Matt RX8

So I have now broken in my car and I took it all the way to 9K rpm on Saturday.

It sounds absolutely amazing and it's extremely exhilirating. :D

Just thought I'd share....


Can't wait for this weekend when I'm doing a 2 day autocross school . It will be my first time pushing the 8 to it's handling limits.

rx8wannahave

9K = Extra smiles

Here is my issue, I have a 05, I have not heard the beep as of yet and I don't know why? I can't remember right now if I had the radio on or something but I thought I could hear with the radilo on or not. It's not like I have my radio high (mostly between 7-9) and my 3-5 trips to 9K so far have been silent.

I'll have to try it again and hopefully I will hear it.

???

Oh, have fun at the driving school!

Gambit

beep = happy

vdelvec

The beep is not super loud. Sometimes the engine roar makes the beep impossible to hear and if you have a window down, its also hard to hear.

StewC625

Let me know how that was ... I'll be running in several events this summer with SCCA in Joliet. See you there!

Stew

G8rboy

Ahh... It's good for your soul. Remember, 9k a day will keep the carbon away :D

Aseras

I don't get it?

Ellar

::eyeing you suspiciously::

Sure you ain't one of 'em Sub-a-roo types?

miendiem

Yes, 9k is a lot of fun. ^_^ And have fun with your autocrossing, Machan. It'll be a blast, surely.

Matt RX8

Thanks everyone.

So at night, does the tach needle turn blue at redline???

Saint_Spinner

I asked the same before....turned out it was BS...or simply the blue LEDS ontop of the gauge clusters shining down onto the needle as it points up (closer to the blue light source)

rx8wannahave

Not that I've seen...but then again I aint hearing either, maybe something is wrong with me...lol.

I drive with the windows down most of the time so I guess the "beep" is not helping me much.

Aseras

I got a nice new 04 yellow but only 200 miles and I'm grannying the thing to death. what are you guys talking about?

ÜberJumper

Aseras:

At 9000 RPM, the car emits a beep as you hit the redline.

Machan:

With the "white" dash lights off, as the RPM needle climbs through 7K RPM, the blue glow reflects off it. I don't believe it's a feature.

Matt RX8

Actually my beep comes on at 8500 rpm, right where you hit the crosshatched bit on the tach.

It's cool that the guy in the Top Gear video makes a point of the chime coming on.

He said something like "The engine is so smooth it doesn't feel like it's running on anything as coarse as petrol. It feels like it's running on DOUBLE CREAM..."

JOHNRX8

The only way i can here the beep is if the windows are up, stereo is off AND i'm listening for it, otherwise its to quite to hear!

G8rboy

Same here... I think I've heard it once with the windows down, but I was listening for it. Going 90 in 3rd can be pretty noisy with the sunroof and windows down

rx8wannahave

I saw a video from Japan where this guy was racing around and shifting at 9.2K all the time and I heard the beep very clearly...but I don't get why in my car I can't hear it???

Maybe the tone was TONED down...lol