1/4 Mile Time
 

What was your best 1/4 mile time with your rx8 stock!, we went to the track and my bro(Z) ran a 14.4 stock w/ a nismo spoiler and he missed 4th so im trying to see how the RX8's do... I WANT ONE!!

Look at the sicky at the top of this sub-forum page :spank:

if your looking to buy a car for the 1/4 mile... get the z. Later you'll realize that that isn't even a drag based car... but it is faster than the 8.

Then again, as long as your friend is missing gears... you should be able to take him with an 8.

Nobody said im buying the just for 1/4 mile..... somebody changed the topic?

15.0 is what I ran and that is with a lot of wheel hop. I read somewhere on this site that there is a guy that ran 14.5 stock.

Ok let's rephrase

if your looking to buy a car for the straight... get the z. Later you'll realize that that isn't even a drag based car... but it is faster than the 8.

Then again, as long as your friend is missing gears... you should be able to take him with an 8.

I read one article in car & driver that after 8 months of driving, the car was faster. The author stated that rotary engines are known for getting better with age. The first 0-60 was 6.1. after 8 months it was 5.8. I don't remember what the 1/4 was but it was faster.

AWWWWWWWWWWW... this makes so much more sense now. Very well put
:worship:

the z is about 1 second faster from both 0 to 60 and 1/4

Err.... just trying to send your message across....

ummm no

search button will do wonders

i second that motion

my automatic crx is faster in the 1/4 than my 8..hahah

Common guys,accept the fact. I dont think anyone can do 0 to 60 in 6 seconds flat. I dont want to believe it too. Who can do 6s in stock rx8?

i can................. Not

In the hands of most drivers the RX-8 will run high 14s and low 15s. If that's not good enough for you get a different car.

I couldn't break into the 14's the one time I went to the drag strip. :( Best I could do was a 15.1 or something like that. Of course, my wife was a passenger for every run, so maybe I could have shaved off a bit more time if I had gone solo. There was another guy with a 6MT RX-8 as well. He couldn't break into the 14's either... Despite the laughter from the Mustang and Camero owners, it was a fun experience. Beating the Acura RSX-S and Civic with a fart bazooka was satisfying enough for me.

i am sooooo telling your wife that you called her a fat ass... :rock:

I couldn't break into 14s either. Don't know whats wrong, I get fairly good starts -low to mid 2s for 60FT, mid to high 6s for 330FT, but down the stretch in third gear I am not getting the pull I should. I raced against my friend in his rx8 dozens of times, he pulled on me in third every time. Fastest trap speed I could get the whole night was 92-93.

What RPM do you guys usually shift at?

I read that you should shift at 8500 rpms.

If you have good fuel and a fresh motor you should shift at 9000 rpm, maybe a little more. This is how i shifted my stock motor up tp 10 000 km. Now that i have 20 more hp i shift at 9500 rpm 1-2nd and 9000 rpm 3-4th.

/Lasse

Good point. Most 600cc sportbikers use their over-rev capability to ensure they stay in the meatiest part of their powerband on the next shift. This should also work for the 8, though I haven't heard of anyone using this technique here.

Otherwise nobody should be surprised that it’s hard to match magazine times. They always correct for various factors such as temperature and humidity, and driver reaction times are always taken out of the equation. But all major North American publications did mid 14's when shifting at redline, so that should be your benchmark.

Fact is, low torque cars are hard to launch, as are high-powered front drivers. On the opposite end, all wheel drive cars and the torquers like Mustang GT's and GTO's are comparatively easy. Still, the few times I attended drag nights I noticed that nearly everybody didn't match times that their cars were capable of. That also applies to me, my sportbike has done consistent 10.1 to 10-2 in the hands of experts, my best was a 10.6, but you can imagine the challenge of putting 150hp onto a single tiny patch of rubber.

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Tried to insert a dyno plot of my 600cc race bike... but apparently I have no idea how to post a pic.

Anyway, the point was to show how the power increases all the way to the red line... which is the reason you wind those things right up to the limiter. Most cars hit their peak power, before the redline and then it starts to decline, so I'm not sure if winding them all the way to the redline is the fastest way to accelerate. You clearly want to stay in the power band, but use as much torque as available too... especially if the power starts to tail off in the overrev range...

