I got the same person to jump three lights in a row like that. He never caught on that I was razzing him!

 

Sounds like my daily commute!

 

This isn't really something stupid, but a little after I had just gotten my car on the road after buying it I was driving it around with my bro. I drove past this guy that was in this old Corvette and when I passed him my bro said that the Corvetter guy gave me one of those nods of approval. I was sayin' no he didn't give me a nod and my bro said yea he did. That's when i began to realize what I was really driving, ha ha.

 

A friend of mine said

Friend: Oh so this is a rx7
Me: yep.
Friend: so how many pistons does it haves?
Me:.... Its a Wankel rotary engine.
Friend: wtf is a Wankel.
Me: A engine less complicated from your vtec.
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and the usuals Why are you putting oil in your tank, Does your car normally sound like that, "pop a flame or back fire" and they ask you what size turbo I have xD and I got a NA, your too loud. etc etc

 

I get alot "I heard you coming... Its sounds like a helicopter coming" LOL

 

when someone once asked how many pistons my 88 GXL had, i told them simply 16...
then they asked a v16?
nope.
(again even more confused) a streight 16?, no way.
no its a rotary, and i need 4 pistons per tire to stop the son of a bitch.

also conviced my friend that my 88 turbo II was pull start.... because the compression was too low for the turbo and a starter wouldnt spin the motor fast enough.

 

lol

 

My car was overheating one day a few years ago. And this civic kid walked by and said dude your intercooler is leaking antifreeze (he was looking at my oil cooler).
I have a 87 gxl.

I just looked back at him and stared, I didn't know how to answer that.

I use to try to teach people about my car and now I stopped. Whenever something is broke at my college someone will say "put a rotary in it", or lets hook a laptop up to it and **** with the 3d tables that we don't understand.
I'm learning how to tune my haltech still. I had a company tune mycar for a shitload of cash and it stopped running after 600 miles, so I tried to figure things out one day at school.

 

When visiting my dad, my stepmom asked if my wife and I rode motorcycles there. When I asked why she thought that, she replied; "It sounded like you two came up on motorcycles!"

 

i got on it with this kid in a beater civic and raced up to 60. i was sort of surprised he kept up. i beat most civics. plus i'm completely stock n/a. after wards. he rolls down his window. he's like " i have a b16!" what do you have? i thought for a sec. i yelled " a 1.3!" he was like what? is that a geo? i was like great now he thinks i have a geo! that's worse than a probe! i thought to myself

 

haha, a geo. The other night I slowly pulled off from a light, not knowing what was behind me. I just had shifted into 2nd and was near 2500 rmp's when I notice an awful integra behind me, with the fart cans, hid lights, bodykit, and what not, go into the other lane to try and pass me. Now I usually dont do this, but I gave it wot, and as he began to creep up on me, we got straight even, and I started pulling. In second. In my 87 na. with over 200K. I felt kind of happy after that. I let off at the speed limit, 65, and let him go on bye, with his god awful exhaust killing my ears. Anyways...

 

I had to drive out into the country and attend a function. I happend to be one of the last ones to leave and as usual (recently) my car had flooded. So there I was hood open and everyone who was leaving decided to rally around my car and give me advice on how to un-flood my engine. What's funny is that as everyone was walking away since I had got it started some one made the comment "Those engines last forever."

 

you know how you can mess with the autozone idiots about spark plugs and timing belts and what not......well get this....the idiot did it to himself

all i wanted was an alternator belt, after mine snaped on me.....so i went in and asked for one, aparently they classify V-belts under serpentine, (which i think is dumb but it is autozone) so this guy was going crazy looking for it, ok i was a bit bad too, i saw the part like 5 times before i pointed it out to him.

they even had a picture in the computer of some v8 with all the belts labeled....i just thought it was funny

dont forget autozone people know it all!!!

 

I was messing around with the guy at advance auto once. I was picking up some parts and I asked for a price on some valve seals for the 7. He stopped ringing me up and strated looking for them for like 5 minutes and even called the manager over. I told him I was joking and the car didn't have valve seals but he insisted every car had them and wouldn't take its a rotary for an aswer. That was the last time I'll ever do that it took me like 15 minutes toget out of there.

 

^^lol thats funny....were in NJ are you?

 

The Georgia title says that my 88 GXL is a 4 cylinder.

 

class mate saw my rx7 wall paper on my binder and starts asking about my 7. He ask if its a 8,6,or 4, i just told him that its a triangle and then he shut up. during that moment i was like o god

 

do you know that dealers write whatever the f*ck they want when the advertise??

i was looking through one of those auto classifieds for old time's sake.

2 out of 3 ads said the rx8 had either 4 or 6 cylinders.

i was about to call the dealer and ask, how many cylinders does a 2 rotor rx8 have?

 

^ lol @ calling the dealership. i wonder if they have people who sell rx8s specifically or not...you never know.

i was just thinking...if the titles have the car labled as a 4 cylinder...would that mean they would mark it up cheaper for insurance purposes? xD!!!! if tahts the case hell yea its a 4banger

 

You know what I love when people give me the "I hate RX-7's you have to rebuild them every 40k miles" I just chuckle and think, your a Z3 driver who used to own a 240sx huh?

 

...and now for something completely different

At my old job, one of the parts exchangers asked if my Miata had "the turbine engine" in it. I walked away from him shaking my head and trying my hardest not to laugh in his face.

 

DOWNSHIFT: 9,000 RPM's of non-vtec single cam fury FTW!!!!!!

 

when i had the stock T2 salad shooter wheels a coworker who saw my car almost every day thought that i had hubcaps on my car.

 

I go into Albertsons to buy an energy drink (long night), when I go to my car, I see a white integra parked next to it and the driver is walking around it and looking inside.

I go up to my car and ask "can I help you"
Him: nice fc man do you drift?
me: not really...
him: oh, I drift
me: your...integra?
him: ya, all you have to do is pull the e-break

I laugh, get in my car and drive off shaking my head.

 

A friend of mine called it a turbine engine the other day, too. I kindly corrected him, but he's an engineer with whom I've discussed rotaries a number of times before, it threw me off that he had made that mistake... And here he had been telling me about the quasi-turbine engine, too.