8urpiston

my mom tell me i have to sell my car cause my son is going to go death

my next door friend alwayz brings his little friends in there civic to see whos cars are louder lol there fukin stupid by the way i like that insult 240 are like civics lol thats a good one i hope no one tells me my probe/rx7 looks good cause i'll b!tch them out

8urpiston

bro you almost made me **** on my self with this one lol shyt how retarded can l be lol lmao

ThunderGirl

I've driven an FC since 1990, latest one since '92. I've met guys who are just in love with the car, but I've also gotten this remark from various guys over the years:

"IT'S CUTE, BUT IT'S A GIRL'S CAR."

Uh......
They can get away with saying that to me.
But I want to say, "Pleeeease, let me see you tell that to any of the MEN I know who drive 'em!" LOL

Oh, and how about if we get side by side on the road at 70, and you step on your gas and I'll do the same, and I'll wave 'bye to you as I disappear?

Girl's car, hmmmm?

Bama420

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That ebay special s4 T2 isn't that bad off. $1500 is less than I paid for my s5 GTU. Not much, but cheaper. And the fact that he doesn't know what's wrong with it makes it even cheaper. Well, would have. Damn ebay and it's bidding and such.

I get, "when are you going to fix your headlights?" (sleepy eyes)
and,
me: so I was taking it easy and shifting at 7k-
buddy: WTF man, you know revving a motor past 6k is really bad on the motor.
me: no, I have a rotary, I don't even redline until 8k
buddy: seriously, when you throw a piston rod through the hood, I'm gonna laugh in your face when you ask me to rebuild it
me: deal

And he used to drive an FB!!

slpin

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this is one of the funniest, seeing as how gtu-s has a NA drivetrain... and this guy thinks he knows about rx7 and could laugh at people.

zrokool85

me and a buddy went to walmart to see if they could find out where a sqeak was coming from. and when we told him what kind of car it was he first said it didnt have a chassy???wtf??? then he went on and on about how it was a 4 cyl and he had one and his bro had one and called us liars? thats when we asked for the mgr and he ended up firing that guy about 2 weeks later???

87 t-66

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"I sent the motor out and had it professionally rebuilt using $1800 apex seals used on airplanes"

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/MAZDA...QQcmdZViewItem

ehh...

Bama420

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Wow, I need those apex seals. lol

BrettLinton7

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well I had a rather funny experience today in class...

I was sitting at this table with 2 other guys
And this was our conversation

I'm gonna be X
Mitch will be Z
and Brandon- Y

Y- yeah my f150 lightnin's got 350HP without the supercharger
Z- my dad's vett'll stomp that piece a **** ford- it's got over 500HP
Z- Hey Brett- what's that car of yours got?
X- my RX7? ......150-ish
Y- hahaha piece of ****. What is it? a 4 cyl?
X- no it's rotary you jackass- it's piston-less and has rotors. Kinda like triangles spinning in an oval.
Z- Oh yeah- thats a Mazda right?
X- Yeah- it's like the motor in the RX8's
Y- I've got a mazda too, but I think I'll take out the triangles and put in pistons. Maybe even put a supercharger on it

Thats when I started ignoring him and laughed under my breath.
And yeah- That comes from the guy who say's he's got a new car every month

Anyways, just sharing

joebowhunter

after a street race the guy says"you got a 6 in that?"
"no rotary"
"that s*** is fast"


among many other things like "your car was shootong out fire", and "OMG!"

joeylyrech

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4 years ago i started working at Pep Boys and on my first day i drove my old 12A BP FB so i drive around the store and park next to the service station,then this guy comes running and said you work here now get the car on bay #2 and lets get the this thing fix your timing its way off and its backfiring like a bitch ah dont worry you get 20 percent off the bill,and this guy was the MASTER TECH at this store

rotary_gx7

what pisses me off alot, and some others have mentioned it, is when ppl ask what kinda car you have and you say rx7, they immediately picture an fd, and its almost like a let down to them when u explain no, its an older model 2nd generation, and there just like oh umm thats cool, but clearly they cant picture what you drive lol.

i also have a few funny stories.

