Obviously you're not...

Its not that hard, I drove my 04 straight from the dealership to the track spare tire and all (Stock wheels with Toyo Proxie 4s) and clicked off a (no burn out, anyone who actually races even semi competitively knows that burnouts will often offer negative returns on run of the mill street tires)14.66 then a (forgot to turn DSC off)14.71 and last run was a 14.6 flat (Same as first run but being the 3rd time I raced it, not bad considering I expected 14.8s)

It can be done. Takes the driver mod before anything else. OP ran a 16 because he can't drive, period. Race tracks weed out the thinkers from the doers and has a knack for brusing egos and shinning a bit of reality on a lot of people who "assume" what they or their cars are capable of.

I agree with the statements that this isn't a drag car, even the turbo'd RX8s are slow. These cars shine in the corners adn if you want to appreciate this car in all of its oil injected gas guzzling torqueless splendor than you should switch your hobbies.

 

Back when I had my 8. With basic bolt ons, and perfect launches, my best time was a 14.6. Can't wait to take the Z to the track!

 

Stop giving the guy a hard time. If you want to take the car to the strip go for it.

Here's the line of thinking that infects a lot of people's minds on here:
"I have no torque, my cars slower than all the other sports cars, i shouldn't even bother with measuring the cars acceleration ability"

Well performance is relative, 30-years ago the rx-8 would have been faster than just about any production car. The owners of those cars wouldn't have been embarassed to see what their quarter times were so why should we be?

 

I'm uh, going to take a slight issue with the last part of that... The car was made 6 years ago... not 30 years ago. That's an extremely silly statement, as I'm sure people 30 years ago would have seen the Prius as impressive.

I'm not one to judge what you do with the car. You can make the 8 into a drag car if you want. And some of the reactions on this thread are a little excessive, the guy just posted the results and admitted his mistakes.

 

wurd.

everyone needs to calm down

 

Not to mention our cars are faster then most stock vettes ever made (prior to c5). Most c4s would have a hard time running better then a 14.5 1/4 stock.

 

OMG DUDE JUST STFU AND GO AWAY LEARN2DRAG

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Keep it up, man. You'll get down there.

 

that pretty much sums up your post
where's the proof?

oh, btw I ran a 14 flat on the drag strip completely stock in the snow.

 

you win some you lose some, i raced once on a strip and won....but at a slow time. that is all. I already tryed to bump this thread...my throwout bearing is almost done for, with a weak 80k mile clutch and I couldnt get it into 2ed gear and thought I heard horrible noises from my trans and thought I fucked it up...(2ed race, called it quits)

 

This is why you should never try. To avoid the disappointment when you fail.

This^^^ It has become my motto.

 

When your bracket racing at the track your racing yourself... When its heads up its a different story... Half of the people I talk to have no clue about Drag Racing at the strip aka bracket racing.. Majority of the tracks around this area is bracket only and once in a while they have a sport compact class that has a head up race but it is very rare...


Ive qualified for the Midwest 2 years in a row for the Divison Finals in the Sportsman class.. First year 1978 Transam 6.6 Liter aka (Pontiac 400) and it ran like 11.02s in the eight haha!!! Then I ran a 99 Eclipse in the eight and it ran 10.42s - 10.89 Pending on the weather... Then going down and racing on a quarter mile is totally a different story :P

 

Me too, except mine was all up hill. If you were double clutching like you should you would have been in the mid 13s

 

my first time out on the 1/8 mile my best time was 9.73, after that tho it seemed like all my times were getting slower by about .2 and i asked my dad how this could happen since im really a Noob at it all, said it might be the clutch getting hot, does this sound about right?

i only went 5-6 runs, dont let anyone tell you not to race it, i saw 4 other 8's there that night. its a good time even if your slow, lots of good people where we go anyways.

 

HAHA Just by the way youre talking, I bet you don't you don't get a 14 second timeslip until you've been to the track several more times. I know you have absolutely no clue what you're doing, and you think you do.

Ya. 14's are not hard in an RX8. HAHA go one more time, and enjoy getting 15 second slip after 15 second slip after 15 second slip. Post them all for me. I want to laugh.

 

i was at the drag strip this past weekend watching other cars drag. I though to myself i want to do that but then when i got in my car and felt no torque...i felt sad.

