^^^^ this thread cant die!!!

 

when you go almost everyday to the junkyard for a newer piece for your car or go to almost every junkyard just to look at other rx7's in the junkyards, jeez i been to junkyards in about a 100mile radius!!!!! haha

 

... When the only 1st Gen in ANY junkyards within 150km is an '82 that doesn't have the parts you need, but has an engine you've got your eye on! (Ottawa)

... when you've got a VISA dedicated to car repairs and work (guilty!)

... when you go into your *other* VISA to get your girlfriend a $150 gift for christmas because you feel kinda guilty that "this year I spent twenty times that on the car... $150 won't kill me I guess.. but it could get me alot of that steering linkage...."

Jon

 

When you see a 1st gen sitting on main street in the middle of winter (Minnesota) with plastic taped over the broken out window and rust growing every where and
just sob. Then you realize its like 10 below and theres no way that things starting and he diserves it.

also - I think this might be the longest thread, we just passed the "get to know" which is currently 14 pages. ha

 

oh ho when almost every part in the car is new b/c it was ordered out of a catalog or from the junkyard and ur body paint job is crapy *** hell.

 

when even though you can afford "something better" (in the eyes of others) you still dream about finding a nice SA and getting some pana's for it to be your daily driver.

 

...when your internet bookmarks consist of Rx7club, Mazdatrix, Rotaryshack, racingbeat, Mariah etc and other ebay items that you've deemed worthy of going back to .

 

^^^^

... when you label many of those "Awesome deal!", "Good price for 7 parts!", or other generic labels, thinking that you'll remember which one is which, but after a couple days, you forget which is which and end up renaming each of them to other generic labels, and repeat it all over again

 

lol. so true. so very goddamn true.

i showed this thread to my roommate and he said: "OH CRAP THERE ARE MORE OF YOU!"

 

oh when your brother tells you to sell that car b/c there so much stuff i have to buy for it and tells me to get a honda like him.... AH HELL NO!!!!

 

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When you, your family, and all of your friends think you have the most beautiful, perfect girlfriend, and you dump her because she doesn't like smelling like a lawnmower when she rides shotgun....


When you see another rotary on the road, and you're driving your POS piston powered daily driver, and you can't do anything but yelp like a puppy when it goes by.

When you consider selling said POS piston powered daily driver so that you can get your car out of impound, and put a motor in it.


When there's a question that everyone at your work asks you, "Why are you obsessed with such an old, piece of crap car? It doesn't run, looks like ****, and doesn't have tags"... and you calmly tell them, "once I get a motor in it, I'll take you for a ride, and you'll understand."


When you'd rather starve, quit drinking, and sell everything you own just to get your car back on the road...

When you wonder why there's no warnings on the MMO label as to what happens if you ingest it...


When there's 4 GSL-SE wheels, a disassembled Weber 45 DCOE, a turbo from a 6.0L Detroit Diesel dump truck, 3 disassembled 12A's, 1 disassembled 13B 4port, 2 disassembled 13B 6port's, enough tension rods, rotors, and apex seals to build a NASTY motor (but you're too broke to get a rebuild kit), 4 oil pans, 11 coils, 2 distributors, 3 water pumps, and about 20 igniters (and you can't remember which ones work or not)... SITTING IN YOUR KITCHEN, AND BEDROOM.... and your roommates are like "wtf?"... and you tell them, "Soon....... very soon."

When your neighbor with a 100% original '70 GTO says to you, "I like your car...I'mma see what the bank will give me for the Goat, and I might be interested in buying it... whattaya say, $3000?" And you decline, telling him, "Give me the $3000, and I'll build you one just like it.... but you're not getting THIS one." And he asks his wife, and she says, "do whatever, but don't you DARE get rid of the GTO."

 

^^^ wow lol
Is that the stroy of your life?
Man I love the 1st gens. I actually have a 2nd gen I got for free but I found a nice 1st gen that I am going to get b/c it's cheaper than fixing up the 2nd gen and 1st gens = teh sex lol

 

yeah.... I have problems.


You can thank zyounker for getting me so heavily into it.

 

When you think a the 16" wheel you got are to big

You're happy that no one wants to ride with you so you can drive like you want.

You don't get value meals in the drive thru--no where to put the cups.

People think you're brave for driving in at night

You drive it missing misc. body panels.

You had to learn how to drive without using the clutch---damn youz advance auto parts

Maybe been said--- you think nothing of the huge cloud of light blue smoke when you start it.

You have ATF handy at all times---but you've never owned a car with an automatic.

 

You want to get it painted, but think you can find another one the color you want for less than the cost of getting your's painted.

 

when it really really hurts you really really deep really really down inside when somebody takes the rotary heartbeat Mazda gave it out of a first gen and transplants some Detroit hunk of metal in its place in the name of horsepower.

I can see Mazda ( the God of flamethrowing and really loud eruptions ) with His head down. Really really down. Way down. Down to the ground.

And Savannah ( the patron saint of really really shitty mirror placement ) ??? Oh, she's not liking it either. Really really not liking it at all.

 

When you wonder, will it ever end.

 

when you just make excuses to go buy something at the store... but you really just want to drive around and punk out other cars

 

...When your neighbor blocks off the road with his van to keep you from driving your car and complains that it's too damn loud. At 9:00 on a ******* saturday night! So you turn around, do a nice 20second brakestand throwing smoke all over him, and drive out of your neighborhood casually the other way

...When you sleep in your car the first night after you bought it.

...When you think a turbo rotary with a straight pipe exhaust sounds good and isn't too loud even though you wear ear plugs whenever you drive it for more than 15mins

 

...when you consider dropping your friend off out of your car, weight reduction.

 

expanding on one earlier

When your favorites menu has 3 or more rx7 forums, a dozen rx7 parts dealers, half a dozen tutorials (that you'll get around to someday), and atleast 10 links to articles on this forum.

 

You know you're a first gen owner when you can buy a weber 48IDA for less than the stock carb

you curse the engineers for that stupid bellhousing belt behind the starter because that's the only one that requires you to get under the car to undo and take your engine out (true in my case)

you don't need to get under the car to change the oil

you have a -8 AN fuel line just to be on the safe side

 

couple more,.. you know that if you blow an apex seal you can still limp it home on 1 rotor (done that 3 times now)

also.. .when you notice it's more common for the rear apex seals to die than the front ones

when people watching you do a brakestand think you're shifting gears while you're just letting the tach come off the peg for a bit

 

when blowing a seal has nothing whatsoever to do with afterhours at Seaworld

 

BAHAHAHAHAH