I'm a happy owner on my FC TII for 7 years now. I didn't really go crazy and mod it until the past 3 years. Now, I've moved up to an FD and its funny how a stock FD makes my FC feel somewhat slow. Well anyways, to the point, I loved how the rotary was so simple and easy to work on. I played with my first one in a local junkyard. I was there all day taking apart the car and didn't end up buying anything. After saving my money for a year and playing with rotary engines, I bought my first TII. Been in love with rotaries ever since. Building, rebuilding, porting, modding, and driving an RX7 is awesome. No other car has given me the same fun factor (although, I'm dying to get behind the wheel of a Lotus Elise).

I just wanted to see how long you guys/girls have owned your rotary (RX2, RX3, RX4, rotary pickup, SA22, FC3S, FD3S, or RX-8). Do you love it? Or do you hate it? Why did you buy it? Why do you keep it? Why did you sell it?

Kevin

On a sidenote, I'm curious because I haven't liked the recent uproar of young kids wanting RX7s and modding it like crazy just to be fast and drive in the mountains. Movies/cartoons like Initial D and Fast Furious are nice to watch but I feel they're putting our cars in more stress. We don't have many OG rotaries left in the US. Too many times I've gotten kids came up to me in my FC3S asking if its 'twin turbo' or if I'm a drifter.

If you're going to be a new owner of a rotary, then I'm glad you chose these cars, but be prepared to take along all the maintenance, blood, yelling, and bills with it. I can guarantee that you'll spend around the same amount of money maintaining your RX7 as you did buying it... within the first year (high octane gas, insurance, oil, rebuilds, tires, and mods).

Let's see. When i was 15 i saw F&F, and after the movie my dad explained to me about rotary engines (engineering dads = teh shit) And at that point I fell in love.
at 18, I saved up and bough a red 87 GXL. Nice beginner sports car. Got into lots and lots of trouble with that car :evillol:. Now she sits in my buddy's driveway waiting for repairs so that i can sell her...

3 months ago i got a silver 88 TII. 2 weeks ago i got the title :rolleyes: and i re-fell in love with rx-7's again. For some reason i fell that the TII handles better than my old GXL, and of course it's much quicker. I couldnt satisfy my urge for positive manifold pressure, and consequently burned two tanks of expensive gas in the ONE WEEK (7 days) that I had her registered...heh :D

Love them? Yes, of course.
Hate them? Yes, of course. :grinyes:

Now I have the TII hibernation for the winter. There will be a rebuild done over the cold season with a streetport, and RB turboback exhaust waiting for her when she wakes back up in the spring. And that's just the beginning of the list (BNR stage 3 is somewhere on that list :screwy: )

And i do all the work myself because i'm a mechanic.





werd.

Everyone may complain about their rotaries, but everyone still loves them. Some day I'll build a stripped out FB with a ported and worked S5 NA motor. It may only be an NA, but high revs and 200+ HP in a light FB = teh fun! :D

I've had my 7 since July of this year, i like how unique it is and the cult following it has.

only reason people are buying and modding there rx-7's like crazy is because of the movies like the fast and the furious, 2 fast 2 furious and games like need for speed: underground are making young people like myself do stupid pointless things to vehicles i do not own an rx-7 all but yet but once i have the money its my first priority

there a beautiful car and pack some power

haha.. its funny that you're the FIRST one of the probably many young people who admit to wanting an RX7 because of movies and that they're fast.

I'm not saying you don't know anything about rotaries, but the majority of kids who buy these cars don't do the research and end up milking mom and dad to maintain/fix their cars.

when i first got my s4 rx was 6 years and i was 15. thinking a rx7 was an 4 banger, but it took me a couple of week to figured out that cylinder engines don't look that way... so stared researching.

