RotaryRider36

I stopped in B&N today and read the new issue of sport compact car. They have an overview of the cars from the film, as well as a description of the modifications each car has and they test them to see how well they run. The rx8 is the friggen chick car in the film. It has the Greddy turbo and according to scc, it was running in pretty poor shape when they tested it. It threw down around 190 hp to the wheels when they dynoed it, ran a 1/4 mile in the high 14's, but they said it drifted nicely. I know most people on these boards dont care about this film but I remember someone mentioning in another thread that they wondered what was powering the rx8. I felt this was related to the media news section.

P.S. I searched to see if this was a repost but only the original tokyo drift thread came up. Also, I didnt buy the mag so i cant scan pics.

NgoRX8

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greddy turbo with 190 to the wheels... oh boy

BigOLundh

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was probably an auto, with the turbo kit, and stock emanage setup... otherwise known as crap

but its all good cuz the chick driving it is hot.

-hS

RotaryRider36

Saw pictures of the interior. Pretty sure it was a six speed. It probably was using the emanage but they mentioned that the car felt highly abused. Not surprising given the shape these film cars tend to be in after filming. They said that the rx7 with the fortune body kit also felt really beat up. I believe it put down just about 300whp

XDEEDUBBX

The whole movie is going to be crap...

NgoRX8

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^haha

Magic8

I just receive that issue. The car peaked at 5500 rpm (something like that.) It was in limp-mode throughout the whole test. Go figure they had the Greddy Blue in it. Now if it had a Interceptor....I think the results would have been different.

nycgps

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redline at 5500 ?

Sure its really crap then.

how the hell on earth that people even like that movie. The movie itself is complete bullshit, stupid storyline, and people who made the movie doesnt even know what a "good car" is.

my god.

alfy28

did you guys notice, that all the car's in the movie looks like the 8 :P

canaryrx8

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movies are just entertainment, plus these movies are funny as crap to me anyway. I rank them among some of the other great comedies of our time, even though they're not supposed to be funny Go see this movie with the attitude of "this is just a movie" and you'll be fine, this kind of reminds me of the skatebaording boom in the 80's when movies like "rad" and "thrashin" would come out, all the real skaters knew these movies were turds, but we'd go seem them anyway for a good laugh, this is no different, just a different topic and time (then again with the prices of films these days, maybe it's better just to netflix it and laugh at home)

Magic8

All the cars in the movie look like crap! Except for the fastback...mmmm

XDEEDUBBX

No....it's just crap...

canaryrx8

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the fastback is hilarious, they put a frickin' nissan motor in it! lol or as they would say "Nissan Sr20 engine" bahahahahaha

mike1324a

Isnt it a rd26 in it, not a sr20. I still think thats retarded but whatever.

JB_Rotary

yeah the fast back is powered by a RB26DET or TT. I guess a built V8 isn't fast enough for drifting

mikeb

im gonna see this movie as soon as it comes out

its just a movie

i would be just too curious to not see the movie at all

NgoRX8

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^yea, same with me. i'd go insane if i can't laugh at it.

XDEEDUBBX

im still waiting for my buddy to bring me the bootleg...

mikeb

i hate that people associate imports or now even really the rx8 with these movies but what can you do


really sucks its the chicks car
the s200 was the chicks car last movie

canaryrx8

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yes I know it's a rb26, that's why it's so frickin' funny to me they call it a "nissan sr20 motor" or whatever. They call ANY motor from Nissan that lol

RoXanneBlack8

190 whp with turbo?...sounds to me somebody didnt turn off the DSC before they spun it on the rollers

DrDiaboloco

I'd agree with you except for the fact that I saw the FIRST movie and was rolling my eyes in annoyance in the FIRST SCENE.

You know the one... "Our hero" is drag racing down a two-lane street thickly populated by parked cars and bystanders, and he's racing this gauntlet while reprogramming his engine computer on his laptop which is sitting next to him on the passenger seat.

Not to mention the drag race seems to go on for a full minute, at which time they'd have been going like 200mph (that's how fast a modded Eclipse can go, right? RIGHT??), neck-and-neck with a zillion bystanders mere feet away.

I tuned out after that point and wished I had a stack of doobies within arm's reach to make the pain in my head go away.

canaryrx8

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I'm sorry dude, but i was laughing my *** off at the first scene "2g buy in"(or whatever) and the whole "he's got a motec...." aww I can't stand it, i may have to pop it in the dvd player tonight bahhahahahaha

on another note, anyone remember mystery science theater 3000? wouldn't these be the PERFECT movies for that show?!?

DrDiaboloco

Tailor-made for MST3k, I'd say.

I know what you mean about that first scene making you laugh, but to me it was just so painfully stupid that that I couldn't even eke out a snicker. Maybe a few guffaws escaped my lips, but that was about it.

dillsrotary

Most of the younger tuner population is now gonna think that the rb26tt is truly perfect and was hand-built by jesus himself. or mohamed himself. or moses himself. (gotta keep the peace )