RX8 Kill
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Originally Posted by 6-SPD4ME
It still amazes me , how many ***-clowns like yourself are out there. What does your piece of crap Mazda weigh? Of course going around a corner in a 3700lb car is harder. This is a street racing thread not a road course thread.
Take your Jap scrap back to Japan and do laps around the island.
You and FordFanBoy2 can go take another trip up the Brokeback Mountain!
Take your Jap scrap back to Japan and do laps around the island.
You and FordFanBoy2 can go take another trip up the Brokeback Mountain!
Originally Posted by 88GTA
your 'jap crap' is powered by a GM LS1 engine you swapped in. I guess you found the Wankels a bit lacking too.
Just didn't have the money to fool with it. It is hard to build a rotary racecar without money and any knowledge of the motor. Don't worry, if I knew more about how to work on them, and had some Japanese tuners around the area, I would have a 3-rotor car right now.
Originally Posted by 6-SPD4ME
What's your point? I can drop a supercharged LS7 into a Miata next week and then we can start the "Mazda with Chevrolet Engines Club of America".
We can tour road courses all over the US, and brag about how much faster our Mazda's our then the 3600lb cars that the motors came from.
And after we **** off all the Chevy guys we can drop Ford motors in our Mazdas and go waste thread space on Ford sites.
We can tour road courses all over the US, and brag about how much faster our Mazda's our then the 3600lb cars that the motors came from.
And after we **** off all the Chevy guys we can drop Ford motors in our Mazdas and go waste thread space on Ford sites.
I don't agree with how 6SPD called the RX a "piece of rice crap" either, but I do have to say that if you're idiotic enough to run an RX7/8, without extensive mods (and/or an engine swap!), against an LS1-powered f-body on the highway, then you're throwing the "it wasn't built for the dragstrip" excuse out the window. Especially on the streets, the pen is in the hands of the victor; 6SPD can slam that car any way he chooses - he earned it IMO.
It's all easily reciprocated anyway. Had the RX8 burned 6SPD, we can all guess what he'd be posting on his boards in regards to the different purposes each car is built for.
It's all easily reciprocated anyway. Had the RX8 burned 6SPD, we can all guess what he'd be posting on his boards in regards to the different purposes each car is built for.
Originally Posted by LSINA7
Third, I just think it is ignorant to put down a car ("piece of rice crap") because it was built for a road course, and not the drag strip. And yes they are slow in a straight line, everyone knows that.
Originally Posted by brad8266
Almost all of the RX8 owners I run into dont know that, they always try to straight line run me like they think they have a chance. They havent figured out that their cars are slow yet. They do handle real nice though.
They should know it, because I drove one and said "WTF..." It was slow as ****, but grabbed corners nicely. With a 100 more hp, it would be a blast.
Originally Posted by LSINA7
First, I would like to see you drop a supercharged LS7 in a miata. Second, I am not bragging about anything, just trying to inform someone who obviously doesn't know about RX's or their motors. Third, I just think it is ignorant to put down a car ("piece of rice crap") because it was built for a road course, and not the drag strip. And yes they are slow in a straight line, everyone knows that.
I understand that you are big into road course racing and you built the best possible car for your budget...cool....but you have to understand that there are people like myself who have a hard time warming up to the import scene.
No hard feelings...drive fast and be safe!
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Originally Posted by Stanger88
Ford owns majority stock in Mazda btw. I suppose that makes them SOMEWHAT american, huh? And he wasn't "boasting" import cars, simply telling you that they are NOT made for the straights.
I made my car to go fast at the strip. I think full interior, with a bolt-ons head/cam car, that can go 10's with a nice tire on it, is pretty fast in a straight. Then being able to pull over 1 g on the skidpad, and get 20 mpg is pretty good. And not many domestics have the looks and style of imports (By imports with looks I mean Supras, RX-7's, 240's, Skylines). I do love a camaro or mustang with some big *** tires on it. But it doesn't have the style.
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Originally Posted by NightWindDriftr
I don't agree with how 6SPD called the RX a "piece of rice crap" either, but I do have to say that if you're idiotic enough to run an RX7/8, without extensive mods (and/or an engine swap!), against an LS1-powered f-body on the highway, then you're throwing the "it wasn't built for the dragstrip" excuse out the window. Especially on the streets, the pen is in the hands of the victor; 6SPD can slam that car any way he chooses - he earned it IMO.
It's all easily reciprocated anyway. Had the RX8 burned 6SPD, we can all guess what he'd be posting on his boards in regards to the different purposes each car is built for.
It's all easily reciprocated anyway. Had the RX8 burned 6SPD, we can all guess what he'd be posting on his boards in regards to the different purposes each car is built for.
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the rx-8's are very slow stock. they have NO tq whatsoever. and even fiarly modded their not that great in straight line. they do handle Really Really well. but in a road course stock for stock a ls1 will still beat an rx-8 our cars dont handle that badly.
Originally Posted by 6-SPD4ME
What's your point? I can drop a supercharged LS7 into a Miata next week and then we can start the "Mazda with Chevrolet Engines Club of America".
We can tour road courses all over the US, and brag about how much faster our Mazda's our then the 3600lb cars that the motors came from.
And after we **** off all the Chevy guys we can drop Ford motors in our Mazdas and go waste thread space on Ford sites.
We can tour road courses all over the US, and brag about how much faster our Mazda's our then the 3600lb cars that the motors came from.
And after we **** off all the Chevy guys we can drop Ford motors in our Mazdas and go waste thread space on Ford sites.
/end
edit: or change your additude. Oh and good kill.
Originally Posted by LSINA7
I made my car to go fast at the strip. I think full interior, with a bolt-ons head/cam car, that can go 10's with a nice tire on it, is pretty fast in a straight. Then being able to pull over 1 g on the skidpad, and get 20 mpg is pretty good. And not many domestics have the looks and style of imports (By imports with looks I mean Supras, RX-7's, 240's, Skylines). I do love a camaro or mustang with some big *** tires on it. But it doesn't have the style.
Anyway, to add my opinion, you could have at least named ATTRACTIVE imports (minus the RX-7, your list = sux). I'm thinking more along the lines of the 300ZXs, S2000s, and TSXs.
Originally Posted by LSINA7
Don't call it rice crap until you run at a road course. It wasn't made for straight line acceleration. It is a N/A 1.3 Liter. But even though you have 425 whp, I would like to see how you do against a stock one around a road course.
Originally Posted by rubber duck
i don't think the rx8 would fair very well if there's a hint of straight away on the course. My car on the other hand, would get it's *** handed to it by Special Ed riding a tricycle on a road course.
(RX8)............................................. .......................>
(fbody).......................>
that's what i find amazing about road/twisties, hp isn't everything.
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THe supra is sexy and has style and all that, but when you pull up next to an old school Judge and your car shakes in rhythm with the elephant under the hood it just does something to ya. Ask any girl who has sat in a Supra and then sat in an old school muscle car...
Originally Posted by GXPPOWER
the rx-8's are very slow stock. they have NO tq whatsoever. and even fiarly modded their not that great in straight line. they do handle Really Really well. but in a road course stock for stock a ls1 will still beat an rx-8 our cars dont handle that badly.
No it won't win, stock for stock. At most courses, the LS1 would need either suspension work or some mods. A RX-8 will keep up with a TT FD at a track, and if you tell me stock for stock a LS1 car would hang with a FD at the track, I'll internet smack you.