kills thread
 

how come we dont have a KILLS THREAD or do we???rx7club has one maybe we should have one too

Possibly too mature for pissing contests....

S

We have a Thread Killers thread....yar.

https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.p...thread+killers

because street racing is illegal and stupid.

And im not saying that because my beloved stock Rx8 would get pwned at a stop light by a blue haired, afro barely popping over the steering wheel, white knuckled arthritis inflicted little old lady in a beat up old yellow 1987 oldsmobile cutlass supreme.



I know that bitch had a V8...

Reason is, our 8's are too fast and we never lose.. So it gets boring..

also, because the Mazdaspeed RX-8 is SOOOOOO fast that it could never lose in a race. It's also too fast to be photographed or filmed so we would never actually have a 'confirmed' kill.

Also, it's not nice to kick the poor little Crossfire owners in the nuts every day. It's bad enough they drive a Crossfire, could you imagine a whole Forum about how slow their car is?! (oh wait, umm... I think they have one of those already)

What you condone street racing and being on a cell phone?

Everyone is on a cell phone nowadays.

Wait until your brother dies like mine did from an idiot like that.

Razz1, im sorry to hear about your brother.
About the kill thread, a kill doesnt have to be on the street. It could also be on the drap strip. Im sure all of us are guilty of racing on the street at one time or another. Until a few years ago when i lost my friend, i raced regularly. I still think it would be nice to have a kill thread, just as long as it is on a track.

kills thread? or kinda stupid, if you want a "kills thread" you better got video to back it up,in that case, just post in the multimedia section

I killed a Magpie with my 8 .

if you could read, it clearly states the competition section is NOT a kills section.

rather sure you can post a car you beat in a race as long as it's not a street race... I could be wrong, but the only threads I've seen closed were street racing threads, never any drag strip stories or track stories.

edit: question to any mods who happen to stop by and read this... are videos found on the net ok even if street racing? wondered before for a decent comparison between cars, even if it's street racing...

About the kill thread, a kill doesnt have to be on the street. It could also be on the drap strip

yes i can read i was referring to the above bold sentence. You can post if u won a legit drag race

I killed three gallons of gas today.

easy. pm

btw, i just killed some grrrrroooogggggggg, aaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

beers :beer:

The lack of a kill thread section is a sign of maturity in an automotive bulletin board.

There is nothing wrong with racing on a track and hence nothing wrong with talking about it here. We don't try to support street racing or the Rice and the Ridiculous crowd and consider our lack of street racing as a sign of maturity among owners. There is a very simple reason the 7 forum allows them and we don't. They are older. However the average age of their members is younger. This forum was created later and there were several things that could be fixed or improved over the 7 forum. The lack of street racing threads was one of them. We also don't allow political or religious threads but that's not due to maturity as much as it is the fact that these topics are very strongly anchored in many people. When you get into topics like these with people arguing about them that feel so strongly about their position, it gets ugly quick. They don't take long to get off topic and get personal, not to mention spill into other areas of the forum. These are some of the decisions that have been made to keep the forum more civilized. It's worked very well too.

Street racing bad. Track racing good! Post away if you were at a track. Don't post a street racing story and try to disguise it as a legit track race. It's not hard to figure those out and will be promptly deleted with warnings (or potentially worse) handed out.

So - I was at the 'track' the other day , wink wink . This evo pulls up beside me and gives me the look ..........................(rest of story deleted)

i smoked a ferrari today by 20 cars, yeah it was parked but i still smoked it!

I actually killed a viper once, it was in the middle of the road, I ran over it, it died

I totally killed my savings with the downpayment on my car.

OK! OK! i'm sorry i have to do this.....and sorry i have to use you StealthTL for this....but i own an 87 gxl (RX-7...heh) but this statement is exactly why a lot of people think of 8 owners a stuck up, snot nosed, overly pretentious, a** h***! not just 7 owners think this way either, others have expressed their concern to me. i have a little brother that all he wanted to do was look at an RX-8 in a parking lot, the owner stepped out of the store he was in and promptly yelled at him for even being near HIS car. im not saying that is the basis for this general opinion but you have to agree there is an air of snottiness about this statement! the last time i heard anyone talk like that, and he was well justified in doing so, was when i walked up to a ferrari in a parking lot and wanted to check out the car, a ferrari 360 challenge stradale, the owner told me if i did not get away from his car he would call the police....kinda s*ity deal. all i was trying to do was look at the car.
now on the subject of street racing...i know it is wrong and we all, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8 owners should refrain from doing so. keep it on the track! seems to be the motto now. i would love to go to a track to see what my car can do but for some, seems like most 7 owners...hehehehe, we cant afford to do so. while i am guilty of speeding, and numerous other traffic offenses, i beg the question: why do we continue to buy these cars? well simply put we want to go fast. if there is a single person here that can say they have never strayed over the speed limit i'd like to meet them! we all have it in us to speed. some choose to do so on the track and some....on the way TO the track!
i just think if owners of fine automobiles, like the RX-8, were less interested in their status at the local golf club, we could coexist in a happy world of speeders and non speeders alike. now i am not saying that all rx8 owners are snots, just some seem to be a little elitist about the rx8. i know quit a few rx8 owners that are really cool. sorry if i have offended anyone here i was just putting my oppinion out there!


