I had heard bad things about the RSX kit, but never really researched their kits at all. I installed an RX8 kit last weekend and was not at all impressed. They included one oil fitting that was not even close to correct, so I had to wait till monday to get the correct one. The intercooler doesn't really fit. Finally got it running, it overboosted (supposed to be 6.5, saw 8 and immediatly shut down) and now the turbo is pouring oil into the charge pipe. Haven't even driven 10 miles on it yet.



Only thing nice was that the emanage was very shiny.

 

There are plenty of people running them without issue, but I'd still rather put together my own kit. My biggest gripe would be the undersized turbos they use.

 

well my friend just called me and told me it's dead. He had it idling with the hood up, heard a loud popping noise and a puff of smoke came out from near the ignition coils. Now it's only running on the front rotor. this is why I own Honda's.

 

i have the greddy kit runnin on a hondata reflash. worked flawlessly for 2 yrs now. its a great kit, just doesnt put out much more power than 300bhp.

 

IMO the only way to deal with OBD2 cars - rip the ecu out and go 100% aftermarket, or incase of Evo/Sti/etc, reflash the ecu with the right software.

As far as the kit goes, if your friend didn't let the oil heat up, he'd be shooting high oil pressure into the chra, which will cook any turbo w/o an oil restrictor. I'm almost guessing its a BB turbo due to the price of the kit, and those definately need oil restrictors.

 

I owe 2 Honda's and an Rx7. Nothing wrong with rotaries as long they are well looked after and job done right. Just had mine single turbo converted too, awaiting dyno and ECU mapping.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by HiProfile &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">As far as the kit goes, if your friend didn't let the oil heat up, he'd be shooting high oil pressure into the chra, which will cook any turbo w/o an oil restrictor. I'm almost guessing its a BB turbo due to the price of the kit, and those definately need oil restrictors.</TD></TR></TABLE>

It is a kit, if it needed an oil restrictor, it should have come with it.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by xci_ed6 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">well my friend just called me and told me it's dead. He had it idling with the hood up, heard a loud popping noise and a puff of smoke came out from near the ignition coils. Now it's only running on the front rotor. this is why I own Honda's.</TD></TR></TABLE>

the emanage prolly killed one of the coils. Emanage does that a lot on coil-on-plug nissans.