I know, I know.. I didn't buy the RX-8 to drag race. I just wanted to race a Mustang to gauge where the HP is on the RX-8. By the way, this was done on a private road. My friend’s mustang is a 96 4.6L 5speed stang /w headers, mid-pipe, and flowmasters. His weight is about 180lb. He had a passenger that weights about 115-120lb. My RX-8 is a touring /w ~1200 miles on the clock and I weigh 170lb, tcs and dsc were off. We ran the cars twice from 0-80mph and it was a dead heat each time. We couldn't run them from a role since the road was too short. If the RX-8 would be at 247hp it should have walked him easily. I have a date with the dyno on Sept 13th. I hope Mazda has a solution to this HP issue by then.

 

There is no way that a stock RX-8 should be able to "easily" walk away from a V8 Mustang with those mods. His car in stock form is within spit'n distance of the RX-8 (per C&D 9/95)

Mustang / RX-8
0-60 = 6.6 / 5.9
0-80 = 11.3 / 10
1/4 = 15.1 / 14.5

I've owned 2 post '94 Mustang GTs and the mods he has performed free up several horses on those big V8s. I would have expected someone to be a little upset by the results...but not you!

Next time, do it right. Race him 0-100mph and then back to 0 again and see who wins.

 

I expected to be even or a little quicker than the Mustang. I ran against the same car with my FD a while back and it was plain UGLY for him. I just hope that my 8 finds it's missing ponies soon. I'll be auto-x'ing within a few weeks. I can't wait to do a lap with the traction control on. I'm just amazed by it. I've taken corners at insane speeds and I can't belive how quickly this car recovers. It feels even more solid than my FD.

 

Where you going to race?

 

Genom,

Check the following website for South Florida Autox event dates

http://autox.carlc.com/

I'll be at the Sept 21th event

 

Wow! Very much apreciated!

 

Try a V6 ATX Mustang vs ATX RX-8.

Sadly, it'd probably be a close one.