Damn, I love those FD RX-7s

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Mar 30, 2004 | 01:19 AM

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Damn, I love those FD RX-7s

Aww man... when I came out of the grocery store today, parked next to my 02 wrb wrx was a beautiful white 93-95 rx-7. That is the car I was also considering when I got the wrx. Damn those rx7s are gorgeous cars. I enjoy driving the wrx, but I cant help but thinking I would prefer a FD rx7.

Anyone have one I can drive? You can play around in my wrx. Though, if you are on this board you probably already have a wrx. Oh well…

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Mar 30, 2004 | 01:32 AM

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who doesnt?

Mar 30, 2004 | 05:23 AM

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I think this FD is sick as fawk!!

Mar 30, 2004 | 07:51 AM

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Yeah, I'm sure everyone loves RX-7s

. Expensive to maintain though, with how weak the engine is, but still one awesome car.

Mar 30, 2004 | 08:19 AM

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Yeah, I'm sure everyone loves RX-7s . Expensive to maintain though, with how weak the engine is, but still one awesome car.

since when is a rotary weak? It can produce a HUGE amount of power and still be reliable as long as you do the proper reliability mods and take care of it.

Mar 30, 2004 | 09:17 AM

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FD's have teh hawtn3ss. There's a red one w/ volks at Serramonte near Marie Calendar's all the time. :drool:

Mar 30, 2004 | 09:17 AM

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haha thas my friends rx7, you shoulda seen his bike super hawt

Mar 30, 2004 | 09:24 AM

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FD's are ****ing awseome.....my buddy has one and can you get sideways or can you get sideways...

Mar 30, 2004 | 09:30 AM

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haha thas my friends rx7, you shoulda seen his bike super hawt

Will, he was selling it before, right?

Mar 30, 2004 | 09:39 AM

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rotarys are very strong engines, people that dont know anything about rotarys and dont take care of them are the ones that give others the impression that there bad engines.

Mar 30, 2004 | 12:41 PM

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I too love those cars. Perferct size, nice and small like a sports car should be. I was driving behind one on Ygnacia Valley in WC the other night. Thing was so damn beautiful it brought teers to my eyes. Or, maybe that was just his exhaust fumes... gotta love a car running catless!

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Mar 30, 2004 | 02:32 PM

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rotarys are very strong engines, people that dont know anything about rotarys and dont take care of them are the ones that give others the impression that there bad engines.

they are easy to coax power out of, but even stock rotaries are ticking timebombs! I have several Mazda buddies--old school RX2-3's all the way up to FD3S TT's, and not a single one was very reliable/trouble free.

Only good buy is the Miata, and not many guys, aside from real motosport fans (auto-x, road/track racers) would be caught driving those.

Mar 30, 2004 | 02:56 PM

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miatas=60%of the owners are gay

Mar 30, 2004 | 04:18 PM

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since when is a rotary weak? It can produce a HUGE amount of power and still be reliable as long as you do the proper reliability mods and take care of it.

I didn't mean the power, but how they built it. There's plenty of FD3Ss that are out there with rebuilds. A 1.3L producing around... 270? with a lot of power that's easily obtainable, but I mean with how many RX-7s requiring rebuilds due to the engine breaking. Even SCC and other magazines state that with the RX-7 they are just waiting to go with the build of them.

I agree that with the proper care, they can last for quite a while, but one would think that for an engine not to blow between 50-100k miles while using it as a daily driver.