This is addressed to those that have run on a legal track.
What is top speed you have experienced driving the RX-8. Please diffrentiate between normally aspirated and if your vehicle has a turbo.

 

Bone stock- 148mph. From 130 up it is VERY SLOW.

Havent done it since my performance mods.

 

bone stock 149mph...^agreed

 

149 downhill with a tailwind maybe. Or on a Dyno.

Wind resistance limits you to 130ish.

 

149mph also hit 150 going downhill a bit, did it with only my exhaust on.

Have not tried it since the turbo.

 

Without the limiter on a dyno our cars can go 160+ mph.

Its drag limited to about 145-150, the governor stops it at 148.

 

there is no limiter on the MTs ...ive honestly gotten it up to 149. the drag factor really holds you back

 

false, there is a limiter at 148.

Reason you saw 149 is because your speedo is off, which is common with digitial speedometers due to bald tires possibly, or new tires? Unless you have the RB reflash or AP your top speed ends at 148..

Thats why people claim there cars top out in 1st or 2nd gear at different speeds. Its not because all our cars have different gear rations

 

148mph

 

148mph

 

125mph. The computer kills the 2005 AT at that speed. And that's just third gear.

 

The 145 mph region top speed we are seeing is indeed the drag limited top speed to the MT car. Even if there is a limiter, I just don't see the car going much faster than this. At that speed it is barely crawling along against the drag.

In response to the statement about the speedo being off: So the limiter is limiting based on what if not the speedo? If there is more accurate data to be had to base the limiter on, why doesn't the speedo use that too?

 

the only limiter at that speed is mother nature. US MT cars are not electronically goverened. at all

 

147 on the speedo, airport run.

It would redline/beep in fifth, seemed to want to go faster, but sixth gear would just slowly lose velocity. A downshift back to fifth and it would get to 147 again.

Sixth is just too high, will have to check again with turbo.....

S

 

Can anyone prove this? Its pretty well documented through magazines that the RX8 is governed at 148 and drag limited to about 150.

Until I see some proof, Im going off facts. Governed at 148.

 

Thx for the figures. I have not taken mine to these speeds and was curious as to power vs drag and how much more boosted power is needed to exceed normal aspiration top end. If there is a limiter, I would assume this would not be a relevant question unless you could disable the limited speed.

 

Really? My 5th tops out at 135mph and I gotta hit 6th to make it painfully struggle up to 148mph

 

148 MPH stock. 300 MPH or so with the JATO rocket assist mod.

-1.3L

 

Someone in Germany on the Autobahn with a US spec car, hit 155. There isn't a governor. Only on the AT is it governed.

 

149....on stock size tires...it took ages after hitting 135....

 

09's up have different gearing.

03-08's top out at 147 in 5th gear.

 

148 but it didnt took that long ...maybe a couple of miles

 

148 here..... SLOW AS HELL from about 132. That was bone stock. New Exhaust, Intake, I have only been to 133.

 

149 in 5th.

from the top of 4th it wasnt painfully slow, maybe .5mph per second.

 

Answer me this question,,
If the engine had a "Governor" like the AT models do. (And then not all.) Would you not feel the effects of the governor? I do when my car hits 125 on the track. It turns off. Just like turning the key off.
Now has anyone ever experienced that with a MT?