Silverarrow

Or you could always install it yourself, that way you definitley know whats what

rx8wannahave

Philodox I demand you go on vacation form your job to post more pic's, time slips, etc

LOL

Note: Tell the wife or girlfriend that it's part of your job's "Learn to make video for emergancy" program

LOL, thanks putting the vid's in the front it will save all of us some major TIME!

philodox

Jeff,

The locking tab that attaches the wiring harness broke on the sensor itself, so the wiring harness won't stay on.. so I had to get a new sensor.. nothing serious at all, but still threw a CEL

philodox

put put noise is just unburnt gas burning off in the catalytic converter.. that crazy rattling sound was the lens cap to my camcorder hitting the tripod..

MarWar80

I have been debating whether or not I should do it my self for a while now. I read through the instructions which someone already translated into English. THANKS!! Doesn't seem too complicated. One thing that had me surprised was that there were no Specific Torque specs. As in how tight the nuts and bolts need to be tightened. Any one know the exact specs?

jenkins-crew

So how was the trip to the track Jon (Philodox)

jenkins-crew

Opps, you didn't go....a couple pages a day added to this thread can really get you behind :-) Any ideas when the weather will get better? Thanks! Love your car man!

philodox

I recommend (MazdaManiac can vouch for this also) that if you get it installed, you do so on a lift. Otherwise it will be EXTREMELY difficult to install.. But if you think you can do yourself, more power to you! :-)

As for torque specs, they are all in the workshop manual.

DukeGG1

Enjoyed your video, Jon, especially when I full-screened it. My favorite quote: "Is that a Mustang?!" I could feel the 'let's smoke him' excitement in your voice. When I'm up by Marlton, I'll get out of your way! Hope to see it in action soon.

MazdaManiac

iTrader: (3)

TCS/DSC light. I was spinning my wheels everywhere.
BTW, That light seems to come on in higher gears only if I also get the car a little sideways as well.

Lens cap hitting the tripod.

NomisR

Lens cap thing sounds good at least, I was worried that the turbo was causing excessive rattles and stuff. The putt putt though seems like the car is running way too rich, might or might not be a good thing I suppose. Any pinging so far? I guess most likely not considering how rich the car's running. Good job guys, hope to see the dyno charts soon.

philodox

Nope, no pinging at all. And yes, I do agree that it may be a bit rich. I think GReddy tuned the map on the e-manage that way so nobody would have problems. I know that some stock RX-8's run much leaner than others, so GReddy may have taken that into account and made their base map overly rich for the sake of safety.

Silverarrow

that extra fuel might also be due to the bov venting to atmosphere instead of recirculating. I plan to have mine recirculating i'll let you know if it makes a diff. As of now i have no bov, so no popping issues with mine. All i have to do now is find someone to weld aluminnum...

philodox

Welding aluminum is damn tricky, make sure you get someone who knows what they are doing. I'll have air/fuel done with the dyno this coming Friday, so I'll know just how rich it is at WOT.

punishr

Come on Friday hurry up and get here....can't wait.......

Ryan28A

If anyone is interested, there is a place in Sacramento where I live that will sell turbos for 2750 out the door (taxes are included). Send me a PM if you are interested we need 5+ for the buy

MrWigggles

To add on to that, a good aluminum weld should look like an overlapping stack of quarters when it is done.

Aluminum is tricky stuff.

-Mr. Wigggles

Travelintrevor

philodox,,, do you know what AFR ratio that you are tuning for? remember that you have a turbo rotary now
read this on the 7 site
http://www.rx7club.com/showthread.ph...ight=afr+ratio

philodox

yup, melting point is so much lower than steel that it can "gunk" up and look like crap or get ruined all together if the weld temp is too high.

MazdaManiac

iTrader: (3)

Tell me about it. I had to lear to weld aluminum from scratch in order to build this system.
I had always worked completely in steel before and paid to have aluminum parts welded for me.
Since I decided to use aluminum pipes instead of steel (for weight and heat reasons), I had to reconfigure my MIG and burn up a lot of scrap in practice.
My welds are still ugly, but they don't leak. :p

philodox

I just got a local metal shop to do it. They did an outstanding job. Cost me $40 to get the flange welded on. Here's a pic of the weld.. I'm going to the whole engine bay polished. Just want to get an aluminum intake manifold to replace that crappy black plastic after the throttle body so I can get everything done at the same time.

Deca Auto

I notice the MAF sensor is next to the intake filter. Since your running VTA your going to run extremely rich whenever you blow off bc the air accounted by the MAF is being blown out. I've done this in my evo and it would blow fire out the exhaust. Does your car blow fireballs too? I know the RX8 blows fireballs stock, so I'm could only imagine how big yours are. Also something that intrigues me is my MGP would drop from 20 to 17, yet yours appears to not have dropped much with the addition of the turbocharger and VTA BOV.

philodox

I am actually getting better gas mileage by 2mpg! It's quite strange, especially since I've been pushing it kind of hard. I would speculate that by trying to keep the car out of boost and in a vaccume state while city driving, I'm getting better gas mileage because of that.

As for the fire out the exhaust, I did scare one car today. I had an unusually large backfire :p.. well he was tail gating me and I made it happen by tapping the throttle to get a little extra unburnt fuel into the exhaust. The catalytic converter catches mose of it, but I do occasionally shoot out a flame or two. If I ever run straight pipes, I'll shoot out flames quite often.

Deca Auto

Hehe you should get a EGT gauge. Not only does it warn you if your rotors are going to melt, its helps if you do a street tune, and lets you know if your exhaust gas if hot enough to combust the fuel when it hits the air. If you run a straight pipe... :D

philodox

That's the plan. Boost, EGT, and Oil Pressure at first. Then if I can mod my ashtray to fit two more gauges I'll put a air/fuel and fuel pressure there.