im sure this question has been asked a lot.

what do you guys do if you have to drive in the winter with the FC.

let the air out a little ?

put some weight in the trunk ?

any other tips.

 

BONE THE **** OUT hehehehhee i dunno

 

yea youre lucky you are in cali

 

Why would you add weight just drive like a normal person

 

ya your lucky, im in indiana wouldn't even think about taken it into the winter weather.. but if i did umm.. new snow tires.. chains if the law allows it lol and about 2k pounds of dead weight spaced throughout the car and maybe hire a snow plow to run in front of you so you can clear thos little drifts. but being in calli you dotn wory too much about that

 

I put a boxing heavy bag across the back seats put the spare tire and some tools in the hatch. 28 psi in 235/50/17 goodyear eagle F1's drove it every winter for 5 years in CT with no problems.

 

you obvously have never seen snow.

 

i try not to..but i had to drive my 87 gxl..plenty of times in snow..deep snow..only once i got stuck because i waited to long in a snow storm to leave my girls house..and i got stuck going in my neighborhood on a hill..my pops,a neighbor,and my mom tried to make it to my house..but no luck i had to leave it on the side of the street and hope no plows would hit it..next day had to dig it out..took me like 2 hours..

 

Sand bags in the trunk and snow tires... the sand weighs down the back and if you get stuck you can open em up and pour the sand on the snow for more traction. win win!!

 

Spoken like a true CA resident.

Do you understand that erie PA gets some of the heaviest snowfall outside of upstate NY. I wouldnt run the 7 in the winter in Erie priod but if you HAVE to, then get some chains or prepare to let air out on snowy days but keep a travel tank charged to 150 PSI for refilling after you get unstuck. Weight adder: I am a fan of two 12" subs over the rear end. That can add as much as 150 pounds.

 

Brilliant!! a cali resident telling someone how to drive in the snow!!

 

UP Here in Canada,I don't think MY car would Be gettin drivin on the road in Winter,Due to the Fact that They throw Salt on the Road Like like a Sloppy Margarita!..it would eat the car right out.Personally for all the Time and money I have "invested"(loose term) Into this car It would be Better to Get a Beater Or Walk.(If you look at the Price of a Beater as you would to get another Aftermarket Part for your RX7,the investment won't Hurt as much.)

 

You should try yellow snow... its actually made of lemonaid.

 

oh haha

I thought you ment icy roads n **** I get those once and awile kinda freaky but yea

 

nuhuh you liar lol

 

i drove my 88 tII all last winter as a dd with no problems with new all year round toyo proxy4s and four 50lb bags of salt in the back was fine for me also eliminated ABS and i live in north jersey and know about winters we get plenty of snow around here good thing the fc handles amazingly shouldnt ahve any problem with the winter just make sure the weight is over ur tires

 

winter tires no all season ****. get real winter tires
i tossed a set of 4 bridgestone blizzaks on my car. it was about the same as driving in the rain.
prob a tiny bit better.
this winter i have a beater though, thank god.

 

yea you know whats up.

Im not gonna try to drive the 7 in the snow but sometimes i will have too.

Im praying erie doesnt get smashed like last year .

 

of the 6 years I've had my seven, its only been drivable 3 winters. Lots of shop time during the winter. Of the three mild winters I drove, I got stuck 4 times in blizzards with snow in excess of 4 feet with no roads plowed. And I slid into a guard post while trying to drive in the tracks of a truck up a hill. Live and learn. It all depends, but if the snow is above the bumper like it is a few times a year (and the city refuses to plow when it will be 70 the next day) don't expect to be moving more than a few feet. -- I managed to make it out of the parking lot in 2.5 feet of snow... thats as far as i made it. I spent 3 hours shoveling a path back to the parkinglot only to end sliding on the packed snow to the side of the road.

ohh the stories.

That said... I now own an SUV that complements the seven.

 

Yeah it is doable I delivered pizzas for an entire winter in a GXL only had a hard time once getting up a hill but I must say I am a very agressive very good driver. That was painful, I think I pulled something patting myself on the back there.

 

its all about location... in rapid city, all the moister falls 2 storms of the year, with the next day following being 65-70 degrees. So for a day or two, the city stops and the only people moving are contractors with huge trucks, the city doesn't bother to plow because it will all melt a day later...

 

Ok, I'm a CA resident, so this is purely academic but....

• Add weight in the rear directly over the tires, for better traction. Like sand bags. FWD cars don't need this because they already have a nice heavy engine over their front tires.
• Snow tires.
• Chains, if applicable

Regardless of weather, for best traction in a RWD car like the RX-7:

• Apply gas slightly during turns to help shift weight over rear tires. FWD cars should brake slightly durning turns to help shift weight over front tires.
• If you're turning right and you start to slide (to the left of course), turn LEFT, not right. Regain control before resuming the right turn. FWD cars simply turn right, which is why people like them better in the rain or snow. Do the reverse for left turns, of course. Knowing this might have saved my last '7 on that rainy day...

 

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