RX8 with a TURBO

[polishrotor]

Yea Hey my name is Paul and i luv rotaries. im new to the mazda rotary club but i just wanna ask if it is possible to put a turbo into a stock RX8? coz i herd u cant but i dunno
is it also true that mazda is making a RX8 TURBO in a couple of years?

fanks laterz

[g11ary]

You can turbo or supercharge the RX8 engine but it will also depend on which model you have 4 or 6 port engine. As I had bought one to turbo charge and put in my RX7, although it would also have had a major amount of work done to it internally. But yes anything is poss if you want to through enough money at it.

[clive]

Welcome to Mazdarotaryclub.com from all the Team,

The rumors are still sadly not able to be confermed, l have even heard rumbles of a hydraulic Supercharger.

Interestingly Mazda at the Tokyo MotorShow they put on Show the Renisis Hydrogen RE engine which features a Mazda hybrid Turbo that is coupled to an inverter via a 144Volt battery to help the Turbo spool up at 1,000 RPM then the Turbo works in a conventional manner,

They have been testing this set up in an RX-8.

[BlueAdept]

I\'ve spoken to one of the SSR guys casually since he is a mamber of one of the US forums, and the suggestion was that the kit would be available in a few weeks, at an estimated cost of ~$6800

http://www.ssr-engineering.com/products_rx8turbo.php

[mr_tim]

IIRC one of my Option mags at home has a comparison of forced induction RX-8s. I\'ll dig it out.

[mr_tim]

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[chrisBoid]

Hmmm, with the turbo; peak power at 7800rpm is 190kW, which is about 255bhp (190 x 1.3410), a nice improvement

Wish I could read Japanese

edit : just read under the graph 265ps, about 261bhp