I've had my 8 for 2 years now, it's a 2004. I absolutly love it but lately I've been thinking about trying to upgrade my horsepower quite a bit. I've been researching superchargers and turbos along with less major stuff, but I'm just starting out moding my car so all of the technical talk has me so lost. I'd just like some helpful info on good turbos or superchargers, or anything else that will give me a significant boost in horsepower. Also what cons are there to both turbos and superchargers. Any info is welcome I'm totally new at this. Thanks

 

you have much reading to do . There are too many threads on this topic already for you to expect to be spoon fed the answers you want .
This thread is a good starting point for you .

https://www.rx8club.com/series-i-major-horsepower-upgrades-93/power-adders-fi-dummies-turbo-supercharger-nitrous-122645/

 

yeah take your time, read a lot, and do one thing at a time, but all planned ahead!

 

 

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I like your style yiksing

 

Bear in mind that this will cost you quite a bit. Seems like you may not have the expertise to weld your own parts or do labor yourself, so a turbo/supercharger build will cost you a pretty penny. Expect upwards of $8,000 on the safe side if you do no labor yourself and pay for everything.

You may also want to look into some simple bolt ons to start with. Troll around for a used accessport with a Mazdamaniac tune and buy a midpipe. This will yield some minor gains with little maintenance or changes to you for roughly $1000 unless you can find a nice pre-owned midpipe (I spent $160 for mine used on this forum).

If you're feeling ambitious from there, and that still isnt enough, I would do some homework on nitrous (55 horsepower shot). This will provide you with a noticable boost in power with moderate maintenance and changes to you. ie having to refill the bottle, keep your car up to par maintenance wise like coils, plugs, blah blah. This will cost you ROUGHLY $700 + installation, any other bits to complete the install, and refilling the bottle.

Then after these sorts of modifications, if that STILL isnt enough, then you should start looking into boosting projects.

As you can see, the above method will get you into the 220-230whp range for considerably less than boosting while still maintaining some sort of reliability for daily driving assuming you dont spray your nitrous like a ricer every other second.

all just my .02. Anyone feel free to correct me if something is inaccurate.

 

Helps kill time lol