top speed?

[FDTT]

http://www.350zonline.com/gallery/album589?page=1

There are a few pics in that album for you there. If you like ill make a sign just for you and take some pics with that sign in it.

Grow up buddy, im not dissing you or your car.

[ccasmoe00]

Maybe you need to read the rules and regulations again because I don't know what point your trying to make. Every car in the Stock class has to be "Stock" besides some of the thing the SCCA allow such as roll bars and stuff like that. But Every car and its class has that, so what's your point?

I don't want to see you 7's. Obviously if you "have" owned RX8's you would have taken pictures. Any sane human who is a car enthusiast would have done so. And sorry by car is not "riced" up. My car is completely stock from the factory beside the ACT clutch, flywheel and Pressure Plate. You must not know the meaning of riced up..........

[carbuzzard]

I'm not sure what the top speed for an RX-8 is, but most manufacturers limit top speed for US bound cars to 154 mph or so in deference to tire longevity. Not, of course, that there's much of anywhere where you can drive over 150 for any period of time...

But I find it hard to believe that an RX-8 is unstable at speed. I haven't had one there. But I have driven a stock Volvo 850 Turbo stationwagon at 155 (or or less) at the company's test track in Udevalla, Sweden, and it was stable at that speed, even in the very high banked corners (for as many laps as I could stand, btw. Ran it out of gas, but flat out it doesn't take all that long ).

I've also driven a Saab 900 at Talladega at 150 mph laps, 155 top speed on the back straight (woulda gone faster but the FIA wouldn't let us draft). And believe me, Talladega's turn one is really bumpy. It really makes me respect the NASCAR guys who go door handle to door handle (if they had door handles) at 200 mph. But the Saab was easy to control and not anything but comfortable running that 150 mph.

Now, if you want to believe it, Volvo may have made cheaters for us to drive--I don't think they did--but the Saabs were FIA certified to be stock-off-the-assembly-line.

So if the Swedes can make these bone stock sedans stable at 150+, it just doesn't make sense that Mazda, with all its racing experience (from racing rotary Familias in Europe in 1969 or so, through winning Le Mans and with more SCCA and IMSA titles than you shake a stick at), one would think that they could make a sports car that could go a measily 150 mph without getting spooky. Of course, I haven't had a chance to try, so I'll have to defer to people who actually have.

[FDTT]

I have had a RX8 to high speed.
The issue is the dampening in the rear. With some aftermarket shocks its solid as a rock, but i find it twitchie, but that does add to the tossability of the car in the twisties.

[carbuzzard]

Hmmm, you would've thought that Mazda would have learned something from the first generation that located its live rear axle with a Watt linkage rather than the less expensive Panhard rod. The Watt linkage, as configured, had the unfortunate tendency to bind and when it did, the effect was the same as having an infinitely stiff rear ant-roll bar: the car would spin. I experience that close up and personal and won a race as a result of it, having seen #2 car take out #3, resulting in a full course yellow for the rest of the race. (Would rather have raced. Track--esp. race-- time is expensive).

Anyway, like I say, I'm surprised. But it's good that you have a place to check out top speed. I don't have ready access to the several miles (at least) of clear, relatively straight trafficless roads that it would take to get to get to top speed safely (or without the risk of a speeding ticket that my grandchildren will still be paying off). 6

The only car I've been to top speed on the public road was a Fiat 850 Spider: 54 hp, 0.9 liter, pushrod I-4; 95 mph at 7000 rpm. Not the fastest I've driven, of course, but the only time I've topped out not on a track. (And the confession doesn't matter; the statue of limitations has run out long ago).