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Old Nov 18, 2014 | 05:10 PM
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When people come over to talk to u at a gas station and say--- yeah I know where u live --I see ur car all the time. Happened a few times. Also u have been known to check ur oil more than once a day. Word!
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Old Nov 18, 2014 | 09:47 PM
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...when you get excited about mint PLAID interior and all your friends look at you with like they don't understand
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Old Nov 19, 2014 | 09:27 AM
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Old Nov 19, 2014 | 09:29 AM
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Old Nov 20, 2014 | 10:28 PM
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Originally Posted by t_g_farrell
You need to learn about rotaries and carbs, especially using Holleys. They don't mount the right way
on a rotary and also suffer from a lot of issues when cornering. It takes a lot of mods and tweaks to
make it work in the twisties reasonably.
about the best ive found so far is a edelbrock 500cfm with a little tweekin it does pretty good!!

Why EdelBrock hasnt made a 700cfm with super small primaries for turbo models i'll never know!!
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Old Jun 29, 2016 | 11:21 PM
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Also when you buy a Mercury Cougar XR-7 and switch the nameplate to....you guess it! RX-7
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Old Jun 30, 2016 | 12:23 AM
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You know you are a 1st gen owner ..........when your wife ask you to drive your 7 and instead you
buy her a Honda
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Old Jun 30, 2016 | 10:29 PM
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You know you're a 1st gen owner when...

Use the 7 to pick your wife in order to prevent her to take her BFF with her.

or when the driver seat is old and raged and the passenger seat is pristine as new.

Also when the plate of the door handle literally disintegrate in your hands
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Old Jun 30, 2016 | 11:14 PM
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You know you're a 1st gen owner when...

After a couple of days errand out of town, you came back and....with the chariots of fire song stuck in your brain.... in slow motion you run to hug your 7
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Old Jun 30, 2016 | 11:20 PM
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You know you're a 1st gen owner when...

You think the movie Collision Course with Jay Leno is great because you saw for 3 seconds a brown RX7 targa crusing before the beating of the bad guy at the breaking ground scene of the new clinic.
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Old Sep 29, 2016 | 10:03 AM
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When the local police know your house as the one with all of the rx7's.
When a tear comes to your eye every time you see one in a junk yard with a decent body thinking, man I want to buy that and drop a 13b/v8 in it just to keep it on the road.
When you can't find a carb on a junk yard car because those always seem to be gone before the car even hit the yard.
When rotary is life.
When you get excited to explain a rotary engine to someone who has never seen or heard of one.
When your grandfather used to talk about the one time he met Felix Wankel and discussed the engineering behind rotary engine so you become so engrossed in them you and your brother have owned more Rx7's than girlfriends combined.
When your grandfather had as much love for the design of your car as you do even though he never had the fortune of owning one.
When your dad finally realizes your low mileage rx7 is actually more reliable than most new cars on the road today and stops saying, you'd save money by buying a new car.

For the silver cars:
When one of the first questions people ask is "Does it have a flux capacitor?" Or "what happens when it hits 88 MPH?"
When the other people ask, Hey Han, where is chewie?
When your license plate says Chewbca and people think it is because your car either is the loudest thing around or they think it looks like the Millennium Falcon.
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Old Sep 29, 2016 | 01:48 PM
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"When your neighbor asks you why you would ever restore that."
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Old Sep 30, 2016 | 12:11 AM
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You know you are a 1st gen owner...

When you are an exclusive auto shop owner, and you stop work on a Lotus Esprit or a Porsche 928, or any other exotic, just so you can work on your 7. I do it all the time!!
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Old Sep 30, 2016 | 09:56 AM
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When you routinely search Ebay for parts no longer available new.
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Old Sep 30, 2016 | 09:56 PM
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When you have this site open 24/7, on the 1st gen board, waiting with bated breath for the next post or reply to come up.
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Old Oct 3, 2016 | 09:21 AM
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When you chuckle after someone says the Holley 500 is the smallest 4bbl carb.
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Old Oct 3, 2016 | 10:33 AM
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Originally Posted by RustyRacer
When you chuckle after someone says the Holley 500 is the smallest 4bbl carb.
That's doubly stupid since Holley has long made a 390-cfm 4-barrel. Every Holley fan knows about it.
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Old Oct 3, 2016 | 10:40 AM
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Originally Posted by StumpDrummer
about the best ive found so far is a edelbrock 500cfm with a little tweekin it does pretty good!!

Why EdelBrock hasnt made a 700cfm with super small primaries for turbo models i'll never know!!
Because of the Gm patents on the QuadraJet having tiny primaries. Holley, Carter, and maybe Nikki bought righrs, gut Edelbrock didn't gef th e rights from Carter.
The Edelbrock is the better daily driver carb, but the Holleys give you the choice of center-hung or side-hung floats, so the cornering issue is easier to tune out that way, which is more of a bandage than a proper fix. A side-hung Holley turned 90* would be great for a cornering car with no power, such as a non-turbo Rotary.
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Old Oct 3, 2016 | 10:42 AM
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Originally Posted by madmen
When you have this site open 24/7, on the 1st gen board, waiting with bated breath for the next post or reply to come up.
This happens on every car forum, to single guys as well as to married guys. Some of us just don't log out, and our tablets keep us signed in
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Old Oct 5, 2016 | 06:48 PM
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When you sigh when your neighbor says "I like your red 300zx"
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Old Oct 6, 2016 | 11:31 AM
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...when you get a kick out of grown adults being confused by doors you have to lock and unlock by hand, with a key.
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Old Oct 9, 2016 | 03:34 PM
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Originally Posted by DivinDriver
...when you get a kick out of grown adults being confused by doors you have to lock and unlock by hand, with a key.
...and as such you end up locking the passenger door yourself, because you know whoever rode with you did it wrong.
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Old Oct 12, 2016 | 05:52 AM
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Originally Posted by hcaulfield57
because you know whoever rode with you did it wrong.

Yes, they didn't hold the outside handle when closing.
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Old Oct 16, 2016 | 12:18 PM
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when women express shock that you dumped $2000 on a rebuilt engine. And if you say, "I just got the engine rebuilt"....when it was really 12 years ago
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Old Oct 22, 2016 | 03:20 AM
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Originally Posted by DivinDriver
...when you get a kick out of grown adults being confused by doors you have to lock and unlock by hand, with a key.
Yeah especially the gas cap door
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