P.s got the car for 800 with everything not working and the engine with a blown colant seal.

i didint say i liked it cause of the movies im saying people my age ive always loved rx-7's since i saw them along time before that i must of wrote it wrong sorry

and yer im trying to do as much learning on rx-7's before i get one asking around reading forums i try :)

Welp my dad has had the 1986 s4 ever since he bought it and has been with the family since then. Just last year he gave the car to me as a b-day gift. Had the fluids changed out and thats about it. It was mine from that point on and I've been studying and reading all about the rotary powered car for about a year now and its been great fun driving the hell out of it ;) . I'll be 17 this month ^_^ . I need to get a job and start doing something with car already! >_>

I dunno, at this point I am starting to think that the 7 owns me. . . :screwy:

I saw my first rotory while I was still in school way before any of the fast and furious movies ( I don't and never have liked the movies). A lawyer owned the car and brought it to the school where I went to have it repaired, and I was elected to fix it. I checked a few things and found the problem to be a bad coil pack replaced it and it ran like new.
There was a 13b just laying in the back of the shop at the school and a classmate and I decided we wanted to see how the rotory worked so we took an air impact hammer to cut the flywheel nut off becuase we didn't have any wrench or socket to take it off, after that we pulled it down looked at all the pieces and watched how it worked, still not totaly sure as to how it worked but still amazed at the little engine we put it back together.
About two years pass and his mother gets a 86 base model and the looks just hit me as WOW I loved it. So another year or two passed and I came across a 87 model and bought it for $400.00, played with it a little but the body just wasn't in the best shape so I bought a 87 GXL shell and swaped motors and thats my current 7. Sorry for the long story but I had share how my love and intrest started...

i remember playing GT2 when i was young and it was my favorite car and i said one day im going to get one.( i was like 13) I thought they where expensive so i didnt even search and when i started working i was going to get a 300ZX TT for $6K and when i called they had soled it so i started looking at cars at autotrader.com and i saw an RX7 and said this car will be mine and 3 days later I bought it CASH ($1200)

didn't GT2 just come out like 2 or 3 years ago?? so, that means you're like 16?

whoa.. i'm such an old fogie compared to the rest of you. still rotorhead at heart!

it came out on PS1

Actually it was Released on December, 18 1999
http://www.shopping.com/xPF-Gran_Turismo_2

anyways.......
i dont own an rx-7, but thats my favorite car. I fell in love with it not because of the design (although the FD looks killer), but because of the motor. Its freakin genious and easy to understand. I first new about em when i played a videogame. Tokyo Xtreme Racer, my cousin lend it to me and i was bored. Never like racing games before. So i play and it was interesting to play although i didnt get it for a while, and the motor type on the FC says RE, i was looking into it. My dad told me those things have no pistons. I waslike : WTF! So that caught my attention. And when i learned about em i have like them ever since.

gotta love having only 3 moving parts in the motor.

i like telling domestics that they lost to a 1.3 liter. Really hurts their american pride of displacement.

first im happy to say ive never even watched either of the fast n fruitiest movies.
all i remember is ive loved these cars as long as i can remember. even for the longest time i didnt even know they had a rotary...actually way back when i was little i never even heard of one.
but for awhile it was like i would think of what my dream cars were, like if i could have any 3 cars they would have be a 33 ford coupe, with a 350 of course bec ford sucks...anyway, ive always loved corvettes so the 2nd would have been a 59 vette, and 3rd a 2nd gen rx7. other than 7s i really dont like any imports. but a couple years ago i got my 1st car, very late me, right after i turned 18 which is a pOs 1960 ford falcon which i still have, but i lost all hope for getting it going, parts were just too expensive and way to hard to find. so i just got pissed off at cars, of course all i do in my free tme is look at car shit, so i dont remeber how, but i just started reading more about rotaries and stuff, and i just loved them, at about the same time a buddy got an 87 tII which i was in love with. wel i just started saving and over a year later i had saved enough to start looking to buy one, it was hard, i lost out a ton. i got picky with what i wanted so it sucked. after about 4-5 months i got lucky, and ended up with EXACTLY what i wanted. even down to the little things like the manual windows and dumb shit like that. and i had to buy it out of state, and i just barely afforded it. and now my 3 dream cars r...well, i already got one, once its all good im saving for a 93, and eventually i want an 84 or 85. these things r just plain sweet, sooo fun to work on, a million times more fun to drive. yeah its a bitch sometimes, i still cant pass emissions, and i got no money for the poor thing right now, but its worth it.
wow thats a lot of writing.