now anyone interested in talking to me in person about this can visit me this weekend at:

https://www.rx8club.com/ne-rx-8-forum-29/corning-nyra-meet-126159/

yes i did all this just to get more views of my thread......hehehehehehe

i fully expect to get banned for this one......

:angel: :rock: :FIREdevil :angel:

rxmclaren7 you been hanging with the wrong 8 owners.....come down to one of the nyra meets jason throws.....unfortunately i cant make it to yours....but im sure most of the guys in 7 club that met me can vouch that me and all the other 8 owners i roll with are different

hey chris like i said not all just some. and from what i hear you are one of the coolist dudes out there anyway!! i have, and so have many others, met 8 owners and they act like their sh*t dont stink. hell some dont even understand what they have under their hood......whaaa rotors??que?? nope not mine its a four cylinder!...actual quote from a guy mid 30's driving a black GT with the mazdaspeed body kit on it. i have also had some tell me MY 7 DOSENT HAVE A ROTARY ENGINE IN IT!! man i have run across some really stupid 8 owners( and 7 owners too though not as many) i guess it all stems from a lack of fundage so i can buy an 8 myself. i hope to get on the band wagon with in the next year or so, so i can see what all the fuss is about!!

What does lack of knowledge of the rotary have to do with claiming you "killed" an SRT4?

People who post kills invariably get contradicted by others and the resulting shit-fest is utterly predictable and futile - why bother?

Also, what does keeping the peace on a forum have to do with being kool/uncool, general snottyness, or the smell of one's shit? Since I was used as the shining example, I kind of resent that......

i fully expect to get banned for this one......

Nobody has ever been banned here for an honest discussion of fact or opinion, you must be thinking of a much less mature forum.

S

Mature? ummm are we talking about the same forum? :lol2:

this forum is way far from mature

we simply cant kill shit, lets face the fact, our bumpers are dented even by birds

:lol:

Personally I think street racing always has and always will happen regardless of weather or not forums provide a kills thread. Fathers, grandfathers and great grandfathers alike have been draggin on the streets since the very beginning.

People die now from street racing and people died back then from it.....just like people die from track racing today just as they did back in the day.

So with that said does it make any sense to not have a kills thread? I guess what I'm trying to say is that racing on the streets happens regardless of wether or not there is a kills thread on this forum.....so why not let history be told?

because we americans don't like the truth.........its true

besides, seriously, if there was a cockroach on the road, I would swerve and try not to hit it, who knows, it might not be washed off my bodykit so easily, nothing like a black smear on my shiny silver 8!

i do apologize for singling you out!! i did not mean for it to come across that way i was just using the quote as an example!! i was not implying that you are stuck up
just that i have come to meet more and more 8 owners that think their cars are gods gift to the automotive world....nice cars yes, the best ever no, no car is the best at every thing!
i have finally driven my first 8 today though. a friend with a yellow 8 let me take his car for a spin and it was fun and very fast! i do like the 8 i dont want anyone to think i am hating on 8's at all!
but why cant we have a kills thread maturity aside...i know a few older people that still race their cars (45-50ish).....it is all about having fun with you car man!!
i do apologize for the "call out" and the fact you took offense to me "calling you out" oh and thank you for not banning me!!hehehehe!!

now on to the kills:
me: 1
squirrel: 0

hehehehe
happened today on my way to work!!:evil_laug

I don't know, maybe it's where I'm from, but I've never had any problem with 8 owners. All the people I've met up with have been incredibly friendly, mostly mature, car nuts who are very accommodating even to new members. We've had a few less than stellar members show up every now and again, but even they weren't too bad. Mostly just stupid.

In fact, the only owners (of any car) I've ever encountered who were standoffish, elitist, and generally unpleasant were 7 owners. Not all of them have been that way, but it seems that I keep getting disappointed whenever I see a nice 7 and try talking to the owner.

(Though, I would like to note, most of my negative experiences came from one particular meet and one particular group of owners...Though there are still a handful of others who come to mind)

I always have problems with 8 owners, their car is just like mine! must.....resist.....urge.......to..........go..... ..talk........

street racing, puts others at great risk without their consent.

on the track, bystanders are there out of free will, they know what's going on, and it's a "safe" calculated risk. Track racing eliminates many of the unknown variables that make racing (in any form) potentially fatal.

