The cobb was never produced for this car...

I was referring to accessport....

Indeed. This forum is for the s2, find me an accessPORT for the s2 rx8 please :)

:eek:

I fail at life....

Why did I not notice that :Wconfused

Nevermind, i knew that you were talking about the S1 but i just wanted to feel like an e-thug for once in my life you know :smoker:
We all fail at life by reading a forum so that's not a big issue either :cwm27:

haha, we're all E-thugs at heart. betta rekognyze

im going to tune my ECU by hanging over to amemiya guys...they do have maps for s2 now, and so does knightsports.

for real ?
any information about that ?

As everyone else has already stated it would cost you mega loot. Get yourself a Cobb.

Please read before post. This is s2 section.

My bad. I guess your options are limited then.

i know, and i know there is only 2 atm which is knightsports and re amemiya .. which is i need more information about them now ..

Good luck.

You should see what kind of service they offer. You can't just slam a map on a car and call it a day. PCM tuning doesn't work this way.
If this is what they do then i would just be like buying an accessport on a s1 and sticking to the base map. Useless.
That's the only info you need, both Re Amemiya and KnightSports are good companies with a lot of rotary knowledge. Well, they probably know more than 85% of the vendors in here :)

well, i just got this information today up there
"im going to tune my ECU by hanging over to amemiya guys...they do have maps for s2 now, and so does knightsports."
and i want further information about the map they provide now for s2.. thats is it i believe, of cos i know that i cant just slam a s1 map on my call and call it my day .. :P

I was not referring to s1 maps but to the fact that dropping just a "standard" upgraded tune simply isn't worth the effort and money :)

yea, but thats the only choice for us s2 :(

While not ideal (no ability for the end-user to adjust tune), I'd look at the following two options if I wanted ECU tuning for a S2:

1) http://www.hypertech.com/
2) http://www.dptune.com/

HhyperTech would require someone to loan them a car for a few days at their Bartlett, TN facility, while DPTune would be able to give you a custom dyno tune for your mods at their Atlanta and/or Texas facilities.

My $0.02...

DPTune has the RX8 listed, but does not mention s1 or s2 or any power #s for the RX8.

The other site had mostly euro and domestic.

Do they have any rotary experience?

Everyone here seems to have an aversion to piggyback. I think the aversion was from people running greddy emanage blue with their turbo kit, which had a lot of short comings for making reliable power. I'm leaning towards FCON IS or EMANAGE Ultimate. They both can have wideband integration, and probably the most cost effective at this point.

If we could dig up enough people on here that know what they're doing, I would be interested in figuring out how to flash our PCM. I used to lurk on openecu/romraider.

The aversion to piggy backs is primarily because the only truly used and tested options were the microtech, EMBlue, and EMU. All three had some pretty poor design flaws and were very limited in what they can and cannot do.

Not to mention that both Emanage options are flat out nightmares if wired the way instructions recommend, the only proven way to get consistent results from them was custom wiring. None of the three offered the granularity needed to produce an OEM quality or better idle, and that alone should be your first clue to stay away.

DPTune has the software to flash almost all ECU's. Most of their rotary customers are road race guys.

HyperTech has a product avsailable for the '04-'08 RX-8. Nothing currently available for the '09+ RX-8, but they have been willing to work with almost any customer. They would just need a customer car for a few days to develop a tune.

Not saying either of these options are as good as the Cobb AP, but having options is better than none at all.

It takes time to crack an Ecu, i seriously doubt that dptune and hypertech could do that in "days".
There are some new Haltech pcms that may be made to work with s2 cars, somebody just gotta figure out the wiring to retain some functionalities from the stock pcm.
The Haltechs are cheap but most of them still feature a low 16x16 resolution and no MAF support. Probably no staged intake support either, i didn't check.
Link's g4 looks like another viable option, so is the hks fcon-vpro.
All these options are still inferior to an accessPORT for a street car and about twice the price.
The problem is that nobody is serious enough to spend the right money to do it, ranting about the lack of solutions is easier! :)

I downloaded IDA pro...
Need to find some documentation to point me in the right direction, and the time to get anything done.

In fact we have had the software cracked for the denso units in both versions of the RX8 for sometime.

If there is anyone that would like to give us a try, I'll be happy to extend a free reflash to one of the forum members so you guys can get more info on our service

Joe McClughan
Dynotronics,Inc
www.DPTune.com