I bought my 1st RX-7 in 1986 at a local Mazda dealership off the used car lot. It was an 1985 GS with 20K miles on it. I was out shopping for a Mustang GT 5.0 and the salesman asked me if I wanted to drive a "real" sportscar and took me over to this RX-7. I knew nothing about them at this point. I mean I knew they existed but never bothered to really look at one.

I took a ride and bought it on the spot..... what mustang???

I sold it a couple years later then bought a 84 GS a couple after that in 1991. I met a Jamaican cat who had an 84 that was tricked out with a blow throught the carb turbo. We raced and he slaughtered me. I couldn't belive that little engine could make all that power. My wifeand I were expecting our first kid and the RX-7 had to go. A very sad day for me.

Fast foward 10 years and I am in the market for a sports car. I am looking for a 10-15 year old Porsche 911. I am having a tough time coming to terms with the fact that I am about to dish out 25K or more for a 15 year old car then I stumble across a 90GTU and buy it on the spot.

I mod the hell out of it engine wise and its never really fast enough for me so I sell it about 6-10 months later and buy a 1987 TII with 53K miles on it.

Almost 3 years later I still have it and its HEAVILY modified. 13B-REW Swapped in, full racing suspension, lots of custom work and lots of aftermarket parts. I race in in Autocrosses and constantly take Fastest time of the day with it. (FTD's) I look back and realize I have spent over 33K on this car then realize cars costing 100K more cannot hang with it and just smile.

I just purchased a second 1987 TII that puts down 399RWHP at 15 PSI on pump gas and 499RWHP at 22 PSI with race gas. Its going to be my new Autocross car and my Black REW swapped car will be my street car since its so clean and has only 60K miles on it.


Why RX-7's???

Simple, its addicting to get so much from such a small package. 1.3 litres pumping out over 500 HP is nothing short of amazing. I love how everyone underestimates the cars abilities. I go to Autocrosses and no one gives it a second look..... until it runs the course.... then everyone is coming over to find out WTF is up with that little car. I am addicted to Rotary power its a total rush to drive a 400RWHP car and take turns so fast it will make your mind bend.

Porsche?? LOL! I am gald I bought that GTU instead of a 911 now.


Great question and great topic.

^ and great story...wow thats one of the nicest tII`s ive ever seen :eek:

wow, jims, i only ever see you on np. didnt know you were on tf. cool.

wow, jims, i only ever see you on np. didnt know you were on tf. cool.


I used to bounce through here quite a bit I just have gotten too busy lately.

I will try to pass through here from time to time again.

I own a rotary because I hate having money in my wallet...

Lets see.... I remember being completely dead set on getting a Nissan of somesort. Either a 240, Datsun 510 or Fairlady. Then I saw the unveiling of the RX-8 at the LA Auto Show........ Yep ever since then I've been rotary fanatic. With the money I saved up I bought an 86 GXL and have had a love-hate relationship ever since. It never ceases to amaze me how immediately after ending one project something else pops up. The most recent curiosity is after installing my MOMO steering wheel.... the passenger's side door became stuck shut. :confused:

yer sport steering wheels make your car go faster hahaha :P

I was in the market for a sports car. I really wanted an import because of the light weight and handling characteristics. The FD was just plain sexy, 50/50 distribution, timeless styling, and awesome performance numbers. I was commuting 75 miles each way to school at the time, so "rotary reliability" was out of the question. I ended up purchasing a brand new 2003 Celica GT-S. It was my baby. I dropped plenty of money into it also. TRD body kit, TRD wing, Tein coilovers, Cusco front and rear lower ties, APR front strut bar, 18" motegi wheels on 225/45/18 yokohamas, Rod Millen intake, Tanabe racing medallion exhaust, blah blah blah, yadda yadda yadda. then it burnt to the ground the day it turned 5 months old. I immediately went out and purchased an FD and have never looked back. I don't think there's anything stock left on it.

