Everyone Keeps Telling Me NOT to buy an RX7....
03-07-02, 10:36 AM
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Originally posted by Jonesboro
The extent to which you seem to be relying on the opinions of others suggests to me that you have not developed an independent understanding about the FD. This also suggests to me that you are not independently prepared to "own" the car and do your own work i.e. provide the proper maintenance, troubleshoot problems, make repairs, perform modifications, etc.
If you need to rely on "others" to take on your automobile ownership responsibilities, then your "others" are telling you loud and clear that you cannot rely on them when it comes to the FD.
The happy and satisfied FD owners are the ones who have accepted the responsibilities of ownership. They may seek the advice and insights of others but they rely on themselves when it comes to "owning" the car.
The extent to which you seem to be relying on the opinions of others suggests to me that you have not developed an independent understanding about the FD. This also suggests to me that you are not independently prepared to "own" the car and do your own work i.e. provide the proper maintenance, troubleshoot problems, make repairs, perform modifications, etc.
If you need to rely on "others" to take on your automobile ownership responsibilities, then your "others" are telling you loud and clear that you cannot rely on them when it comes to the FD.
The happy and satisfied FD owners are the ones who have accepted the responsibilities of ownership. They may seek the advice and insights of others but they rely on themselves when it comes to "owning" the car.
You know what I bought my 7 without knowing anything about them. I did know that supposedly the engine needed replacement around 100K miles.
Now I know a lot more, I mean owning the car IS a learning experiance.
If I were YOU, I woudl import a 99 spec FD.
#1) Its not like British cars are reliable anyway
hehe j/k#2) A 99 FD is going to be tons more relaible then the 93s that we are tooling around with here in the US anyway. The car was updated and bugs were fixed, and the Japanese take better care of them then we do in general.
#3) The cars are NOT that bad. I say that having had to replace my engine and having had an engine fire
Am I crazy? Maybe. I do know though that the engine fire started due to a minor collision, and the repalcement was due to a faulty thermostat, which if I had been more knowledgable I would have replaced in the first place and I'd still probably be on my origional engine with a ton of mods by now.#4) with a few bolt on mods and some tuning the cars can run relaibly if you don't try to tune them to max performance. i.e. run the car at 300 rwhp when its possible to get 350 rwhp out of it and your fine. Run less boost then you could, run richer then you need to, and your okay.
Go single turbo and you have few problems there too. I'm sure that a 99 wil have fine stock turbos that should do you just fine for at least 3-8 years though.
I'd buy one.
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