just slap on a turbo and you won't have any worries lmao

yup we always win on the curves ... oh and we win the babes too ... put a stang besides our 8 n the girl will pick the 8 EVERY time especially if its modded ..

ROFL!!! Famous last words for any 8 owner...

Seriously tho a turbo transformed my car. While I still don't get my jollies drag racing it's still fun to hand an Evo, STi, GTO, v8 Mustangs (LOL @ beating V6 Mustang comments) 350Z/G35s their ass. The look on their faces is the best, because NONE of them expect me to walk on them.

^dude im so jealous i wish i had to cash to put a turbo in my car oh my gawh lol lucky

haha i love it when a little cocky ricer punk comes rollin up at red light and he starts revin i look over and look back at light it turns green ok no race but heres what happens he slams on it thinkin ima race after he realizes what a dumbass he is he stops trying to race and slows down to speed limit and acts like nothing happend............................and then i go mach 5 at 9.5K past his bitch ass

B/C US urban areas have no roads to exploit the 8's fantastic handling. All straight lines and 90 degree turns.

Take those 90 degree turns with Confidence :)

Yep,,,,,,,,,,,i do :D:

I had an SRT-4 trying to race me today... The road I take to and from campus has a few fun curves so I usually redline it in second after the light and then take the corners at a leisurely but somewhat quick pace of 60-65 mph. Today, there happened to be an SRT-4 in the lane next to me (which I probably should have noticed beforehand). So I take off at a regular pace, shift to second at about 4.5k rpm then redline through second and end up at about 65 mph. The SRT-4 started stepping on it when I was about halfway through second and by the time I'm out of second, he passes me (now in 6th gear). Now comes the curve... he was probably going 70-75 at the curve (curves to the left) when his back end starts to slide a bit to the right and he corrects a bit much causing it to go the other way a bit... well, somehow this guy gets lucky and sorts it out without crashing. After that, he kept going at a similar pace, but slowed down enough to not repeat his previous mistake. I "caught up to him" rather easily but I wasn't pushing it by any means and I really didnt want to make him think it was a challenge and have him do something stupid again so I just stayed a little behind him. Once we got to the one stop sign on that road, he waited a little so I'd line up next to him and then takes off again.

And that's what's important...:beer05:

people r idiots

I Live near Angeles Crest which has like 7+ different cayons/twisties

+1..:yesnod: thats why my passenger side tires are bald and my driver side are still new...LOL

amen!!

as long as insurace companies THINK rx8`s ar slow, well im cool with that.

i thought my bmw 3 series 3.0 coupe handled well but my 8 is in a different legue:bowdown:

The 8 is slow unless you wake it up above 5K as others have stated. That in mind, if an suv thinks their torque = faster, then they already fail and you go on enjoying your "better" "fast" car.

i agree with allot of you and the OP....my situation is my cars looks give people the perception that it is fast (fat staggered wheels, slammed, smoked tail lights...) i admit, sometimes when i look at my car i think it looks faster than it really is too...and looking around on here allot have very nicely modded cars....cant really blame people for thinking we are runnin below 14 flat.

i tend to get a nice mix of people who try to race (which i may admit i play along sometimes) and honestly my win lose record is about even. We have nice cars but for the most part they arent as quick as their looks portray them to be.

And by todays standards i think our cars are slow. I get left behind by my friends accord coupe numerous times. my saving grace is the cornering. i can hit this road by my house hitting turns doing close to 60 and he can barely keep his car on the ground doing 45.

also the high revving gives the perception we are trying to race...i kept my car in 3rd today a lil above 6k cause i was doing some lane changes...after i passed this gallant ralliart (which i had no idea existed) he clearly stomped the gas and threw the hazzards as if i was racing lol.

I'll take on any RX8 in an 1/8 mile drag race with an engine that only has 8.25 cubic inches.

Any takers?

I hope you mean 80.

I'm in the car with my girlfriend on the beltway and a old ass buick starts getting closer and closer to me with his bright ass off brand cool blue colored headlights and when I shift up and he/she hears my midpipe and exhaust, I guess that was the sign for he/she to stomp on it and go as fast as possbile by me. I continue driving at the speed limit and meet back up with the same car when traffic starts to pick up and we are sitting still. He looks up and I started laughing in his face and rolled my windows up and he goes slower than the posted speed limit and looks to the left as if he did not want to get any more embarrassed by the looks of my car and suddenly there was a civic that had some swap and turbo and another turbo integra behind him and they happened to see what the guy in the buick just did and we both just laughed. So that made my day.

Well ok now you have to realize, many SUVs are faster, and noticeably too. A new escalade does 14.2 in the 1/4 mile, a non SRT8 cherokee even does 14.6, many range rovers are in the 14s as well.

But i think the best is when i have my moms 2008 RAV4 AWD V6. Racing my friends 8s out of the pocket i take off way faster and pull slowly but steadily the whole time. And if we do a roll race i pull very slowly but nevertheless pull on the 8s the whole time. And when it went in for service idk how but we had a V6 camry loaner, well i know RX8s shine in the twisties but it was like shooting fish in a barrel, those new V6 camries are ridiculously fast

I love racing people in my miata. :lol: jk!

I often wonder if Mazda would have sold more cars if the 8 would have been a two seater with better handling and power than the RX7. I know they did their homework on research but I feel one thing you can't account for are people splurging on a good product. I guess we will never know but I believe it would have been one of the most popular and fastest cars out there. I love my 8 and don't consider it slow but my next car will be a two seater, hopefully a rotary. If they don't build this car in the next few years I'm moving on.

Not trying to be a jerk, but, really? A 6.0 GTO? Hand them their ass? How badly are you handing them their ass? None of those cars stock gets even close to a stock GTO's trap speed.

I'm asking just because I really want to know what kind of numbers are required in a Renesis turbo RX8 just to keep up with a 6.0 GTO, let alone, "hand them their ass". Your dyno from a dynapack (which reads higher than a dynojet) is saying 302whp. I don't think that's enough to beat a 107mph trapping car. I don't think you can pick up over 12 mph of trapspeed with a 100 whp in an RX8. I'm assuming you don't have a timeslip to back it up, but I could be wrong.

Where am I wrong?

^uh oh here we go...GTO's fuckin pwn all!!!!!!!!

he got a new dyno btw. search n00b.

Yes i second this, and i am a stock GTO and with 4 245 Falken RT-615 tires all round i managed a 13.00 at 109mph, im not saying a turbo RX8 can not beat me but "hand me my ass" Thats takes A LOT more to do

Unless you meant a 5.7 GTO, yea a turboed RX8 can beat those no problem, but still not in a ass handing manner

He called it, fanboi. I found the new dyno. 330rwhp. Woo hoo. The car's set to "kill", tuning out the knock sensor pulling timing, and running meth... nice.

Oh, I love the part about "wheelspin on the rollers". Yah, that's it. That bone crushing 326 lb-ft of torque. They strapping the car down with rubber bands? My god, I can't imagine how a stock GTO stays on the rollers. Why, stock with 345lb-ft of torque, it should just explode off the dyno every time. Good lord, how do those 700+ hp GTO's stay on a dynojet? They should be in orbit.

I'm guessing that 330whp could be enough to "walk" a GTO. I'm guessing that might translate to 109-110 mph trap. That's STILL not handing it its ass. You see what I mean?

So tell me, 05rex8allknowingofrx8, point me in the direction of a timeslip to prove he can decimate all those cars he mentioned.

Damn dude, 109 mph. I managed 107 mph, and I was happy with that. 109 mph I would crapped myself. You got everything out of your car in that run.

LMAO! I knew that would get your panties twisted. Too fun.
Your response is so typical of a muscle car owner. OMG he said an rx8 can beat a GTO... NOOOOOOOOOO!. I must make this right. Someone is wrong on the internet!!

It actually it did spin on the dyno though--I was there.
It was pretty cool to see an rx8 do that. You have to admit, that's pretty impressive, lol.

btw, i like that 05rex8allknowingofrx8; even though I never claimed to be all knowing....
maybe i will change my sn anyways. mods?? :)

silly troll.

this shit happened to me yesterday.. driving thru springfield, ny, and some kid in his SI (with a chick.. probably trying to impress her) keeps tailgaiting. We were on public roads in the middle of the day, and people in queens like to jaywalk, so you HAVE to drive slow if you don't want to run over anyone.. The kid pulls up next to me, yells "your car's a POS!" then flies by. I don't let things like that bother me.. so i just kept going, minding my own business. Three blocks later, I see his punk ass pulled over on the side with bright blue flashing. It's probably the first time i was actually happy to see a cop.. I drove by slowly, pointed and laughed out loud.

It doesn't always work out that way, but karma can catch up real quick sometimes =)

^HAHAHAHA win!

Well, he will walk away from all of those, especially stock, how bad would he beat on them, IDK.. GTO is heavier so 326 lb-ft of torque is great for the RX8 and 345 for the GTO is great but GTO's are on a different level IMO. Handing all the cars their asses from a roll might happen excluding the GTO. I assume the GTO might still keep up from a roll but will get pulled on

I think a 300+whp RX8 is a match for a GTO (if it is the same as the 317kw HSV commodore we have here ) but definately not an ass handing .

Don't have a timesluip but check out this youtube vid of my car going through the gears - 110mph (176km/hr)comes up in a tad over 13s . And that is with a very tame takeoff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7NMI...e=channel_page

That's all I was trying to say.

His old dyno on a dynapack showed 300whp, equating to about 280rwhp on a dynojet (and that's being forgiving). That's what I based my original assertion that he couldn't pull on a 107mph car. That's when I raised the BS flag.

I don't care if you substitute WHATEVER car in for "GTO". Is a turbo Renesis with 330rwhp a 110+mph car? If it is, great. I'd like to know for sure.

Brettus,
Do you have a Gtech or an iPhone with dynolicious or something that doesn't key off the car's speedometer or isn't OBDII based and can accurately read rollout and time to distance like an accelerometer does?

Right, 317kw translates to an LS3. Hell you might have a low 13 110mph car, but if it's not at a dragstrip, how about getting something out of an accelerometer?
I don't care what anybody else says... accelerometers have been proven to be close enough nowadays to do some meaningful comparisons.

True. I would like to see some good honest pulls with the rx8 at 330whp+ vs another car with that or more. I've seen some on youtube but they don't really justify anything.

You know me... my panties are always in a wad when it comes to comparing cars like this. I learn more each time I start some crap and get other feathers ruffled.

GTO's get beaten all the time. There are so many cars faster than it all over the place, not arguing that, but one thing is absolutely certain. The number datapoints the stock GTO has for quarter mile makes it a baseline for comparing cars. There are few GTO's that can trap 109mph but FAR AND AWAY they all land in the 107-108 mph range. It's very consistent.

If Chickenwafer says he can walk one, then we KNOW what his car is capable of trapping, and how much of that dyno number is truly translating to the ground, REAL WORLD. If you would listen a little better instead of trying to mock me and call me a troll, you might learn something too.

http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/...specialty_file

click that link.. the ptp turbo trapped 109.. the car ran a 13.5... with an unstable launch, and 290 lb.ft of trq. And that article reads 390 hp. On that day they Car and Driver ran it at the track it was only at 375hp.

i believe chickenwafer can match a stock 6.0 gto from a dead stop.. And from a roll i think he would have it in the rear view mirror. There will always be debate until we see it. But one things for sure, drop a cold air intake, headerback exhaust, and a tune on the gto and we might have to go get Chris' Esmeril racing 500HP machine to stay in it..lol.. jus my opinion though.

I do actually but have resisted the urge to do any runs because the numbers always get rubbished ...

