O Poder do Wenkel MAZDA RX 8 950cv
O Poder do Wenkel MAZDA RX 8 950cv
Mazda 2004 RX-8 Revolucio Sport GT
MAZDASPEED front bumper cover custom modified with inlet
Carbon Fiber headlight eyelids>
Spirt R badging
Custom upholstered seats and door inserts
JIC coilovers
Carbon Fiber front strut tower bar
Racing Brake rotors
19” PIAA Superrozza (19x9 front, 19x10 rear)
Hankook Ventus (275-35/19 rear, 245-30/19 front)
20B 3-rotor
Acosta Racing ported and polished
Acosta Racing custom stainless steel turbo manifold
Acosta Racing intercooler
Acosta Racing downpipe
Acosta Racing fuel rails
Aluminum intercooler piping
Internal fuel pumps (2)
Magnaflow fuel regulator
Unorthodox Racing pulley
RPS Clutch
RPS Flywheel
3MM apex seals
Tial 46 mm Wastegate
Tial Blowoff valve
Microtech engine management
A closer look would have revealed the raised lettering that explains it all - "3 Rotor". Look a little further and you would have spotted the polished turbocharger nestled alongside the engine. Yes, if you were at the Mazda R&D Center in Irvine, CA. last year, you too could have seen the first known turbocharged 3-rotor powered RX-8. The Acosta Racing turbocharged 20B-powered 3-rotor RX-8 is the brainchild of the son of a well-known rotary racer – Marcos Acosta, Sr – as a way to promote the family tuning business and a good way to let off some steam on long stretches of open road. The elder Acosta campaigned a rotary powered Mazda MX-3-bodied tube chassis drag racer in the late nineties and had success in a few championship runs in the import drag racing circuit. His success has helped their import performance tuning business - Acosta Racing - gain notoriety as a Mazda aftermarket performance and racing specialist. Marcos Jr. had been involved in running the day-to-day operations of the Wallington, NJ business and firmly caught up in the family's predilection for Mazda rotary power for a few years when the RX-8 bowed to the cheers of rotary fans everywhere.
It wasn't long before Marcos Jr. walked into his local Mazda dealership and put down a deposit for the RX-8. But besides being a nice new daily driver for himself, Marcos Jr. had other plans already in mind. With over a decade worth of experience in tuning the 3-rotor 20B powerplant, the Acostas decided that it would be a way to showcase their tuning abilities and gain a little notoriety to be the first to swap a 3-rotor powerplant in place of the factory Renesis 2-rotor. They were right. Within weeks of the event, rotary forums across the country were filled with whispers about a 20B RX-8 and the car followed up its debut with an appearance at the annual SEMA aftermarket supershow in Las Vegas and caught the eyes of tens of thousands more people. In fact, Modified Magazine spotted it and shot it for their next cover feature on the spot. Hankook tires saw the car and was impressed enough to offer one of the first prototype sets of their Ventus performance tires.
The attention was apt reward for the 30+ days of labor that went into creating the unique RX-8. While the 3-rotor 20B was going to be the new heart of the RX-8, a Garrett T76 dual ball bearing turbocharger was going to really change the character of the RX-8 personality from a sporty 4-door road carver to a Godzilla on wheels. With a target of 900+ hp, the Acostas reached deep into their tuning pockets and came out with a slew of modifications to the basic 20B powerplant. An Acosta Racing port job was executed; water jacks were implemented for better cooling; extra down pins were installed for high boost safety; and 3 mm apex seals were installed. Sitting on an Acosta stainless steel turbo manifold, the turbo is plumbed to a 46 mm Tial wastegate, a Tial blowoff valve, aluminum intercooler pipes, custom down pipes, and a custom Acosta-designed front mount intercooler.