At -47 I won't get started! I'd keep my wimpy *** inside with the heat on full. I also live in Houston. It was 70 today and will be in the 40's tonight. I hate it when it's cold here!

 

cold weather sucks!

 

You don't have the slightest clue what ECU reflashes nor boost controlers do for WRXs and turbo cars in general do you? Also, most reflashes are undetectable by a dealer. Renotse you seem to be the one full of hate for other autos, not me.


For the rest of you, I'm happy to see some worthwhile mods coming out for the RX-8, or at least coming out in the near future I hope everything goes smoothly and it ends up being a safe/reliable mod in the long run.

Regards,
Ike

 

You can send some Beaujolais my way for the holidays as well! I wouldn't mind! :D

 

IkeWRX, I will not tolerate your flamboyant tone.

 

that's balmy next to the 4 months i spent in Timmins during darkest winter... -60* (easily) taking nearly 15 minutes to walk the half block and cross the street to get to the bus stop, with the snot in your nose freezing on your scarf, and crystals forming in your nose when you breathe in... 3.5' of snow on the ground, when you're barly over 5' is enough to slow down an 8 year old to a meager standing crawl.

Canada rocks. oh yes.

 

That would be a half block UPHILL both ways, I take it?

 

nope, pretty level... Timmins is a long way from the Apalachians (however you spell it)

 

Being an engineer, I'm very curious how you shrunk the mod. How do you wire the mod inside the ECU? Any before and after pictures or sketches? Just curious.........

 

What was your point again? And how does it apply to Canzoomer's Mod?

Funny thing about me and tuning turbo cars in the past... especially the WRX

 

If you would actually read the whole post and not paraphrase you would realize I was responding to Renotse.

 

From FONZIE "Being an engineer, I'm very curious how you shrunk the mod. How do you wire the mod inside the ECU? Any before and after pictures or sketches? Just curious........"

Well, we'd have to make you disappear if we told you , but it just involved more experience in what was required to mount it, and what could be done to the existing stuff, to help it fit.

It still plugs in with a cable to the stock ECU. Only external wire, as Canzoomer stated, is a ground (no ground connection point in stock ECU housing). No wires to cut, no holes to drill.

 

I have a different wideband sensor, and only just 1 EGT. Other than that, you should hook me up with a test or early unit, and I can report some results And I do have a laptop with a few obdii softwares, but they don't work with the can bus.

 

.....if he keeps lopping off his digits, CanZ won't be rewiring anything!

 

I hope to post some pics this weekend, time allowing.
I made a smaller box to hold the board, and fit the adaptor plug inside this box.
That made it small enough to go on top of the ECU, inside the plastic box that contains/protects the ECU unit.

We are not putting it inside the metal cnister that holds the ECU board. We are putting it in the plastic weatherproof box that holds the ECU canister.

 

That would be useful info then.

Now that I have finished doing the "shrink" of the design, it will now be a lot easier to build, and we should be pumping out units a lot faster.

 

....now I'll be updated to what's happening on this very interesting thread....that I just discovered today. (by placing my own post).

This modification sounds great...I wonder what it will do for top speed also.

 

Any concerns with this piggyback unit regarding longevity or running too lean? Any other downsides?

How easy would it be to remove? And would the dealers have any idea it was once installed after it was taken out?

I wouldn't want to void warranty claims because the device was once installed and they had a way to find out...

It certainly sounds interesting... but I'm always somewhat leery when 3rd parties start thinking they can do it better than the factory.

I'm not saying it can't be done... but I'm just a born skeptic I guess...

Thanks for putting up with the questions...

 

Check this thread for more info guys: https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.p...threadid=14823

 

Thanks.

 

I am happy - my two weeks with "the mod" installed, have been the icing on my RX-8 cake!
(It may take plastic surgery to get this stupid grin off my face!)

Well, obviously, driving 'the most powerful Renesis in North America' will do that to a guy!
Thanks again 'Zoomer!

He is, how can I put this diplomatically, "a bit of a perfectionist....."

As late as last night, we were out doing more full throttle runs with yet another black box, with an even more refined version of his tuning parameters. It seemed to go well, though I didn't see much, my job was to plant the throttle and hang on!
He has already been through the process with his own '8, on the street and the dyno, and was just making sure the same box would give repeatable results on a cat-back car.

But I think, finally, Maurice is happy! The computers, sensors, readouts and their power supplies are out of my passenger seat, and all the data are now safely in his laptop. I am told that dyno plots of the finished project will be posted soon, I'm guessing next week.

S

 

Maurice

At last

My only concern is that i already have such a big grin on my face even driving my car stock standard , i may not be able to fit in the rx8 because of the size of my grin once the canzoomer especiall is fitted to my car . ha ha ha

Maurice i am exxxxcited ., excited ,excited , and still waiting.


The next couple of weeks are going to be hard , heck waiting for father maurices stage 1 kit to come by raindeer from canada ., and fitted into my birthday, christmas gift.( my LIGHTINING YELLOW RX8) Come on santa come on - come on .

michael

"Growing old is mandatory growing up is optional."

 

If I hadent just gone to the bathroom before reading this, I woulda peed my pants form the excitement. :D

And I still have at least a month to wait! You guys that get the unit first? Dont post anything at all until I get mine. This way I wont be forced to hunt you down, kidnap your pet turle and use it to blackmail you into giving me the unit (or the turtle turns into soup!)

 

Gemmon

Them theres language from a desperate man , a ninja turtle rx8 with the moods wow.

Carefull as this forum is open the boys in black may see you as a potentiall terrorist , hey if you are prepared to kidnap turtles , what other fiendish acts are you capable of
carriyng out???
michael

 

I think he's just envious of Elara's turtle