I have a friend who recently purchased a 2005 rx8 loaded ...sweet car just not that fast ...anybody had any good results with some basic boltons or is he stuck saving for the turbo kit???

 

Auto or Stick? Unorthodox makes a racing pulley set, there's also SR Motorsports that makes an intake, high flow cat, and lightweight flywheel, greddy makes a nice cat back exhaust. All items that will give you inceases in power. I doubt there will be much machine work available on this motor any time soon as most machinists have no idea how the new Renesis motor works lol. It's not just the same old Rotary it used to be, there's alot more technology involved. www.rx8-shop.com is a good place to start.

Also check out some of the stuff MAZDASPEED has to offer. There's a few things they've been putting for sale which keeps the car under warranty still

 

I've heard that switching to a standalone ECU makes a huge difference with the RX8. Mazda tuned that car to meet emissions. Rotary engines hate the environment. They're

the standalone will come in handy with the turbo kit, I dunno how well the stock N/A ECU would take to boost.

 

thanks and it is a stick...

 

A standalone ECU might work, if you could find one that knows how to control variable valves That's where alot of this motor makes it's power in the valve/port timing and control by the ECU.

 

check out www.rx8club.com there are TONS of mods = xxx hp threads. Good luck and welcome to the rotary community!

 

A lot of standalone ECU's have outputs you can turn on/off at specified RPM's.

The renesis' intake is a lot like the S5 RX7's 6port VDI intake. I'm sure you could do it with a pair of RPM activated switches if you wanted.

 

forget about the rx8 what happened in that picture in your sig. did you take off the boot from your car? how did you do that?

 

Looks like who ever that was, tried to go with that boot on and the wheel broke off.

 

just a funny set of pics I found not my car check my info for my car