1/4 mile times and HP
 

what kinda numbers r u guys getting out of ur 8's hp and 1/4 mile . With dif mods and cost aswell. I got a 2004 6 speed the other day and i love the car just wish it had alittle more off the red light . looking for idea's with out breaking the bank

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Find the cheapest turbo you can buy and then proceed to pissing in your gas tank because it gives an extra 50hp.

But in all honesty, the easiest and cheapest way to get more power off the line is buy a new car. This question has been asked many times.

^So have all of the OP's other questions...

You bought the wrong car, 007!

ur right about the fact it burns up alot of gas , if u can keep the rmps down the its not so bad. saying i bought the wrong car ur way off base with that . got the car for only 6 gs and its mint with every opt. but a spoiler. when u dump the cultch and hit corners the way i drive . Cars all gravy in my books. dont want to spend 5 or 6 gs for a turbo kit . price i paid for the whole car . Drive it till the motor goes and swap a 3 rotor . Then we will c what time it is

http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/3...olstorybra.jpg

ohhh man if I had a nickel for every person who just bought their car and said "Im gonna swap a 3 rotor"...
hhmmm "dont wanna spend 5K for a turbo but I was thinkin about spending about 30K for a 3 rotor", riiiiighhhhhttt!

Good luck with that...

If you got it for 6k then you probably shouldn't put a lot of money into it. It's hard to a accept but the rotary just doesn't last too long these days. If you don't take care of it right you'd be lucky to get to 100k miles without needing a rebuild. And even if you take great care of it you can't expect it to last much longer than that anyways. I'm assuming you have a lot of miles on it so have fun around the corners while you can. In my mind it's actually pretty fast off the line of you have a manual it just doesn't have the torque but that doesn't mean you can't be fast off the line. The best mod you can get will be a Cobb accessport. You will get around 13hp and 11 tq.

Where the heck do you get your numbers??

At first I was like, "Alright! He used a comma correctly!" Then I was like, "..........."

Just add NOS and you'll go fast...yes, very fast! :cwm27:

ya the car was a steal and it doesnt have hi clicks . came with a 800 dollar mazda speed cold air intake , ill just do the full exuast system from the head to tips , raceing pipe . set up that cobb thing .nice toy for cheap

crazy 8 thats some good edvise . i owed a 86 rx7 na when i was 19 so i know about the rotory motors . liked the 86 rx7 then like the rx8 now . how hard is it to put a 13b rew into an rx8 ? best of both worlds

And after all that you still won't be over 190RWHP lmao.

The car is built to go around corners fast, if you bought it to go fast in a straight line then sell it would be my best advice.



Also, if you can't afford to throw 6 grand at a turbo kit for the stock engine, then forget about getting a 20b in there. :yelrotflm

800 dollars for a MS intake? Is it made of gold? I'd save your money on the exhaust and put it towards an engine rebuild.

And this is the way it goes from here out...

Yep lmao

i was on the free way and a wrx sti was in front of me going 80 kms . i pulled up past him going 120 slowed down to his speed reved up honked the horn 3 times and i was in 2nd gear going 80 kms when we punched it and cars where neck and neck up to 140 - 150 then we had to slow down for traffic. cars quick if u get the gears right

And then you woke up?

You forgot the part where he never shifted out of 6th gear.

Take it easy, I have to drive out there too

Basically takes a turbo/supercharger to get into the 13s.

http://www.dragtimes.com/Mazda--RX-8-Drag-Racing.html

no bull shit , maybe it was a normal wrx . but it had a huge wing and exuast i could hear the turbo spitting pritty hard. i dont get what the deal is with people hateing on the rx8 . dope car for 6gs . from everything u guys r saying . sell the car if im looking for something thats fast off the line. take ur advise and look for a rx7 twin turbo . hope i can find 1 thats left hand drive thats in good shape like the 8 but dout it. wish me luck

Moved to the Canadian Regional Forum. Edmonton, he's all yours.

