I think you should be ok with stock as long as your not driving HARD for 3 hours but larger radiator will help 100%. fans would make a change but not as much .

 

I installed the emanage today, drilled a 1 inch hole behind the windshield washer container and the cable slipped right in. I'm running with the emanage turned on, without the turbo installed and it's running really rich.. feels great, smells terrible. Did anyone have trouble getting all the cables connected? I had to take out the ECU completely in order to get everything to fit right, I also drilled a hole in the ECU cover for the cable and everything snugged in perfectly. Where did you place the 3 small black boxes (resisters possibly) from the harness? I put mine on top of the ECU cooler.

 

You will get a burning smell after first installing the turbo, that'll go away after a week. Do you have an WBo2 to get your AFR?
I dremmeled my cover to get the harness to fit. I had the dongles under the ecu cooler.
Do you plan to purchase any gauges? I'm returning my car to stock and parting out EVERYTHING in about 2 weeks. I plan to trade the 8 in a few months.

 

Adrian,
I'll take lots of things off your hands - can you give me a list of what you'll have available?

I'm interested in your Defi gauges, your interceptor, those carbon fiber covers, and your front strut bar as well as a couple other things. PM me with the list and how much you're looking to get for each item.

 

I already have someone lined up for the Interceptor X.
I'll be un-installing everything next week. I'll send you the list and post it in the 4 sale section also.
I haven't priced anything yet, but I will after it's off the car.

 

dam that sucks. Sorry to see you move on. Don't want to get OT but what car are you planning on getting?

 

I need a "real 4-door" car and I'm leaning towards the BMW 330i.

 

Any chance of selling the Borla beforehand

 

Raptor2k: PM'd you.

Bart: I just realized you said..... "I'm running with the emanage turned on, without the turbo installed and it's running really rich.. feels great, smells terrible."

I'd wait til the turbo is in before connecting the emanage. Just to be on the safe side... not sure what effects it'll have if connected without the turbo. In reality it shouldn't do anything until you go into boost but I'm not positive.

 

Anyone know where the stock bov is located?

 

Stock BOV ? I don't believe there is any such thing. For the Greddy the kit does not come with a stock BOV. You have to weld a BOV mount w/ flange into the intake tube.

 

Are you serious? Isn't that kind of dangerous? What kind of spark plugs do you recommend btw?

 

Most kits Greddy sells are incomplete. Doesn't mean you should drive it around that way. It wouldn't be as bad if they sold it as an incomplete kit, but they sell it as if its plug and play.

 

It's not that much to have a shop weld it. It's pricier to actually buy the BOV and the flange. However, 5 psi aint gonna kill u or ur compressor if u drive it until u can get the pipe welded anyway. But, I agree. Greddy should notify or make it obvious instead of appearing to have a whole kit.

 

thats true

 

Couldn't finish again today, we got kind of tired and hungry so the decision was decided.. we went home for the night. Everything other than the installation of the remaining intercooler pipes and a few other small parts, including the re-installation of practically all that was removed! By the way, did you guys remove have to remove the front stabilzer bar? I'm going to try and work around it with the piping; if you did how hard was it to remove?




Looking at the throttle body..





Exhaust manifold and turbo in place..





Rotor housings..

 

looks like you are missing a stud on the manifold to turbo flange....

 

nice job mad dog. bart he just save you one million dollars in work....

and great photos...

beers

 

Wow nice pictures!!

I have never seen the underbody of the 8, wow the renesis sits SUPER low, only thing seperating the motor from the road is the oil pan, wow... the renesis is really really small too
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Vaporizer Wiki

 

Yeah I know, we didn't put it on yet.

Thanks mate, yeah he's been a HUGE help. I had him most of the mounting while I was doing the intercooler, putting together the Airinix, e-manage installation, and removing the stock parts etc..

 

Thanks again, yeah I have a bunch of more pictures that I'll post after everything is done. I'm dieng to get on the road! Oh and if you're wondering why the RX-8 is tilted a bit on the lift, it's because one of the engine brackets is taken off. You guys have to see the car after its been sitting on the lift for 2 days, it looks like a monster truck because of the springs.

 

I'm most likely going to get a bov flange and a bov tomorrow morning, do you guys know if the hose from the bov goes to the wastegate?

 

You'll also find it much easier to install the downpipe if you remove all but the top stud, place the downpipe, thread the nut onto the stud, and then install the other studs.

 

Grow up!

 

Anyway, thanks for the tip rkostolni.

I'm still trying to decide which BOV to get.. i'll probably just get it later down the road. I might have to run down to pep boys and pick up a $15 boost guage just to make sure I don't have any boost spikes. I'm currently in the process of figuring out what the hell I want to do with my gauge setup; probably just going to do the Defi imperial boost/ext temp.