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Old Oct 9, 2002 | 11:16 PM
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dont it put a smile on your face.....

when we drive our cars!!!! there are very much fun, they are so much diffrent than than the piston engines and no other car on the road has those cool little spinner engines in them!!! it just gets you all warm inside!!...... well thats just my 3 cents (the extra cent is tax)!!!!
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Old Oct 9, 2002 | 11:19 PM
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Feels a lot different going from a Daily Driver 88 convertible to my 85... The 85 is so small LOL
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Old Oct 9, 2002 | 11:19 PM
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LOL, did someone have a rotary experience???

I feel the same every time I see those damn 16 yr old punks in all those hondas modeled exactually the same as there buddies.

LONG LIVE THE ROTARY!!!!
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Old Oct 9, 2002 | 11:27 PM
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lol yea love the rotary experience! ... i was on my way on a cost trip (about 500 miles round trip) i was driving down the road a some little guy in a about a 97 acura integra was trying his best to race with me....im sorry to say but his exhaust was loud and annoying.. so i just drove normal and he just gave up and fell behind!!!! i had it on cruise control and wanted to enjoy my drive!! i just wanted to share that!!!
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Old Oct 9, 2002 | 11:51 PM
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ooohhhhhh yeeahh.. it's always a joy to hop in my 7, either taking it to redline or putt around.. seeing Honduh boys take second looks but not rev on me.. hehe, scared perhaps? all I have is a header on my SE, Panas and a front lip.
SevenStock 5 was less than 2 weeks ago, I still vivdly see the more than 400 rotary vehicles there...sweeeeeeet
Dodge has that commercial about being 'Different'.. if they only truly knew what we know
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Old Oct 9, 2002 | 11:58 PM
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Lessee that front lip... on the car, that is...
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Old Oct 10, 2002 | 12:52 AM
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Yeah it's so much different going from any car to a Rotary powered car. I can't stand the Piston cars anymore. I can't believe I won't be driving my car b/c of project "Money Drain" for couple of months
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Old Oct 10, 2002 | 03:29 AM
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Yeah it's so much different going from any car to a Rotary powered car. I can't stand the Piston cars anymore. I can't believe I won't be driving my car b/c of project "Money Drain" for couple of months
haha dude try a couple of years, thats me cause the money is deffinately down the drain and so much of it too its almost clogged up
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Old Oct 10, 2002 | 03:49 AM
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Man you guys are hurting me! State of Ohio says I can't drive. (They REALLY don't like catching people driving without insurance!)

All I can do right now is sit in the driver's seat and wiggle the steering wheel and make brap brap noises

BTW - Anybody wanna buy an MSD? Proceeds go to the "get me my driver's license reinstated" fund
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Old Oct 10, 2002 | 03:56 AM
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how much?
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Old Oct 10, 2002 | 05:10 AM
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The MSD box, and coils maybe .

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Old Oct 10, 2002 | 09:22 AM
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Man you guys are hurting me! State of Ohio says I can't drive. (They REALLY don't like catching people driving without insurance!)

All I can do right now is sit in the driver's seat and wiggle the steering wheel and make brap brap noises

BTW - Anybody wanna buy an MSD? Proceeds go to the "get me my driver's license reinstated" fund
Thats what Kentucky ought to do, all they do is put a fine on you and say you cant drive until you get insurance, so basically its just an insurance discount if you get caught... Kentucky sucks, man if you hit someone no big deal, you wont have to pay for it anyways I speak from experience here, I have been hit by peeps w/o insurance, never seen a dime!
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Old Oct 10, 2002 | 12:48 PM
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Yea, driving our cars is sweet. It rarely gets boring, unless your stuck in traffic.
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Old Oct 10, 2002 | 01:25 PM
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I've got an MSD 6AL to sell. I need to do a brake job on my MG Midget, which by the way is rotary powered! So I don't need my MSD anymore. I also figured out what the problem was in my REPU and why the MSD's relay wasn't fully turning off when it was in it. It's because my ignition switch is faulty. Well, I took the engine out of my REPU and put it in my MG so I could fix all the little probs on my truck and not worry about the down-time.

So who wants a hardly used mint condition MSD to help get Project Rotary Midget on the road? It's just missing some electrical connectors that I used to install it in my REPU. All the screws and rubber standoffs are still there. It even still has the box with all the stickers, instructions, etc that it came with.

This should probably go in the for sale section. It'll be going on eBay if no one wants it. Rotor13B, PM me if interested.
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Old Oct 10, 2002 | 03:31 PM
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Yeah this little car is fun to me too. And having 13's makes things on the back roads very interesting to say the least. Who is it that has the 88? A friend of mine has an 88 convertible too and we swear his and my 83 are the same quickness wise as the convert mod adds so much weight.

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Old Oct 10, 2002 | 04:27 PM
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so how much already???
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Old Oct 10, 2002 | 04:35 PM
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You guys are making me sick!!!! I havent driven a 1st gen on the streets in.......(thinking with one finger in the nose)........8 years!!!!!!! I only know how to drive them fast and out of control!!!!

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Old Oct 10, 2002 | 06:45 PM
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Thats what Kentucky ought to do, all they do is put a fine on you and say you cant drive until you get insurance
That's what Ohio does, sort of. First offense is $125 or $250 fine (forget which), mandatory driver's license and vehicle registration suspension for 90 days, and for five years afterwards you have to carry a special high risk insurance ($10/6 months which is chicken feed compared to the rest of the bill). They track that special insurance (called an SR-22) and if at any time your insurance lapses in that 5 year probationary period, your driver's license and car registration are suspended until you get your insurance reinstated.

So all I need in insurance money, and then I can look for a job and get my *** off the Forum all day

how much? well i don't want to deal with shipping or anything. A box with a bunch of wires coming out of it, and a couple tall cylinders with wires attached, might look too suspicious if it went through an X-ray machine Plus I prefer to deal with cash, and I'd like to install the unit myself...
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Old Oct 10, 2002 | 09:09 PM
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Drove mine for the first time in the rain today... I can't believe how controllable it is with the tail out.... This car is DEFINITELY going to be fun...

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Old Oct 10, 2002 | 09:48 PM
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you are kinda of in my area.. so it was the same rain storm i drove mine in... i love been able to ride first gear to 5k then dump it in second and just spin on wet roads.. i love driving my rex in the rain, well i love driving my rex period. it gets scarey sometimes in the rain though with that loose rearend, anyone else have that?
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Old Oct 10, 2002 | 11:18 PM
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The front lip on my car is a Xenon
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