I officially put away my 7 for the winter today. She's sitting about 5 minutes from my apartment in a buddy's dirt floor garage on jack stands. Coolant is drained and one gallon of straight antifreeze in so my block doesn't crack like the guy from Alaska's did last winter. Unhooked my battery. The worst part about it is I didn't even get to go for one last good drive as my slave cylinder died on me overnight last week. I'm looking forward for May when she'll be out and about again.

 

Sure am glad I live in Texas. Sorry to hear about your (temporary) loss.

 

Did you put any STA-BIL in the gas?

 

yes, did i not say that?

 

Nope you didn't. Do yourself a favor when you replace the slave cylinder and replace the master cylinder while you are at it. You'll save alot of trouble

 

that's what i'm planning on doing next may

 

Hey Whitey.... Just a note here; since it is stored on a dirt floor you should lay some plastic sheeting under the car. This will prevent moisture from rising from the dirt, increasing the rate of rust development. If it was concrete, then this would not be necessary, but since it is dirt, do yourself a favor.

 

Solid advice, my "shop" has a dirt floor and the bottom of the car gets nice and damp on the humid days, really sucks. Won't be much longer before I stop driving my FB's for the winter as well, so I feel your pain whitey....

 

Took mine off the road last wednesday. Was a sad day.

now its time to winterize and put in my garage and move it back and forth to my shop to be worked on.

 

I have so many leaks, I dont think my frame will ever rust

 

I still have the 89 vert on the road and will probably drive this week and next ..... still no snow in the forcast ( so NO chance road salt ) Supposed to be sunny and about 5-10 celcius (40 - 50 Farenheit) all week . Probably take her to work tomorrow .

I feel the pain on the 79 though , she's tucked away with some fuel stabilizer and a dust cover till April.

 

Good idea, thanks. I'll go to the hardware store tomorrow after doing an outer tie rod end on my escape and pick up a big sheet of thick TYVEK. I definately don't want it to rust, as it's much nicer than my last 7.

 

lol, the air gets so dry up here and it stays well below 20*F all winter, so it shouldn't be *too* bad on the dirt, but it's not worth the risk of coming back in the spring and finding some bad rust.

 

living in the far north sucks, doesn't it?

search for 49930 on maps.google.com if you wanna see where my car is located for the winter.

 

This will probably be the last winter I'll drive my SA. Since it's starting to get colder and it could start snowing soon I'll be swapping out the Libra's/Sumitomos for the stockers for the winter.

 

https://www.rx7club.com/forum/showthread.php?t=586025

Car storage How-2
since you poor bastids are now starting to see hints of winter -
which arrived a here a MONTH ago !
;P

Oh, and Kentetsu, many concrete floors weep moisture almost as bad as dirt floors -
lay a piece of plastic down for a few weeks, you'll likely see moisture collecting underneath!
Stu Aull
80GS-under-a-foot-of-snow
Alaska

 

Yea as long as it stays cold its fine here as well, its when it starts warming up a little bit all the moisture comes out, whatever as long as the car has good paint and undercoating it'll last
On a related note I'm at work right now, and its snowing like a blizard out here, I didn't think it was cold enough but its actually sticking, of course I drove one of the 7's today too haha, oh well...

 

dang

 

I hope you put something under the jack stands, to keep them from sinking into the dirt. It does not matter how well packed the dirt seems, jack stands will slowly sink as the temp fluctuates. Next spring, your car could be sitting on the dirt, with buried jack stands under it......

 

You should be using a 50/50 mix of antifreeze, not 100%. I would also fill the cooling system to the top so as to not leave any of it exposed internally or it could rust or corrode.

 

I'm going to fill it 70/30 because it will get down to -40 for at least a week this winter.

 

fortunately it hasn't started snowing yet in Idaho...but i'm still deciding on if i plan on driving it in the snow...seeing as how i am putting mud flaps on the bad boy...put'em to use i suppose...depends on if they use sand, or salt around here on the roads,

 

I have factory Mazda mud flaps on my FB, but that doesn't mean that i'm actually going to use them...

If it gets as cold as it does here in Idaho (i'd think it does because we have Superior to keep us kinda warm), i think that they'd use sand like they do here.

 

well i guess when i meant mud/snow flaps i meant something like this:

 

I have put my RX-7 away for the this year too. It was nice to hear the "over-rev" buzzer one last time. Spring will be here before we know it.