I just get the, "Your car stinks" a lot. Nothing else quite as exciting as other people have posted here.

Actually the one that really messes them up at the parts store is (before i started just rattling off qty and part number) i would ask for 4 leading plugs being that i run all 9s now. They of course would try to show me their deep knowlege of rotaries (after spending 3 min on the puter terminal) by telling me that it takes two different plugs and that i dont know anything about my car....

 

Actually you would be hard pressed to find a mazda dealership that would rebuild one, or any other engine for that matter. They buy remanufactured ones from thier corporate suppliers. So what he was saying was we dont do it as a matter of policy. Dosnt mean they arent qualified to work on your car....(although it dosn't mean they are good at it either.)

 

Here's another one-

My brother has an 88 Convertible (we are a rotary family) which has a racing beat/hks exhaust that is really loud.

One weekend, my brother was gracious enough to let me drive his car (since he had just totaled my black TII), so I was out at the clubs with a girl I was seeing at the time.

As we are leaving the parking lot, this goofy guy comes out of the bar with his friends and asks me "Wow, is that a Ferrari?!" I know the vert is a really nice looking car, but come on, a Ferrari??? WTF?

 

^ive had that too but a little different....i was at toysrus and as i was walking in to the store i overheard a little kid, my guess was that he was about 6 or 7, say to his dad "hey dad look! its a porsche!!" to which his father said "no son its ferrari!" when i found them in the store i kindly walked up to the father and told him what it was and his response was "wahhhhhh??? i did not know mazda made cars like that. but hey nice car anyway!" i just said thanks and walked away with the biggest grin i have ever had..

 

my favorite story was from back in high school i was working pizza delivery in the 7 i pull up to this light being kinda bored reved it up poped some flames just for fun (this was a 87 base model stock phone dials no headers but i had welded up a strait pipe and it sounded pretty good) just as i was done shooting some flames a brand new sti pulled up beside me i looked over because they had just came out and i wanted to see one go he looked at his freind kinda scared and they both shook there heads yelling out no way man you would kill us!!! LOL I died laughing i freaking scared off a sti in a 87 base rx7 with the phone dials lol!!!!

 

*after being pulled over*

Officer: "Is your car on?"
Me: "No, sir."
Officer: "Turn it on."
*fire it up*
Brappppp!!!!! (idleing)
Officer: "Hollly!...@!!.... that is way to loud! I heard you coming from a mile away!"
Me: "Really?" (I don't know how I said that with a straight face)

 

I'd always get people that say they're unreliable and such. My g/f always comments on the smell, and everyone likes to poke fun at my red door handle.

There are the people that ask about pistons and such, but I can't blame them for not knowing everything.

 

Besides the piston question from one of my sister's friends who thought 7's were awesome (after seing the engine, said friend wanted to race and was amazed I beat his celica with 1.3L, who hit his top speed, and I never went more than 3/4 throttle to keep up with him, cruising in fourth gear too lazy to shift to fifth, with an extremely clogged sucky paper air filter and oversized tires yielding less acceleration, resulting in my first victim and his first loss) and the loudness comments from friends and family (both good and bad), My favorite comes from my dad.

Any time we're talking about cars, he has to say, "I don't know why you bought that thing, I don't even know how to work on it." or "I didn't expect that thing to run two weeks." Nothing has gone wrong (except normal 16 year old car stuff), and even though he is capable of working on old [>1980] cars easily, and can manage on modern cars, he just assumes that either everything is the same, or everything is different. He won't realize non-engine related stuff is just about the same as a non rotary, and the engine stuff (minus alt and stuff) is completely different. (He's also an American car and carburetor guy, hates and can't work on fuel injection easily). Of course the whole Japanese sports car throws him off too. When he says he didn't expect it to run long, I ask him why, and he says "just because it's different."

Even though I haven't had to buy a lot of parts for my car yet, I stopped talking to the auto parts guys. I print out the internet page of the part I want, take it there and hand it to them, and say "I want X of these." They ask me a question (unless it's obviously just out of curiosity/conversation) or especially if they try to tell me it's the wrong part (because they know so much about my car, even though I don't tell them make, model, year, or anything, they have the part number in their hand, with a bonus picture), I just say "I told you what I want. You give me part. I give you money. I leave." Although most modern auto part store employees probably couldn't tell the difference between a turbo charger and a battery, let alone the two different spark plugs required for a rotary.

 

this weekend while cruising i had a guy pull up and complement me on my camaro. i asked him why he thought it was a camaro and he said it was cuz of the tail lights.

 

This never happen to any car I bet but can our car be like the celica gt commercial. The cop said slow down even though the car was parking LOL.

