Has anyone heard of them or had any experience with their kit? It seems to be more or less the same as the BHR kit. The BHR kit does look like it has a higher quality fit and finish, but the coils and wires in both kits appear to be the same.


Texas Rotary Experts

 

With the BHR kit you are buying a proven system that thousands of other RX-8 owners are using with the customer support and warranty behind the product.

This product is sold by a complete noob and made of of thrown together parts likely purchased on Ebay.

Texas Rotary Experts? FML, look up posts and threads started by a user name Hesselrode and you will see that he is a lot of things but he is not an expert at jack ****, let alone the rotary.

Example:

https://www.rx8club.com/series-i-whe...e-spin-253439/

https://www.rx8club.com/series-i-whe...setups-247732/

 

Thanks for the info. I searched for them but found nothing. Was pointed their way by somebody the other day but wanted to do my research. Their website looks pretty cheesy as well.

 

It's good that you are doing your research, there are a lot of "ignition kits" that are trying to cash in on what BHR released years ago and it's sad. Rather than come up with their own solutions they choose to TRY and replicate someone else's product.

Just remember, when buying a product, you're also paying for the support of the product. My BHR was purchased in 2009 and has worked flawlessly. Of course failure happen at a very low rate, but you can be assured that BHR will stand behind his product as he has done on several occasions.

 

Is there any kind of warranty on the BHR ignition coils?

 

You can contact BHR directly for that type of question...

 

The use of "expert" and their backwoods gangsta webfonts are pretty big red flags surely

 

I had the BHR kit on my 2005. Unfortunately I did experience a coil failure. However, I can attest to the excellent customer support Charles offers. I believe my car was down for maybe a week while I sent my kit back to BHR for diagnosis and repair. After I renstalled the kit it worked flawlessly until I sold the car last year. The previous owner of my current 8 put the rev C coils on it. When the time comes to replace those coils I will be purchasing another kit from BHR.

 

I was in the BHR shop when Charles built a BHR ignition kit for me.

Just in case anybody has doubts, it is 100% true that he builds each one of these kits by hand with great attention to detail. So there are no mass produced pre-assembled crap parts sourced from elsewhere that are then finally assembled together by a wrench monkey.


So that's thousands of kits out there that have been built by the same individual. Which means, Charles is very much invested in the product. And that's translates into great customer service. Simply put, when you hand build something thousands of times that has your name and reputation on it, you take it seriously.

I think we all appreciate experience of contacting a vendor that actually has good customer service.

 

It's a great kit, I see nothing but quality parts with MSD wires. The bracket they fabricate is an extremely nice touch as well. For just a few bucks extra, they'll even polish it for you.

In addition, the owners are some of the most helpful within our community. Customer service is on point, and they even take serious consideration to requests for new parts.

 

Noobs helping noobs, just what we need.

 

Judge as you will, but I'm in pretty close contact with them on a regular basis. Seems as if there's a lot of unnecessary bashing happening here.

 

I can only form an opinion based off of what I see here and on the Facebook groups and I have been watching these yahoos for a couple of years now. Not once have I seen them offer anything of value to anyone, and when pushed from a technical stand point they just stop responding. Ignorance is bliss.

I'd love to see them start a thread here explaining why their ignition kit is better than the competition.

 

The Trex kit was awesome and significantly cheaper. Took me a half hour to install it myself being the first time I had installed coils and plugs on an RX8. Great customer service and timely delivery. Justin is a good dude in the community and has helped countless owners with all sorts of questions regarding the car. After installation of the product, the car ran better than ever and hasn't had any problems since the instal, at least with that product. Strong recommendation for the Trex product.

 

Now that is some funny stuff.

 

Lets not make it personal guys.

As for their ignition kit. I have not had one in my hands so i can only speak of what i see and read in various area's/forums. To me the end on the ground source looks cheap. IMO if you can't spend the little bit of money for the connections themselves then your probably using cheap parts throughout.

I can personally speak for the BHR kit. I've seen at least 30 at this point and have one myself. Only issue i had was two weak coils after a few years and a lot of miles of abuse. Now even boosted they hold their own nicely.

As always thats all IMO

Travis

 

I have the TRex kit in my car and they have been nothing but wonderful! These guys are some awesome knowledgeable people. As for warranty they offer a lifetime warranty on their kits. I had questions while installing and was able the ask them, thanks to their detailed response I was able to get them installed easily. To be honest I have heard from most people who bought the BHR Kit they have had many misfires, so far I haven't had any with the TRex kit, and I drove 6 hours straight two times and still smooth as butter. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND Texas Rotary Experts, these people know what they are doing! You should ask them on facebook about their product, I am sure they will be more than happy to answer you. Good luck with whatever you choose

 

Really?
Care to elaborate on your "most people" comment?
Sounds like BS to me. I've been reading daily in this forum for almost 4 years, and the majority of the owners with the BHR kit have never had any issues.
If anything, it's very rare to hear about it.
I have one, never had any misfires.

 

It sounded as such to me as well BC. Early on I believe he had issues but they were handled swiftly and correctly as Ray always does.

I've only seen two issues personally.
#1 my two coils (already elaborated in several other posts)
#2 At 200's meet a young man who will remain un named had a hole in the boot on a plug wire because someone put them on with a Phillips head screwdriver for some odd reason.

Even boosted I've heard and am experiencing great things.

Travis

 

Justin and David are good guys. The tRex kit is quality and carries a lifetime warranty.
There is no need to go bashing a new company just because you like BHR. I have nothing against BHR I'm just saying there is no reason to go bashing tRex

 

If you read my above posts you'll see i explained my feelings very detailed. I dont consider what i did "bashing" but more saying what i see.

BC's and my posts were simply responding to a post from 09DiamondGrayMetallic.

Travis

 

No one bashed tRex.
If anything, it was BHR that was bashed.

 

I am apart of the PurleyRX8 Facebook page, that is where I have heard of quite a few people who had misfires with the BHR kit, even the admin of the facebook page had trouble with them. I am not trying to bash BHR, I understand sometimes mistakes happen. I was originally looking at them when I went to purchase new coils, and ended up passing just because of the information I have heard about BHR. Call BS all you want this is my experience and I am just giving information to what I purchased and why I went with TRex over BHR.

 

They both use the same coils .....so unless one is using a different supplier of better quality coils (genuine AC Delco vs cheapest chinese) ..... i can't see why one would be better than the other. Maybe some small details like Charles alluded to above.

Also : with either , make sure you test the coils when you fit them . Too many failures going on to not do that !

 

What a truckload of BS, my kit and thousands of others have had little to no issues. But yes coils failures happen, they are mass produced. But the failure rate is low. Why don't you report back in 8 years and let's see how your kit is doing then.

I don't care about this kit in general because it is just another cobbled together kit from parts from Ebay and other sources, the only thing built by TREX is the bracket and the fact that they don't even have the originality to come up with a product of their own is my problem.

These guys don't know anything of substance about ignition kits for RX-8's or about the RX-8 in general. This is obvious if you read any of Hesselrode's posts.

They have been called to task about few comments and misinformation (lack of basic ignition system knowledge on their part which is obvious when you read the shitty website) on Facebook, and like I said, when it gets to technical for them to handle and people with actual knowledge start to counter their BS, they bounce.

And as something that applies to almost all ignition kits, of course you will see an improvement when installing a new ignition kit and are replacing worn or faulty components.