RippinRich

Howdy!

I currently own a 2022 2SS 1LE and I absolutely love the car, it's a track monster. But on track, I get 2mpg, 3 days on a set of $1600 tires, 4 days on $600 brake pads. Last year I did 20 track days in a 2017 BRZ, and I wish I could do that again this year in the Camaro but it just cost way to much.

So I am considering switching back to a light car that I can time attack out and run more often. I am down to either a brz again or an RX8 with the LFX swap. Any advice to Time attacking out an RX8 would be helpful.

Thanks!

Loki

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Are you classing or doing it for fun?
RX-8s generally do best in stock or street-mod classes. The 8 engine is largely maxed out from the factory, whereas a co-class stock car generally still has overhead.

Otherwise it's a big Miata with a weird engine. Stock with reliability mods good tires and you're ready to have fun. Tune from there, no point overspeccing it until you know what you want to fix.


Read up on rx8help.com for new buyer advice, it's compiled from info on this forum.

RippinRich

I think ill start in stock/ street mod and throw some sticky fat tires and big brake kit on first and snowball from there, while I acquire the parts for a swap.

Loki

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Don't need a BBK, just good pads. I only have one because I like the look and it was basically free.. and my racing days are kinda past Stock brakes are VERY good.

RippinRich

I have heard the stock breaks are good but I usually get my brakes pretty hot and I have always found bigger calipers to disapate the heat and brake ducts to be very beneficial.

toplessFC3Sman

At least for HPDEs, if you have stock power levels, the stock brakes are more than sufficient. Just swapping to some Hawk HP+ pads on stock rotors (since I didn't know what the previous owner had on the car), I've done 10 days of HPDEs (so 5 20-min sessions/day) and they're about half worn. Brake feel was firm and consistent the whole time, even downhill on Mid-Ohio's back straight after a long, hot session. I had a leaking rubber line after a couple days, and replaced the rubber lines on all 4 corners with braided lines and Motul RBF660 brake fluid for the increase in boiling point (not that I felt that I was boiling the regular DOT 4, but since I was flushing it anyway...). So, from a consumables perspective, the RX-8 is great, all you'll go through is gas (I see roughly 6 mpg on-track, but often don't downshift to 2nd to get the last few 1/10ths). This is nothing like a Camaro 1LE on-track, in many ways (some good, some a bit lacking).

TeamRX8

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most people here can’t offer any common sense, let alone advice

like going on about the crappy Renesis engine even though you clearly stated doing a known good drivetrain swap

I rest my case.
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Loki

iTrader: (1)

For someone who loves freedom, that's a lot of controlling tendencies. Move along if you're not going to contribute Team.