Just picked up a 2004 RX-8 :)

[TitaniumTT]

Kewl man!!!! Sooooooooo hot runs @ night this year in the 8? I'm bringing mine down without a doubt :

Originally Posted by reddozen

If I was keeping mine past the new RX7 release, I would be doing this. Especially since there's a mounting bracket to bolt it right in....

Mounting it isn't the problem at all.... it's dealing with all the electronic trickery associated with it. I would LOVE to turbo mine, or swap something else in there, but it's just toooooo much of a PITA, plus.... it's my daily so no thanks.... after I get like an M3 or something along those lines for a daily, then I'll REALLy start to play with the 8, until then..... alllllll bolt on's and remain emissions legal

[reddozen]

Originally Posted by TitaniumTT

Mounting it isn't the problem at all.... it's dealing with all the electronic trickery associated with it. I would LOVE to turbo mine, or swap something else in there, but it's just toooooo much of a PITA, plus.... it's my daily so no thanks.... after I get like an M3 or something along those lines for a daily, then I'll REALLy start to play with the 8, until then..... alllllll bolt on's and remain emissions legal

Yea, I know what you mean. I'm happy I have gotten over 30k miles on my bridge.

From what I've read about the REW swap, it shouldn't be too bad at all. A guy in Greece did an RE swap and said that he only had to modify like 2~3 things to get all the factory dials etc working. With an access port you can be "emissions legal" and disable all the engine codes, or do you have actual sniff tests? We just have OBD2 plug in to scan for engine codes.

Here's the guys thread, but it seems like he posted the list of things to modify in a different thread...
http://www.rx8club.com/major-horsepo...e-swap-159291/

[TitaniumTT]

Originally Posted by djmtsu

And why didn't you buy mine Kevin??

Because he knows you need a rotary car to be @ DGRR

Originally Posted by reddozen

Yea, I know what you mean. I'm happy I have gotten over 30k miles on my bridge.

From what I've read about the REW swap, it shouldn't be too bad at all. A guy in Greece did an RE swap and said that he only had to modify like 2~3 things to get all the factory dials etc working. With an access port you can be "emissions legal" and disable all the engine codes, or do you have actual sniff tests? We just have OBD2 plug in to scan for engine codes.

Here's the guys thread, but it seems like he posted the list of things to modify in a different thread...
http://www.rx8club.com/major-horsepo...e-swap-159291/

Mounting it and doing all the mechanical things shouldn't be very hard at all.... it would be tricking all the factory ECU shit to work properly that I think would be a royal PITA.... We've done one here, which now resides in FL I believe and I heard some horror stories from that project.... however, now that it's been done and learned, it shouldn't be that bad. We've actually got one here that's getting an REW swap that we've started on.... and by started on I mean we stripped it down and then pushed it outside for a few months while we wait on parts and money

I'll let you know how that goes.

We don't have a sniff test for OBDII... just plug in and scan....