Mazda RX-8 run 6:74 @ 204

04-15-2005, 02:53 PM

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Mazda RX-8 run 6:74 @ 204

Fastest Rotary Powered drag run ever.... Abel Ibarra and the Flaco Racing Mazda RX-8

http://rotarynews.com/node/view/590

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04-15-2005, 03:53 PM

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that's freaking fast.

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04-15-2005, 03:54 PM

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Abel's my hero - sweet run man!

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04-15-2005, 04:04 PM

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wonder what the gas mileage is ?

JUST kIDDING

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04-15-2005, 04:07 PM

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No wheel hop I bet. I'd like to see what tires he used.

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04-15-2005, 04:16 PM

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Abel is the man!

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04-15-2005, 05:14 PM

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awesome, but where are the dyno sheets and time slips? :D lol j/k

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04-15-2005, 06:04 PM

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whoa, that's fast. Too bad it's not really an RX-8.

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04-16-2005, 02:37 AM

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whoa, that's fast. Too bad it's not really an RX-8.

well it kind of is...a really really really light RX-8 :D

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04-16-2005, 02:42 AM

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^ Paint work? Yes. It's a shell and hollow tube chassis (i think). As for the engine, well it is a rotary but that's about as close as our renesis could get. I think someone mentioned here that it is using a 20B(?) Regardless, it's not renesis. Some day, we will be able to boast that it is one of our RX-8s.

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04-16-2005, 05:01 AM

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Quote:

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^ Paint work? Yes. It's a shell and hollow tube chassis (i think). As for the engine, well it is a rotary but that's about as close as our renesis could get. I think someone mentioned here that it is using a 20B(?) Regardless, it's not renesis. Some day, we will be able to boast that it is one of our RX-8s.

who cares, it's still a remarkable accomplishment regardless of semantics, and it is an Rx8 shell, so in drag racing circles it is known as an RX8. Same as some of these guys running funny cars and the like with Mustang bodies on them, they're still calling them mustangs, it would sound a bit crappy to hear the race announcer say "John Force just ran a 4 sec 1/4 in his tube framed, blown v8 w/ n2o with a mustang body blah blah blah......." as opposed to just saying he made a 4 second pass in a Mustang.

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04-16-2005, 03:28 PM

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What does that mean 6:74?

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04-16-2005, 04:09 PM

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6 and 74 one-hundreth seconds can be recorded as 6:74 or more commonly, at least in my experience, 6.74

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04-16-2005, 06:32 PM

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What does that mean 6:74?

it means it's fast! :p :D

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04-16-2005, 07:02 PM

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Oh wow, I get it. :p

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04-16-2005, 08:04 PM

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it is a rx-8 and i touched it before i touched at the tokyo auto salon 2005 it got a 20b and it got 1500hp lol

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04-17-2005, 11:18 AM

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it is a rx-8 and i touched it before i touched at the tokyo auto salon 2005 it got a 20b and it got 1500hp lol

You sound like a kid in a toy store. lol :D

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05-03-2005, 10:25 PM

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Quote:

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it is a rx-8 and i touched it before i touched at the tokyo auto salon 2005 it got a 20b and it got 1500hp lol

its a 20b? thats a LOT of power for a 20b, what kind of porting, supercharger or turbo charger and nos system is on that thing?

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05-04-2005, 07:25 AM

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its a 20b? thats a LOT of power for a 20b, what kind of porting, supercharger or turbo charger and nos system is on that thing?

I'm pretty sure it's a large peripheral port. The turbo is gigantic. It could probably double as a wood chipper.

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05-04-2005, 03:17 PM

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Quote:

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its a 20b? thats a LOT of power for a 20b, what kind of porting, supercharger or turbo charger and nos system is on that thing?

20B special turbo street-port on methanol, GT-55 custom turbo set-up, running +35lbs of boost.

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05-04-2005, 04:28 PM

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Wow!! It can get to 200mph faster than an auto Rx8 gets to 60! :p

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05-04-2005, 04:41 PM

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it is a rx-8 and i touched it before i touched at the tokyo auto salon 2005 it got a 20b and it got 1500hp lol

i touched it in cali last year

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05-04-2005, 10:57 PM

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I ran away from it in Cali last year. When they started it up I thought Al Qaeda was attacking or something. Ferociously loud!

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05-05-2005, 07:05 PM

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i touched it in cali last year

ROFL

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05-05-2005, 08:12 PM

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If anyone is in Jersey, stop by either Atco Raceway next weekend for the NHRA round, or by the SEMA IAS in Atlantic City a week after, the car will be there!

Come by and say hi!

-Bern

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