wildman082

before i went to sleep at about midnight the other night i cought a few minutes of some tuner show on speed where they were working on an rx-8. did anyone else see this?

Boneknot

yeah it is called tuner transformation. they had a red rx8 on there and they did some slight mods. they added a wet nitrous system and bigger brakes and wheels. they didnt do as much as i would have liked to have seen however.

MEGAREDS

They also added some god-awful graphics package. I really didn't like it, but I suppose they felt they needed to do something to the outside of the car to make it look like they had changed the car in some way. Personally, I don't see the point of changing out the brakes...

JSE RX-8

The show was crap. There was more fighting then working on the car lol

wildman082

i caught the entire episode. That guy who was supposedly the master of sport compact racing should have been able to come up with something better than intake, exaust, and nos. i think the fighting was scripted too. it just seemed very unnatural. they must have watched OCC and thought fighting = ratings

mikeb

I thought the rims were ok that they used
but the show was pretty immature and hard to watch

Genom

And the 240 they did on the next one was pretty good, except for the stupid wing.

jonnyb

thats what i was gonna say. i think the whole show is horrible.

wakeech

that show sucked.

they said "wet nitrous", and they put in a dry system (obviously after they realize the RX-8 has a returnless fuel system which they didn't feel like they should dick with).

they didn't know dick about the car. they took weeks to do nothing. they made up a dyno number. this show is tv rice.

mpt_yellowRX8

I agree that the show stunk it up, but the owner of the car has been posting on here somewhere. Hasn't put the car through the ringer yet, well not as of a week ago. The 240 was alright but they dissapointed a whole lot of potential viewers with the 8. The only reason OCC is so great is because every guy knows that you always get into it with your dad when you work within two hundred miles of each other. I'd be dead or on death row if my father and I were in their situation and we love each other to death. Back to the subject, the show will not last too long, along with a few other new shows that they are really pushing hard.

Omicron

I'm just glad to see the RX-8 start appearing in the media as a tuner car.

wildman082

did anyone else notice that it had the headlight cleaners? doesnt that mean its not an american rx-8?

MyRxBad

iTrader: (1)

Tuner transformation (or whatever that dumb show is called) is produced just outside of Toronto, Ontario Canada. Come to think about it, a few of the new shows on SPEED are being produced up here.

MazdaManiac

iTrader: (3)

I thought the show was so bad, I watched the next episode with a VW GTi.
It sucked too.

The whole "tuner" thing has just completly gone down the Britney Spears highway. I can't imagine how this year's show circuit can be any worse than last year, but it will.

mikeb

imports and tuning got really weird after the fast and furious came out

wakeech

two of the best are: Dream Car garage, and what's the new really good Sports Car something... hmm... anyways, that one that has the Dream Car guys in it too.

oh, and another awesome Canadian connection: the Enzo that was in TLC's "Rides" was from Canada, too.

jonnyb

sports car revolution. i saw the episode with the sti (or was it the evo) and thought it was pretty good but i think the blond haired guy is a ***.

mcballz13

Correct me if im wrong but isnt the name of the abnoxious 3rd amigo on "Tuner Transformation" Johnny B? Hmmmm.......?


Anyone see MTV's new version of Tuner Transformation...? Its absolutely hilarious and called "Pimp my Ride "... They take a young kid's complete junker and Pimp it out LA ghetto-style to all ends and features a hip-hop rapper as the host.

mikeb

I saw the pimp my ride with the minivan or whatever

LAME