twinturboteddy

How much are apex seals and what are the steps to install them.

Flybye

I like this one better:

I'm going to replace my apex seals this weekend. Do I need to take my engine apart?

Spyders 7

Is this a good exhaust? I made it myself!

Flybye

FD on the crack pipe!
FD on the crack pipe!!

ilike2eatricers

DITTO.

rxrotary2_7

oh do we? that just pissed me off matty boy.
yes, you did defend all these questions in the other thread that is still a sticky. i would like to see you be a mod and take care of all this ****.
as Mahjik already said, stop bumping them to the top. i was at one point determined to stop it... what the hell was i thinking?!?!?!? LMAO!! also already stated, report post you think are worthless. there is only ONE member out of 26000+ that does this. i have to applaude mahjik for his recent efforts. he is doing a great job. but how can you stop all of it? you cant. and as the "pastor of mumpets" has already pointed out, its funny that people sounding off in this thread are the same ones from a short while ago who asked the question the older members are poking fun at.
i am not claiming i am better than anyone else, and this post will mean absoultly nothing in a few days.

Dougie_fresh_007

mmmk id give it a try lol

GarageBoy

yes, Dougie_fresh_007, I am 14.

Dougie_fresh_007

well perhaps the youth will be safe... starting young is a good idea in all aspects of life... by the time u can drive u wont be retarded like ur friends will be

ttb

yea, but most people who get aftermarket wheels go wider, or lower profile for less flexing, so it's indeed a performance mod.

MakoDHardie

What about that moron who got on last night and started talking **** about just getting an FD an how fast it was because his 'bro' did a 6 cylinder swap and tuned it and it makes mad power now....like he drops it in 3rd and spins mad tire.... Idiot didn't even know what kind of motor was in the car. If you can't pop the hood of your car and not be able to figure out what kind of engine it is, you wouldn't even know what you're looking at if you had the stock one still in there. Why do trash people take any interest in cars? Understanding the mechanics and physics of them takes a decent amount of intellect which it seems none of them have. NOS is not the ultimate thing and lowering a car is not all you do to make it handle better. It just seems ridiculous that out off all the car forums there are out there, they have to log onto the RX-7 Club. As if they're not already over their heads when they get the idea, they decided to come to a rotary forum... Geez. The internet is not a good thing for people who should be studying and doing their homework to go back and finish high school. It really disgusts me to think about the % of uneduated people in the US population. And we thought it was ok to start fixing other countries' problems... After the War on Terror, lets declare another one on idiocy.

87T2

Apparently they should add a disclamer to this forum... "In order to post here you must know everything about RX-7's and cars in general"

I don't understand the big deal about people posting questions that many of you may find "stupid" and "ignorant"

People come here to learn about the car... they should be able to ask any question without fear of condemnation.

The RX-7Forum is by far the least tolerant of n00b questions out of any msg forum I have been on. Which doesn't make any sense to me because the RX-7 has the most misunderstood engine in the automotive scene

It just really drives me crazy how people who may be very knowledgable about these engines won't answer the n00b's questions because well... they are soo above that. What the **** kind of community is that?!

Dougie_fresh_007

we arnt saying that notable questions have validity... however we are sayin that we get alot of ingnorant young kids who think hondas are the shiznit, and that the rx7 is a 250000 dollar car from grand tursimo 3.... if the question is valid we try our best to help however if it is somthing rediculous we treat it as such... people also need to use the search button... i am a firm believer that not many highschool kids have the experiance with rotaries like i have... and i am far from being a master... however i dont ask things like some of these kids do... discression is the better part of valor

Chronos

UNCLE SAM NEEDS YOU!

Ban rap music, create bigger speed bumps, throw pebbles in the street and cause homie-g rollin on his 20's to crash, Support the war on idiocy!

BicuspiD

" I can pick up a used 20B from Japan for about $2500 - It will just bolt right in to my FD right? Do I need the ECU?"

jimlab

Perhaps new forum members should be required to read a tutorial on posting before being allowed into general population to eliminate some of the hostility.

It's one thing to post a "stupid" (naive) question because you don't know any better. It's another to post it with a non-descriptive or misleading title, or to babble on in a one sentence paragraph about something no one can understand and which must be deciphered before any further action can be taken. Put a little effort into helping others help you, in other words.

If you're asking for help, at least have the common courtesy to clearly state what you're asking for in the post title, and then continue with a clear description of the problem in the body of the post. Outline what you've attempted to do to resolve the issue that hasn't worked, and what you think you need help on. Don't come here and act like you expect people to solve your problem for you without any effort on your part.

It's not a pre-requisite to know the rotary engine back to front before posting on this forum. It should be a pre-requisite to have a decent grasp of the written English language and knowledge of how to clearly and concisely describe your problem so that others don't have to do extra work in order to help you.

Using the search functionality intelligently seems to be a barrier for some. By at least stating that you've already tried to search and possibly listing the words you tried, you could go a long way towards defusing people's ire. Someone might even help you refine your search so that you can find the information you need on your own.

