Ive gotten quite a few ppl asking questions about it, and I usually get dum questions like "What kinda of car is that?" "Its a RX-7" "4cyl?" "It has a rotory motor in it" "is that a 4 or 6cyl?" "It dosent have pistons" " "

 

while i was working today, i had a customer ask if the rx7 outside was mine and i told him it was. and then we started to converse:

him: how many miles?
me: 124,XXX on the chassis, about 30,000 on the rebuild
him:yea those wankles are ****, i had like 5 of them
me: well if you know how to drive and treat them right they will last forever
him: yea whatever, there quick and all but i can beat anyone of them in my 94 eclipes
me: o really? didn't i beat you last week?
him: no, that was a porsche
me: no that was me when i pulled away from you in third
him: o... then he walked away
needless to say that i have an na 7, and i still beat him

 

Okay... This one is kinda wierd.... My cousin was riding with me once before I had a stereo put in...

Cuz: Why isn't your stereo working? *He's messing with the Logicon*
Me: Dude... that's the Logicon....
Cuz: WTF is a Logicon?!
Me: Uhh.... Climate controll.
Cuz: Oh cool! Turn on the air!
Me: Oh sorry... I took the belt off because I don't have the money to get the A/C worked on.
Cuz: Dammit! It's hot in here!

 

Alright ill give this a try, I just got a motor that doesn't smoke because my last motor was known to smoke, so i put a no smoking sing on my back hatch now no one will smoke around it cause they think it will blow up, and the notorious, omfg that thing is loud, not to mention the frequent visits of the police into my quiet little neighborhood.

 

I get "why do you smell like gas" a lot.

 

If there's anything this thread has taught me, it's that there are a lot of FCs out there in horrid condition.

 

I have a front Iron from a S4 N/A. Wasnt going to rebuild or anything, just making a turnable display to put in my room with the eccentric shaft, housing, and rotor. Anyway, the stationairy gear & front bearing had been taken out, and the bolts lost. So i go to ACE hardware for new bolts to keep it square against the iron. Anyways, I bring the iron into ace, and an employee asks what i need. I show him the fact i'm missing hardware, and he takes me to get the proper bolts. While walking there, he looks at me and goes, "I know what that is!" Suprised that i'm talking to someone with experience, i reply "REALLY???" and he continues, "Yep, it's a water pump off of an old Buick." I just agreed with him, bought my parts, and left.

 

i had someone at a gas station one day say" oh a rotary those dont have spark plugs right" and theres always the idiot at the stop light " hey man its backfiring alot i think you need a tune up"

 

I get from my parents everyday,

When are you going to sell the sports car?

 

Now that I can almost sympathise with Another bunch of cars im into are older Lancias (have an 85 Beta Volumex), and I remember looking at a v4 appia I think it was, and its the only thing thats come clease to competing with the rx7 in how small the engine is!

Havent had too many daft comments about my rx7... its been named christine by my coworkers in honor of the stephen king novel and they always claim its broken because it sounds so different when its starting compared to a piston engine

 

to be fair to the rest of the automotive world, for nearly EVERY car that can be had for less than ~$5000, there are a ton of them in really ****-poor shape...

 

same here.

 

From when i first got my first rx7. I was getting it inspected my mechanic who i have always used first didnt belive me that it was RWD.. then proceded to tell me about his friend who had one that did wheelies...

Then when my coolent seals went, i could not convience him that there was no 'head gasket' (turned out i actualy cracked the seal land on the bottem of both end irons?)


With my second one, i got a phone call from a friend who was following me a week after i finished my cosmo swap, he pulled over because the exhaust was burning his eyes and he coudlnt see ahah.. my innovate wb saw alot of single digit afr's for that first month

 

This year a cop arrest me and say ''your supra is loud.... is this a supra'' me: ''not really... its a rx7 and it only sound different because of the rotary engine'' now the cops check under the car and say ''you seems to have an exhaust leak, i think it will cost you a cat.'' I was like ''wtf he didn't see i have just NO cat?!?!''

At the dragway a Volkswagen guy come and ask ''whats the engine in your car?'' me: ''a rotary engine'' guy: ''yeah but is this a 4 or a 6?'' me: ''none of them ITS A ROTARY'' guy: ''i know that but is this a 4 or a 6'' me: ''well it has 4 sparkplug...''

 

The service manager at the local Mazda dealership told me "You can’t rebuild a rotary. If a little ATF in the rotors doesn’t fix it, we replace the whole engine." Really, I’m not making this up. My car will never go to that dealership.

 

EITHER HES TRAINING OR HES FIRED.
AHAHHAHAA

 

"Is that oil you're pouring into the gas tank?"
"That's a nice car. And on only 4 cylinders."
"So what are you doing this weekend, fixing your car?" I have yet to have any serious problems. That guy went from a slightly used BMW M3 to a brand new 3-series turbo within 4 years.

 

well, to be more truthful he might have said "WE don't rebuild rotaries, we only replace the whole engine", so maybe that's what he meant, or he really is retarded.

 

Nah, the more kids that understand that, the more expensive spare parts get.

 

I guess that's better than what I do - when they pull me over I get out of the car slowly, take 3 steps backward and lay down on my stomach with my hands behind my head.

 

Other than the ones that have been posted a million times already, we were cleaning out the garage one day and my wife took all the busted and scraped rotor housings and aluminum bits to the recycler.

She's getting them out of the car and the guy there smiles big and says "Uh-oh, I know what those are."

 

I hate RX-7s my 240sx will smoke the **** out of them(LOL)
yeah right

 

My favorite conversation about my car so far, has been:

So how long have you had it?

Me:About a year.

How long has it been on jackstands?

Me:About 8 months on and off...

So tell me again, why did you buy it?

Me:Because I love the sound of a pissed off bumblebee with a chainsaw.

 

Some douchebag at a car meet in a DSM: So is your change engine light on?
Me: No, rotary's are perfectly reliable if properly driven and maintained.
Some douchebag at a car meet in a DSM: No they're not look everyone in town who has one in town has theirs blown up.
Me: Is that a DSM you're driving? Those have pretty bad reputations, too.
Some douchebag at a car meet in a DSM: That's because a few misinformed douchebags went telling other people that because they didn't know how to take car of them.
Me: My point exactly.

Turn around, walk away, burnout.

 

working on my car yesterday and one of my neighbors from upstairs comes to chat with me while im workin heres the convo:
neighbor: so what are you doing to your rx7
me: putting on a new blow off valve and changing a gasket on my turbo oil like
neighbor: cool so tell me what you done to the engine, it sounds like you polished and ported your heads and put in forged pistons
me: no i did none of that its a rotary
neighbor: oh yea my brother use to own one of those there fast
me: (pulled out my haynes manual) this is how the rotary works.......