im am about to purchase an rx7, and i was looking at a 92 rhd automatic 1.3l twin turbo the seller imported from japan and has 107 000 km i was wondering what you think would be a fair price and how long generally rx7's with that mileage will last for, thanks

 

I would say 10k if I really wanted the car. Hopefully some things have been done and they have reciepts.

 

Um, you need to post this in the 3rd gen section.

As for what to pay for it, I have no idea. it's weird in a bunch of different ways; RHD, automatic, imported... and it's twin-turbo, to go along with the auto transmission. weird.

 

10k canadian. check www.jdmskyline.com

If it was domestic id say between 12 and 18k is normal but for a JDM you dont want to pay over 11k

 

yea around 10k seems right, maybe even a little high.
its an auto and you have no idea of its history so you can only assume its been driven to ****

 

alright thanks that helps alot, im on a tight budget and i didnt want to offer to much since im planning on doing numerous modifications

 

I would suggest you don't buy it at all if you are on a tight budget. Also if blowing the engine is the end of the world to you I would again suggest you do not buy it.

I was recently at the dockyards where ALL jdm vehicles are coming into North America right now, and let me tell you there were so many beat up RX-7's and dissapointed owners it wasn't funny.

I would suggest you get a GTS-T or GTS-4 skyline instead as it will be more reliable for less money, and the engine technology is much more north america friendly.

If your rotary engine breaks in winnipeg you are basically going to be totally dependent on this forum and yourself to fix the problem.

 

well, I ended up not buying the car for several reasons:

1. Needed an aftermarket ecu as there were larger injectors/other modifications that the stock ecu couldnt handle. Also need a proper tune ( I just wish I could have drove it with that tune because even with the stock ecu that think kicked hard at WOT)

2. Dealer sold it behind my back ( now out of business because of other shady deals)

The other day, like beginning of october I took it to my local shop to have the FD I bought from the states modified with an intake. When I got there the one I was first looking at was sitting there.

I asked the guy who owns the shop and he said it blew like 3 MOTORS ( 2 rebuilds and one other motor they ordered in). So at that time I thought damn, I got lucky.

Well now I found out that he is trying to sell it for what he bought it for or a little less ( like $6,200 canadian).

The rear rotor has low compression and needs a rebuild, so I was thinking of buying it, and rebuilding it but $6200 is so high.

I was thinking of offering him $3,500, it has a spare engine as well as the one that needs a rebuild, 2 sets of tires, new exhaust. Just based on the for sale section ads.

So I was wondering now what price you guys think.

 

3.5k would be good.
you could get a good rebuild, convert it to manuel transmission and have a nice car for 7k or so.
sounds like you would also need an aftermarket ecu to run those injectors (or get some stock injectiors to go with stock ECU). proberbly the reason why its blown 3 engines

 

alright thats great to hear, thanks 96fd3s.

Actually I was thinking that as well (the ecu issue), because I just assumed he bought an ecu for it, but it makes sense that he just bought the car and cheaped out, didnt buy an ecu and blew it up.