i bet you're wondering why i bought a celica when looking for a sports car. my answer is simple: go test drive a 6spd gt-s and push it hard. then imagine how it would be when modified. truly an awesome car. not quite as awesome as the FD, but awesome.

I got my first 84 7 with the 12a engine when I was 18 - Great car. What made me get it was the high red line on the rotary engines. You can skip a gear and not worry about throwing a rod (no rods!) Anyone with a 79-84 5spd knows that the 2nd to 3rd shift is difficult to master when you are speed shifting. Lost many "red light races" that way. :( But I drove the shit outta that car for several years, over 150 thousand miles with NO PROBLEMS.. Just regular oil changes and maint. I would still have the car today if I hadn't wrapped it around a tree. The rear end is light on these models and tends to come around on you, esp. in wet/slippery conditions..

I was in the market for a sports car. I really wanted an import because of the light weight and handling characteristics. The FD was just plain sexy, 50/50 distribution, timeless styling, and awesome performance numbers. I was commuting 75 miles each way to school at the time, so "rotary reliability" was out of the question. I ended up purchasing a brand new 2003 Celica GT-S. It was my baby. I dropped plenty of money into it also. TRD body kit, TRD wing, Tein coilovers, Cusco front and rear lower ties, APR front strut bar, 18" motegi wheels on 225/45/18 yokohamas, Rod Millen intake, Tanabe racing medallion exhaust, blah blah blah, yadda yadda yadda. then it burnt to the ground the day it turned 5 months old. I immediately went out and purchased an FD and have never looked back. I don't think there's anything stock left on it.

i bet you're wondering why i bought a celica when looking for a sports car. my answer is simple: go test drive a 6spd gt-s and push it hard. then imagine how it would be when modified. truly an awesome car. not quite as awesome as the FD, but awesome.

My friend also had a Celica GTS with just light mods though. TRD suspension, Falken Azenis, intake and exhaust. We went to ThunderHill Raceway and he beat nearly 60% of the other guys in his class. I got to drive the car. Its a little sluggish on the low-end, but the high-end VVTi is simply amazing. It speeds up pretty fast for an NA car. He nearly beat me in my TII. I'll give the GTS that much credit.

A few months later, he crashed it and ended up buying an FD again. He's an original rotary guy. Got lost for awhile after losing his first, but he's back again.

JUst got mine this month. 85 RX 7 GLS-SE. This car was featured in Turbo Mag,Nov 91 edition. Has a camden roots type supercharger, Pacific Auto Accessories body kit, Tokico Illumina adjustable shocks. Paint is Mercedes Silver. I love this car. Just gave my 96 Preludes S to my 17yo daughter for Xmas. I have to give my 88 Conquest TSI, 20G Turbo, Auto trans, other mods a break. THe RX 7 is a dream car. I have so many teenager coming up to me wanting to know what kind of car it is. I use my TSI to out run their Parents BMW's, Mercedes, Porsche, but my 7 is my Cruise mobile. Hope you enjoy youra as much as I do

is a auto any good?

is a auto any good?

depends if you have both of ur legs

lol I don't even know what to follow that response up with haha...

automatic rx7 is an oxymoron.

no I heard they suck!!!
get the 5 Speed

Well lets see. Way back in grade twelve I was looking around cardomain.com at a bunch of mid-80's imports trying to decide what I should buy. I was looking at '88 Preludes, Celicas, Supras, 300ZX, etc. None of those really showed much potential unless copious amounts of money were spent. So I sat there and thought for a few seconds for some cars I may have missed; then it slowly started to come to me.

