Lookieme

I revved my 7 way too hard one day, and blew a connecting rod.

Manntis

Toldja the valve timing was off - next time get that performance cam!

Mills

iTrader: (1)

I wanted to blast some fresh snow off my clean 7 by cruising up the highway after work real quick. After turning around and heading back into town, everyone in my lane hit their brakes to stop!

I was going way too fast to stop, not expecting this on the highway, and dived into the left turn lane that would lead me up to I-90 west. The lane was empty and I must have slid past three or four cars when I found the reason everyone was stopping.

Some jackass towing a horse trailer was making a left turn onto the same on-ramp, but from the left highway lane, not the turn lane!

Somehow, I slid between the rear of his trailer, and the front of the van directly behind him, shooting back out into the southbound highway lanes. I looped a 180 and heard a terrible noise before I came to rest on the far right shoulder. I was now facing north as the southbound traffic went by, but I had to jump out to see the damage...

The left corner of my rear bumper had hit/grazed the guard rail during my spin, but the mark it left was only the size of my pinky nail! Not believing my luck, I started an impromptu celebration right then and there in front of God and everybody before clambering back in to spin 'er the right direction and get the heck out of there before the cops showed up!

CHEF_EG_1

If he tunes the nos timing, he'll run 9's.

ZachstylezRX7

Yeah sounds like ur friend is a pansy. I have the same problem with my friends. They claim that i "drive too crazy."
As for stupid stuff... man i do so much. Last month i was on my 'i-hate-my-stupid-gurlfriend-that-just-dumped-me-so-i-am-going-to-drive-really-fast-on-my-road-to-show-her!' campaign. This is a twisty country road and i got up to speeds of 110 in my 87 Corolla. Everynight was a damn rally event.
I was driving home one night and it was really really dark outside, but relatively warm. So i rolled down my window and i got to the spot where i hit my top speed. I gunned it going about 95 mph as i came over the hill. Just as i went over the hill i saw deer in the bushes and i began to let my foot off the accelerator to about 90 mph.
"Aw... cute lil deer looking at me thru the bushes. I really like you cute lil deer." Then suddenly a deer flies out of the bushes on my driver side like a bat out of hell heading straight for my car. I speed up so he doesn't hit the front of my car and i swerve to teh right. Well, i ALMOST escaped... The deer was goign so damn fast that i clotheslined it with my mirror! The mirror completely exploded right into my face because i had the window down. The deer did about 3 360's faster than i can twirl a quarter. I regained control and drove home. I had blood all over the exterior of my car and blood ALL over my face from the mirror. Crazy times.
Also another pretty dumb thing was trying out my top speed on a highway in my Corolla that had been known to have cops on it. The cop clocked me at 124 (i had about 500 rpms to go). He was a great guy and dropped the negligent driving and wrote 90 mph on the ticket. STILL, this is 90mph in a 50mph zone and the ticket cost me 300 bucks.

DragonRx7

Ummm... I had just gotten my 7 and was cruising around the neigborhood (nothing too bad) and just learning how to drive stick, do some kangaroo hops while shifting and end up with my foot slipping of the brake pedal and hitting the gas at a corner.

So, the end result was that I bent 2 rims, blew the tire on one of them, and an uprooted stop sign that went up and under the front end for about 10ft.

Next, was even stupider. Changed the tire in 10 mins. and drove home. Cop later comes to the house and calls me out for Hit&Run, but only ended up with 23hrs comm.service for driving w/out insurance.

CODE BLUE 2

I was driving my 79 rx-7 on I-5...going 70mph + I had just gotton my car painted..and decided to shut the sun roof on my car....well the sunroof lock was not good....and the sun roof kinda ...well....flew off the car.

All's I could see since it was dark outside was a lot of sparks behind me.....and my heart dropped...as I wondered if....maybe I had caused an accident....maybe killed someone...

I was afraid to turn off on to the next exit....to see if maybe I had caused some kind of reck.....but I did turn around....and thank God....traffic was still flowing smoothly.....

The next day.....It took my all day to find another sun roof to match.....and another $50.00 to paint the new sun roof....

