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heres a short one.

i brought a 6PI actuator into advance auto (not to get a replacement) and the lady comes up to me to 'help' and says "is this a fuel pump?"

:X

RX7_Racer_84

My g/f keeps telling me that if I drive me car to redline every day its going to blow up. I keep tellin her that its a rotary motor and that I dont have valves or pistons that can break and explode and she just stares at me like wtf. And she says she can hear me from like four blocks away. Gotta love it!

All my buddies at work (I work at a car dealership) call it a chainsaw or a weedeater.

All of the Autozone's, Knechts, and the Mazda dealership in my city just about know me by name. They at least know me by my car. LOL!

stylEmon

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i just got my car back from the shop (11 month engine build project). The guys at work are all interested in why it's been in the shop so long. So i take them out to check out the car.

One guy says, " where is everything?"
Me: Like what?
Guy1: Like everything, I cant tell where everything goes
I give a quick explaination of the engine.
Guy1: Thats it? theres no valve covers or anything
Me: LOL! no valves to cover.

Another guy said, "so theres no headers?"
Me: Yes, its right here behind the turbo. Its just a log style manifold for now.

Another guy asks about the turbo.
I point to the turbo, saying "Here's the coated turbine and dp"
Guy2: So wait, your turbo's not installed yet?
...???

I just got a v-mount and showed it to a certain guy.
Me: Check out the v-mount. I cant install it until i get a reverse vented hood.
Guy3: cool
He sees my car a week later and starts looking behind the grill
Guy3: Where's that intercooler you showed me
Me: Its not unstalled but it wouldnt go there if it was.
Guy3: Oh, you need that hood to suck air into the engine bay?
Me: No, I need it to suck air out of the engine bay.
I drew a basic diagram of how it works for him.

The Best One, This guy has an SVT Stang convertable. The car has some real issues tho. One of the spark plug holes is stripped and a lifter was knocking really bad. (fixed now). He starts this email, and CC a bunch of guys here, saying amrican muscle is the only way to go. The punch line of this joke (although he was sersious) is quoted below...
wait,wait, i gotta better one...

mixflip1

My FC "saying" experience isnt fair since I have a Mustang GT with straight pipes (no muffler) in mine but once I pulled up next to a mustang at the bank and the owner yelled "holly crap! what the hell do you have stuffed in there!!!" I said...the same motor you got. He said AWSOME DUDE it must be fast?... and did a burn out with a thumbs up....

Then another time at the car wash I was pulling out of the wash bay, my V8 rumbling ...and the guy behind me walks up to me just to ask me "what the hell kind of car is that?" To be fair I have no badges and its black.

It really is alot of fun to drive. Thats what cars are really about.

rotory purists please be nice...I know you guys hate V8's but I just love the FC!!! I have had 2 CRX's, 2 240SX's and 2 RX7's in my life and the RX7's have been the most fun to drive!!!!!!!!!! (I miss my widebody FB)

86gxl_fc

...okay, DUDE.
if he's an idiot..? what does that make you for taking your car (that you couldnt fix) to him to work on it.
most of the electronics crap thats around nowadays didnt always exist, or werent in the public eye.. so yea, i'm not surprised he didnt know what it did or was.

cptpain

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i just got my 86 GXL 2 weeks ago...

im at a stop light downtown and this chick driving a porche boxer honks for my attention next to me and asks "Is that a 944? i didnt know mazda made 944's"

I LMAO enough to miss the green light and she was still there like "WTF is his problem" so i told her it was designed by mazda but made by porche... LOL OMG i never laughed so hard in a long time....

FAL

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When I was 17I got my RX-7 from a small used car dealership. After three weeks something happen to the motor and it stopped running (didn't know what it was at the time) When I went back to the dealership to get another temp tag a week after this is what happen

Guy: How's it running? =]
Me: It's not >=[
Guy: What do you mean what happen? =0
Me: Like I said it doesn't run any more (and then I explained all the symptoms)
Guy: Sounds like a head problem
Me: That motor doesn't have a head.........
Guy: What do you mean ofcourse it does!
Me: No....it doesn't..
Guy: Listen I've had 5 of these cars, I think I know a little more about them then you.

Then I gave up. It's sad I was 17 and this was my first car and I knew more about it than him who claims to have had 5.


BTW, It turned out to be the water seals for anyone who was curious

stylEmon

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I have my thrashed rotor on my desk at work, i use it as a book-end. Yesterday this dude I work with comes over and points to it. I pick it up and show him all the damaged areas.

And it goes something like this:
Dood: Mazda had a huge recall on those.
Me: really? on the rotor itself?
Dood: ya, I remember it. It was years ago. I'm pretty sure it was on your body style.
Me: I never heard that.
Dood: The recalled the rotors and had to replace them with titanium rotors.
Me: man, i missed out on that one. Mine are still iron.
Dood: You should call the dealership and get those titanium rotors. They'll still honor the recall.
Me: Oh really bro, I'll have to look into that one.

When I got home, I told a coulpe fellow rotor-heads and we had a good, long laugh.

BrettLinton7

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Well this has probably been mentioned, but I dont feel like searching through 14 pages.

