Here are two in car video of my RX-8 that I enjoyed sports driving at Suzuka Circuit in Japan.

Enjoy:-)

1:Feb 20 2005
http://kurinobu.servebeer.com/video/20050220/20050220_suzuka_best_lap.wmv

2:May 2 2005
http://kurinobu.servebeer.com/video/20050502/20050502_Suzuka_2_40_927.wmv

Holy smokes... the best race vids thus far... (top 5 easily)...

EDIT:..
That EVO was flying.. :)

very nice vid. i enjoyed it very much so. thanks for hosting it. yes. cool! yaay

Superb Kurihara-san, many thanks for sharing the vids, I really enjoyed them. I have the same tires as you and they really sing :) Now how did that WRX manage to get by you in the second vid? ;)

those videos were sick! Was that a yellow subaru? That almost looked like a mustang..hahah

That looks like an Evo 8 to me? that passed the rx8.. 4g63 engine has a v. distinctive sound

i have no sound at work..i have to wait till i get home.. =(

Cool vids - I don't think I could ever shift with my lame left hand :p

dang lucky, getting to drive suzuka must have been awesome :)

*ponders how to get my own 8 onto Suzuka*

That looks like an Evo 8 to me? that passed the rx8.. 4g63 engine has a v. distinctive sound I was thinking the same thing. I can't comment on the sound, but I certainly thought it looked like an Evo to me.:confused:


Either way, sweet vids

very nice... welcome to the forum

Awesome videos, the mustang looks like it had you on the straights but couldn't hang on the corners. Excellent post Kurinobu, and great driving!

Cool vids - I don't think I could ever shift with my lame left hand :p
great vid! and nemesis, heheh when i was in london england a friend asked me to move his car.. well i couldn't even get into gear, felt sooo weird.. don't like the left hand crap either!


MrJYnx

i want to learn right hand drive, should be a whole lotta fun :D

That was an EVO in the 2nd vid passing him.

In the first vid there was WRX in front of the Mustang that pulled over to the side towards the end.

Hmm... when I drove in Japan, the hardest part for me was driving on the opposite side of the road. The only problem with RHD I had was when I would go to shift with my right hand without thinking.... and then smack it against the door panel. :o

Yellow car of 1st video is Mustang Cobra and Silver car of 2nd video is Lancer EVO8.

su-----go---i!

That is very very nice! :cool:

@_@ :eek: :eek: :eek:

you are good!

thank you for the video! :D :) :eek: :)

nices vids thanks for sharing :)

Waaaaayyyy too much overstear. Youre going into some of those turn way too hot.
Great driving though! I love seeing our eights blow by porches :D

Keep it up!

Great video and nice driving!

Got any pics of your car? :D

great vid! and nemesis, heheh when i was in london england a friend asked me to move his car.. well i couldn't even get into gear, felt sooo weird.. don't like the left hand crap either!

I went to Scotland a couple of years back. Between the narrow streets, extremely steep hills, sitting on the wrong side of the car, driving on the wrong side of the road, and shifting with the wrong hand, the first couple of days was a very stressful driving experience. It took extreme amounts of concentration to do all of that at once, and not smash into something :D . And the first time I went through a bloody "round-about" on the highway, I thought I was going to die. Well the locals call them round-abouts, we called them circles-of-death. After a couple of days, I got the hang of it though.

Nice vids.

Excellent vids thanks

Here is picture of my RX-8 passing through home straight of Suzuka. :)

I can't wait to see....come on download....come on...

That was fun to watch...probably VERY FUN to drive! Thanks for sharing...

A very high quality video. Thanks for sharing!

i wanted to see some drift action on that one turn you had oversteer. badass video man! go to tsukuba and take some videos for me...i love that track.

very nice videos! he had more understeer than understeer in the second video.

Kurinobu -- what modifications have you done to your car? From the picture you posted of you on the front straight it doesn't look like you have the original wheels.

Did anybody else notice how much the gear lever moves up and down under braking and accelerating? Didn't realize it moved that much.