i think hes legit fast and furious 6 yo yo tokyo shit i mean drift...

wow....the rx8 has a 13b renesis rotary in it...you should probably just drive it like its any other car until you learn a lot more about the rotary and cars in general.

i have a 04 rx8 6sp and i raced a bmw 330i all stock and sadly i got sorta smoked. they the rx8 is suppose to have 238 horses and i know the 330i has a bout 230. in that case it should have been a close race but it wasnt

OMG LOLOL!!! :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol: can't stop laughing from that

take it to a track bro. im 16 i used to street race and all that but once i got pulled over with my friend when he was doing 125 i realized it was stupid. but you clearly dont know much about cars if you think horsepower is the only thing that affects how fast a car is.

my moms suburban has like 400 something horsepower, does that mean it should smoke me because i only have 232? take into consideration weight of the car, gear ratios, torque, coefficient of drag and so on.

im 18 i know alot about cars and where im from their are no tracks and its pretty dead at night cops never come around. but i raced a 350z once and beat it but i think the guy wasnt a good driver but not my fault. when i raced that 330i i was low on gas and my gas light came on. ive seen were rx8's are getting 189 hp on dynos when it say they are suppose to have 238 i mean i know it will drop but dang i dont think that much

Fixed :)

wow..you do not know anything about cars. it might be 238 to the crank but it is not 238 to the wheels. even the cars that dyno in at 189 rwhp are not stock and have some upgrades on it. basically to brake it down to you, the engine has 238 hp at the crank but it is not all tranfered to the wheels. rear wheel horsepower (rwhp) is what matters.

being low on gas would be a good thing when you are racing because that means your gas tank is light and does not have all the added weight from gas in the tank.

^ :uhh:

i know rwhp is going to be lower than the crank. just didnt think it drops that much.

Moved to the Canadian Regional Forum. Edmonton, he's all yours.


Screw you Al.

Why is this dolt my responsibility?


Moved back to Discussion forum....

The first time I sign on in a few weeks and this is what I see. People still haven't learned.

Rx8 Club has been around for 10+ years... If people are able to learn in less than a few weeks, then get ready for 2012..

let me just say, there once was an Evo MR at a redlight and we both went for it on green (i knew what the outcome would be but i said what the heck). 1st and 2nd gear i was ahead but as soon as i shifted to 3rd. Evo pulled and he said bye bye 8. We stopped at the next redlight and he told me he choked at take off and he still caught up!:sad: My point is the Evo and the Subby Sti are similar in performance and there is no way you guys were neck and neck. please do NOT attempt that move vs an AWD beast.

^ street racing discussions and posts will get you a ban. It is also completely stupid.

From my new owners thread: https://www.rx8club.com/new-member-forum-197/new-potential-owners-start-here-202454/
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So how much power do we have anyway?:
Officially, the RX-8 produces somewhere between 228hp and 238hp, depending on what publication you look at. Mazda kept revising the numbers, but the engine's actual output never changed. This is for the 6 port manual transmission engines. The automatics produce less power, because of their lower redline. The 4 port automatics produce around 192hp, and the 6 port automatics produce around 212hp.

This is all measurements at the crank. The actual power put down at the wheels is significantly lower. Completely healthy 6port MTs put down about 180whp and 130wtq. The auto's are correspondingly lower.

Now, what does this actually mean?

Well, first take a look at the numbers. Notice how they are lower than an Evo's 300hp rating. And they are lower than a Mustang's 260hp-340hp.

This means the RX-8 is SLOWER in a straight line.

If you buy an RX-8, do NOT be shocked that you won't win at the drag strip. If you want to win there, buy a different car. If you buy the RX-8, don't come crying to us later on. We bought the car knowing full well how much power it produced. Those of us that want more do something about it. We don't create threads to whine about it. You can join us in flaming the people that do create threads whining about it, because you were smart enough to learn first. They weren't.
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It's really not that complicated :dunno: