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Old 01-04-2008, 07:26 AM
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Surprised this hasn't been posted here yet...

If it's in another thread ... my b.

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Damn! I want that kinda music from my tailpipes great find!!!!!!!
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Originally Posted by mrthundercleese
Surprised this hasn't been posted here yet...

If it's in another thread ... my b.
that's hot.
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excellent- thanks for the video- linking it int he first post of this thread as well
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WCF are calling the pics we have seen as the CONFIRMED New RX-8

http://www.worldcarfans.com/9080104....-rx-8-facelift
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I just noticed the rotor shaped muffler on the Furai. Very nice.
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Well guys I think I hit the motherload of pics of the Furai. 154 of them!!!!!!!

http://photo.mercurypress.com/Produc...6-c40fe052fe92



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Old 01-05-2008, 01:36 AM
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Thanks apc. The pixels still aren't there for a decent background.
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ok lets not have much more of posting that photographers pics. look at them on his site but leave them there- he needs to eat too

cant wait to see the video mazda has put together from the helicopter and chase car footage
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btw love the stamped rotor shape mesh
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Agree with you there, the detail is amazing. Cut out of a few of the pics, sorry got a little excited. If you look through all the pics they even brought out the 792P and the MX-R01.
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Do you think the fog lights on this so called new RX-8 pic are too close to the headlights by about 3-4 inches.

When you look at all other Mazda models including the new 6 the fogs are a lot closer to the tar.

The new 6 also has that chrome molding running across the entire front.
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A nice quote from the Mercury Press.

"This astonishing concept car is ready to race at Le Mans. To prove it, the only Japanese manufacturer to ever have won the 24-hour race took our correspondent for some scary fast spins around the legendary Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.
It´s not often that you get 2 g’s in a concept car. Isaac Hernández lived to tell us about it, and to take the pics."
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Originally Posted by zoom44
btw love the stamped rotor shape mesh
Indeed...

I need more cooling...especially later on, after adding FI...tracking in Texas summers is going to require beefing up the entire cooling system...logically adding some venting should help things along.

Except...the only ones readily available do not really appeal to me...too "over the top" or "trying too hard to be cool"...etc...etc...

Not really a huge fan of most of the CF hoods either...I would probably get it painted...but then thats kind of an expensive solution, when the cheaper solution would be to vent the stock hood.

Since I'm a function over form person...I've been pondering just where to punch the holes, what type of vents I could use...etc...etc. Not wanting to rush into things, its been milling in the back of my head.

Recently ran across a thread with similar ideas which had a link to the s2k forum where some fellow posted a DIY on his own hood...

After seeing that mesh...the circle of thought is complete...I need to find me some rotor shaped mesh somehow...it just makes rotard-sense...
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damn that thing looks nice again and again
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I cannot wait for this thing to start racing in LeMans!
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I cannot wait for this thing to start racing in LeMans!
From the pics at mercurypress it looks like they have been putting serious $$ into this project. I hope this is a preview of a future LeMans or other series supercar. (Grand Am DP please please)
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Two quick questions:

Any idea what the Japanese characters underneath the exhaust say? Perhaps "badass"

Is the 3 rotor engine in this car NA or FI?
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Originally Posted by rx8convert22
Two quick questions:

Any idea what the Japanese characters underneath the exhaust say? Perhaps "badass"

Is the 3 rotor engine in this car NA or FI?
I'm not looking at the image but I would guessthe Japanese characters say FURAI.

That engine is an NA peri port 3 rotor.

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looks like the guys from mazdaspeed and mazda have the same dreams that we do, who here havent dream of a 787b or a rx-792p for the street and track?

hey Paul what ever happeng to the WR body in the back of Downing atlanta
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umm question... is it wrong to trade in my 8 just to get climate control? hrmmm
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umm question... is it wrong to trade in my 8 just to get climate control? hrmmm
Is it worth $10k?
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Originally Posted by rx8convert22
Two quick questions:

Any idea what the Japanese characters underneath the exhaust say? Perhaps "badass"

Is the 3 rotor engine in this car NA or FI?
the first one is the kanji for wind. the other one translated as "the rattling of the wind". when I looked it up the "rai" part (second kanji) it only fit in 3 words which were the sound of wind through trees, blowing instruments and the sound of wind... so my best guess is the sound of wind lol... there's not a complete direct translation that I could find
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^Yes, it does say "furai".
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