mountjonas
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my dad can beat up your dad.
RX-8 dynos 178hp
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See, and this is the type of thinking that I think is completely stupid. I am not biased to ANY car manufacturer. Ford makes a BADASS drag car(SVT Cobra). Honda makes a HIGH reving track monster(S2000 & NSX). Mazda tried with the RX8, but maybe the two seater version will be better(it probably will). Chevy makes the Z06. I can go on and on, if you are a true auto enthusiast, you wouldn't be so closed minded and shut out other manufacturers. That's just dumb.
EXA4DRIVER
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big_ben said:
once again, I must agree with big ben
Watch the beating yourselves
http://www.rasterwerks.com/vid/BestMOTORing_2003.07_Part08.avi.zip
1) S2000
2) Skyline (infinity G35)
3)WRX
4)RSX
5) RX8 <--- ahahahah
6) Mazda Miata
: OH YEAH BUT it's FUN TO DRIVE!!! :'( :'( :'(
...i'm happy with my (p5red)Ahhh...the good ol crank windows bit. I love you guys, I really do. Why does it matter? You gonna be sitting back there at all? The only time I've rolled the rear windows down is at a carshow. I'm not gonna spend any time back there, so why does it matter? Ohhh...I don't have power windows in the back!!! And that makes your car somehow better than mine? Sure. That's like saying you're better because you have a Kenwood deck stock and I don't...who gives a rat's ass...
MP3skaterNC
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smolten you are an skating on thin ice. you come into this forum, act like an ass, then continue to incite conficts that aren't needed. if you want to bash the rx-8, go to their forums instead of trolling on a protege forum.
yes, I insist you to visit www.rx8forum.com and contribute your thoughts on the RX-8 over there.
trolling on a Protege forum to bash on the RX-8 is just chickenshit behavior IMO...
trolling on a Protege forum to bash on the RX-8 is just chickenshit behavior IMO...
EXA4DRIVER
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LinuxRacr said:You too!Close-mindedness is like putting blinders on a horse.
linux- how am i beeing close minded? i've test drove the rx-8 and was not impressed at all. test drive the 350z, s2000, and rx-8 and you too will see
Lemme kick in my $.00 (get it...nonsence??)
Ok...that was bad...but, why, if the Rx-8 is so damn slow, when C&D drove it it was fine, and when they put it up against the G35 and the SVT cobra in a face-off it won? Here's the quote with their numbers:
...the RX-8 scooted to 60 mph in 5.9 seconds and through the quarter-mile in 14.5 seconds at 96 mph. But that performance falls off considerably without a tire-frying launch. In our street-start test from 5 to 60 mph, the RX-8 needed 7.5 seconds1.6 seconds.
Their big complaint was the lack of midrange "grunt". Now here the thingis...the gearing is short, so what gear are these dynos done in, and who's doing them? Check out Motor Trends' first test results, too.
I also went to see what SCC thought...well I think this is it:
At low rpm, the RX-8 is gutless, but responsive, much like an S2000. But as the revs climb and the number of intake ports goes from two, to four, to six, the engine wakes up. At 6250 rpm, when the high-rpm power ports kick in...well, we're not really sure. You see, our test car, and every RX-8 at this point, is an early, hand-built prototype, and apparently, after a bit of hard use, the power port valves on these prototypes are starting to stick shut.
Mechanically, it's a minor issue, and should be easily resolved, but the effect is huge, almost exactly like driving an S2000 with the VTEC disabled. With the power port valves stuck shut, the engine becomes effectively the same as the 210-hp engine available in base models in Europe and Japan, and in the sissy, four-speed automatic in the United States. We discovered the problem on our dyno, when the RX-8's power went flat at exactly 6250 rpm.
210-hp crank, *15% loss=31.5 hp, therefore 178.5 whp give or take...Sound about right? So the questions are, were these production models or not and what gear are the tests in?
Ok...that was bad...but, why, if the Rx-8 is so damn slow, when C&D drove it it was fine, and when they put it up against the G35 and the SVT cobra in a face-off it won? Here's the quote with their numbers:
...the RX-8 scooted to 60 mph in 5.9 seconds and through the quarter-mile in 14.5 seconds at 96 mph. But that performance falls off considerably without a tire-frying launch. In our street-start test from 5 to 60 mph, the RX-8 needed 7.5 seconds1.6 seconds.
Their big complaint was the lack of midrange "grunt". Now here the thingis...the gearing is short, so what gear are these dynos done in, and who's doing them? Check out Motor Trends' first test results, too.