 

here my comment..! HOLY **** ..!

http://img531.imageshack.us/my.php?i...ov00463ct5.flv

RX-7 Owners in Gatineau :P

 

^^^lol that was good "Holy ****!!"

 

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Semi friend Teddy: "Well your only a 1.3L when the engine is at rest. When you start the engine, the variable displacement of the rotary increases your displacement to 2.8L."

Me: "...... wow does anybody have a pen? I have to write this down so I can post it on our forum.."
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After talking about our cars at a party -
Me: "Hey John, we got to get your Camaro running better, she has potential."
John: "Why? It's only a V8..."
Me: "hmmm Yaa your right, never mind ..... haha"

Maybe you had to be there but it was awesome at the time.

 

I had a great one Sunday night at the auto parts place. I went to get another compression gauge since I had dropped my old one. I was explaining to the guy that works there (who knows something about rotaries) that my coolant seals were shot, and I wanted to test the compression before I tore it down (it had 105 )
Now for the good part:
The other guy at the counter said "Well you need to send it off to be refurbished." I replied that I was going to do it myself. So then he said "Well, my friend had to take it aprart and send the cylinders off to be refurbished." I just kinda stared at him trying to figure out what to say. Then he said "Yeah, they stack together and you have to replace all of the gaskets." I just kinda nodded and tried to end the conversation.
Oh, I forgot that he also told me I could add more rotors. Apparently GM put one in a Corvette that had atleast 4 rotors, but it made so much power it just spun the wheels.....

 

You have to use your piston to rotary translation to understand this stuff sometimes, but it makes sense...

Cylinders = irons or rotor housings. His friend needed to have his irons lapped, or he had his housings ceramic coated or trued due to warping.


True...

This is of course a stretch, but you can. There's no reason you can't buy a 20B thick iron and e-shaft and make your own three rotor.

True as well. It was called the Aerovette. Never left the concept stage since GM brass was afraid of the power potential compared to their top of the line V8s.

 

that's my old trick... loved it!! always got the chicks hot

 

I got that EXACT same thing the other day

 

I guess the conversation didn't really translate well... I had forgotten the exact phrasing, but it was fan more inept sounding that how I had it written. I really meant to post this when it was more fresh on my mind, but oh well.
When he was walking about "cylinders" it was definately not the irons, he was talking about the rotors. To be fair, he did at least have a basic understanding of how the rotary was put together (plates stacked together) but knew nothing of the actual logistics. He really did think you could just keep stacking as many rotors on as you wanted, though.
And finally, I didn't know about the aerovette. I'll have to look that up, it sounds pretty interesting.

That happened to me last week, but it was the other way around. He was an FB nut.

 

this forum has to be one of the best on here. i have a na to turbo swap with a brand new street ported motor. running an lt8 stand alone ecu so i have to use premix due to ALL EMISSIONS gone. ive had people tell me i have to replace my head gasket or buy piston rings .... and my favorite. at work

guy i work with that owns a corvette: so whats in that. it sounds like a lawn mower
me: its a 1.3 rotary, turbo
vette owner: id race you but i have a big boy toy, and i think if you relapped your valves the car might sounds better
me: .... yea, ill do that, just got a new head gasket too ....

 

The local Rotary man around here, The Rotary Doctor has a son who owns a Maroon "TurboII" with a giant MAZDA slogan on the side. Kind of cool...but really not. Anyway, he pulls up next to me, asks what I have in there..this was when I had my NA

WHATCHA GOT IN THERE?!
Just a good ol NA
No I mean, whatcha got in there?!
...13B...
*confused look...*OK WELL SINCE YOU DON'T KNOW *floors it*

Come to find out, I watched him race another piece of junk NA, and the NA stomped it. So either that's the worst TII I've ever seen, or he just put a TII hood on there, and claimed it to be a turbo. Either way, a good laugh.

 

my all time favorite ...my car had been sitting for a while so i decided to take it for a spirited drive ...found a crowd of ricers at the gas station and pulled in to get gas and check everything b/c i had been driving her pretty hard ...well the guys walk over ..."nice car" ...so he blabs about him working for this stupid shop up the road and then tells me "it looks like you blew a head gasket" b/c i had a chunk of leaves that began smoking ....i pulled them out and told him yea ...you shoulda seen it yesterday i threw a piston thru the hood

 

My neighbors hate it and people laugh at it when i rolled up to a fancy dinner party (with people driving Benz's, BMWs, and Audi's) in it?

 

awesome

 

guy: how many pistons that thing got?
me: (frustrated) none, its a rotary. uses rotors instead of pistons
guys: (looks confused) what you got done to it?
me: (being a smartass) not much but i did cross-drill the rotors to allow for better oil flow in the housing. lol

 

"is your car fast?"