jon sorry for hijacking the thread, one quick question: before the turbo installation, how was your ride with this tire dimension? did the 255 rear tires had a negative effect on performance?
I'll change my rims and and wanna go 255rear (and 225front) I just want an opinion about this setup...

 

Well, I have scheduled dyno time. My date for the dyno is January 21st at 10am Hopefuly Jeff can make the trip with me. I told them 2 would be coming for baselines with air/fuel.

 

No worries, I like wide tires in the rear. The my winter wheel/tire setup is as follows:

Milli Miglia EV-R 18x8 and 18x9
Tires are Pirellia Winter Snow Sport 240's 225/45-18 front and 255/40-18 rear.
No trouble with the winter tires yet. But they are a winter setup, I don't expect max performance out of them.

My summer setup is as follows:
Axis Hiro's 19x8.5 and 19x9.5
Tires: Hankook Ventus Sport K104 245/35-19 and 265/30-19
Haven't driven on these yet And I won't until the winter is over. I don't want to take the chance of the salt ruining the finish on the wheels


Oh yeah.. for autocross I use my stock wheels with the stock dunlops. Though, this upcoming season I am going to put slicks on. Will probably go with 245's all around.

 

I don't believe it, as if you took the word out of my mouth!! Except for the 19's, we have pretty much the same thinking! This is the setup I'm gonna buy soon:

18x8fr, 18x9rr with 225/40 and 255/35, I'll go for lightweight Volks.

Stock rims with stock potenzas 040 for the track, and when they're finished, four slick or race tires, 245 all 4 corners... oh, and no winter tires for me, 'cause we get snow very rearly here in my country

Thank you my friend!! Please feel free to pm me if you have any good suggestions or you want to share impressions about your street/track setup in the future I'd love to hear them!

 

Where are you goin to dyno the car ?

 

Whats goin on guyz....i live in Middletown Nj and was wondering if anybody wanted to have a meet at the PNC Bank Arts Center on the Garden State Parkway...let me know what you think

 

turns out Jeff found a place that's a lot cheaper than Turbotrix in NJ. Trying to coordinate with him to get a scheduled date.. stay tuned

 

Billy, post that in the NE Forum threads.. will get a better responce there!

 

Yea, I get the pops as well with my RB, but its definitely not as pronounced as yours so I was wondering if the turbo increased it. Interesting, sounds like something is wrong, but I guess not.

Isn't removing the cat illegal? Although flames would be sweet.

 

Damn i wished you went there i live liek 10 min from there, my bro goes there to get his evo tuned. very nice ppl

 

i noticed that you ran the 1st through 3rd in 10 sec or less(at 13:33 to 13:43 and at 15:22 to 15:32..that is fast as hell....and you redlined 2nd in less than 6 seconds both times..and that was at a very low rpm launch...nice..very nice!

 

sorry

thanks! I am trying to preserve my clutch as long as possible.. hehe

 

whats second gear top out at? as in How fats can you go in 2nd

 

That's not going to change. It's how fast you get there that will change.
Your final drive is determined by your differential.

His total top end is probably higher now though.

 

what he said /\ /\

 

ok...so someone answer my question..what does 2nd top out at...how fast he gets there we can see in the vid...i am a rx7 driver so I dont know the speed of the 8 at redline in any gear

 

67 before the fuel cut off.. 64 at 8500

 

thanks ...so he hits 65 or so in less than six seconds with a bad launch..not bad at all!!!

 

This thread is moving too fast for me..I know I'm gonna leave my house for a day and there's gonna be another video posted and I will never be able to find it in this mess..Can we do something to where the videos are always showing? someone put the links in his Sig or something?

 

Jon and I are putting them on the dyno next week. If you are interested, check out the thread:

https://www.rx8club.com/ne-rx-8-forum-29/turbo-rx-8-dyno-session-50065/

 

.. why couldn't you guys live in florida? there's a lot of car stuff down here..

 

:D :D :D :D


and winter tires


Good point! From now on when I post a video I will also edit the first post in this thread with the links for the videos as well. Thanks for the suggestion!

Also, there won't be anymore videos until this blasted rain stops!

 

You should put the first two movies that were created in the original post anyway. It might be nice for people who fell off the planet and havent read this thread yet .. jk...

 

Good Point, doing that now

 

Got a reply from GReddy on the oilpan. Will be out in april or so, and the tentative price is 350.00 though that is not final....kinda sucks they didn't include it with the kit, oh well, at least we can get it even if it is extra.