ok well my it might take another week or so to get my times posted. Ive blown a muffler and it sounds like **** so thats getting fixed. what a ball breaker. how the hell could i have done that???
btw before i put mods on my car i g-tech it stock and pulled a best time of 14.64 so im assuming that it is pretty accurate because the stock times for a rx8 are rated around that..
But your right every car is different. For example some people may experiance heaps of hp gain from a pully set and some may feel no difference. its all up the ****. it just depends on your car i guess..
Oh and because i'm down in Australia i run the new shell 100ron fuel. maybe that has somthing to do with it.
Look, fucked if i know but thats what i got and i can beat a Ford GT's so thats how i know its true.

 

BTW i'm only 19 and ive had my eight for a year so i thrash the **** out of it ; )
already had new gearbox in it and new clutch and fly wheel. blew the c*nt up doin a burnout.
but you know what they say, break it in hard and it will go hard =)

 

and what did you want to know bout my custom extractors?? i can get info if you like?

 

Are they home made? Or what?

 

yeah they were custom made from PROMAZ. they finish up at 3 inch. pretty good sound

 

note this. it is the best part of the thread.

beers

 

swoope
????

 

The best time I ran in my RX-8 stock is a 14.598. This was with a launch at
7,500 RPMS. Yes you read that correctly, launch at 7,500, and shift at 8,400 to 8,500 and you'll pull the best time out of your RX-8. I do have a time slip of the run, but I have to find it, because it's still packed away somewhere from when I moved. So theoretically he could hit 13.9's depending on how well he drives and with what ever mods he has.

C.J.

 

Wouldn't it be better to get into the mid-13s without having to abuse the clutch?

Y'know, like, uh, having some real torque and power?

Mazda screwed up by not making FI a factory option. Their sales prevention team is top-notch!

Compare the RX-8's numbers with would-be competitors. Sad, isn't it? Halo car or not, the 8's sales figures are crap, especially year over year.

Anyway, I'm glad to hear that ya'll are getting a few more red blood cells into the anemic NA Renesis.

 

seriously though.. I wish the our cars could atleast hit low 14's stock kinda like s2000's

but oh well, It's still an awesome car. Just needs some more power

 

you guys in rico. home of ron rico. my favorite rum. just do the job. no debate. just numbers... not 69 ideas about how to make it work better. you just make it work better....

you are where we want to be.

beers

 

wow to the more above. did you do any research before you got your car. it is about what they said it was. sure it would be great if it would pull off 13.0 .25mile times.. but it was not 40k was it.

btw if you are dumping your clutch at 7.5k to get a fast time you are missing the point of the car... and mazda did not mess up with not having a fi car with the tq or hp you wanted.

you bought a car that was na.... duh.... it is what it is... and it is good...

could it be faster, yes.... but you paid for what it is.....

beers

beers

 

I'm not dumping the clutch at 7,500 rpms. It's called feathering the clutch, but if you do not launch at 7,500 you are not going to get the best possible time for a stock RX-8. I've probably had over 30 trips down the 1/4 mile and have never had problem with anything. So if you want to go ahead and say that I'm missing the point of the car, then go right ahead. But when I'm running 14.5xx's in the 1/4 mile I can't complain.

C.J.

 

I ran a 15.0 in the 1/4, I dumped it at about 5000 rpms, got a lot of wheel hop. Maybe I'll try to feather it out at 7500. So what you are saying that it is better to shift at 8500 rpms instead of 9000 why?

 

someone at rx8club that actually knows how to get a decent 1/4 mile time... refreshing

 

because the powerband drops after 8500 rpm. You're better off shifting up.

also, have you tried deactivating the dsc stuff completely? Hold the botton for 10 sec to disable it all the way,

 

turn off traction control.

feather clutch from about 5k.

14.45. is my best time.

beers

 

hmm i have always felt that shifting at 9ishk on an upshift kept me at a better place in the power band of the gear i shifted to. thats just me.

 

Does anyone want to make worth my while to get a non nitrious, n/a 6 speed rx8 do a sub 14 1/4 mile? I guarantee you it can be done. No one I know of has set this car up for the strip, (rightfully so) but it can be. I will repeat something I have been saying for over 2 yrs now---this is not a drag strip car, it is not a red light car, BUT it can be set up for a sub 14 run. Charles(and probably others) know I am right.
Olddragger

 

13.1sec is my best so far. link here.

 

He was talking about n/a.

Also, 13.1645 is closer to 13.2 than it is to 13.1, so why'd you round down?

 

I didn't round down, just truncated it.
I'd rather list it at 13.16 @ 107.66. I'll take every hundredths of a second I can get.

 

It's not really enough of a difference to matter anyways. You'll get a larger time difference than .01 seconds just based on your launches and shifts. That does bring up a good point though. I've seen people say that their cars run a 12.01 (made up number for examples sake) so they round down to the next number and say they have an 11 second car since it's so close to the technically 11.XX second time range yet I've also seen other people that have said their cars run an 11.99 and claim to run 11's but people come back and say that it's really a 12 second car since it's so claose to 12. Where do you draw the line with timing claims?

 

Much like the glass is half full/half empty principle...

A realist - 12.61

Pessimist - upper 12's

Optimist - a 12 second car

 

I say my car runs low 13's. If I ever break into the 12.9-12.7's , I'll say it runs high 12's.