Buying an rx-7
04-18-03, 04:30 PM
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Buying an rx-7
I would like to purchase a second gen rx-7 for about 2000 to 4000. I would like to have a very fast daily driver. what should i go with?
04-18-03, 04:34 PM
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Re: Buying an rx-7
Originally posted by Grifter
I would like to purchase a second gen rx-7 for about 2000 to 4000. I would like to have a very fast daily driver. what should i go with?
I would like to purchase a second gen rx-7 for about 2000 to 4000. I would like to have a very fast daily driver. what should i go with?
04-18-03, 05:01 PM
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How hard is a turbo to work on? Noone around here knows what a rotor is let alone how it works. Turbo, that is a whole lot of hoses. How difficult?
How hard is a turbo to work on? Noone around here knows what a rotor is let alone how it works. Turbo, that is a whole lot of hoses. How difficult?
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Hoses going from the turbo to the engine. It looks difficult to get to anything. I have no life. I have been reading the same Haynes manual for a year.
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Originally posted by Grifter
Hoses going from the turbo to the engine. It looks difficult to get to anything. I have no life. I have been reading the same Haynes manual for a year.
Hoses going from the turbo to the engine. It looks difficult to get to anything. I have no life. I have been reading the same Haynes manual for a year.
With the Turbo you just have a lot more to worry about going wrong with the car than you do with an n/a RX-7. Both cars have their respective ammounts of vaccum lines and air / coolant hoses. The Turbo has a few extra connections that the n/a doesn't have for easy enough reasons. The problem with the haynes manual on the FC is that it doesn't fully illustrate some aspects of the car as well as it could and it can lead to confusion... One you get down in the car and start seeing everything in place you get a better grasp of what would be involved in taking things apart or just working on the car in general...
If you're worried about extra hoses from the Turbo, just go with the n/a. You'll sacrafice some potential power, but you'll get a fairly zippy car. When you talk about a Turbo and n/a you're talking about a 40hp difference at which point a race pipe and catback pretty much clears up for you
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