turns out the rx8's crank wheel is the same as late model scooby's...

so the e8 can be piggybacked with the stock ecu!!! YAY!!

we'll still need a cable throttle for now, but whoopity-doo.

who wants to be my guinea pig?

 

hmm.. i might be in on this one

im about 25 min from were you are. :D


denward

 

So....we can use a haltech provided we do away with the fly-by-wire setup?

 

yea

i'm thinking about leaving the 6pi up to the stock computer--we'll feed it all the sensor info, then just pirate the fuel and ignition control.

we can use some kind of aftermarket (or whoever's oem we can find for cheap) throttle body, and just run the cable inside.

i'm not sure at this point if we can keep the check engine light off all the time, but there are a few tricks we can do...see if any of those work.

anyone know where to find the ecu and wiring connector harness connectors? if i cna get ahold of those and the pins, i can build a plug n play...

 

Guitarjunkie do you have any porting templates? I am doing my motor now and would like to port it an maybe lower the compression.

 

i can make some, but it wouldn't work very well-since most of the work is done where you CAN'T see...

 

This is very interesting. I hope to see you run a more worthy setup and do complete stand alone tuning...I bet the results will be more of what I've been waiting to see...

 

on a stock engine, i bet the results will be very close to what mazda originally advertised for this motor...

 

with our megasquirt standalone project, we are going to try to leave the throttle and the 6port to the ecu and the rest to the megasquirt. You might try it without the cable first

 

the throttle is the one thing i want to take away from the ecu.

 

you think the canzoomer guy would sell some plugs?
or would he look at it as competition?

 

Here is what a WRX crank wheel looks like. It is not the same as the RX-8. The RX-8 uses what is referred to as a 36-2-2-2 and currently the only ecu that can read it is Motec.

 

hmmm....so was haltech wrong, or should i double check that email and see if i misread it?

 

Hi Dave,

The RX8 crank trigger is the same as later WRX's surprisingly! Controlling your modified RX8 should be no problem at all mate!

If there is anything else we can help you with please let us know.

Best Regards
Scott Hilzinger
Haltech Sales/Tech Support

nope...i read that right.


**off topic**
i want your sleeves for my fd...the motor is going together as soon as i get the rotating assembly back from mazada trix.

 

What do you thin kthis would cost to purchase Dave? if we wanted to strap it onto my car.

 

there's a group buy going on in the evil forum now. i think it's like $1400

the e8 is more or less a detuned e11. good ****.
i'd love to see it on your car with the porting!!

 

its possible that since the subi wheel appears to be non standard (is it a 36-2-2?) that the Haltech may have a setting that will allow it to read a RX8 wheel which is a 36-2-2-2. Its nothing complicated, its just code, if you can program 36-1, 36-2 etc.... then a 36-x-x-x-.... isn't hard.

I would just ask Haltech if they can read a 36-2-2-2.

 

will do.

 

Just for your info here is the RX8 wheel

 

so do australian scoobys use different crank wheels?

 

so snooch... we gonna hit it up for your car and post some good numbers on the website?