edit... List of concerns for your car

white smoke (water leak... cracked housing, seals gone.... crap), black smoke (adjust carb), blue smoke (all is well)

 

when you lay awake at night during the winter thinking about the first drive come spring

 

You know your a first gen owner when you hate mice more than hondas. STOP EATING MY LEADS!!!

Seriously, your a first gen owner when you go to the parts store to find wire repair kits to find that they dont make anything this decade for wires with a gauge that small.

lastly, your neighbor that lives just downwind of your rx7 swears its somehow taken years off his life with cancer or something.

 

...When your friend gets in your car and asks about the fire extinguisher...

 

When, after seeing the sign that says "parking lot full," you drive on through instead of around to a quicker empty parking lot because your desperate to scope out another first gen.

When you peruse RX-7club.com until midnight most nights looking at the pictures because full parking lots so rarely contained any first gens...

 

when you know your local parts stor numbe by heart

when you look through your manual what to do next

 

You own two FB projects but HAVE to have that 83 LE on eBay, true story

 

when you are hesitant to wake it up late at night coz its 'sleeping'

and when caught saying at night whilst its sleeping things like

....... isnt she beautiful
....... and dont you wish she just didnt have to sleep
....... gosh if only my children made me this happy

followed by ............. i wonder if i could sell my children for another rx7?

 

you own a 2 1/8 socket

 

^^^That ****** was expensive LOL.
When you break your 19mm socket trying to break the e-shaft bolt loose

 

hahaha let me restate my last one

you know your a 1st gen owner when the biggest tool in your tool box is a socket

 

when ur smoke detecter goes off and the first thing you move to saftey is your 7/s

 

me and my dad still need 1 of those

when your girlfriend/wife compleatly despises your car because you spend more money on it than her

 

lol, this one happened to me the first week I had my 1st gen. I think the guy was trying to show off for his girlfriend that was with him. By the time I was shifting into 2nd I could see him in the rear view and his gf was laughing at him. (then again, I think a big part of that was the fact that he didn't have a clue how to drive his car. I think his tires were still squealing when I was shifting into 2nd. lol)

 

You check the secondary linkage everytime you stop for gas to see if it slipped off.

The shutter valve IS or has broken.

Rebuilt the carb and it turned out to not be the carb.

At least one or more sticky fluids in the center power window switchs.

 

lol. I offered someone 4000 for his complete original GSL-SE with 50k original miles and everything stock; he said I could have his two girls for 4k.

When replacing your alternator is harder than rebuilding the carb

 

When I got mine there was a length of 1" pvc pipe in the back. I noticed it while I was driving it home (about a 70 mile drive) and the whole way I was wondering what it was for and why it was in the back of the car. A couple of days later I figured it out when I went to the grocery store and went to put the bags in the back. lol

 

that hurt, didnt it?
i use a stick and i think i speck for everyone when i say when working under the hatch always wear a helmet.......
IT F**KING HURTS WHEN THE LOCKING HOOK SMACKS INTO THE BACK OF YOUR HEAD!..... i think i drew blood

 

No, never got wacked with it. The nice thing about using the long PVC pipe is that it's hollow in the center and you can use that to hold on the latch part in the center so that it doesn't shift around.

The biggest issue I had when I first tried to open the hatch was getting it open since the shocks are completely dead so it doesn't lift up at all when I push the button on the dash and the key won't open it because it's missing a few teeth. lol

 

When your friend asks where the fire extinguisher is before he or she gets in the car.

 

Your friend gets in the car and ask if you mind if he lights up. You start the engine while musing over your response to a guy asking to smoke in a non-smoked in car, he gets a whiff of whats coming out ofthe vents and says: "never mind."

 

when you know all the positions to have sex in ur 7, but have never done any kuz you dont want stains on the seats.

 

When there is no place to mount an MSD box let alone a third coil......

 

haha funny story, coming back from a school field trip my professor drives me over to my 1st gen and asks "what have you got in that Z?" and for no reason i got pissed and snorted "it's an RX7" and left before i slapped the **** out of him. lol.

 

When you look out your house door/window every time you walk by to admire it's beauty, and you get chills thinking about when you're gonna get to drive it next. - GUILTY!!!.