'm still developing the page so be kind! :lol:
Hi Guys,
Just looking for peoples advice and opinions on this really but I'm looking at SC my MX% in the future ( BBR Stage 1 putting out circa 250 horses ) thing is she's on 78K miles so would I be better off with a new crate engine and SC that OR is a car with almost 80K miles on it perfectly...
Hello!
It is me posting again in this quiet side of the forum.
From the end of October i am looking to put the car in the workshop yet again looking to chase more power.
I am planning to fit an FD engine to the beast in hope to achieve more poke and save myself from the pain of maf based tunes....
Like all the people i did believe that while going forced induction one of the first mods i need to do is fit a W/M injection to help with knock,cooling,premature ignition and so on.
While i monitor the intake temps straight on the charge pipe and egt's just after the turbo i found out one...
The car-2009 RX8 S2,stock motor with 15k miles,all of those boosted.
The engine was purchased brand new from Mazda in Jan 2020 and was boosted from the first mile.
When purchased this car the original engine's compression was in low 7'ns but i taught while doing this great amount of work id be...
While i was itching to upgrade my Greddy setup i have found out that somewhere in the country there is an RX8 with a custom top mounted kit that did not pass the tuning phase due to wastegate routed wrong so the engine went bang at 18 psi🤷♂️I found the owner which was a top guy made him an offer...
Ladies and gentlemen,good evening:)
Thank you for welcoming me to your club.
My name is Silviu and i live in the NW of England.
I bought this lovely R3 in 2019 and the first thing it came to my mind was this thing needs a turbo
Since then the vehicle had 3 turbo setups on it and since in the...
I've searched the forum, taken some time to look at the US forum also & if I'm honest I cant find any actual reports of people that have NOS installed & what its like to live with day to day - nothing that is relevant in the last 5 years or so anyway.
I am aware of the Turbo kit Carl is developing but not wishing to clutter up his ongoing reports on his progress has anyone unless I missed it actually in recent times successfully Turbo charged their RX-8, after 13 years ownership with my 40th but only 30k miles I am considering it but only if it...
Edit:
Posting my draft to do list in order here for posterity
1) oil filter relocate
2) ignition coil relocate
3) mounting of intercooler and install revi duct
—x-xxx—x—x———-
Items above this line can be undertaken in isolation before the full build, with the intention of minimising the amount of...
Is there anyone on this forum with an R3 / Series 2 RX8 that is successfully running any sort of Forced induction and has it tuned correctly? Either supercharged or Turbo.
I've searched the rx8club.com forums and also this one and it still seems to be a grey area. Fitting the kit is fine, it just...
Now that I have gathered all the bits together it is time to start my Nitrous install.
Looking for opinions on the bottle position as although my car is stripped out it is still not obvious where it should go.
The bottle has to have the valve facing forward and the outlet nozzle pointing down.
has anyone tried installing a small turbo to provide power up to 4K? I love the NA from 4K-8.5K. Wondering if this would make the install of turbo cheaper etc?
I am very seriously considering supercharging my track day rex using the DNA set up.
My engine has been freshly rebuilt with streetporting and bridgeporting on the tertiary.
I will loose my warranty coverage on the rebuild for starters.
In view of this how reliable should a well maintained...
There was some discussion on this at Pete's BBQ so thought I'd put a thread up....
There was obviously the Pettit charge and now the thread about a new Rotrex kit, but how come no-one's tried taking a small supercharger off another car (say a mini) and fitting it to the '8? This seems reasonably...
I am having a debate with myself on facebook about the OMP and boost, going something like this!
What does the omp do with the vacuum signal from the inlet manifold? Im told it needs not to see boost so would have to be pre turbo which causes abit of an issue with my rear turbo idea as I will have...
First of all, please don't bite my head off in this thread and everyone try to be positive.
Not happy with the supercharger kits on offer I decided last week to email a few companies, this morning I received an email from a company who do Toyota supercharger kits for £4500
Hi guys, I am planning to swap in the 13b from the fd rx7 and run it with a holset hx40 at 1.5 bar boost. Few things first, this is my first time working with a rotary but i have lots of experience building other cars and doing conversions. the only side im not so hot on is the electronics and...
