RLBRX7

I've got an RX-7, 1986 base model, that has no rear storage bins. Can these be purchased and installed without too much trouble? I want to locate amplifier in this area if at all possible. Thanks, for any assistance.

MasteRX

That is almost the gayest lack of an option ever. Storage bins are a part of the RX-7 heritage. The gayest lack of an option I have ever seen though is my friends '95 Eclipse base model which is a manual, but it has no tachometer. Just a black plate where it should be.

j9fd3s

iTrader: (3)

yes you can put them right in. you either need the rear carpet or to cut holes in yours.

mike

BLUE TII

iTrader: (9)

How about all those automatic cars that have a tach? If it had a hold in gear feature I could understand. I had a '86 Base and never quite understood why they didn't utilyze that space a bit better. I eventually pulled the plastic rivets out of the carpet and hinged the plywood (I don't get that either) so I could stuff things in there; kinda covert. Well the car was friggin light, what I wouldn't give for that interior in my TII; well, in the right color (the reason I didn't swap them over.

peejay

They didn't come with storage bins 'till '81. LOTS of RX-7s were made before 1981.

What good are they anyway? There's so little headroom that the seats are always reclined so far back that you can't access them easily unless you're parked on the side of the road. Better to do a rear-seat install from a non-US car.

fcturbo2

Put back seats instead. I saw a set at thepartstrader.com for 50 bucks..

Seats are more usefull than bin storage.

Node

iTrader: (1)

Bah, build your own custom box, for speakers, or maybe a larger box, or just leave it bare. Less weight ;-)

RLBRX7

No doubt the base model is lacking in options, but it keeps the weight down and I don't have to worry about broken options. I got air, not much else, and its fine with me. Its a sports car, right? Sure feels like one when you drive it.
Let me ask tho' before I go ripping out carpet. If the plastic studs are removed and the carpet peeled back what is below? A piece of plywood with nothing else? If that is removed (and later hinged) is anything under that? Will bins just retrofit into the space?
Only reason I ask is because I drive this car daily and want to complete the installation over a weekend. My Maxima has been parked since obtaining the RX-7, and I haven't plated it yet.

BLUE TII

iTrader: (9)

When you pull the carpet back there is a fiber reinforced plastic piece that makes up the shape the carpet lays on and there are two thin pieces of plywood w/ slots to put your fingers in where the lids to the cargo bins would be. Simply remove the screws around their edges and then hinge these plywood pieces at the back. The carpet will stay in place if you just removed the plastic rivets and you just flip it back and open the plywood "lids" to put stuff back there-holds more than factory bins as well! and kinda stealthy

jester1341

no way man then id be kicked out of my club....... "2+0 Coupes Inc."

no back seats for me!!

HAILERS

Go to the wreck yard and pull them out of a wreck. Then pull you carpet up on your car. Remove the plywood covers over the exixting holes and install the bins. Cut the carpet for the lid openings. They are very handy bins. Shouldn't cost over ten bucks to do the job.

Rear seats???? Good God. Your the people who gave Mazda the idea they had to create a four door sedan and call it a RX8. What a lousy idea. What a lousy looking car.

AK86GXL

^^I have to dissagree with the genious above me. If you memory serves the got rid of the RX-7 in '95 due to lack of sales and interest. If it takes a four door (with suicide doors, which I personally love) four seater to bring back interest in the RX line of cars, then so be it! It may mean a new RX-7 in a few years which will be a true sports car two seater rocket.

The only way the car will come back is through sales, and it has to appeal to a wide variety of people to produce sales to make it worth Mazda's time to continue the RX tradition.

And besides, I like the look of the RX8.

As for the origional poster of this thread, try doing something creative with the rear area, it's not like you've got anything at the moment.

attomica

What the hell?! This thread is a year and a half old!

jester1341

hahaha......it is!!.it sooo is!!

and look how many new postes there are for just today.[wow]

anyway back on subject my future plans are to conver my rex from saphire blue/grey to black[w/ purple flex]/black leather how hard is it to put FD diver and pass. seats into a FC??

ilike2eatricers

you will need to custom fabricate the seat rails to fit FD seats. This was just covered yesterday in a thread by the way.

jester1341

sorry posted before i searched........just seamed kinda on topic at the thyme........