-From the mom... Stop revving so high. Dont you hear the people beeping at you? (red line buzzer)

-From a buddy in the schools parking lot... Man, that things got an exhaust leak dont it? (only pipes and mufflers) It's loud! lol

TurboMazdaSpeed

i had some guy say this

you have a rx7!?!? haha! those things suck you have to replace the engine every 20,000 kms !

i told him if you take proper care of them they can last over 200 (friend has a N/A with around 280,000 on orig. engine) i kept trying to convice him you could and he didnt beilive me ! when at the time i had a rebuilt N/A with 111,000 kms on it ! haha

Osirus9

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I was working on my 7 in the garage with the door open, and we are having the siding redone on our house, so one of the workers sees my car and the convo went something like this:

worker: hey nice RX7, thats an 87 right?
me: thanks, how did you know? you know anything about rotarys?
worker: ya, its just 2 big rocker arms right?
me: ummm, not exactly...

and luckily I had a blown rotor/housing laying right there to show him how it worked. He just sort of walked away scratching his head lol.

jboze84

The one I always get is why aren't you driving your RX-7 yet? Well, my $400 Integra runs and the $6-7k I've dropped into my FC hasn't been enough to get it running yet .

'87 turbo II

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My ex-girlfriend used to call my car cute and said "Honestly if I saw you driving it when I first met you, I would'nt of thought anything about it being special. Hearing you talk about it like it was God on wheels before seeing it let me down though."

Well one day she was riding and had the mistake of telling me she had never seen a burnout in person before. I said "How would you like to be part of one?" She smiled and said ok so I tore up the rear tires and took off and she told me to pull over. She then went on with "OMG I love this car! I think I just had an orgasm!" So now even though we're broken up, we're still friend but if I bring up my car and people trash it, she defends it for me. It's quite cool. She doesn't call it "cute" anymore.

Another story:

I once had a guy at a gas station run up to me saying "Dude you have to put oil in the gas tank, your car needs it to run!" (I'm guessing one of you guys put this in his head). I told him that is for certain Rx-7s and that mine still had the OMP so I was good. He said "Alright, I hope you know what you're doing."

My cousin who loves his Ford Taurus SHO
him-"Congrats man you got a car!"
me- "Yeah it's cool, it's an Rx-7 Turbo, really sweet really fast."
him- "cool what kind of engine V-6, V-8?"
me- "actually it's rotary, no pistons in it at all"
him- " oh cool I test drove an Rx-8 it dissapointed me a little though. "
me- "want to drive my car"
after a 20 minute drive we get back and he can't stop smiling
him- "I'm getting one of these when my SHO stops running. I absolutely LOVE it!"

I was happy to convert a piston head to love rotary but sadly his SHO did get into a crash and now he drives an Oldsmobile AT...................

budfc3s

leaving a gas station the one night i strated the car up....some small black kid comes up to my window and asked.....

him:what kind of car is that
me: RX-7
him:who makes it
me: mazda
him:turbo
me: yea
him:ooooooooo i gotta get me one of these

blk91fc3s

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MARTIN "your car sounds like a hopped-up leaf blower"

RICHARD "my girlfriends tach goes to 8K (it's a 07 honda civic)"

BROTHER "no pistons, thats crazy. four sparkplugs, thats crazy. three moving parts, are you sure?(currently going for diesel cert.)"

Dillon

ok when to champion auto supply for spark plugs and I told the guy my make and modle he went and got the plugs and they were all four the same when i told him he had the wrong plugs and what i needed he told me that no engine will run with 2 different kind of plugs in it

helghast7

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when i went to this local shop to see if they could fix my minor oil leak, heres what happened:
me: hi, i wanted to know if you could fix my cars oil leak
him:sure what kind of car is it?
me: its a mazda rx7
him:oh one of those rotary engines right?
me:yup
him:man you better be watching that things oil like every drive
me:why?(figuring here it comes)
him: those things without oil could blow up
me:oh...ok...drop it of tomorow....sure(under breath: yeah right)

just to let you all know when he said blow up he meant like nuclear powerplant sized explosion

i had a good laugh, went to the mazda dealer, got some o-rings and fixed it myself(small leak in fliter neck). people wont let me be lazy for one god damn thing will they??

NickCesar

I think my favorite comment about FCs came from a guy who actually used to own one. He had an N/A and he was telling me how much faster it is than my RX-8 and how it had such a better power to weight ratio.
few quotes:

"well the FC only has one rotor so it's really light and it makes it really fast."

"the FC only weighs 2400lbs"

DRBragg

I finally Got the "dont drive in front of me your exhaust fumes give me a headach" hehe I was laughing so hard I forgot to shift! I wonder what they'll say once I port my intake manifold ^_~

Aaron Cake

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They'll say "Why did you waste your time porting your intake manifold? And why is you car running so poorly that your exhaust is noxious?"

Turbo II Rotor

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Tff

phillie

i have an 87 n/a

cousin's boyfriend looks under my hood.."is this a V-4?"

4 guys in an mx6 with a ricer muffler..the guy in the passenger side says to me "man, that thing is loud as f*ck"

capn

I never really got most of the stuff here except for the previous owner SWEARS it has 8 sparkplugs.

then when this douchebag got an FD everyone was like that things has a turbo V6 or something dumb like that.

What I like best was my friends g/f told me how she knew that my TII was faster then his NA, needless to say I said marry me.

my favorite is "whens your RX7 gonna be done?"

BecauseYourWrong

I get the 4 cylinder thing a lot too.

breckboarder55

A ricer in his civic yelling out his window at me at 50 mph asked if i had a 6 cyl or an 8cyl...

A guy once told me that my car didnt sound like it was running on all cyls...

My gfs mom said she could here my car from her house when i start it from mine.

A neighbor told me i knocked a picture frame off her wall when i was just dumping out of my 4in downpipe...