Hunter

i wanted to see some drift action on that one turn you had oversteer. badass video man! go to tsukuba and take some videos for me...i love that track.

Is it what you want to see?

Oversteer:
http://kurinobu.servebeer.com/video/20050502/20050502_Suzuka_spoon_oversteer.wmv

Tsukuba:
http://kurinobu.servebeer.com/video/20050211/20050211_tc2000_best_lap.wmv


:)

Great stuff, keep it coming.. :)

very nice videos! he had more understeer than understeer in the second video.

Kurinobu -- what modifications have you done to your car? From the picture you posted of you on the front straight it doesn't look like you have the original wheels.

Did anybody else notice how much the gear lever moves up and down under braking and accelerating? Didn't realize it moved that much.

Hunter

Tires: YOKOHAMA ADVAN NEOVA AD07 245-40-18
Wheels: ENKEI RP-02
Shocks & Suspention: PCR's order made shocks , F11kg/mm,R9kg/mm
Brake pads: ENDLESS CC-R
Antiswaybar: Autoexe
Muffler: Autoexe
Seat: Sparco rev
etc..

Engine: Stock

I mainly forcused on tires,shocks and suspention,brake pads.
These are essential parts in order to enjoy track driving.

Great video an great driving. Thanks for sharing. Do you mind if I make a link to it from my site?

Nice video! I love Suzuka circuit! Love driving it on GT4.

Great video an great driving. Thanks for sharing. Do you mind if I make a link to it from my site?

No I don't mind.
Please link my video from your site.

thanks for sharing

Tires: YOKOHAMA ADVAN NEOVA AD07 245-40-18
Wheels: ENKEI RP-02
Shocks & Suspention: PCR's order made shocks , F11kg/mm,R9kg/mm
Brake pads: ENDLESS CC-R
Antiswaybar: Autoexe
Muffler: Autoexe
Seat: Sparco rev
etc..

Engine: Stock

I mainly forcused on tires,shocks and suspention,brake pads.
These are essential parts in order to enjoy track driving.
I mainly forcused on tires,shocks and suspention,brake pads.
These are essential parts in order to enjoy track driving.

Agree to 100%. Interesting in your mods

2 questions:

Could you tell me why you like the rear suspension to 9kg and front 11? Any reason? I am thinking 5 and 9 for my Tein flex. Any bad there?

Do you change your radiator and oil cooler that RX-8 party race recommend changing for their participants?

Thanks

Taka

Could you tell me why you like the rear suspension to 9kg and front 11?

I was kinda wondering the same thing....
great choice of pads, how much do they cost in japan?

Shocks & Suspention: PCR's order made shocks , F11kg/mm,R9kg/mm
Brake pads: ENDLESS CC-R
Antiswaybar: Autoexe
Muffler: Autoexe

I'm kind of new to all this RX-8 stuff.
Are these parts that are available here in the states? I don't recognize any of the names.

Hunter

Is it what you want to see?

Oversteer:
http://kurinobu.servebeer.com/video/20050502/20050502_Suzuka_spoon_oversteer.wmv

Tsukuba:
http://kurinobu.servebeer.com/video/20050211/20050211_tc2000_best_lap.wmv


:)

AWESOME! thank you.

Agree to 100%. Interesting in your mods

2 questions:

Could you tell me why you like the rear suspension to 9kg and front 11? Any reason? I am thinking 5 and 9 for my Tein flex. Any bad there?

Do you change your radiator and oil cooler that RX-8 party race recommend changing for their participants?

Thanks

Taka

I will write more detail of my suspention.Both front and rear use dual rate suspension and helper spring.
Primary rate of front suspension is 11Kg/mm and secondary rate is 9Kg/mm,primary of rear is 9Kg/mm and secondary is 6Kg/mm.
These suspetion rate derived from my use case and required 1G stroke of suspension system.The required 1G stroke for rear is 65mm(70mm is better) and front is 60mm.
If you want to down your RX-8 hight by using Tein flex I recommend 4K for rear,front is OK for any rate.
I heard from my friend that Tein flex rear shock's hight adjustment area is small
so once he used 6K for rear he could not down hight from stock condition.