I work at a movie theater and usually once a week we have employee screenings of up-coming movies late at night. so up here in canada lol its pretty damn cold, and one night we were screening ghost rider (bad movie btw) and i had just washed the car earlier that day so my car was like a sheet of ice. i went to pick up this girl around 1230am and my damn manual locks were frozen shut, pretty embarrasing when she had to climb over the driver seat, and then when she finally got in, she kept laughing cuz she thought it sounded like a go kart. then our conversation went as follows:

her:why do i smell gas?
me: dun wrry about it,, u can wrry when i say that.
she went silent the rest of the way lmao.

another funny story is the first time i took it to school, my school is full of kids with there daddy's beemers crap like that.. the few kids that own there own car have civics and mustangs. so my 90 n/a was like an exotic when it came in. as usual when a new car arrives to the student parking lot a crowd gathered around me.
thank god i have a rotary keychain, cuz as soon as i said rotary engine a storm of questions came in, and to be honest now all i do is show em the keychain and let em figure it out on there own lmao.

went down kinda like this:
friends: sweet ride
me: thanks it does the job
friends: rx7 eh?.. hmm ive never seen one like this
me: yeah its a 2nd generation there kinda rare (in york region lucky if u see one every 4 monthes)
friends: how much u pay for it?
me: $3500
friends: wtf for an rx7?
me: yeah
friends: must be slow as hell, 4 cylinder?
me: actually its pretty quick.. and no its a rotary engine (demonstrate rotating rotary keychain)

friends: this is the craziest thing ever... where can i get a keychain like this?
lmfao


i also get mixed reactions from the backfire, sum ppl are like wow that is awesome and others are like, wtf is wrong with your car? lol

DRBragg

I get the samething, its kinda funny that my girlfriend stands up for my car before I even get a chance. She is absolutly in love with the FC I told her I wanted and FD and she said I could get one but I had to keep my FC hehe.

gooniegoogoo

i was premixing at a gas station when an owner of an xB comes up to me and says, "Are you going to race?"

fcunderwater

Dude you have the greatest girlfriend. lol my ex used to hate my car, she said it was too loud and ugly. She didn't have room to talk, she used to drive a plymouth breeze. ..

Anyways I always get "WTF?!?! DUDE IS YOUR ENGINE GOING TO EXPLODE??!!?!" from my friends whenever it goes into the 3000RPM cold start Idle. That and "Do you Drift?", I hate that question...

brio125

some of my favorite are:

do you smell gas (while inside the car)? I think you may have a gas leak.

"i was driving behind you and i started to get light headed from the smell of gas, is your car okay?"

i say, "do your eyes burn when you stand at my tailpipe?"
response "yes, why"

....then i laugh.

here's another good one i get when i walk in the door... "we, heard you pull up and said, lee's home" and was still a block away!

Ice_Wolf

Probably my favorite one is from my fellow shop kids at school.

"So, how's the airplane running today?"

"I'm not gonna race you because you cheat. That thing's an airplane, not a car. You can fly, my (insert random vechicle) can't do that."

"Why don't you get a real engine instead of that airplane bullshit?"

After they realized what a rotary engine was and how fast they actually are, my car gets called Airplane all the time now.


I've also gotten the usual:

"I was at the counter when you bought that and was wondering why the hell a quart of oil was so expensive now! You know that's 2 cycle oil right?"

"Yea, I use it in my car like a 2 cycle engine does."

"That's crazy! How the hell can you do that? Isn't that bad for it?"

"Nope, it's actually better for it in some cases. I have different type of engine than the conventional piston engine."

*blank stare back at me*


Also, I get the whole backfiring thing too.

"Dude, your car just shot flames out of the tailpipes, is it going to blow up?"

"Nope, that's just the rotary engine saying it's a little cold outside and feels like getting a nice blanket, some hot cocoa, and warming up by the fire."