Whoever was driving the RSX S must have been a sorry driver.. If you couldn't break into the 14's there is no way your beating even a stock RXS S.. they can easily run a mid to high 14's.. i know.. i used to have one before it was stolen.. now i'm the proud owner of an 8... also had a turbo'd integra that was stolen too..

https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.p...light=timeslip

Don't let this thread degenerate into a troll bashing.

Charles R. Hill runs in the 13's with nitrous and some mods.

the best i could do all stock was a 14.8

Man o man you need to find a new neighbourhood to move to if your rides keep getting stolen.

Sad part is i don't even live in a bad neighbourhood..

I've done 14.4 1/4
& 5.85 0-60 with all my mods

i ran a 14.87 94.5 trap speed 58 degree night at infineon in sonoma last weds. my 8 is pretty much stock.

someone you know is stealing your cars then. anyway, im coming from an rsx s also. just traded it in 2 mos ago b/c of suspension problems. it's as fast as the rx8 but not as fun and 10 times as many on the road.

First off the 8 is not a 1/4 mile car (duh). But the 1/4, or more specifically, acceleration of the 8, does need addressing. This is only one aspect of an extremely capable streetable track chasis.

And being on that note ...

... I've never said this out loud but, I believe the 8 can run a high 13s in the 1/4 WITH full interior.

Polak ran a 14.58 stock and being new to drag racing. It has been quoted numerous times that a flywheel on the 8 can shave .3-.4 seconds off the 1/4 alone. Also Road and Track (or some mag) ran the 8 after some miles were on it and got a better time. If I recall correctly they ran a 14.6 compared to the original 15.1. Let's just say .1 second drop due to age on the Renesis (puberty???). Charles stated in a thread I've read concerning this similar subject about how he's confident that the RB flash can take another .2 seconds off. Taking this into account, and if Polak had these mods, he would of maybe ran a 13.9 run.

YES, this is all in theory, BUT with stock wheels and street tires, springs and shocks upgrade, sway bars, flywheel, pulley, CAI, hi flow/mid pipe, catback, RB flash, and a little skill, the 8 should do high 13s IMHO.

As 8 drivers, I think we are our own worst enemies sometimes. We say the 8 is slow on the straights and take them in the twisties. The 8 is slow compared to some other cars out there, but it aint THAT slow. The twisties are the 8's strength and beating faster cars in the turns is a must, BUT you still need enough speed through the straight to keep faster cars from making up the distance the 8 got on them in the twisties. It's all about average speed throughout the course in it's entirety.

.... this all depends on the track though of course. If there are a lot of straights and up hill climbs then the 8 won't do so well. If the course is flat and twistie, the 8 would give most cars hell.

well said. any car that does 14 secs. on a 1/4 is a quick car in my opinion. anyway, the looks of the exterior and interior, and let's not forget the suspension makes up for what the rx8 lacks in acceleration.

I honestly don't think an RX8 can get into the high 13's with those bolt-ons and the tune. Slap on a set of drag radials and run some sort of forced induction or nitrous and it will get deep into the 13's. I'd like to see somebody run a legitimate 12.xx with the Renesis in any configuration (not having to resort to swapping to a 20B or 13B-REW)

Wouldn't we all .....

someone with mazsports turbokit needs to run at the track and see what they put down, Im sure they could be in the 12's no prob........if they can get traction that is

Traction is going to be a problem in this car. Im seriously looking into a Mazsort Kit, with goals of upwards of 350WHP & I dont think there will be a way to keep the a$$ end planted & not spin the tires, but still get a good launch.

someone hear a couple years ago ran a 13.1 with the greddy kit, don't know what tires he had though.

That was Adrian... he lives near Austin (my neck of the woods). He was running drag radials when he made that 13.1 second run. His setup wasn't the out-of-the-box Greddy kit - he had a boost controller, Interceptor, etc...

Even the Protech Performance RX-8 only ran a 13.5 in the Car and Driver article. The trapspeed was 109mph, which for most other cars translates into a 12.xx sec run.

I think the problem is that even the big horsepower RX-8's still have to be launched at a high RPM to keep from bogging and falling out of the powerband. Not sure what the answer is to get you guys in the 12's. :dunno:

I'd be curious to see something try out a lower gear ratio, maybe a 4.11 (i forget the exact number.) Adrian had to cut the boost in 1st to even get traction, but with the extra power you probably won't need the 5000 rpm clutch drop.

friday night i ran a 14.8, all stock and with my sub and amp in the trunk.