Sitting all engineless in my backyard.

I miss it so much. I think back to the amazing times I had in it. Only three months with it but it was undoubtably the greatest experience I've ever had with a car.

 

go buy another!

 

Save your money, buy the rebuild vid and go for it, you'll be glad you did.

 

Three months is a long time. Mine lasted for a week. Buy a turbo rotary.

 

mine lasted 50 miles will be on the road this weekend

 

I can't wait until mine is back together. And I agree with Trochoid. Buy the rebuild video, rebuild the engine, and be happy. My '83 sat engineless for a month and a half, I bought another one, and my '83 is still engineless. Now I blew the engine in my '84 and have nothing to drive at all.

Don't let anything stand in your way either. Rebuild it, and rebuild it yesterday. There is no reason why you should be hesitating on it (unless it is because you can't afford to buy a rebuild kit or something).

 

I would rebuild my enigne in an instant if the stupid rebuild kits weren't so overpriced. Where can I get a good rebuild kit for a good price?

 

Overpriced? That is just the price for them, having someone else rebuild your engine is going to cost a hell of a lot more than rebuilding it yourself and buying your own rebuild kit, either way. You could buy a used engine, but there is no guarantee how long those will last.

Plus, rebuilding yourself you learn a **** ton more than paying someone else as well, and if you are going to be in the rotary game then I'm assuming the allure of the car is the engine, and if that is the case then why would you not want to rebuild it yourself anyway?

 

Mine's in a different city (home from college for the weekend) and I already miss it. I haven't driven it once (had to tow it 200 miles, during which it tried to kill me twice with a death wobble). It's got an engine, but a lot of other problems, including careless outside storage for the past 2 years and the past two owners that didn't give a damn about it. But I'll rebuild it. It's an 84 GSL with good brakes and an engine that turns over and even tries to start.

 

I lost rotor number one two weeks ago, and it sucks a whole bunch.

I bought a daily driver, and now I'm saving to redo the car to my dream specs.

 

Yes, you miss the 7 when you have to drive something else, which is why I am shipping a solid renovated 7 to each of the locations I fly to regularly on airplanes.

 

Ya, I say overpriced. RB sells the rebuild kit for like $1,100. Thats a rip to me. Its jsut little peices of metal, springs, seals, gaskets, etc. I want to rebuild my own engine, but I'm thinking of doing a swap.

 

Well... I'll have to fabricate the underbody out of sheet metal. The rear end basically rusted off. All sorts of brackets popped loose off of the under body. They were held in by large 2' sections of fibre glass and bondo kinda... mushed together. It was like taking home insulation and bondo and packing it into holes. So the rear started to pull and the drive shaft was pulling out of the transmission and yea............................................... ................. a few more periods..........


Anyways. I started to part it out and that has left me with some seats, most of the dash, and the suspension +body and glass.

 

i feel ya brah, mines been laid up for months being restored

 

That sucks about the rust, I've had a few that ran well, but the rust did them in. Time to go shopping and get back in the game. I would say rotarys are in the blood, but somewhere along the line, I think I inherited the Wankel gene. I doubt it came from Felix since I'm Scotch-Irish.

 

I'm nearly full blood German right off the boat so I think I might have a little Wankel in me.

Yea, I've been shopping but with my current financial situation it's hard as most in decent working order are going for $1k and I need to have a solid daily driver before I can throw $500 away on a project car again.