So Warning!!!!!!make sure your lock on your sunroof...works good before opening it or closing it at a fast speed.....lol

BCrotary

My first car was a first gen and before i even had plates for it I let my friend drive it, who didn't know how to drive a stick very well. It started raining and he kinda dropped the clutch going around a corner and smashed it into a tree. Car was a hoopty from then on. damn

Lookieme

Don't forget about the injector pulse.

quantum18

fixed that darn air conditioner and now when it's on it pulls so much on the engine you can feel the performance coming out the vents

BrianHeston

First thing, my parents 85 Ford LTD: I was coming down my road after being called into work on my day off. It was all snowy, and the road was covered in ice and frost. I hit an S curve, and lost it. Fishtailed a couple of times. Then I came out of the shade, into where the sun had melted everything from the road. That's when my tires grabbed, as I was facing sideways in the middle of the road, and shot me straight forward into an embankment. I just barely caught the edge of it, and it rolled me over directly into about a 12 foot deep hole right next to the road. From the yellow line, you couldn't even see the car. A few days later I realized that the song the should have been playing on my CD right about at that point, was Marylin Manson's "Dried up, Tied Up & Dead To The World". So I blame him. Here's some pics to give you an idea of what I did to the car. I managed to hit all four corners, and the top.




Next, was in my Rx7. It was very shortly after getting her running. (With much thanks to several people on this forum) A buddy of mine was busy showing off his mom's new car, and taking people for rides and ****. So when I got off work, I told him to hop in. I took him for a ride I don't think either of us will ever forget. I was only doing about 45 or 50 around a 360 degree onramp, and at the very end, I started to drift. I didn't think this was a problem, because I thought that at the end was just about a 6 inch dirt drop of into the lane. I was WAY WRONG. I ended up hopping both left side tires up over the curb, then the car slammed down on it just to the left of the transmission. Luckily just barely scraping the brand new fuel pump that at the time was just hanging there, not braketed up at all. Then after it bounced back up and the right side tires "cleared" the curb, I ended up in the proper lane, and kept going like nothing had happened. About a minute later, I looked over at my friend and said, "So, what do you think?" After the initial adrenaline wore off we both thought it was pretty cool that you could bounce a car on a curb like that, and not damage anything. He agreed that if he'd done that in his mom's brand new Honda Civic, it probably would have broken in half.

excitingleopard

Wow. And I though I was a bad driver...

I guess I just may have a chance after all.

If I ever do something stupid that involves me letting someone esle drive my car, anyone on this forum has my permission to come to my house and shoot me. If I do something dumb, it's my fault. But NO ONE does anything dumb in my car.

BRealistic

Well, considering that I have owned MANY vehicles, and only NOT wrecked a couple, I have done MANY stupid things.

This is my first seven, so unbelievably I haven't done anything too stupid in it yet- even though I have scared myself in the rain.

Looking back, the stupidist thing I did...hmmmm..oh- hmm, circa 1992 -that fourth of july night that I got mad at my gf (because she was a cheap **** and I wanted a relationship-stupid me) and started drinking and driving at the same time. I purchased a twelve in bottles (I had already had plenty), and started driving faster and faster in my 86 323 red 5 speed se with some performance mods, all round tint, 626 alloys, a completely hand built custom system (I built the sub box only 5inches deep to match the hatch floor exactly- the hatch carpet covered it and you would never know it had a speaker box back there- ooh, and that was the best sounding system I ever made). Not much power off the line, but handled like a pro and could easlily peg the 120mph speedo. Well, I kept driving and drinking faster and faster. I came around a high speed s-curve sweeper- lost it in the transition (80mph)and swapped ends going off the inside of the curve into a field (also had a 10 foot drop).

