About

These products were created by a fellow RX8 owner that got fed up with the shortcomings of this car.

Everyone said "get it compression tested first", but where? I didn't have any local dealership who could do it, and even when there was one, the cost of a single test was nothing to sneeze at. It came to my mind that if I needed a compression tester that won't cost an arm and a leg, then I should be the one to create it.

I started prototyping with an oscilloscope, a pressure transducer and a laptop. 
After melting a starter and destroying another one I was done developing the core function of the compression tester, that is, to find the peaks of compression on every rotor face. Beyond that, showing data on a LCD, compensating for RPM, altitude, some extra features, it really wasn't too much of a stretch.

Production started in 2020 and has been ongoing ever since, providing hundreds of customers with a "stealership" tool for the cost of what they would have paid for 1 compression test.

Getting confident I can make a difference for many people I went on and created something even more daring: a way to turn those pesky coolant and oil gauges inside the RX8 cluster into something useful.

It turned out to be doable, and work very well. Installation surely was not very easy, but being a retrofit/mod, soldering had to be used. There really is not much to it, just soldering some wires to some points the manual tells you to.

I was frustrated with Mazda not putting a true oil pressure sensor in the RX8 or any other car of that age so I had to supply my customers with one and the hardware needed to use it; surely the money saved was not worth it, was it Mazda?
At least for coolant temp things were pretty straightforward and didn't require a sensor at all - this lead to the creation of a version for S2 RX8s, the ones that do not have an oil pressure gauge inside their cluster. 

Anyway, none of my endeavors would have been possible without trusting customers that saw what can be done when passion, rotors, engineering and perseverance all meet together. 

What no one has achieved in the 18 years since this car was mad... really baffled my mind. So many people wished for these gauges, and here they are, albeit kind of too late. Not in my eyes, for as long as there is gasoline (and oil, duh!), the rotary shall live on!

By the start of 2023 I've started doing a little something for the MX5 crowd as well, and may I say it turned out 10 times as good as I had hoped it would.