Has anyone noticed that the production RX-8 only have one TB and all the pics of the pre-produciton motors show it with two separate TB's, one small one large?

Check out :

http://home.att.net/~mazdarx8/901-0185_IMG.JPG
and
http://home.att.net/~mazdarx8/901-0187_IMG.JPG

and compare to your engine

 

...maybe because that's a display engine, and hence had a lot of the rather large intake hardware "trimmed", it left the two primary intake tracts open, and they decided that fitting two TB's would look cooler than just two open holes...???

 

It looks to me that the intake manifold that is on the produciton engine is quite a bit lower than the dual setup seen in the pics.

The single TB that is on the produciton engine looks quite a bit larger than either of the two shown in the pics as well.

Just seems a bit odd to me that they would have designed it like that to begin with and then changed to a single TB.

I figure the flow of air could be controlled quite well with the double TB.

 

The dual TB was a "proof of concept" design that later became the SSV (secondary shutter valves)

 

Dam thread from 2003. Its hard to believe its been 4 years now that I have had my car and it still turns heads.

 

Not just a post from '03, but also a user with a join date of Jan 02! I've never seen someone that old!!! SureShot - are you for real? It's almost as if we're in the presence of royalty, or something....

Oh, yeah, Dominion... It's the headlights in your sig that are turning all the heads right now. Where do they come from? Care to share??!?!

 

why u so ressurect