Getting this RX-8 to prepare for the Windsor Arch Macau Road Sport Challenge in Macau this weekend. Not good enough to win anything, but should be a fun Saturday morning drive!

 

Good luck! Looks nice...what kind of prep has been done to the car? Any interior pics? Engine work?

 

The car is SFR turbo'ed with Microtech ECU, the interior has been stripped with Mazdaspeed roll cage midified to FIA specification. The engine is pulling 300hp at the driveshaft, which is good for street circuit, unfortunately, there are many more high powered cars in the race, so I just have to treat it as a Saturday morning drive and finish the race. Hee hee....

 

Nice car! Have you all thought about cutting more weigh out of the car? Maybe cutting away all the interior sheet metal from the front and rear doors? What about removing the heater core and AC? You can get the weight down quite a bit...our cars we race in the Koni Challenge weigh 2650lbs with a full roll cage installed. I 300hp car weighing that weigh would dominate!

Oh yeah I noticed another thing...are you guys attaching your shoulder harness to the rear babyseat anchors? I hope not...they are not rated for an adult and will snap in an accident. You really should look at adding a shoulder bar to the MS roll bar you already have installed.

Take a look at this pic to get an idea of what have done to the interior of the doors.

 

Yes, less weight would be nice but only had a short amount of time to prepare the car, so we will for sure look at weight saving for next year's race. As for the should bar, we have added that to comply with FIA, the photo attached was before the bar was added.

 

Cool I look forward to seeing the results this coming weekend! Good luck guys! BTW the way, do you have any video of the of the running? I really want to hear the motor. Is it bridge ported?

 

Ahhhh so want to go this year... damn work. I was there last year with family... I have a Macau friend (wife)... hehe. It was really fun and hot. You have heat issue?? Taken the AC out will help I guess.

I am going to prep a race car privately as a rack only car. I was told you can V mount the radiator... is that right?

 

Nice car man,our 8 is really good handle on the Track like Macau...u should hav some adventage on the mountain.....

 

Yes, the car handles perfectly at this track. I had heat issues but not the engine, it is gearbox and differential. We are going to try another type of oil to see if it helps. Also, I had a slight problem with the 180km/h speed limiter but worked out the issue after the session, I hope it works for tomorrow qualifer!

Yes, taka... the car has V mounted setup. So, taking out the a/c helps the heat stress???? Tell me more.

 

GOOD LUCK DUDE! I am in HK now, can't wait to see your car when you come back...

Do you hang out at KC racing a lot or you are owner or something?

Anyways...it will be great if I can pay a visit to see your monster...let me know la.

=)

 

I am in the background of KC, so not there most of the time. But wait til the car return to HKG and we can catch up. Rotary in Hong Kong is not a popular car at all, high fuel cost and lack of service garage is a killer.

 

Good Luck and have fun ;-) speed limit should be easy solution, either remap or get a HKS SLD and you will overcome that..

 

It's not as easy you think!

 

Good luck!!! Bem. Got an official pic of your 8 and you on the track....
btw, is it the nsx on your tail which crashed?

 

Poor nsx

 

wow tht is nice!!!

 

Yes, that's the NSX behind me during practice. It's OK, he got back to the race in time!

Afterall, I finished 11th. Sigh, that bloody speed limiter wouldn't go away. Next step is to turn this to a race car and lets go serious!!! Or should I?? Sigh... I don't know...

More pics below,

 

Car looks great! Love the graphics. How many ran in your class/event?

 

Too bad, otherwise, you should get better place. but racing in macau grand prix is life time experience...... on tv ma. tell us how you feel to be on the same track that all the world class racer dream to race on.

 

Good run ;-) 11th out of?

As for the speed limit, I just recently did the remap with Knight Sports, part of the remap program is to remove the speed limiter and it is really that easy.

 

You reached the speed limiter on the straight?

Anyway, GREAT RUN with your car in one piece

I was watching it in the news...and I was like please dont show me the white rx8 crash...good that those RSX crashing into each other intsead of you hah

 

I thought the HKS SLD works with RX-8? Have you tried that ?

but u're using Motech shouldn't have any 180km limit isn't it ?

I will be in Hong Kong Next month is it possible that I might able to see your lovely car ?

 

OK guys, thank you very much for all the interest. I have just returned home to settle down from the weekend of racing. Let me answer your questions one by one.

chiketkd: Please take a look at http://www.macau.grandprix.gov.mo/gp...lt.php?lang=en, the organiser put me on Class A against those monster machine, because they read the RX-8 rotary as a 2,616cc engine + a turbocharger they times the capacity by 1.7, so I got placed in Class A, but if you look carefully, there is a RX-7 placed in Class C as 1,300cc with no chargers, which is all nuts in a way. There were 21 cars racing and 6 in Class A.

patrick331: The track is one of its kind, I rate it over the Nurburgring!! It has no run off area, which test your nerve and driving skill, I am sure to be there next year!!

Mazdaspeed 88: 11 out of 21, well no the best result but at least I finished! Haa haa... I promised myself to do much better next year. I had a nightmare with the speed limiter. Thank you for your advice, but with it turbocharged, the Knightsport wouldn't work for me.

Kafka: Yes, I got capped 180km/h on the straight, I should do much better and more TV coverage if I had the top speed, I am sure the RX-8 could beat the NSXs!

nycgps: Yes, I have tried the HKS SLD and surprise surprise, it didn't work. The car is using Microtech ECU but partly still controlled by the factory ECU, as I didn't had the plan to convert the car to a full on race car, so I kept the A/C system etc... therefore I didn't cut the factory ECU entirely. Anyway, due to the classification method, I will have to think twice whether I should use RX-8 as my weapon next year.

 

Omg, goddamn you!!! It's like my dream to drive on the Macac track, it's like one of the dangerous and hardest street track!!! Sadly i haven't even been there to watch the race in person....

I m dling the race right now. Hope to see you on TV!!! I m sure it's great to have an Rx8 for race car!! Too bad, my car is all the way in canada...I do wish to move back to hk with a nice car one day....

Damn!! i just start watching it, your race is the first race of the the first day?? I see you started at 2nd last?? but u had a great start, already passed couple cars at starting!!! great!!

 

haha..the Jun evo is so much faster then all the other cars

I m sure u can knock a few secs off without the speed limiter. the lower part of the track is all high speed corners, i m sure the 8 can easily handle those corners.