Oh yeah, forgot about that one. I know for a fact that chicken will get the GTO but by how much? I think it would be pretty close as for getting off the line and the rx8 will have it in its rear view mirror but I guess we would have to see the two in a quarter mile lol. No need for esmeril yet. 500HP rx8 is just insanely fast lol. I've seen a 3 rotor rx8 with 483whp ( actual dyno). I have not seen sheets yet on a turbocharged 8 with 500hp but I won't doubt that Chris from esmeril is making that kind of power, I believe it to some extent.:yesnod:

I've quoted that article numerous times in the past, but it seems like nobody cares. It's also only a single example. Why we can't have more examples, I don't know. Also note that Car and Driver APPROXIMATED that it had 375hp from the times. PTP brought the car in 390hp trim. 390 crank hp translates to around 330rwhp. I actually used that article as a reference before posting here.

Second, not make anything GTO specific here (skip all this if you don't give a damn about GTO's), but going from a dig is not necessarily the GTO's strong point. Ask any GTO owner that races them at the track. They are difficult to launch because they are heavy, can't accommodate larger rear tires easily, and are susceptible to wheelhop. GTO's are known for being able to do well going from a roll, even with the weight. The GTO mods you describe will net you about 385-390rwhp, and a solid 12 second quarter and at least 111+mph trap. Add a cam to the mix, and then you'll start making some respectable power gains. The cam is the key to waking up the NA setups... 11's and high teens possible.

Yah, but those are the same numb nuts that can't imagine how it works, and don't have an idea what the math is behind it. It would be pretty cool if you could make a pass or two with it. It's not perfect, but you know it's pretty damn good... a tenth or two and a couple of mph either way at most.

why people have not looked at the PTP kit, IDK. PTP's kit ever up for production? At that time, I really think that was just a stepping stone into what we see nowadays with turbocharged 8's

LOL

dude lighten up, just having some fun with you

:crying: But you hurt my feelings.

Your car is slow!!! *runs away* :fruit:

lmao, it is slow!

Bullshit! Your car is fast!!!

Wait... how did you do that...

:evil_laug

cause stock rx8 are slow!!

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GTO's are known for being able to do well going from a roll, even with the weight.

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Yes the cars top end is godly, following the 100mph courtesy rule 40mph rolls have usually went amazing for me.

Oh and the 109 was my best run, i kept running 13.1s at 108 and then i just let the car cool for like 30 min and i did my 13.00 @ 109, i was cutting consistent 2.0 60 foots everytime, my buddy with an auto GTO with many mods but worse tires managed a 1.9 60ft and i was hoping to match that, hopefully would have been in the high 12s with a 1.9 60 foot and 109mph trap speed but i was still happy with a 13.00 haha

When it comes down to it, bottom line is most people dont take their car to a track or dragstrip. For DD this car is fine. Is it underpowered when you compare it to the competition? Absolutely. Is Mazda working on it? I hope so. Hopefully the 16x can come to fruition sooner than later.

I love reading the car magazines as much as the next guy, but do people seriously buy one car over another because it is 1 second faster in the 1/4 mile? In your daily commute to work and around town, or on your 20 mile trip to see grandma does that really matter? Not at all.

Everything you said is true.

Except this thread was made by the OP on how the RX-8 isn't slow...
And then it turned into turboed rx-8 faster than a gto...
not sure how your true but irrelevant in this case statement applies in this thread.

But yes, this is another thread headed for the Failure Canyon.

I believe he was proven otherwise

Looks like after all these years, rotary drivers' understanding is still at the level of a weak apprentice. When will they learn?

The only way to unleash full power, is to drive with complete mastery of hiten mitsurugi rotary technique.

You should see the fear on their face, everytime I utilize the shinsoku speed! They know their death is guaranteed! Never late for work!

It is said, the final secret driving technique of hiten mitsurugi unleases the full 247hp fury of the renesis. But it can only be used once in your lifetime, and a failed attempt results in instant death.