Mazda Rx8
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So before I got the Tiburon, I was actually looking into a Mazda RX8 to share with my brother. Personally the power output for a 1.3 liter is amazing! Two engines, both 197hp and 238hp respectively. I heard they are among the easiest cars ever to drive fast. It's got a great engine, technically a four-door, and it seats up to four adults.
My friend Maxine just got an (auto) 2004 RX8 BTW, and she thinks if we did a run at the track she'd beat me. Eh, I'd personally shoot myself if I ever bought an auto RX8. haha.gif But what do you guys think? But the manuals have the capability of redlining @ 9K RPMs. The sound of the engine screaming at those revs is incredible.
Discuss.
My friend Maxine just got an (auto) 2004 RX8 BTW, and she thinks if we did a run at the track she'd beat me. Eh, I'd personally shoot myself if I ever bought an auto RX8. haha.gif But what do you guys think? But the manuals have the capability of redlining @ 9K RPMs. The sound of the engine screaming at those revs is incredible.
Discuss.
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You should shoot yourself for buying an auto tib too haha.gif tongue.gif (guess that's me being a hypocrit, but I eventually did move over to the dark side laugh.gif)
Anyway, I'm pretty sure you'd get killed. lol.gif
It's an RX8 man.. you have an auto tib with just a CAI.
Anyway, I'm pretty sure you'd get killed. lol.gif
It's an RX8 man.. you have an auto tib with just a CAI.
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what they said....
Having a tib with auto tranny and almost no mods, you should forget about racing anyone but bone stock civics and cars from early 90s....
Even the slowest cars on the road now are usually in low 16s... you are far from there!
Having a tib with auto tranny and almost no mods, you should forget about racing anyone but bone stock civics and cars from early 90s....
Even the slowest cars on the road now are usually in low 16s... you are far from there!
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QUOTE (MK3Design @ Sep 25 2005, 10:39 PM)
Ide rather get a RX7.....shave a couple seconds off that 1/4 mile time with an older and cheaper car..
Yea, I'd get an FD in a heartbeat!
Sooooo much sexier!
And yeah, you get your ass handed to you on a platter.
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rx8 will spank you.... a friend of mine is getting one once he gets out of the army and he want's to race me and my other buddy so me and him are working on our cars so that by the time he gets his ours will be better/faster bringit.gif
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meh ... at the last hyper meet we had a dyno day and a guy brought his RX-8 ..... he had the 238 hp one and we all expected at least 200 at the crank....he got 175whp and 141tq on the dyno...just about every V6 tib with I/E beat that ... VERY unimpressive
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honestly, I would not touch a 3rd gen RX7 unless I had a LOT of cash to throw at it to overcome it's fatal shortcomings...
Fuel slosh when you get to around a third of a tank? Engine runs lean and detonates.. goodbye rotory
Radiator is undersized... let it overheat.. good by rotory
Bi Turbo setup... finicky vacuume lines... one breaks.. good bye rotory...
Basically, Mazda tried to make the FD as light as they could.. that entailed removing a lot of redundancy and capacity from the car as a whole. They even shortened the wiring harness down to the least they could and with the smallest wires they could use to carry the current.
It is a brilliant car.. but it blows up brilliantly also.
The RX8 is a naturally aspirated engine. Rotories do not make torque when left to their own devices. As HP is mathmatical equation involving torque and engine speed, you NEED to rev it out to 9 grand to get decent HP out of it.
It is a great car too. The Miata (MX5) is a great handling car... just underpowered. The RX8 has a similar feel, it is basically a grown up miata. As such, it has JUST enough power.
Fuel slosh when you get to around a third of a tank? Engine runs lean and detonates.. goodbye rotory
Radiator is undersized... let it overheat.. good by rotory
Bi Turbo setup... finicky vacuume lines... one breaks.. good bye rotory...
Basically, Mazda tried to make the FD as light as they could.. that entailed removing a lot of redundancy and capacity from the car as a whole. They even shortened the wiring harness down to the least they could and with the smallest wires they could use to carry the current.
It is a brilliant car.. but it blows up brilliantly also.
The RX8 is a naturally aspirated engine. Rotories do not make torque when left to their own devices. As HP is mathmatical equation involving torque and engine speed, you NEED to rev it out to 9 grand to get decent HP out of it.
It is a great car too. The Miata (MX5) is a great handling car... just underpowered. The RX8 has a similar feel, it is basically a grown up miata. As such, it has JUST enough power.