Goofs

After the first race, it is acknowledged that Brian's Eclipse has blown its piston rings and requires the engine taking apart for repair, also some other kind of damage must have occurred (the manifold, according to his in-car laptop) that caused the floor-pan to fall through. This however doesn't affect Brian being able to evade the police and escape at a reasonable speed immediately after.

When Dom hides his car in the empty building and begins walking down the sidewalk, the cop car that passes him is a Ford Crown Victoria. But when we see it again, it is a Chevrolet Caprice.

When Brian is racing the quarter-mile for the first time, the laptop on the passenger seat reads 'Danger to Manifold' and the foot plate on the passenger side comes loose and flies off. However, Brian then picks up Dom to evade the cops and Dom sits normally in the passenger seat. In actuality he would have nowhere to rest his feet and the hole in the floor would create a great deal of noise whilst driving.

During the first hijacking when the car goes under the trailer there is only one trailer axle. When it goes to a wider angle shot, the trailer is back to having two axles. Also that trailer type has two support beams running down the center of the trailer from front to back. In this scene they are missing.

During the Race Wars, when Jesse is up against Johnny Tran, Tran pulls up in his car next to him and he is clearly wearing a buttoned up black shirt. However, once the ref lifts his hands and waves the signal to go, the next shot of Tran in the car and after the race shows him in a black tank top.

Although clearly done for cinematic purposes (to make it obvious what is in the truck), the container full of electronic equipment isn't packed at all realistically, with everything packed at the sides and none of it wrapped in plastic or on pallets. At the first turn, the boxes would be all over the place.

When Brian is being interrogated by Dom and Vince after breaking into Hector's workshop, he says Hector has ordered a Motec System Exhaust for the three Civics. Motec is a manufacturer of engine management systems and data collection devices (electronics, basically). Motec does not make, and has never made exhaust systems.

When Brian is testing the top speed of his Eclipse at the beginning of the film, he appears to have 7 forward gears. After seeing him shift into first before starting, you can count 6 more up-shifts after, either by seeing him change gear or by hearing it.

Right after the first race when Brian loses his car, Dom says "Granny shiftin' and not double clutching like you should." Double clutching takes precious time to do, time that you do not have during a drag race especially in a Mitsubishi Eclipse. The only time to double clutch that car would be in a road course race to save the brakes coming in fast into a corner.

In the last race when the Charger goes into the big wheelstand he is smoking the rear tires. This can not happen since smoking tires means the loss of traction and a wheelstand means no loss of traction.

Many viewers assumed that when Brian and Dom are forced into the parking lot by Tran and the other bikers. The car is facing into to the lot, yet when the bikers return to shoot the car, it has suddenly turned around. Watching closer and you will notice that the car has always been facing the same direction. Tran and his group merely went off in the direction their bikes were parked at.

When Brian is following Mia into the bedroom at Dom's house after the first street race, Mia hits her left elbow on the top of a dresser. She pretends it didn't happen and continues her lines.

There's no reason the actual character wouldn't do this as well.

Towards the end when Jesse is shot, Brian follows the bikes to the right from Dom's driveway and Dom turns left. Someone classed this as an error. However, the riders would have come from Tran's base, to the left, so it makes sense for Dom to go that way to cut them off on the way back.

Brian's prior criminal record would preclude him from joining the LAPD.

When Brian spins his Eclipse out while testing it in the stadium parking lot. You can clearly see that the reverse lights are on while the car is spinning. Indicating that they were doing reverse donuts to film the shot.

When Jesse puts the floppy disk in the A-Drive to show Brian the Supra designs, the computer power switch is clearly in the "OFF" position.

When Brian O'Conner jumps onto the truck to save the guy, you can very clearly see the safety harness strapped to his back in several shots.

When Dom and Brian first take the Supra out for a test drive they pull up to a Ferrari. The guy in the Ferrari is bald but within the race you can see a guy with hair driving it.

During the first race, the cars pass by the same background more than once.

When the single lookout monitoring the scanner hears the cops, he calls it over the two-way and almost instantly everyone scatters. Not sure how EVERYBODY managed to hear it at the same time. Something like that would take precious seconds to get to everybody, and require more than 1 person to transmit and relay the message.

In the last race the number on the train remain constant (3134) but in some shots it's reversed, indicating that the train was filmed going two different directions and the footage was flipped.

Having shot Johnny Tran, Brian jumps in to his Supra to chase Dom. However, he doesn't shift it in to gear, he simply sets off.

Brian's license shows the expiration date as 7/4/2000 while the movie came out in 2001 and is set in 2004.

Whenever Brian is driving the Eclipse after the police chase, you can hear the car shifting but Brian's hand remains on the steering wheel.

When Edwin is looking at Brian's car before the first race, he is heard to say, "He's got enough NOS in there to blow himself up, period," but he appears to be saying something else.

When the crew first pull up to Toretto's grocery store and see Brian, someone says "Nah, V, he ain't here for the food, dog" and "He's tryin' to get in Mia's pants, dog." It's pretty obvious nobody is saying those lines. They appear to have been added in later.

When the agents are debating whether Mia is clouding the opinion of Brian, the dialogue is, "Hey, I don't blame you. I get off on her surveillance photos too." But he is clearly dubbed over saying, "Hey, I don't blame you. I beat off to her surveillance photos too.

Close-up shot of Charger's engine throttle, the sound of the engine revs up and down doesn't match the throttle positions.

As the Charger is flying through the air towards the end of the movie, the stuntman and his helmet are visible for a few seconds.

When Mia notices that Brian has arrived at the party with Dominic, the cameraman's elbow can be seen in the mirror just before the shirt covers the camera.

When Dom is running from the police car through an alley it is possible to see a camera support arm on the near-side of the car behind him.

After Race Wars, Brian returns to town and pulls his car into a driveway. His stuntman is clearly recognizable as the driver in this shot as his hairline is a good 2 or 3 inches further back than Paul Walker's.

When Dom is trying to rescue Vince from the truck, you can see a stuntman's arms driving the car in a few of the rear shots due to the long sleeve black shirt he is wearing compared to the short sleeve white shirt that Dom is wearing.

Dominic tells Brian near the end of the film he needs to find Jesse before Tran and his gang finds him. But he clearly still has a bit of time left to pull off one heist, during which Jesse could have been in trouble already.

Why do they need to hijack the trucks while they are moving? Why not just force the trucks to come to a stop and then hijack them?

Why would Johnny Tran need to purchase stolen/gray-market engines? Cars that use the Nissan SR20 motor are sold legally in the North American Market, making the Nissan SR20 motor readily available at any Nissan dealership or even if he was referring to a Japan/Euro Market variant, he would've no trouble importing them instead of having to use a fence (Ted).

Towards the end of the film, when Brian and Mia are trying to stop Dom and co from robbing the armed trucker, Mia gives the Nextel operator Dom's cell number over Brian's cell phone. Since both Brian and Dom have active cell phones, why didn't they use one of them to call one of their friends when the Tran brothers blew up Brian's car after the first race?

Johnny Tran and his gang recognize Brian and Dom in Brian's car; which isn't Dom's (so they wouldn't recognize it), so how did they know he was in it?

After test driving the green Eclipse, Brian tells his boss he needs NOS because it topped out at 140mph. This isn't relevant for the drag racing crowd he plans to infiltrate as even a 10 sec car will not reach that speed in the 1/4 mi. Brian should have been more focused on the car's acceleration not top speed.

When Brian shows up with the junk yard Supra Jesse is somewhat surprised to see a 2JZ engine in the car, he has no reason to since it was the only engine available in that generation Supra.