As the name suggests I am looking for a good place to get new parts, I am a new owner and new to posting to the forums. I have an NA '87 FC that is in need of e-shaft, rotors, at the very least. I plan to build this for track use and don't really want to re-use the old rotors and e-shaft. I would like OEM rotors, but am open to remans but don't know where to most reliably get s4 rotors or e-shafts. Any help would be appreciated, and again I am new to forum posting and/or navigation. thank you for your patience.

 

Atkins rotary is the place to go for factory new old stock parts. Some bits they can't supply you'd have to source from ebay unfortunately, there is factory overstock from sellers in Japan who drop ship to the US for very competative prices. Atkins actively tries to find or make commonly needed things for our cars and keep the prices reasonable. I personally dealt with them for a decade and they never let me down.

As far as i am aware, you are about a decade too late for remans or completely new engines. The only engines that appear to be actively still in production in decent numbers are the FD engines. you can still buy S6 parts but nothing older.

I have plenty of used parts, as do other rotary hoarders but not much new stuff anymore. These cars are beyond the buying "new" category and are more into restoration with any resources you can find territory. Remans can still be built, I know I have enough to build a few but the prices are going to be.... a bit expensive. like $5k+ expensive. Used parts are going for $200-300+ per bit, there's roughly 8 major components plus $1k+ in rebuild materials plus labor. To think I was building them for $1500 plus core not that long ago.

And believe it or not, you can still order some things from the mazda dealers like exterior ornamentation, trim moldings, lenses, engine and transmission parts to mention a few.

The factory in hiroshima seems to still be actively tooled to make parts for the S6, let's hope they retool for earlier models in the future. Beyond engine parts the rest of the items for our cars were made by other suppliers and likely will never be made again. In essence what's out there is all that will ever be, you won't ever find a new A pillar trim piece brand new for an FC anymore. Our cars likely won't ever see reproduction pieces made, like old classic american cars.

For reference, new rotors/irons/housings that you can get are about $900 each for the S6 and a complete "new"(3rd party vendor built) engine is about $10k. Any Jspec imported engine you might find has a 90% or higher chance of being junk.

I've been working on sourcing body trim for my car and about the only place I can find anything new is on ebay from the japanese sellers.

 

Mazda Japan still makes a lot of stuff, but it is for the most common spec, which is the S5 Japanese market car. if you have that its well supported, but if you have something else you're on your own.
Mazda does make S5 T5 engine parts, and i think engines too, but it was never offered for sale in the US

Mazda has actually brought some stuff back, its not an exciting list, https://www.mazda.co.jp/globalassets...tslist_rx7.pdf

the other problem is that in the US prices have jumped a lot, so things when you can find them are expensive. prices in Japan stayed the same

 

let us hope, that list has a lot of BS parts that no one really cares about. i have seen some minor stuff like exterior trim moldings that appear to be in new packaging popping up but that's about it. the S5 rotors are near identical to the FD so i could imagine they could be made in runs with FD engine parts but i haven't seen anywhere listing any other S5 engine parts for sale. if they're not taking advantage of importing to the US it's kind of silly to even reproduce the parts in the first place.

 

see that is the thing, the listing has been there the whole time, and its worked the whole time. you can't bring stuff back if it never left

 

i suppose, but those parts don't mean a whole lot if you can't get engines to keep the cars on the road or transmission parts to keep the driveshaft spinning. can't hop down to the parts store and buy a turbo CV half shaft anymore. know what i mean? the real important stuff is unobtanium, like A pillar trim, rear speaker covers, dash vents, windshields.

 

Ray Crowe is my standard go-to for real OEM parts (i.e. not swapped with aftermarket and sold as OEM...) with a nice discount and great service.

 

Is Ray Crow still around? He was my source for parts for many years! Anybody know?

 

I contacted Ray back in November to order some front control arm bushings. He had a quick turn around on emails. He was friendly and very helpful.

Unfortunately, I flaked in the sale after more consideration about a two week arrival time. I was short on cash and time. Hopefully he will be forgiving when email again.

Knowing how things go, the part will be out of stock everywhere by now.

I heard he was off-line for a minute. I was going to email him today and didn't. I will try again tomorrow. I can keep you posted if you like.

 

Like me and replacing my windshield. the car came with a crack in it, it's lived with the crack for the 21 years i've owned the car so it was easy to forget about it. now that windshields are NLA i stare at it every time i look at the car.

I'm sure i could find one with some effort but it's going to involve either me carefully removing one from a donor car in a really weird location, on a super hot day with bugs biting every inch of my skin while paying up front whether i get it out in one piece or not. or paying $1500 to have an OEM incorrect one installed (i think the only ones available were vert windshields which IIRC fit but don't have the windshield antenna or tint, and for $900 i kind of want a factory correct windshield). Then there's the $300 in windshield moldings that are pretty well cooked after 38 years of florida, nevada and california sun.

Sometimes it's best to get things done while they're fresh on your mind rather than later.

 

I was looking through ebay listings and some new windshield trim was still available. A few pieces of mine are in rough shape, too. I assume that the crack in the windshield is to big to repair?

 

the trim is still made new and available, ironically the windshields don't appear to be and are quite hard to find so it kind of makes the point of having seals available rather moot(though the side trim can be replaced without the windshield). The used ones on ebay are complete trash, i keep getting people sending me offers on theirs and i keep telling them they belong in a dumpster, not on a car. who's gonna pay $100 for windshield side moldings that look like a saw blade? they're worse than the ones on my car and mine are trash. They're still not quite cheap though, $300 for a set new.

My crack runs a loop from the bottom of the windshield in a big circle then to the A pillar, the crack itself is about 3 feet long but it's not in my direct line of sight, if it was a small star crack or one beginning i would probably repair it but this one has always been DOA.

I just never actually saw my car as collectible until recently. the drift kids turned 1/2 a million FCs into scrap, it's ironic to actually see nice condition FCs actually rare now, but the manufacturers of aftermarket parts have abandoned them. that includes auto glass makers.

unfortunately now that i have the time and desire to fix up my car now i'm unemployed and on very limited income so stuff like the windshield will likely have to remain broken. sometimes i come across people parting out FCs with intact windshields but it's a gamble, $200 for a windshield and probably $200 for a shop to do a "damageless" extraction. if the windshield breaks i'm still obligated to pay roughly $400 and that still doesn't count putting it in my car even if they get it out in one piece. with new seals and trim it's a $1000 job for a used windshield, i'd be better off trying to have a new old stock aftermarket sourced and shipped and be into it about the same price with a no worry guarantee, the issue is finding a new old stock one though and having a glass shop care enough to get it(most do not care that much, here in florida gravel and broken windshields are a big thing so they have plenty of work).

so the gremlin crack is just gonna have to stay, at least for a while longer.

 

Yeah. I understand. These cars are no longer a cheap to keep going. Fortunately, I saved many parts. I would have saved more if I had more space.

I contacted Ray and he is still going, thanks Ray!