Takumi

I was wondering Would rx-8 beat a montecarlo 350 v8 5.7L.
I do on planing increasing the hp to the Rx-8 when i do happen to get one. Its all cuz my friend is totally in love with his montecarlo and yet he wont dedicate himself to get it running.
Anyhoo feed backplease.

Quick_lude

Beat it how? With a stick? With a palm? Sorry for snapping but I'm beginning to hate these kind of questions.. see them all the time..
Do you mean 1/4 mile at a drag strip? On a real track with turns? Street racing? Racing on the hwy? From a roll?

Grimace

I'm pretty sure an RX-8 would beat a non-running Monte Carlo.



This has to be one of the stranger comparisons I've seen. What's next?
-RX-8 vs. learjet
-RX-8 vs. Case tractor in a stump-pulling contest
-RX-8 vs. a herd of angry elephants

Takumi

bhahaha . of coruse it would beat a non moving car. but what i mean is on the highway or 1/4 either way
btw i don't mean to post anooying questions i'm new to the forum

Quick_lude

Like I said, I'm sorry for snapping... Just most of the time the "Is car X faster than car Y" question gets posted by young kids/punks that want to street race. Half the time it's a drivers race anyway unless the cars are very mismatched.
As far as I remember if this is a rwd Monte from the late 80's with 180hp/gobs of torque, you might lose a bit off the line but by third gear you should be smoking him. In a straight line. On a real track with turns it won't even be a contest. Provided your friend fixes the car that he "loves" so much, yet it's not in running shape..

Hercules

The most annoying questions come in the form of asking how fast the RX-8 will be compared to some other car.

The RX-8 isn't about straight line power, it's about HANDLING.

Racing is best left to modded Chevy big blocks, or nice modified rotaries.. but not for this car.

Takumi

yaya ya ya im not even big about the drag racing i'm more into drift racing... sheesh u guys are so viscous. just ignore this post then god damn. but u know its fun to make a fool out of punk teenagers with some american car that their parents spoiled them with .

Takumi

is this how new commers are welcomed

Donny Boy

Well, let me take a poke at it. The RX-8 is like a leopard (small, light and full of horsepower), while the Monte is like an elephant (strong, heavy and full of low end power). I think that the leopard would run circles around the elephant. Thus, the RX-8 should win. But if the elephant is sleeping . . .

Thanks for the post.

PatrickB

New-commers who make an effort to answer their own questions before asking on the board are happily welcomed. If you looked around much at all, you'd see that we don't know performance numbers on the RX-8 yet, and only have very rough estimates.

Takumi

I did try to answer my question. I read a lot of the threads that i thought would have specs/ performance issues... jesus christ the vultures. Ok thanky you to who replyed about the lepard. I'll take that answer. Thank you very much. and the rest of you chill out . I get the point . you don't need to fking rip on me no more.

Immi

Welcome.

Sputnik

Okay, that's enough hate and discontent, and the question has been answered. Closing...

---jps