my "friends" at school keep asking me where the cuting blades come out of, and if i can come over and cut there lawn. and i get funny looks at peaple on the streets when i come flying bye at 6000rpms in 2 gear.

 

no one at my school knows what my car is....so as i leave school and spank one of them on my favorite road(they drive civics and eclipses) they have this confused look on there face.....i also hear about it the next day

 

same guy same job: "rotary's are vacum pumps"
me: "essentialy all engines are vacum pumps"

 

Someone on Craigslist is trying to sell a nice '90 'vert (Black), and had posted very specifically:

"Just had the Timing Belt replaced, which is VERY important for Rotary engines."

I emailed him to correct that, explaining that there is no Timing Belt because there are no valves or pistons to keep in time, and that he should remove that. Well, he didn't remove it. He changed 'Timing Belt' to 'Timing Chain'!!!!!!

Apparently he doesn't want to sell the car...

 

wow how people take a simple car and mess it up :smiley_12

 

I was buying spark plugs at napa and the guy had to call the napa warehouse.
"hey bill, I'm looking for some spark plugs for a 87 mazda rx7. You know it's that old outdated engine that never made it off the ground. Yeah mazda use to make them. He was clearing saying it just to **** me off lol.

 

I always get, "Rotary? It ain't got no pistons in it? Well, you awtta throw a v8 in there." Stupid ******* rednecks. And I'm the one with a confederate flag tattooed across my chest and confederate flag floormats.

Oh and I just put a exhaust manifold back exhaust on it that came off an s4 vert I stripped for work that had been blown up and had alot of oil in the exhaust. So now I get, "what you got there? Rocket launchers? Sure does blow alot of smoke and it sounds like sumthin frum NASA er sumthin."

 

"whats an rx7?"

"you just hear a gun shot?"

 

One that I got last year was actually from the guy across the street who's son had a 91 RX-7 (which he wrecked and I am now parting out). The first thing he said when I said I had one was "those things have two oil pumps, and you gotta be careful because they can break." Apparently his sons OMP had broken and needed to be replaced. He actually used to own an RX-3, so hes pretty cool.
Another one that I get all the time was that they don't last very long and that they always break the seals. I respond that my original engine lasted 215k miles with the last 3 years of its life being mostly a track car. And even then it wasn't even an apex seal that died, but a crack in the coolant passage.
I also have people (my brother-in-law especially) say "those things don't have a redline, do they?" I then have to explain that they can rev very high, but you need to reinforce stuff to do it, etc.

 

"What kind of car is that?"
Me- "mazda rx-7"
"Never heard of it. What year?"
Me- "87"
"Whoa i thought it was like a 95 or somethin."

Also my friend owns a 02' civic (not a ricer or anything close to it. It's just his normal everyday car that he owns.) When we hung out he'd always ask to switch cars and drive my 87' gxl and would say he wished his 02' civic EX drove and handled like that.
Priceless...

 

Oh yeah i just remembered the day i was asked by (not even joking) 2 very beautiful blonde identical twins (somethin u'd see in a movie lol) from my high school if i could give them a ride home. I warned the twin that asked me for the favor that 1) it's a two seater car, only 1 will fit or atleast be "comfortable" and 2) the passenger side door doesn't work, you'd have to get in through the window or crawl in from my side. She told me she didn't care if she had to crawl over to the other side and we could stuff her sis in the back lol. When it was time to take them home i showed them how i had an "automatic starter" (the ignition switch was a little messed up where i could turn it all the way forward and then just step on the clutch whenever i wanted to in order to start it up. haha!!) They loved it and then they began to ask questions about the car and i explained to them what it was and what not. Mainly questions like i stated above. We had great conversation until i dropped them off and we had a threesome haha! Jk! Thank You RX-7!!! Haha!

 

Friend: Thats such a unreliable engine.
Me: well atleast it runs.
Friend: **** I just need to fix my timing, get a tune, and exhuast and I will stomp your a**.
Me:.... yea ummm.
Me: Is that a rod knock I hear....?
Friend: Ah **** you here it too...my compression is too high that what it is.....
Me:.... yeah am I think I will stick with my rotary. 220k and still running strong.

