when you have a "manually teleoscoping steering wheel" haha i guess i had a broken collapsable shaft but my whole wheel would come out & go back about an inch and a half

when there are multiple rotors and housings on display throughout your house

 

Man this is the truth, my wife keeps asking me when i am gonna be done and it pisses me off to no end. Only been working 50 hrs at work, then nights and weekends home on what really counts

 

i officially love this thread!!!

 

when you have to put a "not for sell" sign in the drivers window to make people leave you alone.

 

when you hear a clunk clunk entering a freeway and it ISNT your tools in the back

when you have to drive around with the windows open in the dead of winter because the engine is heating you up too much

when you think anything about 15" is too big for a wheel

this thread is great

 

.....you get fed up with the "wondersteer" and fab your own rack&pinion steering from a 84' VW Rabbit. (5 yrs and still attached)

.....you take 5 minutes to warm up your engine before pulling out of the driveway to make sure you won't hurt it.

 

[QUOTE=Slammed_GSL;7340649.....you take 5 minutes to warm up your engine before pulling out of the driveway to make sure you won't hurt it.[/QUOTE]

hahahaha I even do this in my FC LOL

 

5 mins pssh mine too 10 for the choke to go back in today. it was a bit chilly

 

+1
Someone came up to me yesterday when I stopped in Remer, MN to get some coffee. First thing he said was "How much?"

 

You know your a 7 owner when

The car is cold and you tell your GF its normal to crank it 30sec before its starts!


When you wonder why mazda didnt include a check engine light that said (rebuild soon)!

 

....you have 8 10mm wrenches and the most common thing you say to your helper is: this 10mm doesn't fit, i need the other 10mm.

 

- you've got a lot of ground down 14mm box ends
- you search used tire piles for 13" roller tires
- You carry enough spare parts to race weekend you might as well just prep another car
- you've got this site bookmarked

 

Are you saying your nuts and bolts are not uniform tolerances, or do you have a bunch of Chinese wrenches? Get rid of those things they support the evil communists regime and will screw up your fasteners.

 

these are all true:

when you go to get a smog, the somg guy looks at the oil pouring out of the dowel pins, and you say, dont worry about it, just smog it....

you've fixed that heater hose, in montana....

you've left the thing in a field for 3 years, threw a battery in it and took it to the track, where alex pfeiffer beat the snot out of it all day, after his hatchi broke, again.

you're friends girlfriend wonders why you drive the "old smelly one" instead of the nicer one (t2)

you've had at least a dozen....

you regret selling it because the mercedes you replaced it with is broken, again.

you took it out on the california mille miglia route on 7/7/07, just cause

your record for pulling the engine and transmission is 15minutes.

you're cleaning it up to drive 7 hours to sevenstock, with no ac, no radio....

 

When you finally get your car running after tinkering and rebuilding the carb 3 times. You decide to drive it out of the driveway and suddenly remember you have a rusty brake booster and brake master cylinder and no brake fluid at 10 mph. Neighbor really hates me now.

When the lowered crx 2 blocks away starts his car to hear if his exhaust is even louder. Fark no!

 

I know its been said but is that a Nissan. I was selling cars at the time and some guys I was working with said there is this hot 300zx or a 280z down the street. I said really what color was it and what does it look like and it sounded just like my car. I them there credit stank and they need to come back when they can tell what a real car is. and be able to tell the difference between a MAZDA and a Nissan.

and you've had girlfriends ask what that smell right. Well you don't drive your car for reasons not of your control for a few months and ask yourself whats that smell is that my car.

 

When you get fustrated that everytime you search for 4x110 on ebay, all you find are atv wheels...

When you have to look for 13" tires...

 

When you know that a thermoreactor isn't a power station.
When you go to pick up your girlfriend and the headlights don't work, but in the morning they work perfectly.

 

when you take the Mazda badges off and replace them with john deer badges and your friends beleive you because it has a choke and sounds like a lawn mower

 

You know your a first gen owner when your wife constantly begs you to buy a RX-8 and your reply is HELL NO!!!

 

You know your a first gen owner when...
You buy your first 7, and two weeks later recieve a 2,300 dollar hospital bill, but decide to cut your expenses down to zero, make your g/f pay for everything she can, just so you can keep it.
You go over to your parents garage just to sit in it, even though it isn't licensed, and you don't know how to drive stick yet.
You waste a couple days at work reading every post in this thread.
You look for a better paying job to help pay for the registration.
You constantly search ebay for better rims, even though you know you can't afford them
You spend all day dreaming of upgrades your going to do to your 7... when you get the cash.
You read every post in this thread and get uneasy about buying the thing, but still keep it due to your new found love.
You sign up on this forum, just so you can post this.

 

-you know your a first gen owner when:
* someone comes up next to you and asks "Hey, is that for sale?" and you say no...but how much you willing to spend? (I get this at least once a week)
* you suddenly realize how tall or big your friends as they cram into the passenger seat
* you drive slow so as not to decapitate tall friend
* you never have enough money
* you're Christmas wish list is full of things like rear spoiler wing, brake kits, sunroof/rear hatch seal replacements, and new shocks

 

i know this is an old post, but im 6'8 and have both an FB and FC. I can drive with my knees (scared the ex, drivin with knees, and eating on the highway) and the only fitment issues is with the stock seats and a helmet in the FC, just a bit snug.

 

You know when your a first gen owner when every time it rains hard you have to unflood your car even though you weather stripping is good.
When you keep tabs on all of the other first gen owners in a 15 mile radius to see if you can get parts

Some guy stopped me to to tell me he's been looking for a first gen in good condition. I told him he can keep looking....

 

^^^ Harsh.