Bing drunk and wearing my seatbelt, I was not hurt. The inside of the car was full of broken beer bottles and glass. The car was rocking on its passenger side. I get out slowly and carefully, then start walking back to civilization since I am in the middle of nowhere (my fav road). Walking down the road, I see car lights coming- so I dive into the ditch to hide. I knew it was cops looking for whoever had the accident. Still walking later, and I dive again to avoid a car. I eventually find my way back to the highway, and actually get a lift from some guys going to the lake that morning. I get home, and crash (no pun intended). The boss at work calls (a pizza joint- I deliver pizzas) and wonders why I am not there (I overslept). I lie and tell her that my car was stolen (sounded good at the time). I call the cops, and tell them the story. The one that shows up tells me that my car was found wrecked full of broken beer bottles a few counties over(duh) and the keys were still in the car (ooops). I recant my story, and he gives me a ride to the wreck (nice cop). The tow truck pulls my car from the feild up the embankment, and it is most deffinitely totaled. The tow truck actually gives me a ride to work.

But at work, my boss fires me because I lied about my car being stolen, and she couldn't trust me (I came this close to telling her about all her 'trusted' employees who lied and broke important company rules- like relationships between lower management and delivery guys- but I didnt- and I am glad I didn't). The next day, I broke out in POISON OAK from head to toe- from diving in the ditches to avoid the police. THAT sucked big time. No job, no money, no car, no GF, poison oak from head to toe.

To all those beginning drivers- DONT'T DRINK AND DRIVE! Please, these stories may seem like bragging, but honestly, I was embarrassed for years after that. The difference between a drinking/stupid wreck story and a horrible death accident is mere luck. On more than one occasion, I could have killed myself and/or others- and I couldn't live with myself if I killed others due to my stupidity. Think not drink, then drive.

peace, Bryan.

ZachstylezRX7

Same reason why i crashed going so fast only without the alcohol part... dumb bitchez. **** em all.

rx-7s rock

hmmm...so many stupid things, so little time. I was following a guy I knew to his house and he was being a dick and trying to lose me. I was driving my first car 1979 Ford Econoline with blue **** interior. It was kinda late at night maybe around 11 and we were flying through some neighborhoods in the dead of winter. I took a turn too fast and drove over an evergreen bush. I pretty much smashed it in half and about shat my pants. I began to panic and just drove off. Luckily it was just a bush which can grow back. You'll all be happy to know it is doing well and looks as though no one has driven over it.

Matt22

iTrader: (10)

i wasn't in my first gen but me and my buddy were messing around in our cars my room mate was in his car filming me, and I blazed past them pulled the E-brake and did a complete 360 and kept going. Not really stupid I think it was quite sweet. Lates Matt22

timmya2

Bryan.. its true u should drink and drive..


but i dont think thats the reason u lost yur work and yur gf..


nice story tho.. lol

had a good laugh readin it..

wagondriver69

Defprun

1991 Tempo:

*Hit a pole*

*neutral drop*

*neutral drop*

*neutral drop*

*drift*

*CRUNNNCH*

*RALLY!*

*rally...*

*rally...*

*HIT A POLE*

*HIT A CAR*

*SOLD*

1988 Merkur XR4ti

*Overboosted 30psi*

*drift*

*drift*

*connecting rod let go on highway*

*car blew up...*

nickj

2:00 a.m., no traffic, six lane freeway and I thought I'd practice quick lane changes. The tow truck arrived six hours later.

excitingleopard

You're right. That's not really stupid, as long as you know what you're doing and are in a safe area. I don't even have my senior liscence and I've done that a couple times....

You are correct, it IS pretty sweet

quimax2k

maybe i was just lucky but my first 7 was an 84 with auto and it was actually pretty zippy, just needed to run it like it was a manual lol

quimax2k

well the stupidest thing i would have to say was letting the now ex-wife drive the 7 through a construction zone.. sign said "bump" lmao.. as it turns out it was a 2ft drop, well lets just say that at 70 going off of a 2ft drop your head has a tendency to pop up out of the sun roof (i was looking across the roof) specially when your passenger seatbelt stopped locking lol..

BlackWorksInc

Yesh Blowing a connecting rod on your 7 is a very stupid thing XD LMAO

I'd say most stupid thing, putting money into my 82 RX7, because once I started, it kept flowing into the car XD

FBsliderseven

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mine was on a touge run and i went in to a turn way to fast. i almost did a 90degree drift and then the car did a 180 to the side barely hitting the guardrail.
scared the **** out of me!!!
+ my friend was about 25 feet away from me.