How many Gs can an RX-7 pull for their respective years and models.

And by "Gs" i dont mean young hip hoppers either, i mean lateral Gs.

 

Stock form with stock tires:

86-91 NA coupe with 15" wheel .80 according to R&T
86-88 T2 .83 according to R&T .84 according to C&D
88-91 'vert .83 according to MT
89-91 T2 .87 according to MT
89-90 GTUs .88 acording to R&T

The Infini IV was supposed to get .92 with stock Pirellis and the 16" uberlichet BBS wheels.

 

thank you

 

You do relieze skid-pads are a **** poor test of a cars overall handling capabilities- Its more of a test of the stock tires found on the car.

 

I know i know. Its pretty good that an n/a FC can pull .8 with 15 inch wheels.

 

I have a couple more, but some conflict:

89 Turbo II: .85g
89 GTUs : .86g
Both on 205/55/VR16 Bridgestone Potenza RE71 on 16*7 wheels
Sports Car Illustrated

89 Convertible: .83g
205/60/15 RE71 on 15*6.5
Motor Trend

88 Convertible: .82g
205/60/15 RE71 on 15*6.5
Road & Track

88 GTU: .80g
205/60/15 RE71 on 15*6
88 Turbo II 10AE: 83g
205/55/16 Goodyear Eagle VR
Road & Track

87 Turbo II: .83g
On Goodyear VR
87 Turbo II: .85g
On RE71
Car & Driver

86 GXL: .86g &.83g on another car
86 Sport: .84g
205/60/15 RE71 on 15*6

87 Turbo II: .85g
205/55/16 Goodyear Eagle VR
Road & Track

89 GTUs: .81g
89 Turbo II: .85g
Both on 205/55/VR16 Bridgestone Potenza RE71 on 16*7 wheels
Road & Track
(The GTUs tested must havebeen beat to hell beacuse it put up some lousy numbers in this test. It ran 0-60 in 8.6 secs in the test. Mazda claimed 7.7 secs. Also, how can a car 200+ lbs lighter and with the same tires and suspension produce less lateral grip? Worn out suspension and alignment due to prior magazine tests is my guess)

Greg

 

That's weird I know I read the '86-88 FC pulled .88g with stock wheels and tires. Oh well it doesn't matter too much to me since nobody stays with stock suspension and tires (it's not too hard to get 1g, plus it's all in how you tune the suspension that determines handling). Hell the Z06 has 1g of lateral accelaration, but the handling does not reflect that...

(according to professional drivers, mainly european if you must know, they and myself consider them to be all grip no handling)

 

Lateral G's will also change depending on the size of the skidpad that is used to test the cars. A 300 foot skidpad is usual, but you never know what most of these guys are running. (100ft, 600ft, whatever.)

Another point of conflict is the type of lateral G's. Is it the maximum instantanious (momentary) G's that the car pulled during the test, or is it the maximum sustained G's that the car did throughout the test. A high SUSTAINED G number is harder to reach than a high MOMENTARY G number.

Depending on what type of G's you are reading, and on what type of track you are testing, you can get a festiva to pull 1 G, or an FD to pull .61, so be warey - and make sure that the tests that you are looking at were all done under the same conditions. I believe (but am not positive) that the standards most magazines use now is a 300 foot skidpad, and the average sustained G's that are measured doing runs in each direction.