Waxing nostalgic for 13 years ago
 

I just realized that I have been on this forum and a rotarty owner since April 2001 so it has been 13 years. Time has flown by since I fists saw a dusty, uncared for black FC in Clovis, NM with a for sale sign in the window. I believe he wanted $1,300 and I think I paid about $1,100 as I wanted a car for autocrossing and I was a young Airman with not a lot of money. I paid him $550 up front and $550 a month later. Lots of busted knukles and heartbreak with that car but she was my first love.

This was taken at an autocross meet in West Texas.

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And later when she was turbocharged and I learned that BMWs make better DD and road trip cars.

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Like most exes, I loved and hated her.

Finally, after being hit by a truck and then blowing the transmission, my wife at the time had enough and made me sell her back in 2005. I have since owned an FD and now I have graduated into an FB--but you never forget your first.

Sorry, waxing nostalgic today.

get another!!! :)

Awesome! I drive a big turbo fc and and I can't get over my 1st na gxl lol.

Perhaps one day. I may actually get another FD if the right opportunity arises. Hard to convince the wife that I need multiple rotaries. She let me buy a '13 M3 last year after all so there is only so far I can push it. Plus, I hardly have time for my one rotary.

She does help me (occasionally) to work on the FB and goes with me to track days etc so I can't complain.

that would be a bit of a kick to the nuts, going from an FD to an FB(sorry FB guys :) ).

True...I think the new FB owner would be shocked at the upgrade in reliability and fuel economy. :D

simpler is sometimes better, but the mushy suspension/steering feel would be my first point to address.

When you have a 400hp FB with a track setup suspension, manual steering rack, race seats, 6-point harness, and OS Giken LSD, TII breaks among other things, my single turbo R1 with heater/AC a sound system (besides a straight pipe) was very civilian and civilized compared to my FB.

Besides, look at that baby:


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nice setup, i figured you already had the itch for something more where a relatively stock 12a would feel like a hamster running the wheel. ;)

400 in an FB is more like 460ish in the FC/FDs as well, since it's already lighter. in fact many who would drive it would say it's too much.. lol

Well, to be fair it did come stock with a 13b. It was great on the corners as the previous owner had it set up for auto-X. However, when running doing laps on tracks like Pocono, I had a hard time keeping ahead of Miatas on the straights.

I did have too much power for the stock LSD, rear control arms and tires, that's why I ended up going WB and upgrading the LSD and control arms (after bending one on a hard launch).

Thing corners like it is on rails now especially with the manual rack up front. I actually blew my engine on a long curve on the track as my setup caused oil starvation. Now I run an Accusump to take car of that issue.

Have I derailed my own thread?

nostalgia is a good thing but in the end the memories come from where you had the most enjoyment and that might be obvious.