what i have learned from this thread is if you want parts for something other than your exact year and model, just tell them what year and model you want and thats all. so for aaron cakes example just tell the guy you want 87-88 turbo stuff, and you get rid of the stupid questions.

 

well an e-shaft is a crank

 

I bought a transmission off this junkyard... and this is how it went...
After the third phone call with the guy...

Me: I'd like to return the transmission
Guy: Reason?
Me: The transmission is no good, it was locked and i got it freed up but 3rd, 4th, 5th, and reverse dont work...
Guy: You never told me you were doing a conversion...
Me: what do yo mean?
Guy: yo told my transmission guy that you were doing some type of conversion...
Me: i told him that the shifters between turbo and nonturbo rx7's are identical, there should be no reason why the transmission wont work.
Guy: but your doing a conversion..
Me: That is no reason why your transmission is seized up, i want my money back...
Guy: the car ran and drove when i took it out... but i wont argue with you, send me my **** back and ill give you your money...
Me: fine... No Problem...

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My car hasn't been running since August. So when i finally got it to drive today after doing my N/A to TII drive train conversion. All my friends keep asking...

Friends: So you got your car running?
Me: No, its still fu**ed up.... but i only turned it on and drove it here... dumbass...
Friends: *******...

 

same crap happened to me at emissions. Everyone hovering over the motor so ******* funny.

 

How is mistaking a 1.3L engine with a 5.7L engine possible?

 

I get asked when its gonna be done way too much thats gotta be the worst one. Or the local ricers asking if I am gonna lower it and put 19's on it. My friend just got a 944 today so I am gonna laugh when were both parked next to each other and someone still comes up to me and asks me about my "porsche" lol.

 

A ton of ricers from the Daytona Beach area ( I went to college there) thought my intake manifold was JDM...when in fact it was just ceramic coated. I guess to them all shiny things come from Japan.

 

Taco Bell drive through

Kid "hey you want to sell your car"
Me (looking to get a TII) "yeah its got 3,000 mile on rebuild with street port"
Kid "I have been looking all over for a rx7 how much you want for it"
Me "$3200"
kid "3200!!!! that thing is backfiring, sounds like the valves are sticking and the pistons could be knocking"
Me " fair enough....$10,000 its a rare rotary that has pistons and valves"

LOL!!!! punk *** didn't give me a straw or a spork!!!

 

had a guy follow me to the gas staiton a few nights ago to tell me that every so offten flames would come out of the back of the car.....didnt know what to say ,so i said its a rotory they do that ..he roled his window up and left

oh i also had a lady freak out at the gas station when i put the pre mix in..she came runing over and told me "thats not where the oil is suposed to go" i just shook my head then had to tell her how the motor works ,she got confused and walked away....

 

Haha I made it in your sig with that Samuel L Jackson quote I fabbed up.

I know this isn't an FC story, but I was fueling up the FD 2 days ago and a minivan pulls up at the pump in front of me. The driver steps out with his jaw literally dropped. He says, "Oh man, is that......is that a Miat......I mean RX-7?" I just kinda smirk at the idea that he caught himself (unlike most people, especially Z28 owners) and reply "Yeah".

"You don't see those on the road at all anymore. It's very nice", he says. I say, "Yeah, hah, it's got it's perks most of the time though." And he continued walking towards the store and I was on my way.

The thing about the Z28 owners is that I've raced two different Z28s and beat them both, bad... And further on down the road it never seizes to leave their mouth, "Man, I can't believe I just got smoked by a Miata".

 

^^ Unless I was at an autox course, I would find that pretty insulting.

 

That's true. I would hope that most of this thread is talk, and FC owners are not purposefully being jackasses towards other people. Walking into an auto parts store asking for a timing belt and then laughing at the parts kid when he spends 10 minutes looking is more then a little mean and uncalled for. Laugh at him if he actually finds a timing belt for an RX-7!