"R... RX... RX-Something... ugh... RX-7!"

Over to the Mazda section and I found a bunch of nice FB's, most of which were mostly stock. After browsing for a good half hour I had a look at the local online classifieds; I was in luck it'd seem. All the FB's listed were rather cheap, most under $2000CAD. So I held onto that knowledge well into the summer (when for some reason I still didn't have a job >.<) when, one day, I found an ad for an '84 GSL for only $500 (non-running).

Well it just so turns out I had around $500 saved up after working around doing odd jobs for neighbors... So I went and had a look at the car. Gave it the once over and hey hey, it'd be recently repainted, sweet. Popped the hood and gave the main pully a good crank, it wasn't jammed. It was then I handed the guy $500 and said I'd be back on the weekend with a tow truck to bring the car home.

Well the weekend came and my truck had fallen through. Anyway we went back up regardless with a few screw drivers and a ratchet set and went about bringing the car back to life. It only took about twenty minutes and about five hundred miligrams of gas down the carb for it to start up. Let it run for a good twenty minutes (all of which the previous owner spent kicking himself for selling me the car as 'non-running') and then adressed the failed clutch slave. Well we got that patched up in about two hours and went on home.

Sounds like a nice happy ending eh?..

Well the car had a slipping clutch and some water leak somewhere causing half the interior to become rather damp. Also it had 250,000KM's on it and needed a new exhaust system from the cat-back. la la la I'm an idiot. I hold onto the car for a few months then when I'm finally able to buy insurance (that's another story) I sell it for $800, turn around and buy an 88 Civic. To this day I'm kicking myself. That FB had almost no rust (even where the water had puddled there was only surface stuff) and according to the girl I sold it to, is running really very well to this day.

Anyway all that being said I'm now back in the market for an '84/85 SE... Go fig..

Well, I got my 1st taste of an rx7 last year, unfortunately it was a complete lemon. I took it for a compression test the day after I got it and it came out to 6.# and 5.#. lol That plus the other annoying things about the car told me I should return it that day.
now, I guess I'm a slow learner but I have a few bucks more and I'm hoping to get a TII. Wish me luck.


low compression doesnt make the car a lemon, it was your fault for not checking it before you bought it and not after.

besides you coulda rebuilt it...

well thats what happens when you leave out the details.
sorry if i came off like an ass.

but its the minor problems and quirks that make cars fun. or maybe i'm just wierd.

I felt the same to all youngsters out there, I am 18 this july and considering buying a RX7. Alot of people think that youngsters like us were influenced by movies like 2fast 2 furious and such, but thats not always true. I remember one day after school walking home (sophmore, got my license but no car), saw a Black RX7 just zoomed by in the speed of light, just that moment it caught my soul and I started loving it. So by then, i started to do reseach and working and saving up for it. Now i've have enough but I still dont have alot of knowledge about the car, thats why I really wanted to read more forums and about the rotories before I acutally get one. Even though maintenance will be a pain in the neck, but its great experience for a Mechanica Engineer major student like me to have fun with and learn enthusiactically, especially something you wanted when you were young :-D

i fell in love with the 7;s the day me and my cousin were cruzin the strip in his 89 s 10 5.7l swapped vette moter (lt1), moter was turboed and all, souped to shit (i was 13 at the time) stop light raced and we got our asses back to us, thats when i learned, no pistons and 3 parts that move, currently im tied up in my own s 10 build up, but as soon as its done, im going for the r engin, i love it, the idea is great, gas mileage isnt the best, but thats what i have my beater honda for... and about kids getting their first car a fast one, i met up with a chick tonight (i know her, she just turned 16 we go to school together) and come to find out she has a beautiful 7, her parents got it as a present dirt cheap from a friend, now shes pissed because it needs rebuilt and her dad is afraide to dig into it, lol ide offer to help, but i dont test on other peoples vehicals

Light weight, easy to get power out of and lots of options for porting and stuff, make great street/weekend race cars, sound PORN, and VERY FUN TO DRIVE :D

i had 2 fd3s(sickest car i ever drove!) one turbo 2 anniversary which i have now with 70,000 miles. and three n/a's. nothin beats ther sound and feel of a rotary turbo. best designed car in my book. sure headaches will come, but its soooooooooo worth it!