 

these cars are slow in the drag. just drive them and enjoy them. or go FI.

 

All I can say is most people look at drag racing at the track aka bracket racing as if you have to have a fast car and thats not the case at all.. It doesnt matter how fast your car is its how consistent you are driving it and how good of a light your cutting off the tree.. I could be running 5 seconds slower than most of you and prolly still win .. Even though a faster car has more room for errors

 

Hey, not to change the subject but how does that 370Z handle compared to the 8? Is it a drivers car and as much fun? I like the improvements they made over the 350Z. Seems Nissan is making a more serious sportscar now.

 

I've seen you use that comparison a couple times. So, my crappy GTO "boat" will blow the doors off a 1984 Ferrari Testarossa. What does that mean? I don't think it means a damn thing.

Technology has has so vastly improved over the last 25 years that it's not even worth making a comparison. There are SUV's today that accelerate, brake and handle better than some exotics from that era. I think it's senseless to compare them.

And, to let you know, your facts are wrong as well. "Most C4's?" No. Not even close. The '84 C4 came with a 205hp L83. It would have a hard time keeping with the RX8 in a straight line. But, the next year, they moved to the L98 with 230hp and continuously improved it to the point it had 245hp in 1991, not to mention 345 lb-ft of torque.
Those C4's will run a low 14 in the quarter and that's a proven fact.

Anything past 1992, and you can forget being in the same ballpark. The Vette got the LT1 with 300hp and 340 lb-ft torque, and would run 13's all day long.

So, about the only C4's that the RX8 has a chance against are the 1984, and the 1985-1986 models, and I'm being gracious. Other than that, of the 8 year C4 run from '87 to '95, all of them can dust an RX8.

Can you tell I like talking about that kind of stuff?

 

lolol. your reaction time does not play into your ET time.

your ET starts when your car moves part the start line. so, congrats. your time is your time. you could wait there for 10 seconds.

that said, i will once again throw in my 14.4 completely stock. and thats a 9.3 in the 1/8 mile. yeah bitches.

 

I guess my point is, it's gonna take a hell of lot more than a new clutch to net your a 14.5 second quarter mile in a stock RX8.

You think you're to going to pull that off easy, and I'm telling you... it's not. You need PRACTICE. Ask kersh4w, someone who actually did it.

 

Your reaction time is very important at the track it may not reflect your Time going down the track but taking off of the line is so important its not even funny. Many people have said this before but do you see a guy with a one second reaction time beating a guy cutting lights at .501 - .530s? (.500 being perfect other tracks can vary how they rate them but its still the same concept).

The way that I am taking your comment is that you can wait all day agaisnt another guy taking off the light even if they have a faster car and beat you at the end and you take off after he finishes and you are dead on your dial in you can still win. But that isnt the case at all.. I might have just misunderstood what you said but thats what you are kinda implying. Please point me in the right direction of your thinking sir.

 

Better luck next time. At least it was practice.

 

your ET is the time YOU run the 1/4 mile in. most times when you go to a test n tune or whatever. you are simply running for times. you're not really running against the guy in the next lane. because the guy in the next lane is just randomly put there by whoever pulls into that lane. its not exactly a "fair race" when a cammed, ported, nitrous'd z28 pulls into the staging lane next to a stock rx8. the 2 drivers are simply running for their own times. if the rx8 driver thinks he has a chance, well. he is pretty flat out retarded. so thats what im saying.

unless you are doing a grudge match, or you are actually racing in a league, 95% of the time people go to the drag strips its for times. its fun to say you won the race too. but i lost my 14.4 1/4 mile time. the guy next to me was in a transam and he ran 12s. i wasnt racing him. i was racing the clock. and the clock doesnt start until you move past the start line. which is why you "stage deep" at the start line. so you can get that extra few inches of momentum and speed before you start the race.

further, my reaction time on that run was a 1.017. i wasnt trying to jump the gun asap, i was going for the best launch possible. since then i've worked that launch down to .500 and i can still maintain my 2.00 second 60' foot and lower mid 14s. please go ahead and tell me i can subtract that 1.01 from my 14.4 and that my car could run mid 13s stock.

rofl.

 

o yeah... i filled my tank in 1:32 flat yesterday... now thats a time worth caring about