I'd give you a 50% chance of making it, so not everybody says you'll fail.

I also sympathize...I've had to take some sketchy cars on trips I shouldn't have and sometimes you get lucky.
Other times, not so much.

If at all possible, avoid turnpikes and toll roads.
They are particularly nasty about cars on the shoulder and tow fees are absurd.

 

If a coolant seal goes, the only tool that'll help will be a Triple A card...no box required.

 

Because you are intent on doing what everyone has told you not to. Another bit of advice DO NOT top off with only water. I'm assuming that given all the other information you are short on cash. I'm also assuming that you will be tempted to NOT want to put money into actual coolant because it's just burning up anyway...so why spend money on something that's just going away.

Here is why. Straight water will cause pitting on your aluminum housings. After you have driven this thing with straight water you will find collateral damage when your engine builder opens up your engine.

But again, be kind to your car. Park the damn thing and take a bus. I honestly think you should be learning about cars on a cheap American car. One with cheap parts readily available and one that every mechanic on every street corner knows how to fix what you break.

 

Well then, please forgive us for trying to relay our experience and trying to prevent you from being stranded. Like clokker said, I and I'm sure many more of the forum members here have taken similar trips in cars that we shouldn't have. Pardon us for attempting to dissuade you from making a trip that you may very well regret.

If you don't have the money to rebuild the motor right now, at this moment, and don't have the money to buy a plane or a bus ticket, right now, at this moment: then you don't have the money to tow your car 1000 miles if you break down. Then you can kiss your car and all the time and money you've spent on it goodbye or get yourself stuck in a money hole that will take you forever to get out of because you have no car to get you to your job or whatever.

You are making a very common mistake that young people make, that I've definitely made when I was younger too, by not listening to the experience and advice of people that have been in the EXACT same situation as you. You are thinking with your small head here, buddy.

Borrow some money from your parents and get a freaking bus ticket, then save some money and buy a civic, then you don't have to worry about your friend hot-rodding it and blowing it up. You'd have a reliable means of transportation that can get you to a job, which will make you money to fix up your 25 year old sports car, which just happens to be one of the most maintenance needy sports cars of all time.


..... Or chance it, whatever. I'm done here.

 

He knows more than us, and has taken that into consideration.

 

What kind of regimen do you follow to justify saying that?
I can't think of any exceptional maintenance required by the FC...it's pretty standard Japanese tech of the era.

 

I think he means "expensive".

maintenance isn't really an issue, but as these cars age, replacement parts can be outrageous.

$600 bucks for a rotor housing....that'd buy you a ******* engine for a chevy of the same era.

 

You shouldnt even need to borrow money to get a bus ticket, because you cannot take a trip like that without money for gas. It will cost you more to drive it than to take a bus anyways.....and that is without the engine eating itself.

But since we all know from last time that you pay zero attention to knowledge, experience, or even common sense, then have at it. Be sure to bring a smartphone so you can post from the middle of your planned route how you smoked your engine. Dont be stupid--you are talking about your own safety and well-being, as well as your car--a car, by the way, which is old and tempermental by nature. You could get away with things like this maybe with a Civic, but this aint no Civic.

FCs make great road trip cars in my experience. When I moved almost 10 years ago, I drove my FC nearly 1000 miles, stopping only for food/gas/**** breaks. Had a blast. But before I took that trip, my FC got new tires, brakes, plugs and wires, etc etc etc.....everything it needed down to wipers, it got.

So, whats the deal with this lil chickie in Arkansas, anyways? Does she have rainbows and unicorns flying out of her va-jay-jay or something?? Or are you just that whipped because you finally found a girl that talks to you for more than hair and makeup tips?? one of the two must be the case considering how ignorant you are when it comes to going to visit her....

 

I knew I'd need to explain myself there...

What I meant to say, which was edited in my writing of that post, was that unless you've put the time and money to get the car to a reliable state (i.e. restoration, not modification): the car is going to be a maintenance queen, just as any other car that age.

Unfortunately for us though, FC's are typically ragged out to hell by 15 previous owners; of which, 3 knew what they were doing with a rotary (or a car in general) when they owned it.

 

I am so glad i have a maintenance queen. Reliable as any car, other than the fact its old and I have to replace or repair silly things here and there.

My worst issue right now is a noisy PS idler pulley.

$100 ******* bucks.

 

Absolutely, that's one of the many pleasures of having these cars is working on them!

However for somebody with a meager income, it doesn't always equate to being the wisest choice in daily drivers... or cross-country trips, lol.

 

I guess I phrased that wrong or mis-read maintenance queen.

I have spent tons of money getting this car into reliable daily driver/long trip condition. I have to fix silly things, but other than that, I am problem free.

The parts are incredibly expensive though. This is not a poor mans project car, you better have some monies.

 

Well, that to me is maintenance. The silly things, replacing parts, fixing that idle issue, vac leak, old broken lines, etc...Different people, different definitions, lol. I think we are on the same page.

 

Wait, wait, wait...this absolutely necessary trip is to see a girl? Please say this is not true!?!?! I mean I figured it was for a family funeral, seasonal job, etc.

 

Read on, Jeff....you will understand a lot more about this thread by reading the first exciting episode....

https://www.rx7club.com/lounge-192/i...month-1020233/

 

You will find no cheerleaders here, OP.

