what is fucked up is my other car is a G8, so Im like "great I run into a GTO and I have the seven".........

when I am in the G8 I get "is that a audi, BMW, etc" so no matter what Im driving its a case of mistaken identity

Usually people think the convertible is a newer car but no one has ever called it a corvette before

 

too lazy to read 61 pages of comments but i got this two comments in my fc

me: (washing my car)
guy: have you ever thought of selling it
me: **** no!!!
guy: (walks away)

second time

me: (speeding through apartments)
security: "hey get out of here i'm calling the cops"
me: (park at my house and sit down)
security: (on the phone with cops) "i have a speeding mazda 626"
me: "hey its an rx7 by the way"
security: rx7? whats that?
me: (lol)

 

girlfriends family:

"did you get that thing inspected yet?"

"nope...not yet...still trying to find a catalytic converter..."

 

Picked up car when I bought it from the seller who was keeping it at a mechanic's shop

Mech: I wouldn't buy that, I was going to buy it but couldn't get it to start because the compression is bad.

A short time later the car was unflooded and on its way back to my place.

 

This happens SOOOOO incredibly much! haha

 

I know, just goes to show you cant bring an rx-7 to just any mechanic.

It's not surprising he had an LS1 FD sitting in his garage as well.

 

I've gone and "fixed" peoples cars for them randomly in like 10 minutes... one I did even in 20 seconds. haha

 

Me and my dad were riding down the road the other day and were stopped at a 4-way.. A porshe 911 was stopped and pulled ahead of us and went right past us. My dad says look the oonly other RX7 in the county. I said no that was a Porshe.

 

just yesterday, i pull up to the hang out spot, hadnt had my car out in a couple weeks.
Guy one: hey you got it done
me: ya, well everything but the rest of the exhaust, running open downpipe.
Guy two: dude you gotta get that done, ur gonna burn up your valves.
me: that might be true,.... if i had valves...
Guy two: ooooohh ya, its a rotary, i forgot

or ppl tell me about my ''glow plugs'' all the time

or ppl talking to other ppl about my car, '' the dont have a redline they can just keep revving''
''they have all kinds of TQ, they just cant make any horse power''

I just sit back and laugh with my friends that actually know a little about my car

 

I had a guy at the exhaust shop last week tell me to run a true dual exhaust I'd need "four more pistons".

 

uh........

 

hahaha I saw my friend at a car wash place and it was his first time seeing my car,

Him: Ohhh nicee, these celicas are nice man.
Me: It's not a celica.
Him: It's toyota right? really old school toyota.
Me: Its a mazda.
Him: OHH mazda.
Me: Yeah it has a rotary engine.
Him: IT HAS A ROTARY ENGINE!? :O

lol funny.

 

I was having quite a few problems with my car for a while(Mostly flooding that I would fix by pulling the fuse but turned out I had bad compression; in the shop now), and my gf's mom would always say- "Why don't you just burn the damn thing!? It's a piece of ****!"

I just laughed because she is driving a 1988 Chrysler sundance with almost no paint, a lot of rust, and a pretty major oil leak somewhere. I gotta say that thing has a mean A/C system on it, blows like 20 degree air

 

Last week I took my TII to the cruise (the illegal drags) for the first time and wound up talking to some muscle car guys. After a while one of the guys roped me into racing him in his 70 something chevy malibu that was rolling on M/T slicks and sounded pretty mean.

His 16 year old son who was very interested in my car asked if he could ride shotgun and I obliged him. Since I only have a intake and exhaust I was pretty sure I was going to lose, badly. We lined up on a service drive next to the highway and much to my surprise I put a car link on him on the launch. I had him behind me until I shifted to third where he started to reel me in.

At the end of the race I was at his rear bumper and we turned around to go back to the hangout. When we got back everyone in attendance was giving me props on how fast my car was. They were even more surprised when I told them my car had a 1.3 under the hood. Hilariously, I corrupted the kid who rode shotgun with me and he is now dead set on buying my FB off me now.

All in all, I was really surprised with how all the muscle car guys treated me and my car with respect. I never once had someone call me a ricer or make the typical hurr I hear those rotarys last like 10 thousand miles comment. I think I'lll bring a spare rotor and housing next weekend and see if I can convert some more reciprosaur owners over to wankel power.

 

Going to get my presilencer and new muffler installed.

Car is on the lift me and exhaust installer under my car.

Guy - These things dont require cats?
Me - Not that i em aware of your the exhaust guy you tell me
Guy - Well hell it dont even have pistons why would it need a cat.
me - well it still puts out exhaust
guy - yea 1.3l exhaust
me- i didnt know there was a differance
guy - nevermind that made no sense
me - we both laugh

Guy sitting next to me at driving school teacher made us say what kinda car we had

Me - Mazda RX7
guy - dude sick I had one
me - nice man what year
guy - same (I never said a year haha)
me - well cool do anything to it?
guy - ah not really just new heads and a cam it was pretty cool i sold it though
me - motor swap?
guy - no stock motor, they are pretty slow unless you get better air flow in the heads but I got mine going
me - Nice man those heads realy do help out. I think ill look into that

 

I pulled in at a gas station with my 91 FC black. I walked in and I said "$20 on #2, please" and handed him the money. Cashier said "you're not filling up your mustang?" WTF!

 

I got one

Mechanic: Did you know your car is burning oil?
ME: Yeaaaaa...It's fine. *walks away*

 

guy from work commented on the 'huge alternator'. i told him i was pullin the engine and he said, 'you mean the alternator? you pop the hood and thats all you see is the freaking alternator.'

also tells everyone its a 'no cyl, runs off the alternator'

 

lol, im an autozone guy! thats funneh...

too bad im not in cali eh? i have found sooooooooo many things to fix my 7 by just sorting threw the bins in the back.

 

Went to Autozone to get some two stroke oil
Autozone manager: Where you going to use the 2 stroke oil for?
me: Im going to use it for my car to premix with gas
Autozone manager: Why would you put oil in the gas?
me: I drove an Mazda RX7 I need it to protect the engine
Autozone manager: Trust me youre going to break your car if you do that
me: No im not, ive been doing it for years

 

got another one that just happened yesterday i go to a machine shop just to ask for service this was the conversation AFTER i told him i had a rotary engine from an rx7 and he said he ALREADY knew what they where so i didn't get into details about my engine.

machine guy: in order for me to work on your engine it has to be completely taken apart.

me: ok i understand things can break if its not

machine guy: yeah and i wouldn't want to work on it complete because i might damage some pistons or the cam.

me: *smiles* *smirks* that would suck if my pistons broke.......

machine guy. *looks at me weird* ........ *awkward pause*

me: *walks away*

 

Hahaha I can't wait until someone asks me how many pistons I have.

 

Went to the DMV yesterday, needed to get inspected and pass emissions, just had a cat put on (still failed though since im missing an air pump.)

so they pop the hood and start peeking around. before i know it i have 4 techs under the hood of my car, pulling up pictures to tell me i failed due to my vapor canister being missing. the original problem was the tool they put on the car to find out the RPMs wasn't reading correctly. it was quite funny.

 

gas station clerk: oh i had an rx7 like that too. thoes things are fast. i loved it.
me: oh really? what happened to it
clerk: had to sell it. it kept burning oil.
me: *facepalm*walked back to my car

 

driving my brand new RX (1987) to work, I had a pompous coworker refer to the RX7 as "the poor man's sports car".

To illustrate the wisdom of this individual, he later left an attractive wife and three decent kids for a stripper.

I put an appropriate amount of stock in his opinion.


- kel -