That Rx-7 kid

Wow I thought this thread died a while ago hahaha..............might as well add to the ridiculous amount of stories. My boss keeps calling my car the "chainsaw"

I also mentioned something about rotaries using oil as part of the combustion process and this older guy at the job laughed saying " yea, ok what is it like a two stroke or sumthin?" Of course i had to explain that it was the closest thing to one but without pistons and with 2 rotors. He felt like an idiot.

My boss claims that the rotary engine died years ago and dicontinued because it sucks and that if they still made cars with them it must be from old, unused engine parts. (this was two seconds after discussing my car and the rx-8 and the difference) I then schooled his *** on the renesis 13b

Kid at school tells me to stop letting my engine revv so high because i can bend a valve in that little four cylinder piece of crap. I laughed.

And of course the usual "ur cars way to friggin loud" and my response "its got a silencer" =)

FD3Smaniac

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some dumb *** at a meet tried telling me his car was all original and came with a 6 cylinder keep in mind its an all original fc with the original engine everything stock... so i asked him to pop the hood and looked at it and said sorry but ur wrong bud its a rotary... and he goes no man its a v6. then i seen his car on a post a week later talking about his "V6" so i left a message saying "check your engine i stole the pistons" weeks later his car wont start... he sees me at a meet again, and he says... did u really take my pistons?

how stupid can you be.... i mean ive seen dumb, moronic, ignorant people.... but he was a decent mix

rotorhead_izzy

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thats priceless

RX7GT

I guess I missed this thread the first time around and now I've just finishing reading the entire 13 pages. Some comments are funny, some are just plain dumb, but I can relate to most.
I have a friend who is a GM service tech and every time he sees me he asks, "hey, do you still have that damn buzzsaw?" He likes the car and understands it, but just enjoys busting my *****. It's all in fun. btw: he was the first to lend assistance when a groundhog decided to sleep in my radiator fan shroud. He brought the latex gloves and the water hose to clean out all the shredded meat on a HOT July afternoon. (yes, you could smell it down the block!)

Also, I totally agree that we need to change the snobby attitude about our cars and the rotary engines. It's not that we're better or worse, just different. Congrats on knowing how a Wankel works, now explain quantum physics to me. Just because you know a little more than someone else about a particular subject does not make them stupid (ignorant of the factual knowledge? Yes. Stupid? No) Allow the real morons to show their own stupidity without you looking for ways to bring yourself to their level.
I will agree that some of the stories are funny as hell though!

Ashyukun

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Thankfully a surprising number of my co-workers & friends are car guys and at least know what my FC 'vert has a rotary engine in it, but I did get one comment that both amused me and made me rather proud of my car a few weeks ago. Driving up to Chicago for a convention (which also had a small import car show I had the 'vert in) I was stopped for gas and a guy in a truck at a pump one island over said, "So, is that one of the new 2007 models?" The look on his face when I said, "No, actually it's an '88..." was priceless.

That Rx-7 kid

yea my boss said "wait your cars old, right? what is it, like a 2000 or 2001 or sumthin like that?" Uh yea, considering all rx7s in the US dicontinued in 95..........

THE WOLF

well, i'm a new guy.....

the other night i had some older lady tell me i had a "cute car"...
old dude at starbucks, grilling me, as i was at a red light (yeah it's loud, proceeded with an even louder pull away)..

had a kid in a cavalier honking at me last night coming down blackburn, yeah, it burps flames sometimes, that or he thought i was gonna go sideways?

challenged to a race by a sunfire........don't need to say anymore there.....


only 2 ppl have actually been able to tell me exactly what i drive...

oreorex

i had this one time when i couldn't take off the rotor for the brake... and had to take it to a shop to get it off.. to do my brake pads.. and the owner of the shop was like wtf is that thing beeping " turbo timer" so i told him its the turbo timer... and gave me a blank stare... so i said ok ... i'll be back later to pick it up .. and he asked how ocme my car wont stop running after taking out the keys... i was like it will stop... give it 30 sec... he laughed and was like ok.. so i told him that it stays on to cool off the turbo and motor.... what an idiot of a machanic....