Allright, there's a rx7 being sold at the dealership down the street. Its a 1990 vert. It has 79k miles. Automatic. Nice system. Looks decently maintained.

Bad things:
The covertible top is torn in one area (back left). Probably a one inch tear. The top seems to be not sealed all the way near the bottom, where it connects to the car, near the rear windshield. I assume this can be fixed. Price?

Seems like the right muffler/exhaust area is rusted. so rusted that pieces are falling off, and possibly rusted all the way through. Left muffler/exhaust area is fine, but a bit rusted. Does the 1990 rx7 come with dual exhaust? If not, that would explain why one of them is rusted, perhaps its the original?

Automatic.

Good things:
Only 79k miles (alot less than others)
Nice sound system
decently maintained
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Ok, now the questions. How much does it cost to fix the top, and what are the chances of it leaking with the parts that I mentioned torn/not sealed?
What is the problems associated with a rusted exhaust area, and how much does it cost to fix?
If I were to replace the tranny with a manual, whats the estimated cost on that

And the last question: How much should I pay?

Thanks

 

I payed 500 for my new top to be installed a few years ago. Oh yeah don't pay over a 1000. No one wants a auto.

 

Yeh, I'd hold out to try and find a manual.

The Auto 'Vert is like the slowest 7 ever made.

 

The RX-7s do come with dual exhaust stock. There are threads around on how to put a 5 speed into your auto if you really like that particular 7.

My advice is to just read a whole lot about these cars before you really invest.

 

Con: The auto tranny is the weak link - & most expensive to fix.
Pro: On an automatic, the engine is less likely to be abused.

Look carefully for any signs of smoke or past overheating.

 

I'm not really looking for a fast car. This is gonna be my first car, so I'm not looking to kill myself, or my car I know the vert has a hard top and a soft top, and the hard top is fine, but the soft one needs to be replaced/patched/resealed. Is it possible just to patch the tear and to reseal the other parts? Sorry for asking so many questions, lol, I just want to make sure I love my rx7!

 

Thats what this forum is for, asking questions. (Dispite what some people may think :-p)

If you own a convertable and dont have enough $ to buy a whole new top, black RTV sealent is your friend.

I've sewn up my tears and patched it with black RTV, it has yet to fail on me.

 

Its not a true dual however it does help and looks cool!

I would also recomond staying away from an auto, more headaches than they are worth.

Tops are easy to patch until funds are aviliable, and on mine I have not put it up for a week or so.

 

As everyone said it's better to stay away from auto. When I was looking for a FC, there was an excellent S5 auto vert but I decided not to go for it after I took a test drive on it.

 

if you do decide to get it be careful when it needs inspected next the exhaust will probably need replaced to pass i just went threw this this week for inspection

 

They wanted 9k for it.......

Although the engine is 2 years old, the tranny is 1.5 years old, and the paint job is 2 years old. The current owner is the 2nd owner of the car. So it most likely is in good shape, but way out of my price range

 

Holy Batshit man! I paid $3,000 for mine as you see it. And it is a 5-speed. Gorgeous, with factory paint. I added the wheels, a cool grand with tires. If the car was PERFECT and had a manual trans, I would pay $9k. As you describe the car, it is worth about $2,500 on the east coast.

 

Big pic of My car: http://www.geocities.com/skyypilot69/Dsc00011.jpg

For all you guys who 'diss 'verts: My car weighs 2918 pounds now after huge weight reduction. Go put your coupe on a scale, I bet it weighs more. When the old rotary feels like doing its thing it runs a 14.9 1/4 mile, no juice, no turbo! The rotary is dying (again), I hope it can hold on until winter... V-8 conversion this winter, sorry guys but I am tired of the tempermental rotary that only lasts 30K when driven hard. All verts are NOT fat and slow! My car will have FIVE HUNDRED horsepower and FOUR HUNDRED foot-pounds of torque when I am done, and will be totally streetable. And it will sound like a Winston (Nokia?) Cup car.

Don't mess with me, you know how I get!

 

Wow.



. . .

.... Just wow.

 

Uh, to avoid the Geocities BS, cut and paste the link into your browser instead of clicking on the link in this box....

http://www.geocities.com/skyypilot69/Dsc00011.jpg

 

I dont think that guy's gonna sell the car for 9000..... so I'll check back when I actually have the money, in about 4-5 months.

 

uhhh, It would have to be immaculate and perfect in every way for me to even consider 9k. You could probably buy a beater and put 9k into it and have a whole lot better car IMO.

I paid $1500 for my vert (which was too much), and when it's all said and done I'll have less than 9k in it. I think that's a little out of line personally.

Something to think about -- take bluebook w/ a grain of salt, but I just punched in the basics of your car into bluebook.com and giving you the benefit of the doubt w/ condition as excellent and all of the options, it still only valued at $5k. I dropped the mileage to only 20k just for comparison and it still was only $5ksomething. I think he probably doesn't want to sell it, so put an insane price on it. Tell him to cut it in half and then you'd think about it.