who would win 1/4?

[feenix z]

Die, Thread, Die!!!!!!!!!!!

[tubjub]

has anyone here seen the series from australia called high octane ? its up to like the 4th or 5th movie now, anywayz, on the most recent one, they dragged a 350z and a rx8, sad to say, the 8 got its butt kicked in the end, but put up one hell of a fight.

[KevinE326]

Umm.. dont waste your money. Go find a evo or sti if you want speed.

[honda troll]

if I'm driving, I pick the S2000 to win. all cars stock.

[FDTT]

For all those cars you are paying far to much for what they do.
Better off buying a RX7 for less than half the price and putting the rest into the car. You end up with a better car that excells in every aspect over those with one exception of being a bit older.

But unfortunatly the RX8 is not really well suited to any car catagory. Its not a true sports car, its not a true 4 door, its not a person carrier. It is a mish mashof them all and it has to sacrifice something to make it what it is.

[Arnolds97]

I ran an SRT4 on the highway the other day. Dead Heat. I have a 97GT with no cats 3.73 gears U/D pulleys and that is about it. I was astonished. I though I'd get walked. He was not going easy either or they are capable of 180mph. You know because since I have the slowest Mustang all the fast 4 banger crowd want a piece of me because of its crappy rep. I am sure he wanted to bury me. I was at 130 when we shut off starting at about 70 the got into traffic. They are fast but I believe a car that has a range of 10000 r's could be modded to be very fast. I think they are going to be a favorite to mod eventually. I think when you have that much to work with as much of a base power to weight ratio they have it could be fun.

[bradcfi]

Originally Posted by FDTT

For all those cars you are paying far to much for what they do.
Better off buying a RX7 for less than half the price and putting the rest into the car. You end up with a better car that excells in every aspect over those with one exception of being a bit older.

But unfortunatly the RX8 is not really well suited to any car catagory. Its not a true sports car, its not a true 4 door, its not a person carrier. It is a mish mashof them all and it has to sacrifice something to make it what it is.

You obviously don't own or drive an RX8. Your comparisons are wrong and pointless. Sounds like you have a chip on your shoulder over this car. And you don't need to. This is not the successor to the RX7. It is it's own sports car. It has the performance of the two seat crowd and a better ride and gives me the ability to carry 4 people (by the way sit in the back of any other sports car then sit in this one and tell me it it's not a person carrier). In every comparison I've ever read the authors pick this car over the others for it's overall abilities. It has the modern technological advances of 8 airbags, traction control, dynamic stability control, not to mention 4 years of free maintenance and looks that kill.

Now tell me why the Hell I would spend even half as much and get less than half in return.

[bradcfi]

BTW, can somebody, anybody show me an article written by the main stream magazines (Car and Driver, Road and Track, Motor Trend etc...) that has picked any other car as the winner of the comparison? I may be wrong because I haven't been reading anything lately, Ive been out driving and loving this car.

[drftk1d]

he's saying if you want all out performance from a rotary car you want to save money and buy a rx-7.

since this thread is about 1/4 performance

[FDTT]

Originally Posted by bradcfi

You obviously don't own or drive an RX8. Your comparisons are wrong and pointless. Sounds like you have a chip on your shoulder over this car. And you don't need to. This is not the successor to the RX7. It is it's own sports car. It has the performance of the two seat crowd and a better ride and gives me the ability to carry 4 people (by the way sit in the back of any other sports car then sit in this one and tell me it it's not a person carrier). In every comparison I've ever read the authors pick this car over the others for it's overall abilities. It has the modern technological advances of 8 airbags, traction control, dynamic stability control, not to mention 4 years of free maintenance and looks that kill.

Now tell me why the Hell I would spend even half as much and get less than half in return.

Hey bud, i got no chip on my shoulder. I build rotary cars for people. I dont like the car cause it is poorly designed. I have a friend who helped in the inital design of the apperance and some othere aspects of the car and im not impressed with it.
I will never sit in the rear seats of a sports car , reason for that is a real sports car dosent have rear seats :P

From the start the RX8 was a dissapointment. Lower power output that was claimed. Tuning of the motor didnt seem to yeaild much more power, slugging issues, interior moisture issues, flooding (still LMAO), lean running, cat converter problems.

O and incase you are thinking i just plane dont like it, well that is true. My opinions are based on the fact that i bought one new as soon as it was at the dealer. I even had if for about a year but sold it, couldent stand it anymore.

Mazda designed the car to appeal to a wide varitie of people and that killed the car. And as for telling me my personal opinions are pointless and such, get a grip buddy. I have been around rotaries my hole life. I know what works and what dosent. The car is already hurting in sales and no one wants it anymore. Its turning into the next Celica LOL.

Up side of that is that the prices will get lower and lower.

Authors pics, LMFAO, hey did you ever notice that those are one persons personal opinons printed into a magazien that gets the majority of its funding advertising for such companies as Mazda ??? Makes you think dont it.

Anyways, to find 1/4 mile performance in a Mazda rotary lineup you have to go a back in the lineup.

[drftk1d]

the rx-8 is basically a placeholder.

because ford was afraid the rotary would have them losing tons of money (lessons learned from the FD3s), they told mazda they couldnt build an all out sports car, so they constructed someting mild in comparison to the rx-7. I'm sure if circumstances would allow, we'd have a fast(er) rotary car on our hands now.

[FDTT]

Im almost done a build up on one right now for a good customer. WAY to much money went into this car, almost everything had to be custom built. But this thing will be making BIG numbers once its broken in and the big boost has been added.
Now if we take this RX8 im almost done building and use it against 99% of whats on the road today it will DESTROY it, no question about that.

I will post pics as soon as the tunning is done and i have permission by the owner.

[drftk1d]

yay!

your the man as always fdtt

[bradcfi]

Originally Posted by FDTT

Hey bud, i got no chip on my shoulder. I build rotary cars for people. I dont like the car cause it is poorly designed. I have a friend who helped in the inital design of the apperance and some othere aspects of the car and im not impressed with it.
I will never sit in the rear seats of a sports car , reason for that is a real sports car dosent have rear seats :P

From the start the RX8 was a dissapointment. Lower power output that was claimed. Tuning of the motor didnt seem to yeaild much more power, slugging issues, interior moisture issues, flooding (still LMAO), lean running, cat converter problems.

O and incase you are thinking i just plane dont like it, well that is true. My opinions are based on the fact that i bought one new as soon as it was at the dealer. I even had if for about a year but sold it, couldent stand it anymore.

Mazda designed the car to appeal to a wide varitie of people and that killed the car. And as for telling me my personal opinions are pointless and such, get a grip buddy. I have been around rotaries my hole life. I know what works and what dosent. The car is already hurting in sales and no one wants it anymore. Its turning into the next Celica LOL.

Up side of that is that the prices will get lower and lower.

Authors pics, LMFAO, hey did you ever notice that those are one persons personal opinons printed into a magazien that gets the majority of its funding advertising for such companies as Mazda ??? Makes you think dont it.

Anyways, to find 1/4 mile performance in a Mazda rotary lineup you have to go a back in the lineup.

You still don't get it. The car was picked in every comparison by more than one publication. Are you saying that all the other car manufacturers didn't have enough bribe money to win the comparison. You're an idiot! You do have a chip. You don't get around much either. I recently rode in a 450hp Porche with a back seat. I garrantee it would kick your ass in anthing you've ever built or ever will. The point is this car does have 238hp and does handle well and does look better than anything out there including that tired-ass design of the RX7.

See ya... this thread is dead.

[drftk1d]

whoa man.... the rx7 is a classic design nowhere near dated (in reference to the fd)