There are far less none participants that have died in sanctioned racing in comparison to street racing.

So why provide a thread out there bragging about your total disregard for others lives?

^ thats why its called reckless, but dude.......I'm serious, like most of the time, the street racers die, other people, if you look at it, if they died too, mostly its because they cut in front of the street racers, idk never saw a guy that wasn't involved in a street race die because some fucktard crashed into him, yet.......that yet is very important

there is a time and a place for just about everything, public streets is not one of those for racing.

Personally I don't know about the whole 8 owners being snobbish. I don't even own an 8 yet but I have met and talked to several different rotary owners on numerous occasions. I have found them to be very good people who are incredibly kind to let a non rotary owner hang with them and drool over their cars.

Heck, at one meet I had mentioned in conversation with a few people, that I have never even sat in the driver's seat of an 8 before. From that comment one owner offered me the opportunity to sit in the driver's seat of her car. She was even kind enough to put the seat back so I could sit comfortably. If that's not being cool I don't know what is.

you could not be more right.......thats why I think they are retards........but if they want to.....go ahead, it doesn't "prove" anything, and they can't race with 1 car.......there must be 2, if both of them consent on racing, and ends up dying.......hahahah

i think i recall that one..

beers :beer:

Ok so let me get this straight......not ONE of you guys that opposes street racing EVER gets on the gas on the street??? You never go for a ride and just have the urge to lay into the throttle for a little? Well if so then concider yourself STREET RACING. Racing doesn't have to involve another car. Same same guy that pulls out in front of two street racers is the same guy that pulls out in front of the guy going too fast all by himself also. Seen it happen with my own eyes once.

I never said I don't street race.

I never said I oppose street racing.

Just said you can't come on here bragging about your "kills".

The rule has been here from day one.......you don't have to like it, just abide by it.

S

That's cool and I respect the rule. This was obviously brought up in the suggestions thread to have a discusssion about so I thought I would share my opinion on the subject.

It just seems there are a lot of people that claim they never race on the street but in reality I'm sure they are doing it without even realizing it. Street racing doesn't have to be in a straight line either.....it can be those set of twisties you come upon and speed up for....or taking the simlpe 90 degree turn at the intersection a little faster than normal. I know we are ALL guilty of that in our 8's! :)

Anyways, I'm not sure we should have a kills thread just for the fact that we wouldn't be killing much out there in a "straight line"......but maybe a "Killed By" thread would be more appropriate. :lol2:

I redline my car daily and lay into the throttle.... however I'm in 1st gear and hit 7500 RPM at 45-50 mph ( patting self on back ) speed limit was 55 and never broke it! :)

That's my point though.....just because you are below the speed limit doesn't mean that you're not going to cause an accident. I just wintnessed a guy wreck his vette the a few weeks ago and he was going no more than 30 mph when he did it. Sometimes things go wrong with the car or road conditions aren't right when you think they are.....it's not always the driver who's at total fault. Imagine yourself pulling through 1st and just as you approach 7,500rpm you run through some loose gravel or sand with your DSC off.....that's enough to point your nose towards the sidewalk or on-coming traffic in a hurry.

^ where the hell is the speed limit still 55?.........I think CA should raise it to 75 right now, would help with the traffic jam, and hopefully get more cars off the road, and into the bodyshop

Personally...it's a matter of using common sense... if your paying attention to the road conditions, traffic etc., and if all drivers took responsibilty of their actions and were curteous of others on the roadways.... I wouldn't have one of the highest insurance premiums because of the county & state that I live in ( and no accidents or citations ) Again, it all falls back on responsibities and common sense....

oh I've street raced before, the mustang pulled ahead while the ranger and i were even until i reached 40km/h. I got up to a whopping 60km/h (the speed limit) and cruised on from there.
Mind you it took about 15 seconds to get up to 60km/h because it was icy and traction control was kicking in all the way.

I must admit though, I do push my car and myself to about 80% of my skill level. I wouldn't consider it street racing, I consider it a skill, tactical and awareness improvement course.

My friend was helping me out by picking up my RX from it's oil change. He decided to take the long way along the gravel roads. He also learned how to drift all by himself with his '95 Mustang. He is the only driver that can actually scare the living crap out of me. Now I consider HIM careless and wreckless, though I doubt he does.

I guess in the end it is all about perspective, but it's the dicta... umm i mean moderators who have an iron fis... umm, control this forum and it is up to their discretion who to eradic.... umm i mean ban or erase their post.

In SC LOL too many tourist to raise the limit on secondary roads.... no direct interstates going into the beach..... very few areas on I-77 & I-95 have 70mph in SC.

Point taken. Unfortunately there are a lot of numb skulls out there that don't concider those things.

agreed