I have changed radiator and added oil cooler for my RX-8.
Japanese model of RX-8 has only left side of oil cooler.
Adding other side of oil cooler significant reduced oil temparature in hot climate.

:)

I was kinda wondering the same thing....
great choice of pads, how much do they cost in japan?

I used to buy brake pads from internet store because of it shows cheepest price.
The price of Endless's CC-R is 30,300yen for both front and rear.

This link is my favorite internet store.
http://www.hirano-tire.co.jp/

ENDLESS web site is
http://www.endless-sport.co.jp/eindex.htm

:)

Thank you for that.
I think there is not much of a difference for the front spring rate too.

What do you think of the Fujita Engineering FM801 (it is 10kg front and 6 kg rear). Will that be very bumpy on the road?

Which radiator did you use?

Thanks

kurinobu, I posted your movies on my site. Thanks for letting me use them. I look forward to more in the future.

Cool vids - I don't think I could ever shift with my lame left hand :p

Do you know any nice ladies that can help you out?

Jezz only a 1:08 on Tsuksua, I ran a 1:02.......
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In GT4 :(

Very nice driving on those first vids.

kurinobu, how do you mount the camera inside the car?

kurinobu, how do you mount the camera inside the car?

Hi,
I did use hama's suction cup camera mount for in car camera.
It's very convenient and enough strength to support cam.
please see this link for detail info.
http://www.hama.de/portal/articleId*1988/action*2563
:rolleyes:

ah i see, there is a similar product in the US:

http://www.chasecam.com/mounts-suction.htm

do you attach the mount to the rear window? do you use any kind of tethers to secure the camera in case the suction cup comes loose?

sorry about all the questions, I really want to set up a in-car camera for my track runs next month at VIR, and then be able to share my footage with everyone here :D

ah i see, there is a similar product in the US:

http://www.chasecam.com/mounts-suction.htm

do you attach the mount to the rear window? do you use any kind of tethers to secure the camera in case the suction cup comes loose?

sorry about all the questions, I really want to set up a in-car camera for my track runs next month at VIR, and then be able to share my footage with everyone here :D

Yes,I did attach the video mount to the rear window and I did not use tethers.
I've never experienced my camera mount became loose during track run.

Thank you for that.
I think there is not much of a difference for the front spring rate too.

What do you think of the Fujita Engineering FM801 (it is 10kg front and 6 kg rear). Will that be very bumpy on the road?

Which radiator did you use?

Thanks

Sorry I don't know how FM801 is. However F10kg and R6Kg sounds nice for sports driving.

My RX-8 has Mazdaspeed's radiator.

thanks for the answer about the pads. I'll go for endless as soon as my MS pads are finished... expensive company but it has great products...

Primary rate of front suspension is 11Kg/mm and secondary rate is 9Kg/mm,primary of rear is 9Kg/mm and secondary is 6Kg/mm...

those values are pretty high. you made me wonder now, how my hipermax II coilovers are going to handle in the track (spring rate 8kg/mm fr 5kg/mm re)...

those videos were sick! Was that a yellow subaru? That almost looked like a mustang..hahah

That was a yellow mustang. It says mustang on the rear bumper.

Is that a stock rx8 with different tires? what are the tires?

I just saw this thread after doing a search for "RX-8 video". I had a question - how come you had the windows open during the race? Wouldn't that add a lot of drag?

I just saw this thread after doing a search for "RX-8 video". I had a question - how come you had the windows open during the race? Wouldn't that add a lot of drag?

It was not race kind of practice period for members what Suzuka says "Challenge Club".
We should close driver side of window during track driving and we may open other windows.I used to open passenger side of window for ventilation.

:)

Is that a stock rx8 with different tires? what are the tires?

Hi,
My RX-8 has height adjustable shocks and stiffer suspention also it has YOKOHAMA ADVAN NEOVA AD07 245-40-18 tires.
Engine and differential are stock condition.