It's one thing to ask for help. It's another to appear to assume that others are here solely to help you or to appear to be too lazy to use the tools provided to find answer on your own before resorting to relying on others... just something to think about.

Some questions aren't just naive, they show a complete lack of knowledge about cars or engines in general.

Everyone has to start learning somewhere, but there are plenty of places to find information on this type of subject matter without bothering other people or forcing them to give you an introductory course on automotive subjects or history before they can answer your question. Bring something to the table. Make an effort. People will be more willing to help someone who appears to want to help themselves than someone who appears to just want a free handout.

Should and can are two different things.

There are no rules that dictate that a member is required to answer another member's question. People post answers of their own free will, and when the service is voluntary, people don't like to feel like they're being taken for granted or taken advantage of. Once again, putting some effort into formulating questions and at least appearing to put effort into helping yourself before relying on other members would go a long way towards keeping tongues more civil.

Some of us are just very, very tired of answering the same questions over and over again.

jumprdude

To add to Jim's very well worded post above...

It is not so much that newcomers to the forum ask seemingly "naive" questions that bothers me as much as the notion that few people seem to care much about creating a good first impression of themselves anymore.

Perhaps this is an unfortunate side-effect of the internet culture, where personalities come and go seemingly at anytime, and all you really know about them is a faceless, nameless abstract and arbitrary screen name.

But I'd like to stress that it is still important to make a good first, and second, and third, and continuing impression on the community of which you've become a member. It is very easy to tell what sort of a person you are by how well you word your posts, how much time you take in making sure that people understand your position, and that your posts accurately and concisely presents your thought processes. People always think that the more mature members of the forum like to bash newbies and teenagers just because they are newbies and teenagers, but that's not true at all. It is just that this forum is getting a lot of younger members, and those members do not often think first (or sometimes, at all) before they post (heck, even the older members are guilty of this sometimes).

So, put a little more time into your posts, and put a little effort to make sure that what you ask has not been already covered 10000 times. If you have a question, make sure you give enough information so that others know you are serious, and have put in enough time on your own and are truely at a quandary, so that they would be willing to put their time and effort into helping out another member of their community. Posting a "what are some good reliability mods" when there is a thread right at the top of the forum titled "please use the search" is not going to gain you any points.


PS: being a newcomer does not give you carte blanche to ask ridiculous dumbass questions. Yes, I was a newbie once, but I'd like to think of myself as never having been a dumbass.

matty

i didnt mean to **** u off....u have helped me in the past and i didnt mean to make it look like you guys aren't doing your job...i realize it is a big job that is very labor intensive. Having said that...i think a method to police silly threads that doesnt require a mod to sit here and read every new post would be helpful to everyone. I dont know...a de-merit system or something. There are members that are repeat offenders and spread like cancers. Nipping them in the bud may prove fruitful.
I simply can not target threads that I want to read anymore. Not to mention the fact that all these immautre topics and responses turn off some of the very senior members that i want to learn from.

See, a thread like this has helped already...i learned that there is a "Report thread" function.

matty

DITTO...my problem isnt with questions that are legitimate but are noobish type (which exhaust is better) even though they could find a much better response with the search function....i have problems with the ricer questions..how do i mod my bov with a coat hanger...?

radkins

I was at the local rotary shop and some kid told me theres a guy IN TOWN (Indianapolis, yeah right) that will build me a 500hp engine for $2000. Shiiiiiiit, sign me up!

Jodeny

iTrader: (3)

Does anyone know here I can get a mint FD for under 6 grand??

John

jr

Talk to Anthony, he can hook you up.

Mahjik

iTrader: (1)

lol, I have yet to see anyone pick rims soley on performance. Most people put heavy *** 18" rims on their FD's because they "look good".

Personally, I don't have a problem with it. If someone wants to update the look of their car, I'm all for it. Of course, I'm not one of the people complaining or trying to set a standard on how people "should" update their car. I believe it's their money, they can do what they want.

However, if you really think everyone is going for aftermarket wheels for performance reasons, then you are more dissillusioned than some of the newbies that post here.

Why does it bother you? It has abolutely nothing to do with your car. While it may not be something you are concerned with, it's a "car question". Ignore the threads you don't care about. If everyone ignores the threads, they will just go away.

It's the people that posted in this thread about how they want the forum more technical, yet post into threads stuff like "OMG, here we go again" that aren't helping the situation. Sometimes I wonder who the real 17 year olds are....

If you want a mature forum, you have to act mature.

Mahjik

iTrader: (1)

Thx.

And thanks to Jonski who has sent PM's to the mods thanking them for their efforts.

black99

It just really drives me crazy how people who are not knowledgable about their engine or their car in general fail to see the sticky at the top of this page with many useful links inside of it, created especially for newbies so that newbies can learn about rotarys and the 3rd gen rx7 in general and get a good understanding.

Not to mention there is a search button and I dare to say that about 99% of every newbie question that's ever been asked can be found via search (if they use it correctly) or using the links provided in the sticky at the top of the 3rd gen section.