Background: My friend owns a shop and he has the turbo SOHC 91 Accord that runs 12% of the time. He swears it can take a T2 Rx7 and I laughed at him. Then he talks about how inefficient they are and then i agree. My gas mileage sux but I like that my car stays running.

 

Sticky material!

 

well when i first bought my first rx7 im of course showing it off to one of my friends at the time who knows "**** tons about cars" and he pops the how many pistions question?
me- i dont have pistions, i have rotors they spin
him- really so uhhh you pistions just kinda spin around or some jaz like that
me- **jaw drops**
me- no R O T O R S they are triangle shaped and spin around a "crank shaft" called an E-shaft
him- so ya your pistions spin around in O's
me- i woke up 5 days later in a hospital going WTF just happened
nurse- you went in to shock over complete mental shut down
me- holy crap is my car ok?

 

I get the usual:

"Hey, that sure is a clean 240"
"wow, that's a nice porche... 944 right?"
"nice probe."

"So does it have a 4 banger in it or what?"
To which I reply: "No... it's a rotary engine... It doesn't have any cylinders."

 

My mom says my car looks like an older corvette.. and the rest of my family agrees with her.. to bad its faster then a old corvette though.

 

i have a TII and i get the usual and not so usual what is that lol.

him: damn man, that's a clean car
me" yea its decent
him: whats that a 6 cylinder
me: its a rotary
him: oh ok my bad

another one is '' turn that car off is freaking burning my eyes'' lol no cats no emissions.

my favorite:

him:oh **** look its ryosukes car its an fc
me: no way lol
him:damn its freaking awesome but wait where's the RED SUNS sticker
me: got in the car and got the hell out of there lol

 

I call him one of my buddies, but he's a dumb ***.

me: yeah, just fixed ___(insert any part)___ on my 7
him: those things are hard to work on though, probably took a while
me: no, they're not that hard to work on really, just about the same, if not easier than a pissed-on motor
him: no, but they're harder to work on than a piston motor
me: *sigh*...............sure are..................dumb ***

Anybody else enjoy the fact that a keg of beer is bigger than our engine? V8? try a 50 gallon drum.

 

TII, yeah my favorite,no way you beat my mustang with a 1.3 liter how may c.i. is that? 80! had to pop the hood and show him,his friends laughed hard. oh and i like the gas/oil smell its something i've come to love...

 

I brought my wife's old Ford Countour (ugh) into the shop for her one day a few years ago when this older guy came in with a sweet FC for some brake work. He's in the waiting area with me and another guy. The other guy asks buddy about his RX7. Buddy starts telling the guy that "his car has a rack and pinion engine so it doesn't have spark plugs..." I almost pissed myself. He wasn't being a smart *** or anything - he was just that clueless.

 

ive had my TII called a prelude before. i really dont see where that one came from...

 

him "what kind of engine is that"
Me "turbo rotary"
him "oohhh... what did you swap that out of"
me "nothing its the stock engine..."

 

+1 clueless as well. cept I have a vert.

 

visited my old highschool shop class once, 15-17 year olds galore swarm around, this one kid:
"dood is that a ferrari?!?!"
i guess the roof gave him that idea
and i have a cheesy red covered toggle i use to turn on my exterior lights and gauges
"dood is that nos!?"

 

Forgot one when I originally posted. Thought of it this morning.

Again, driving on 322 I see a state trooper hiding off the side. Cruise by at the speed limit and within a few minutes he's behind me with the lights on. Pull over, shut it off, put 4 ways on, get my license, registration, and insurance ready. Office comes up to the car...

Officer - "How ya doing? I heard you go by and wanted to see what it was."
me - "Good officer, and yourself? Oh, ok."
Officer - "Nice car. Are those Impala tail lights?"
me - "Thanks. Ha ha, no, they are factory RX-7 lights"
Officer - walks to the back of the car and comes back. "Alrighty then. Have a good evening and drive careful."
me - "Thanks and you too."

I was a little befuddled, laughed and drove away. I found it amusing.