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

 

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

 

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 ***...

 

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...