NEVER, EVER, USE HIGH OCTANE GAS IN YOUR 7! THE HIGHEST, THE HIGHEST, YOU SHOULD USE IS 87 OCTANE. RX7 racers most of the time bring thier own low octane gas to the track, because most tracks only sell high octane race fuel

NEVER, EVER, USE HIGH OCTANE GAS IN YOUR 7! THE HIGHEST, THE HIGHEST, YOU SHOULD USE IS 87 OCTANE. RX7 racers most of the time bring thier own low octane gas to the track, because most tracks only sell high octane race fuel

this is true only in our n/a world. some modified car runs high octane n/a too, thats a matter of ignition setup

i would never even think about putting anything below 96octane, preferably 98 in my 12a turbo

if you use 87 in a turbo youre stupid.

if you use 87 in a turbo youre stupid.
The S4 TII owners manual calls for 87...

ill stick with 93 in my 88 s4.

ill stick with 93 in my 88 s4.If it's unmodified then why? Your paying more money than you have to plus your losing power.

i get free gas anyway, plus it is modified slightly.

If it's unmodified then why? Your paying more money than you have to plus your losing power.

please show proof. thanks.
who has a completely stock TII raise your hand.

most turbo vehicles call for 91 and up. why would cheaper gas help at all?doesnt make sense.

please show proof. thanks.
who has a completely stock TII raise your hand.I don't own an S4 so 'showing' you anything is beyond my ability. If you wanna go post digging there are people on the BCRX7.com forums who already went over this.

As far as why would lower octane help? Lower octane fuel has shorter hydrocarbon strands. Now, the longer a hydrocarbon strand, the longer the fuel is going to take to combust; which means your losing power as the gas is taking longer to do it's thing. 87 just burns quicker than 91... Everyone should be running the lowest octane their manual calls for (or the lowest they can go without pinging)... Especially in a rotary with it's longer combustion chamber.

The only reason (minus pings/knocks) to run higher octane is if your increasing pressure inside the combustion chamber (ie. Turbo, higher compression rotors/pistons) as the longer hydrocarbon strands are more resilient to pre-detonation.

Though for whatever reason the S4 TII manual still calls for 87; though if your not running unmodified it probably isn't too great an idea to go with the book.

it does acually say 87 plus is ok, i still think 93 would burn quicker, but its really not a big deal anyway. u were rught tho bout running 87.

Here, read this this (http://www.aaawa.com/news_safety/news_room/understanding_octane.asp).

Lower octane really does burn faster...

And if you don't believe me yet go buy a liter of 87 and a liter of 91 and lite em on fire at the same time. The 87 will be gone first.

I wd like to write abt some crap that rotary engines do have in common (but especially by RX-7). I have heard that they stuff up very freq like abt every 60,000 km and the RX-7, with extremely poor fuel economy, consume even more than an average GMC 5.7L V8 engine. In addition, the stock RX-7 produces a mere 175 kw (compared to the GTR which does abt 206 kw) and has a 0-100km/h accel of a lousy 6.9 secs. Mazda set a high price on it as though its some fancy car... I am telling u, they empty ur pockets for garbage.

I want to own an rx-7 for the fact that they look good and that they have good performance capabilities

and ive always just loved em

I wd like to write abt some crap that rotary engines do have in common (but especially by RX-7). I have heard that they stuff up very freq like abt every 60,000 km and the RX-7, with extremely poor fuel economy, consume even more than an average GMC 5.7L V8 engine. In addition, the stock RX-7 produces a mere 175 kw (compared to the GTR which does abt 206 kw) and has a 0-100km/h accel of a lousy 6.9 secs. Mazda set a high price on it as though its some fancy car... I am telling u, they empty ur pockets for garbage.

this guy is right friends, we wasted our money for so god damn long

lets all go buy nissans with rb26's

damn, i knew i should have bought that rb25det instead of the j spec 13bt!

