anyone who knows about rotary engines and has built them knows that the rotary engine will not produce 100% power until its had at the least 6000 miles..all the cars everyone is comparing to, are brand new and have less than 500 miles on them," maybe more miles on some"

Rotary engines will produce 30% less power until everything has become friction free and the power it produced way up top of the rpm range..

I drove the RX8 with my wife, without a salesman, and I had no problem catching 3rd gear and hitting 115 in a little more than quarter mile in 3rd gear..They claim 14.5 @ 96, but with that much speed, that shows with good traction its a 13.9 to 14.2 car.

So do you dyno a new V-8 with 500 mile..only if your stupid..the only thing that have broken in @ 500 is the rings, nothing else...and any good engine builder knows this and knows its takes a good 2500 miles for a pistion engine to breakin and a rotary has probadly 300% less friction to start with, hence the long breakin period....

also a header will produce up to 60 HP on a 13B S4/S5 the RX8 exhaust manifold is an exact duplicate of those N/A models, and is design with one purpose in mind to keep the fucker quiet.. Rotary engines need good designed piping to ensure the pressure waves to not collide with the out going flow, but this is how they keep it quiet.. Mazsport has already modded one and claimed over 300 HP