Looking ahead for when I rebuild my engine, as most of you know I have the Pettit supercharger kit.
I know I shouldnt really do much porting to the inlet side of things as this could reduce the efficiency of the system, just a good polish through out.
but I'm unsure of whether I should extend the...
Hello guys I was doing a lot of research but still left confused. I will do DIY turbo project and now want to find the turbo that will suit me the best car is 192ps what size turbo should I be looking at I would like to see +-300whp
Hi I'm considering buying the Mazda edit software and leads like phil has as I am going to turbo my Rex in the new year, will I need a piggy back ecu or is this something I can manage with Mazda edit.
I know people recommend supercharger over turbos but super chargers don't appeal to me. The question I have for now is what turbo can I put on my PZ with ought doing too much else. So simply, what can it handle stock?
Right sorry if this is in the wrong place but what is the best way to go about turboing a rx8 dont just say with lots of money lets actually talk about what to do / what is needed ?
I know this is a long shot but before I take the car to the garage
Last night I fitted new d585 coils leads n plugs, started the car and it ran beautifully, I mean really well and it was a fantastic drive. 25 mins in and the new supercharger belt snapped ( bought from motor factors, new one on...
Ok so I supercharged my 8 with the blitz kit, after 20 miles the belts have gone from good to mangled. Any ideas what caused it?
Also when putting light air pressure through the inlet, turning charger by hand, I can hear air escaping from the rear actuator on the inlet manifold, the one above the...
HI guys would like to ask some advice on which to get for my rx8 a turbo or supercharger kit? I have read up on both and both have up sides and down... what one would you put on your 8? am in the process of getting a engine rebuild with hot start problems so was thinking to get this work done at...
Was having the casual, I wonder what an RX8 R3 with FI would feel & sound like moment :lol: I was reading up on RX8Club and having a look at S2 Power Modifications Clicky and I have read that physically the Greddy kit will fit the R3... and the only thing stopping it from working is the ECU in that...
Having owned my RX8 for around 2 and a half years I'm looking to increase the power and having brought a Rotrex C30 supercharger have approached TTS in Silverstone (rotrex dealer) about creating a kit and they are very keen providing the numbers are right. i am trying to do some research myself...
Well it seems I have a problem with my intercooler piping caused by the pinch point caused by the steering collar on rhd vehicles.
I think compressor discharge piping will be oki. However the compressor inlet the centre of the turbo is the problem.
Ok so I know that the Greddy kit is made to be strapped on the side and give you x power on stock engine,
as those of us in this section know, we are always going to want more than what we are given, its just the way we are!!
with that in mind, and the age of the car, is it a good idea to future...
as some of us have already been discussing and i was very close to pressing the go button on the Adaptronic last night, but further talks with a Chap in NZ and also awaiting the reply from the supplier to see if we can get a GB type price going....
there is an issue with the car after the install that i'm quite sure is due to the car over boosting,
could any of you with a boosted solution (or more knowledge of a turbo set up on a rotary) please advise me where you plum the boost controller
into, even a diagram would be great (or...
so some one was going to ask the question, it might as well be me :)
when running the 13 i had a atmospheric bov, and if drove me insane, it was cool at first, but after running the boost i was it started to pull air in as the diaphragm was not strong enough...
I am planning to run a Greddy turbo setup on my 8 however I suspect the intercooler may be too small for my plans.
So I guess the question is, does anybody know what size intercooler we may be able to fit in the bay while keeping it in a front mount setup.
Mooching about looking for information for my project. I found this and felt compelled to share it. It's Turbonetic's Technical Data but it's basically a How to Turbo guide. Very useful.
This is a subject I've been looking into quite a bit, it appeals to part of me that once wanted to design mad race engines and looks to be very useful for Turboing in general and turboing rotaries in particular.
Rotaries are great motors, they’re tiny, they flow lots of air and they can be...
As the title says here are a few useful videos which should help to explain some of the components in a turbo setup and how to do a DIY install. More experienced grease monkeys won't need to view these but if you're new to the world of turbo and set up they may help to explain some of the concepts...
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