No Valve Ticking :d

No Valve Ticking :d
ive found, through years of trial and error, that 5w30 work great for stoping valve ticking in both my honda and s 10 :lol:

ive found, through years of trial and error, that 5w30 work great for stoping valve ticking in both my honda and s 10 :lol:


Im not quite understanding how this would work. Thin oil stopping valve clearance issues? Or are you being sarcastic?

To take up valve clearance you woudl want to runa thicker oil to compensate for the larger clearances. And then there is the lifters that you need to worrie about to. not even thick oil can solve a bad lifter problem. Thats why i love my 7, $2500 for a brand new motor (everything is new on this thing, no mialage at all), ripped apart, streetported, better seals, ect. Good for another 200k, then rebuild. :D

i was being sarcastic, as in saying to stop the ticking noise add oil, its probibly low or has an ohc

WTF?!?

Why is it that everyone on AF has to come to the RX-7 section to start the hating? Are we like the red headed step children of the AF forums?

I am growing tired of the "V8s are better then rotaries threads", the "your motors cant make torque" threads, the "Your motor doesnt last" threads, the "you get shitty gas mileage" threads....

This is why we need a rotary moderator in this section, so we can sift through all the bullshit that the AF Keyboard Racers come here and spew forth.

:iagree: there just jealous!most of there guys probably never even see one, let alone experienced a full throttle launch, 10 psi+ turbo pressure, and then whipping around a corner at 50mph fishtailing like a mofo!!!!!!!!ya, i cant say ive ever visited the honda section!lol, by the way,j-rat, nice ride u got there^.

damn, i knew i should have bought that rb25det instead of the j spec 13bt!


lol...

If I thought wrong abt rotaries, nice car u got there FDTT. I in fact like that particular model better than the new ones coz their shape seem more stylish and modern (sharp edged).

I chose to get an RX-7 because my friends grandfather owned one and I thought it was beautiful. I have always loved fastbacks since I was a little. And when I saw the FC, I said "I'm buying one of those when I drvie" in which I have now got one:).

I was maybe 13-14 when my dad explained to me the concept of the rotary. I was intrigued... but it didn't really get my attention till a friend of mine bought himself an 86 RX-7. I was 15 at the time, and riding in that car made me fall in love with it. I didn't even have to drive it. within a few months I started doing ridiculous amounts of research on it. I tried to save up for an 89 cuz I really wanted an S5 motor, but i didn't really get the chance to get enough money since i was still in high school. Currently... I still don't own a rotary, but i did get a chance to drive an FD. I fell in love with it imediately after getting through first gear. I finally have a job which will let me afford a more expensive car, so in a few months i will be able to buy an FD. I know how much money i'll have to put into it... but i definetly think it'll be worth it.

Yes, I'm a young kid (only 19), I hate riced out cars, I thought fast and the furious was cool when it came out, but knowing what i know now, it's just ridiculous. once i do get my FD, I'm going to do very few cosmetic modifications. I plan to buy a spare set of aluminum racing rims with hoosier slicks for autocross, keep the stock ones with decent street tires, if it doesn't have a rear spoiler, i'll put a factory spoiler on it, anything much bigger is just dumb, and i might go with an R1 front spoiler... otherwise that's it. clean and sporty.

I'll probably rebuild the engine within the first 10,000 miles because i don't trust most consumers with the "break in" period. 3mm apex seals are a must, and do large street port as well while she's appart. most mods will be for reliability and power (minus the porting.. i know how it is). i'm still researching what radiators/intercoolers work best... but i have yet to even buy the car, so that'll all come later.

