1/4 Mile Time
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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!!
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Originally Posted by EvritaniaGR
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!!
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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.
Then again, as long as your friend is missing gears... you should be able to take him with an 8.
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Originally Posted by EvritaniaGR
Nobody said im buying the just for 1/4 mile..... somebody changed the topic?
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.
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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.
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Originally Posted by yiksing
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.
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.
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Originally Posted by BigOLundh
AWWWWWWWWWWW... this makes so much more sense now. Very well put
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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.
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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.
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Originally Posted by RX8_Buckeye
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.
What RPM do you guys usually shift at?
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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.
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Originally Posted by Lasse wankel
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.
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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...
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...