What was the fastest fd ever built....

Ive heard once or twice on the forums of a 6 second single or such. Anyone hve any links or such.

 

Jose Torres made a 7.1 pass a while back on a 3-rotor and I think Abel made 7.4 pass with 13B. Go to importdrag or nhraimport.

 

You mean fastest or quickest?

Fastest was that special flying FD built by Racing Beat. 215mph before lift off...

 

I would think fastest as being top end and quickest as 1/4. Fastest that I heard of was near 240 I thought. Thing got air borne and that's that.

 

Hmmm, I guess you didn't read the post right above your's...

 

jose torres record is 6.8@194mph.

 

racing beats record 242mph. with the black car @ boneville salt flats.

 

242

 

Gotboost sorry that's incorrect. Yes, you saw the movie of one pass where it lifted off at 215mph, but racing beat did set the land speed record with a 242mph fd. :P

 

Ooohhh. Nice, didn't know about that one. Glad they managed to keep it on the ground

 

http://cp_www.tripod.com/rotary/pg22.htm

Here's a good link, although it looks like the drag time is out of date.

 

Thanks, good read. I wonder why they called the motor in that Racing Beat car a 13G?

 

13G was a motor. it is like a 20B (three rotor) and is peripherial ported. just like the one in the pic.

 

hey! that link shows Tim P's r100 from RPM. lol! anyone remember that car? i have not seen that in a long time. hmmm...they missed putting my 10a powered r100 on that site...

 

The Rx7 Option Video has a cool segment on both of the Racing Beat top speed runs... the white on that flipped and the black one that went 242. Jim Mederer was the driver, right?

 

Didn't RB also set land speed records with the 1st and 2nd gens?

 

Off Racing Beat's site:

1978 - Bonneville RX-7 - 1st Gen RX-7, boosted class speed record from 167 to 184 mph.

1986 - Bonneville RX-7 - 2nd Gen RX-7, boosted speed record from 210 to 238 mph.

1993 - Bonneville RX-7 - 3rd Gen RX-7, while attempting record run, car overturns at approx. 220 mph.

1995 - Bonneville RX-7 - Back in Black RX-7 boosts land speed record to 241 mph.

 

nick van nugteren of rotary reliability and racing holds some speed records for first gens...his first gen hit 190.8 or something like that. I think the RB record was the one that fell that day.

I dont know about you...but a buck ninety in a first gen would make me shi# my pants.


anyhow...all those cars are fast...

I wonder what the best vette time is in the quarter...same for the supra and rustang...anyone know??


j

 

Its kinda hard to ask what the best time for a model of car without putting rules into it. Like when does a RX-7 no longer become an RX-7(besides the whole V8 thing)? At what point have you modified a car so much it no longer can represent other cars with the same model number? I almost think after the stock block has been changed you have almost disqualified it.(That includes 3 rotors)

Just a thought
~Luke

 

I agree. Just like Steph Papadakis and his "Civic." So who or what company holds the record for fastest (top speed) 13B powered FD?

 

anybody got specs on it?

 

I'd say as long as it has a 13B and a mostly RX7 Chassis its a RX7....same got for anycar, stock block and mostly stock chasis.

Anyone know all the 1/4 mile et and mph for
Vette or Z28
Stang
Supra
RX7

It would be interesting to know how we stack up.

STEPHEN

 

indeed I did but I thought the number was more like 240 and I guess I was right

 

I want to know what cause the car to lift, and what changes to the car did they do to keep it on the ground?

 

air pressure above the car is much slower then the air pressure below the car therefore creating "lift".

basically thats the concept of how "lift" is created.