I try to be polite as possible when things like this happen, but sometimes it's so ridiculous that rudeness is the only way to bring it to an end. In that case it's not the ignorance of the other person that is funny, it's the fact they refuse to learn.

 

After chatting with the Checkers guys a little, if they seem like they are BS-n me too much, I'll ask for a valve cover gasket, just to mess with them... then I'll laugh, and stop them before they get too far...

I don't do it to me a jack ***, but just playing around.

 

I love it when i used to be able to get my plugs at autozone and the would bring them to the counter, i would then open the box, pull one out, inspect it, and then they alway said the same thing! "oh im sorry i gave you the wrong ones!" my response is always the same as well "nope thats right!"

 

i offerd my freind a chance to come with me to a SCRX7 club meet upstate once. here is the conversation.
Me: hey man you wanna go to one of the RX-7 mets with me?
Freind: depends where it at?
Me: upstate.
Freind:so 3 hours of Pissed off WeedWaker i think i'll pass.

 

haha thats a good one...

 

I used to do that all the time to one of the guys at the local auto zone, he had a 1st gen rx7 and knew better then to look for a timing belt.

This happened a few days ago,
I went in to the shop that I have work on my cars (between the father and son that run it they have 18 rx7s) to pick up my gtu, and the lady that works at the front desk gives me my key. Then just as I am getting ready to walk out the door she stops me and asks for the yellow tag that they put on the key. When I asked her why she said ‘oh that’s so I don’t have to make a new one each time you come in, see I’ve got tags for both your cars on your clipboard.’ And she pointed to a clipboard on the rack with my name on it.
My cars are in the shop fairly often, but my own private clipboard, damn.

 

^ lol!! i wish i had that....i should go make one for myself...i dont think it would work out right though seeing as i cant keep track of all the work i do on my car

 

ok this always makes me laugh. My friend Erick loved my FC and knew it was nice, although he would jokingly make fun of it and it was so funny. For some reason he would call my rotors "PANCAKES" hahaha wtf? I don't know. On top of this he would warn me ... DON'T THROW A PANCAKE! why? I don't know. pistons can (throw a rod) or something. Any way on Dec 14 me and Erick were driving around in my really nice 1998 s14 and we were smacked by a drunk driver head on on rt38 (NJ). Erick died. Once I recover I hope to get another Rx-7.

 

Wow. That's really depressing. Thanks for bringing that into a funny/not serious thread.

Sorry about your friend.

 

my tax man says becuase its a small motor it wont use much feul,so i cant claim back much mileage for tax return, not like those v8 things

 

I always reply

"the pistons came off the line wrong so mazda had to re design the bores so they would work properly"

 

yes it is, but thats not the correct term for it when it comes to a rotary

i like to use correct terminology haha

 

My friend says this to me when I got my first FC- 90'GTU, NA, " man- I have always wanted to drive a porsche"... I say its a RX7, He goes, like the one in F&F, I say- "does it look like the one in the movie?" he says "Not really"- I say its the older one with a non-turbo rotary...

"Oh, so then its slow huh" ( well ya, after now having 2 t2's) We go for ride- He freaks out that 2nd clips 70 at 8k-rpm. He goes- why did you lie to me, this thing is def. turbo ( he drives a s13)

I just laugh and say its got a 1.3l standard 13b like every other one.... he goes speechless...

I laugh at the flame thing now- My t2 ( full Motoria ex.) I get comments from guys on bikes saying that I sound just like them.... but a lil' louder- I just laugh.

 

Leaving work today, i had my car in front of the shop so it could warm up.
My two co-workers and I were walking to my car and one of my co workers said "Bro, your car sounds like a boat." Then I replied with "And it smells like one too... Don't you just love the smell of unburnt gas form my exhaust?" The other guy we were walking with also said "Hell no, I hate that smell... cuz when you leave early and warm up your car in the shop, the whole garage begins to smell, and i start to suffocate thanks to that ****..." I laughed and replied with "Oh well... I love the thing... Who cares if it poisons me =D"