I also went to see what SCC thought...well I think this is it:
At low rpm, the RX-8 is gutless, but responsive, much like an S2000. But as the revs climb and the number of intake ports goes from two, to four, to six, the engine wakes up. At 6250 rpm, when the high-rpm power ports kick in...well, we're not really sure. You see, our test car, and every RX-8 at this point, is an early, hand-built prototype, and apparently, after a bit of hard use, the power port valves on these prototypes are starting to stick shut.
Mechanically, it's a minor issue, and should be easily resolved, but the effect is huge, almost exactly like driving an S2000 with the VTEC disabled. With the power port valves stuck shut, the engine becomes effectively the same as the 210-hp engine available in base models in Europe and Japan, and in the sissy, four-speed automatic in the United States. We discovered the problem on our dyno, when the RX-8's power went flat at exactly 6250 rpm.
210-hp crank, *15% loss=31.5 hp, therefore 178.5 whp give or take...Sound about right? So the questions are, were these production models or not and what gear are the tests in?
markmurray77
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servoeyes said:Lemme kick in my $.00 (get it...nonsence??)
Ok...that was bad...but, why, if the Rx-8 is so damn slow, when C&D drove it it was fine, and when they put it up against the G35 and the SVT cobra in a face-off it won? Here's the quote with their numbers:
...the RX-8 scooted to 60 mph in 5.9 seconds and through the quarter-mile in 14.5 seconds at 96 mph. But that performance falls off considerably without a tire-frying launch. In our street-start test from 5 to 60 mph, the RX-8 needed 7.5 seconds1.6 seconds.
Their big complaint was the lack of midrange "grunt". Now here the thingis...the gearing is short, so what gear are these dynos done in, and who's doing them? Check out Motor Trends' first test results, too.
I also went to see what SCC thought...well I think this is it:
At low rpm, the RX-8 is gutless, but responsive, much like an S2000. But as the revs climb and the number of intake ports goes from two, to four, to six, the engine wakes up. At 6250 rpm, when the high-rpm power ports kick in...well, we're not really sure. You see, our test car, and every RX-8 at this point, is an early, hand-built prototype, and apparently, after a bit of hard use, the power port valves on these prototypes are starting to stick shut.
Mechanically, it's a minor issue, and should be easily resolved, but the effect is huge, almost exactly like driving an S2000 with the VTEC disabled. With the power port valves stuck shut, the engine becomes effectively the same as the 210-hp engine available in base models in Europe and Japan, and in the sissy, four-speed automatic in the United States. We discovered the problem on our dyno, when the RX-8's power went flat at exactly 6250 rpm.
210-hp crank, *15% loss=31.5 hp, therefore 178.5 whp give or take...Sound about right? So the questions are, were these production models or not and what gear are the tests in?
The SVTs up here are coming in very close to 400whp, there is no way an RX8 will touch that
servoeyes said:Lemme kick in my $.00 (get it...nonsence??)
Ok...that was bad...but, why, if the Rx-8 is so damn slow, when C&D drove it it was fine, and when they put it up against the G35 and the SVT cobra in a face-off it won? Here's the quote with their numbers:
...the RX-8 scooted to 60 mph in 5.9 seconds and through the quarter-mile in 14.5 seconds at 96 mph. But that performance falls off considerably without a tire-frying launch. In our street-start test from 5 to 60 mph, the RX-8 needed 7.5 seconds1.6 seconds.
Their big complaint was the lack of midrange "grunt". Now here the thingis...the gearing is short, so what gear are these dynos done in, and who's doing them? Check out Motor Trends' first test results, too.
I also went to see what SCC thought...well I think this is it:
At low rpm, the RX-8 is gutless, but responsive, much like an S2000. But as the revs climb and the number of intake ports goes from two, to four, to six, the engine wakes up. At 6250 rpm, when the high-rpm power ports kick in...well, we're not really sure. You see, our test car, and every RX-8 at this point, is an early, hand-built prototype, and apparently, after a bit of hard use, the power port valves on these prototypes are starting to stick shut.
Mechanically, it's a minor issue, and should be easily resolved, but the effect is huge, almost exactly like driving an S2000 with the VTEC disabled. With the power port valves stuck shut, the engine becomes effectively the same as the 210-hp engine available in base models in Europe and Japan, and in the sissy, four-speed automatic in the United States. We discovered the problem on our dyno, when the RX-8's power went flat at exactly 6250 rpm.
210-hp crank, *15% loss=31.5 hp, therefore 178.5 whp give or take...Sound about right? So the questions are, were these production models or not and what gear are the tests in?
Uh it's 247 crank not 210. Please don't talk about a car if you don't know anything about it.
