Yeah, DivX is great, for high quality in small size... but nothing beats the playability of MPEG... ANYONE can play it.. :-)

 

What's the driver saying???!!!! Can anyone translate?

 

Downloading at 400kbps is such a blessing

 

An idea of Laguna Seca laptimes. Remember that the RX-8 was 1:50.

http://www.car-videos.com/performance/track.asp?track=2

 

On further digging those lap times seem very stretched (high)... I'll keep digging for accurate lap times.

 

Here's a good link...

It shows a lot of stock unmodded cars that run on racing slicks.. I figure you slap slicks onto the RX-8 and it will be beating most of those times

 

I think that's it for my search... that's the best link I turned up.

Most of the articles I'm finding are based on pure race cars that turn insanely low laps So there's no point in putting it up there hehe.

 

BestMotoring tested an NSX at 1:50 there. Not too shabby indeed.

Gamera - thank you multiple tonnage for uploading these videos! I'm on a modem so it'll be morning before they're done but I'm really looking forward to them.

 

All Hail Gamera! :D

That is the by far the best video of the RX-8 that I have seen. :D

It even has heel-toe action in there! Can anyone translate the Japanese commentary?

Brian

 

like i said, no divX codec, but when i DL'ed and listened to the audio track of it, i was over at the house of a japanese friend, for whom i tutor english. (not too shabby, eh?? :D)

anyways, she's a japanese, and she was telling me "oh, they talk about the corner" "oh, they just say it corners flat" "oh, they say they like this thing and that thing"...
so, she's not a car gal in either language, so sorry for the inspecifity, but yeah, supposedly all generally good comments (when talking about the car)...

 

Very welcome, always glad to be of service!

Update: The California drive and introduction videos are online now .

AFAIK, the DivX codec is available for both MacOS and Linux, what OS are you running? I could make them MPEG-1, no prob, but for these low data rates, DivX looks alot better. I'd also have to drop the res to 320x240.

The page with the Laguna Seca lap times is interesting, but agreed, something's not quite right with those numbers if a CLK-GTR ran slower than the RX. Did you guys ever see that video where one of those went airborne at LeMans?

random thoughts:
- The dual color lighting for the gauges is very cool, didn't know that was a feature.
- They must have closed off a long stretch of roadway for that scenic run, else Gan-San must have no fear of the CHP
- The interior seems very quiet, exterior sounds (engine whine, tire squeal, wind noise) seem barely audible, when compared to interior sounds (voice, shifter, rustle of the flamesuit).
- Look forward to when Best MOTORing includes the RX-8 in one their class "battles". Those are fun to watch. I have a clip of an RX-7RS beating out two NSX (type S, S-Zero), two Skylines (R33, R34), and two EVO (VRS/VGSR) at Tsukuba Raceway. Gan-San is at the wheel of the RX in that one too, and he's got the flu! That guy is amazing.

 

Gan-San is my hero.

A couple observations from the video. They mention the word "undesteer" at one point, and from the looks of the car I'd say a smidge of push is dialed into the suspension. Most of us know the Japanese like oversteer (like me ). Also it seemed like the brake pedal had long travel, making heel/toe a little difficult. Perhaps stainless braided brake lines would be a good first mod for track nuts.

 

The video links are down

 

doh! never mind

 

Oh well, I was hoping someone could mirror the videos before that happened. I have a 2 gigabyte daily transfer limit, in the past 16 hours, about 8 gigs was downloaded, so my provider has disabled my site. Sorry, but we're going to have to figure out another way of doing this. Kazaa anyone?

 

I have unlimited traffic. Let me try and get to it. I will make a new post for all the videos I have on my webserver.

 

Dang, I missed those vids before the server went down. Gamera, have you considered posting those vids to the newsgroup? Say alt.binaries.multimedia. Once you post them, the bandwidth are of no longer a problem.

 

Cylo has been kind enough to put them on his site:
http://www.rx8forum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2729

Yeah, newsgroups make more sense for something like this. Maybe next time I'll go that route (or at least get a new host). Though, I'm not sure if most members of the forum know how to use a newsreader like Agent.

 

Did anyone else notice the sign draped on the last bridge (2 turns) before the corkscrew? It said "Hmmmmmm".

The hum is back!

 

"Piston engine goes *boing boing boing boing boing*, Mazda engine goes *hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm*"

:D ol' school baby.

 

Hi BryanH,

A guy on the Car&Driver forum translated the below about the other times:

"...so let me just summarize the NIHONGO on that video. which was just showing Lap times for reference (don't know which driver though).

Supra Turbo (USDM): 1:45"87
NSX (USDM) : 1:50" (lows)."