Drag Racing Your RX-8
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Drag Racing Your RX-8
i was posting this up cause i tried to search up drag racing on the site and came up with nothing. so to make it easier in the future i wanted to see if some people had any advice on drag racing on a track.
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You are going to spend a fortune trying to make this car fast enough to drag. Get an old Mustang and put a few bucks into it if you want to go fast in a straight line. The 8's are good in a straight line if you have a 2 mile track straightaway to get up to terminal velocity. 
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If you drop the clutch to low in the revs, you bog, to high, you spin (wheel hop).
Find a comfortable RPM to drop in where you get a little wheel spin. Then adjust your tire pressure, drop it 2 psi at a time in the rears, untill you start hooking well. Last time I was out I was running at 27psi and droping the clutch at about 4.5k
After every run, while youre waiting in the staging lane, turn your car off and push it towards the gate, and pop the hood open as well so the engine temps can drop a bit before your next run. My buddy with a highy modded FD keeps a bag of dried ice in the trunk and puts it on top of his intake inbetween runs.
Every track is different, and each day is different. You have to find where its hooking up that day.
Concentrate on improving your 60ft times and everything else will fall into place. Dont worry about reaction time, just get a solid launch. The first few times out to the strip youre only racing your last time, nothing else.
And as for it not being as fast car, thats all relative. I won 7 of 8 races last week on an 1/8 mile (granted I do have mods). 2 against a stock S2k, 1 against a Civic Si, and 1 against a modded G35 Sedan. My loss was to a Miata with a built 5.0 mustang engine
The car is pretty quick once you know how to launch it just right. Just keep in mind youre killing the life of your clutch and tires. I plan on replacing both anyways, so I dont mind.
Find a comfortable RPM to drop in where you get a little wheel spin. Then adjust your tire pressure, drop it 2 psi at a time in the rears, untill you start hooking well. Last time I was out I was running at 27psi and droping the clutch at about 4.5k
After every run, while youre waiting in the staging lane, turn your car off and push it towards the gate, and pop the hood open as well so the engine temps can drop a bit before your next run. My buddy with a highy modded FD keeps a bag of dried ice in the trunk and puts it on top of his intake inbetween runs.
Every track is different, and each day is different. You have to find where its hooking up that day.
Concentrate on improving your 60ft times and everything else will fall into place. Dont worry about reaction time, just get a solid launch. The first few times out to the strip youre only racing your last time, nothing else.
And as for it not being as fast car, thats all relative. I won 7 of 8 races last week on an 1/8 mile (granted I do have mods). 2 against a stock S2k, 1 against a Civic Si, and 1 against a modded G35 Sedan. My loss was to a Miata with a built 5.0 mustang engine
The car is pretty quick once you know how to launch it just right. Just keep in mind youre killing the life of your clutch and tires. I plan on replacing both anyways, so I dont mind.
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