 

I couldn't do it man, the stupid was over taking over my brain and making we want to leap from some tall building. I tried, I really tried.

Here's what I got from the thread:

1. OP fell in internet love with a girl a long ways away.
2. OP has gotten inappropriate with a relative when he was really young (but thinks it's normal)
3. Machisimo and threats of violence, with OP posting pics of vandalism to a car from someone he was mad at.
4. OP is into the emo thing and thinks he is original and has ground breaking epiphanies about life. Not at all aware that his hair style and emo thing, I first saw in the late 80s by the anti-society skate community. More shocking is that the OP thinks he is understanding life in a way that no one has before him.

Now I'm not one for attacking someone on a personal level. Hopefully this will be my only input along those lines and it's more a plea to the OP that he will remove his head from his ***. The OP is passive-aggressive and probably codependent. He is probably rushing headlong into a codependent, long-distance relationship which despite his expectations is most likely to end very badly. His necessary trip to see this girl is a codependent cry for attention that has a high degree of probability to put him in even worse financial state. The OP's willingness to put himself and his property at risk is NOT a call to how much he is love and willing to risk, it is in fact a gross display of lack of responsibility and maturity. I'm assuming he is getting financial backing from his parents and I feel very badly for them. He is going to take this trip and when it goes badly they are going to be the one's to fix his newest crisis which he created.

 

Well, it might actually be better for him if his engine eats itself halfway there...that might actually end up being a smaller disaster than it will be when things go bad in this long distance emo-fest.

Five bucks says she's dancing in a topless joint when shes not on emo-time with him....that is, if she's old enough. He has displayed a tendency to check out underage girls before.

 

Honestly, I want to see Kenshin fail at this. And I don't understand why you would want to take a car that gets 20 MPG or less per mile on a 1000 mile road trip, especially when gas is at a median of 3.80 (unless gas is cheaper In Jersey).

 

OP needs to watch the movie "SEX DRIVE".
Besides it having a bad *** Judge GTO, you may learn something.

Just saw that it started 4 months ago...whatever happened? I don't feel like getting a headache reading through 21 pages .
This thread was bad enough.

 

Alright you all can keep talking off topic.

If you have something like that to say, you obviously have never met or felt the need to be there for someone so important, or arent able to care for someone since they dont give you that amount of love back.

The reason why Im determined as I am to go on this trip is because the only thing that keeps her sane, keeps her from self harming, being severely depressed, keeping from hating herself, is me being there with her. Every one of those problems go away from her when I was there with her. Everyone else from her past has physically and mentally abused her, caused her to hurt herself badly and worse, torn apart her soul, and the only one that has ever brought her back together piece by piece was me. And the same thing goes for her to me. Im the same way as her. Same mental illnesses, same aggression, thoughts of life, things we see that are fun that many others dont, we see all the good and fun things in life with general society thrown aside, we have our life back when were with eachother. If it werent for me, she wouldnt be here today. If it werent for her, I wouldnt be here today either. And yes I assure you that means what it means.

So Im aware of the outcomes and massive expenses youre all advising me about. I already have JUST about 500 miles on the engine with the condition that it is now and there are no signs of it being worse than it was from the first day it started happening. I know that the engine with fail inevitably if kept in this condition, which it wont be by the end of this summer. I have the money for gas and coolant to make it there and back.

I got the answers and opinions I needed while this thread was still in topic. There is no need to further comment at this point.

 

I never would have given you advice if I knew you are this far out of whack. I don't mean that as an insult, I mean simply you are soooo far out of the loop that you don't even realize how far outside of the loop you are. Because of that giving your constructive criticism is the equivalent of beating our heads vs a wall. This relationship screams codependent, as I had predicted. Both of you need to be in therapy and I don't mean that in a hurtful way. I mean honestly you need to be talking to a trained psychologist. Honestly I hope I never hear about her and your relationship with her ever again the HUGE chasm of disconnect between what you are thinking/wanting and reality of life and your choices is astonishing.

 

Jeff, Ive been in therapy from age 6-17. Its nothing more than what you already know that is said and repeated to you over and over. They cant help you because they dont have the same mental problems and variations/combinations of it, so they cant give you true experiential advice. My willpower is strong enough to help myself, which I did, so that I dont have to be in all that bullshit. I was old enough then to make my own choices so I stopped going to that bullshit, and stopped taking pills which is only a placebo to people with weaker willpower. This is how Ive helped her because I know what shes feeling, and no one else has ever been able to help her like I have. Shes finally much better and all problems are gone just like that when Im with her.

Youd choose a car, material built up from natural resources from the earth that can definitely be remade from current inventory and recycled to make more, over another being which there is only one of who means much more to you than anything? Seeing as youre spending so much time posting on the forums, you must not have that great of a love life. Your car is your life partner as I see it with you arguing against the fact.

I feel like this is turning to the same thread I put up in December. Ill just leave this thread like I did to the last one like this as there is no point in arguing with other people about my relationship when they have no clue or experience with something like mine.

 

Dude, when scoping for chicks don't go with fixer uppers. Trust me. They'll just break again. Use those chicks as bang and clangs.

 

Call Dr. Drew and Mike from love line, maybe they can somewhat help you out. And You say you won't lurk in this thread again, but we know you will.
Loveline