1985 RX8... gotta see this!
09-30-2005 | 01:06 PM
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From: Columbia, SC
Pretty cool car on it's own, but yah too expensive and the RX-8 badging is just stupid. I would rather have the rotary engine too, but this one could be fun, although I wonder how they handled the HUGE weight difference up front.
09-30-2005 | 01:53 PM
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From: Buffalo Grove IL
I had an '85 RX-7. This guy has committed caricide.
That car has to drive like an over-powered grocery cart. They took a car with a 140 engine block and swapped in a 650 lb engine that's further forward? With that much power, here's what will happen:
Rear end: Toast - I went through rear end main yoke seals like kleenex on my 1985 RX-7. it couldn't handle the driveline shock and torque from my lightly-tweaked RX-7 (timing adjustments, higher flow fuel pump, over-jetted carb, polished/ported intake manifold), let alone this thing.
Rear traction - I could get rear wheelspin with my 107 HP 12A carbureated engine. Can't imagine what changing the weight bias of the car, and then 3x the power will do to that!
Handling - the nose of that has to plow like a John Deere.
Yikes.
That car has to drive like an over-powered grocery cart. They took a car with a 140 engine block and swapped in a 650 lb engine that's further forward? With that much power, here's what will happen:
Rear end: Toast - I went through rear end main yoke seals like kleenex on my 1985 RX-7. it couldn't handle the driveline shock and torque from my lightly-tweaked RX-7 (timing adjustments, higher flow fuel pump, over-jetted carb, polished/ported intake manifold), let alone this thing.
Rear traction - I could get rear wheelspin with my 107 HP 12A carbureated engine. Can't imagine what changing the weight bias of the car, and then 3x the power will do to that!
Handling - the nose of that has to plow like a John Deere.
Yikes.
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