Well, what else do you call a guy with a 1400HP RX-8?

http://www.urbanracer.com/gallery/gallery/event_coverage/miscellaneous/sevenstock_6_9-27-03/0299.jpg

http://www.urbanracer.com/gallery/gallery/event_coverage/miscellaneous/sevenstock_6_9-27-03/0300.jpg

http://www.urbanracer.com/gallery/gallery/event_coverage/miscellaneous/sevenstock_6_9-27-03/0301.jpg

http://www.urbanracer.com/gallery/gallery/event_coverage/miscellaneous/sevenstock_6_9-27-03/0302.jpg

Sadly, dunno where to find more pics.

I want in! I'll take two

sick!
:D

well at least it has stock rear tail lights....


I think I actually saw this car on tv - I was watching Super Tuner TV and saw it in the background sitting in a shop where they were doing a 3hr Honda engine swap for the show... of course it was never mentioned or shown fully since a riced out crx is way more important <shrug>

That's just nuts!

Its nutz, but its a drag car.

Its NOT an rx-8, it only just looks lik eone (barely).

I think he has mazdas approval tho

the rear doors don't even hindge..the chasis is nukkin futs!...

I know it's got all of the basic chasis design from an 8 and nothing else.

But who cares? :D

On page 38 of Feb 2004 issue of SCC, a small blur refering to the same car:


IBARRA STICKS WITH MAZDA
At about the same time that Abel Ibarra's old R-100 was being shoehorned into NHRA's museum, the racer himself was rolling out his completed weapon for the 2004 racing season - this swaggering, tube-frame, K&N-sponsored RX-8. It's no secret Ibarra has been working on this car. Now it's ready to run.
The body has been stretched, chopped, lopped and twisted for optimal on-track performance, but it's still recognizable as an RX-8, isn't it? Power will come from rotors crushed under massive turbo boost to produce about 1,400 hp. That should push the car well pass 200 mph at the end of the quarter mile and haul the Pro RWD e.t. record down into the 6.60s.

I guess he REALLY complained about his 8 being short 9hp.

well i guess he won't complain about beening slow.Right?? lol

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Does it have the RX8 Renisis motor? I'm confused.

Nope, it's 20B powered.

For the uninitiated, a 20b is a 3 rotor motor. He has been running twin turbos; I don't know if that's still the case. The last numbers I saw posted for him were 6.95 @ just shy of 200 mph ( Still in his RX-7)

I dont think the season has started yet, but this new car is rumored at running a 6.6. Havent heard anything at all about the engine though, other than HP.