OutCold

Out of all the time u spend with your Rx, Are you mostly driving or repairing it?

A poll just for kicks, ive spent all my time so far in the garage, i was curious if everyone else had the same "relationship" (amount of problems) with their Rx-7

And i dont mean tuning and styling, i mean doing crusial repairs!

The Shaolin

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My first '7 saw a whole summer worth of road time, and probably only 2 or 3 weeks total of garage time.

My current '7 has seen about a year of garage time. I dropped an N/A engine and limped it around the block a handful of times with a giant vacuum leak and virtually no brakes. one year in garage>>>>>>1 hour of run time.

I've got all the turbo swap parts at home, hopefully that ratio switches around when I get home

clokker

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My '91 NA has racked up over 25K miles since I bought her in Dec. 2006, so she's had very little "garage" time.
As my sole daily driver I can't afford the luxury of extended down time, so projects are carefully preplanned and then executed in weekend orgies of labor.

I was lucky and bought a real trooper and also spent quite a bit of effort completely replacing subsystems (brakes, cooling, suspension) so I didn't have to deal with niggling, unexpected failures.
Preventive maintenance, FTW!

Naturally, I now expect to go outside and find an apex seal in my exhaust pipe...

Rx-7fetish

Had mine for about 4 years, ive only driven it for about a year and a half

SDrotary-FC

my newer n/a has never been down since ive had it , my old n/a was 95% road 5% shop

Alex Rodriguez

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Well for the last year when i began building my car it was garaged but the year before that it was on the road and now since the build its been on the road too

i always come up to a problem here and there but hey its a rx7 it will happen

Rx-7fetish

Im only 19, i bought it when i was 15. Mine wouldnt have been down for so long if i had known anything about rotaries when i bought it, i liked the concept but was completely lost on how it worked. I think now the amount of work i have done to it would only take me about 6 months. Most of my down time was just learning how to set up my new engine after the first original blew. I wanted to know what everything did, not just say its needs that to run but i dont know why.

glhs0867

I have been running the same RX7 for 15 years

never needed a shop for help, except when I had a custom transmission made.

never broke down except, when thermo stat went bad, just pulled it out on highway tossed it on side of road and kept going..

ITSWILL

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The only time my 7 is out of commission is because I am upgrading something.

Osirus9

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My 7 made it about 300 miles home on a blown motor when I first bought her over a year ago. over the course of ownership I've probobly put less than 1000 miles on the car, and the last time i filled up the tank I thought $3 was expensive for gas. since then I've attempted a rebuild, failed, had my turbo rebuilt, replaced the wiring harness and god know how many other parts. My engine is out of the car again now, and being shipped to RR as we speak. I just hope after he works his magic on it i'll actually be able to drive the damn thing!

rotorymanincraig

This year has not been so kind to my car. Since the beginning of the year I have put 19 miles on my car. Im putting some time in tonight and hopefully be driving it this weekend. I think that my garage/road ratio is about 90/10.

Rudy Kohn

Voted: "in the shop."

My seven sat parked for about a year, as I had another car, and the seven wouldn't pass emissions. With the passing of my other car, I've spent a considerable amount of time in the last month working on the car/having work done.

It still didn't pass emissions, but I got a waiver, so it's now street legal.

Hopefully, it will be mostly road time from here on out, but I'll probably end up tinkering with things on weekends anyway.

Tyler [S5 FC]

I've had my 89 GXL for over a year, and has spent 3 months in the shop total (Dumb bitch cut me off and crashed into me, bad OMP, busted oil cooler lines, bad master cylinder and electrical short in my headlight switch.)

Other than that she runs great! ha

Phower

Have had mine on the road for 2 summers, only thing ive changed is the tranny mounts. 91 turbo2 convertible

Brismo7

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well, i bought my car in June of 2006.

I got it on the road as of June 2008.

So, 2 years in "the shop" (my garage) and only a couple months so far on the road. So i guess i'm a "Mostly in the shop" guy.

Its only been down for a few days since i got it on the road (T2 Diff swap, fix this, fix that) So, now i'm enjoying the Fruits of my Hard labor and Invested Time.