I wd like to write abt some crap that rotary engines do have in common (but especially by RX-7). I have heard that they stuff up very freq like abt every 60,000 km and the RX-7, with extremely poor fuel economy, consume even more than an average GMC 5.7L V8 engine. In addition, the stock RX-7 produces a mere 175 kw (compared to the GTR which does abt 206 kw) and has a 0-100km/h accel of a lousy 6.9 secs. Mazda set a high price on it as though its some fancy car... I am telling u, they empty ur pockets for garbage.

HAHAHAHA :screwy:

Yea, the rx7 will do 60,000kms on an engine... If your a compete noob, hardly ever change the oil, strap it everywhere you go, dont let it warm up and cool down.... Ive seen older rx7s with well over 200,000km on the clock and still running fine, they just need good matanience and they will last

extremely poor fuel economy? i would compare it to a 2.6 litre 6 cyclinder in both performance and economy... and im gathering you drive a GTR so you cant really talk :wink:

5.7 litre GMC V8 - the rotary is lighter, has faaaaarrr less moving parts (under 10 instead of 100+) and is 1.3 litre (or 2.6 depending how you want to measure it) and it would still give it a go

fancy garbage? An FD is serious compeition for a GTR, and if you ever happen to line up a heavily modded one (your sig says somthing about a 700hp GTR which IS fairly nice :P) then m sure you would be in for a surprise.

(your sig says somthing about a 700hp GTR which IS fairly nice :P)

bottles are for babies, and i dont like the way he put an emphasis on his spoiler

hahah yea i know what you mean, got any more shots of your GTR mate? :rolleyes:

he owns a maxima, and anyone that talks about decals is clueless.....

I had had many rotary cars for years. R100, RX2, RX3s, and a few RX7s, as well as crewing for an RX2 rallye car, and an IMSA RS series RX3 (the team also campaigned a rotary powered formula car). I've rebuilt rotaries on my kitchen table... (which is fine when you're single...). I've also had many 4cy,l, 6 cyl, and 8 cyl race cars (over a hundred cars total in the last 28 years).

I got my first RX3 back in '84. it was a '73 model, and I put in a '75 single dizzy engine that I had ported pretty large on both the intake and exhaust. It had a Racing Beat header and intake manifold to mount a Holley 600cfm carb, and a 12 lb aluminum flywheel. Made about 170 hp at 9250 rpm, and almost no useable power below 3500 rpm. it was a serious PITA to drive on the street, as you had to rev it up and let the clutch out pretty quickly to take off without stalling. But it was fun to take on teh musclecars back in teh day (most of them were just jacked up Novas and overcammed Camaros, so a 13 second street car could easily take them on).

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/cvetters3/RX3.jpg

After that I had an R100 with the 10A engine, an RX2 coupe, another RX3, then an SA RX7, an FB RX7, and an FC. This is my last one when I first set it up for autocross:

http://www.supercars.net/pitlane/pics/467569a.jpg

And this was it after it got painted in the first part of '93:

http://www.supercars.net/pitlane/pics/467569b.jpg

http://www.supercars.net/pitlane/pics/467569c.jpg

This was the form it was in when it got it's season championship in autocross, before the stock 143 hp 13B died. I still think the FC is one of the best looking cars of it's era, and possibly one of the best chassis available in anything under $30k. I've been lucky enough to drive a lot of different cars on the track, from Pintos to Porsches, both as my own cars and as an instructor for SCCA and BSCC, so I have a point of comparison to make that claim from.

heh sweet rx3 man, go the 10A fronts ;) im just about to repaint/rebuild my '73 sedan. Gotta love em

cool series 5 i dont ever see modded N/A versions!

GT3 did tard boy

whoops forgot how long the thread was. that was a reply to...

FCsilvia

heh sweet rx3 man, go the 10A fronts ;) im just about to repaint/rebuild my '73 sedan. Gotta love em

cool series 5 i dont ever see modded N/A versions!

thats a series 4