ummmm......16X ??? or, is it that after developing that engine they realised its pointless..?

 

the new CEO says no only cars that will make him rich are going into production . mazda is going the way of the honda

 

Wasn't yours an auto? if you are looking for attention you will be happy with your decisions. If you are looking for the thrill factor you have sold the two best options and about to purchase a lot of let down. Great for attention and can be incredible when built. Just a lot of money for a low 12 second car.

 

On topic I think we all go through this in the winter. I finally purchased a fun 4 door daily(E55 with all the bolt ons) and it doesn't make me feel as bad about the FD sitting during bad weather. The only other vehicles that "do it" for me are Vipers and Campagna Trex. The TRex is the only other vehicle I have owned that when I sold it I immediately missed it. However the viper and TRex are far less practical in the winter than the FD.

 

Had a great time driving mine on track last weekend.

My GT3 was getting fixed up some with a new diff, exhaust work etc.... it's delivered to me at the track and I take it out for a lap or two to see if it's OK. It's fine but doesn't hold a candle to my FD and this is a pretty well prepped GT3.

I'll ALWAYS have an FD there's is nothing like it

PS In the fall winter and spring I just buy more of them LOL

 

I have driven many manual FDs on the street and several on the track, anywhere ranging from 300whp to 750whp+. As I have always stated, the FD is an incredible value for what it is and for under $20k it can't be beat. This is a FD forum, obviously the responses are going to be biased - ask another forum the best 90s car and you will get responses like NSX or mkiv Supra. With that being said, I much prefer a FD than Viper on the track, putting the excessive amount of torque to the side. Depending on what I decide, the Gallardo or Murci will be going to UR for a twin turbo kit...Thrill factor solved.

 

My dad had a 512BB when i was a kid. He poured money into it for a few years, then went back to Porsches. He's got a TurboS now...Man, it's a nice car, and it doesn't spend half it's life (and half his bank account) at Bruce Canepa getting tuned.

If you do all your own work on the Lambo, you will save yourself 10s of thousands of dollars every year. I wonder what a Gallardo fuel pump costs? Installed by someone like Canepa?

 

Maintenance on a modern Lambo is extremely inexpensive as they have gotten much more reliable than their predecessors ie diablo and countach. Unless you break something you won't spend more than a few hundred on annual maintenance for the G, the clutch is roughly $4-5k and needs to be changed every 20k miles. I already looked at insurance quotes and that will run $1100/yr with less than 3000 miles driven annually. Aftermarket parts are another story, a decent aftermarket fiberglass LP front bumper runs $4,000 before paint and install, ss exhausts start at $3k.

 

$100,000+ for that Murci turbo kit ain't exactly extremely inexpensive, but who wouldn't want to own a Lambo one day?

 

Haha so true, SP engineering and SHP can build a tt Murci for much cheaper than UR - I wouldn't include that under maintenance though :p

 

Why does it matter the amount of money that was spent on the car? Everyone hears over and over " I don't want to think about how much I have invested in this thing". I want to know why it matters. It is not a investment, it is a hobby. it is a HOBBY. Some people have different hobby's such as, drugs, airplanes, sewing, remolding things, slot cars, animals, vacations and the list goes on and on. What would you do if you sold it? Get bored complain about how you should have never sold it, stay on the forum and browse until it gets warm and buy another. You just like me Live where there is 4 seasons and winter is one of them. I love this time of year for us. It is a perfect excuse to spend money that we work hard for and on something that we enjoy. I woke up this morning, opened my computer smiled payed $450.00 for my custom fuel filters and 1700.00 on new housings. If things like that don't make you happy, move onto the next hobby, something you enjoy. Money is money, that's all it is. It comes and goes. When your dead your dead, enjoy it while you can.

 

Stop spending money on 'mods' and drive the car!

Mods does not equal investment. It's an expense. Just like rent.

I find it amazing how long people are willing to have the FD off the road for extended periods of times. I get antsy if I can't drive the car whenever I want. Even mild bolt-ons the car is a blast to drive.

 

I talk to my wife about 2
And deeply inside the first one that wants me to sell my car is her
But when she see that am really thinking about it
She tells me not think about it because the one who is going to deal with me crying about it later is her lol

 

Took notes. but I don't want a lambo or anything. I like my rx7.

 

+1

I just want to get my car on the road and DRIVE DRIVE DIVE , forget about POWAR , or other silly mods I just want to get in and drive it everywhere M car was down for 6 months , and now will probably be down a couple more weeks , but not really for mods just getting the car running correctly

 

Me. I want a car, not a fashion statement.
Finally...this! ^
A while back I mentioned in another thread that I quit trying to make my car "faster" a long time ago. Now I just focus on making it "better". IMO there's a difference. It's also cheaper and way more fun than looking at it sitting in the garage or at the shop.

 

Just buy an older snowmobile, It will keep you busy having to fix it constantly plus it will make your FD seem reliable

 

Sell the frame only buy and frs and put the entire drivetrain on it

 

MOREBONER, quit your bitching.


Buy more parts to make the other part purchases seem trivial. Thats what I do.


Once you get on track next year you will never want to sell it. If you do sell it, I got dibs on the Fikses.

 

"A while back I mentioned in another thread that I quit trying to make my car "faster" a long time ago. Now I just focus on making it "better". IMO there's a difference. It's also cheaper and way more fun than looking at it sitting in the garage or at the shop"



This is the stage I am at currently at and couldn't agree more...
I finaly realized that I am constantly making changes and not driving the car enough. I have made the decision to reverse that and I am having a blast with her.... Loving every minute of it...

 

You need to remember that the FD performance makes it a real supercar, and it out performs almost all supercars since the first Lambo. For the money it is unbeatable as a driver car and not a showoff I am rich car.

Sure mine has pissed me off since buying it in June 1992, but so does my wife once and a while.

The real question is, do you have the ***** to be a FD owner like me?

It is also fun improving it every few years so that it is still faster and better than most new high cost supercars.

 

Same for me. Perfectly satisfied with what I have now .............. of course, most of you "kids" don't know how to do that

 

About the only money Ive spent on my car in the last couple years is on tires, spark plugs and oil. I spent a good amount on building it the way I wanted but once I felt I was pretty much done with it its really not expensive at all.

 

Think about how unique the Fd rx7 is. If anything the winter should make you crazy because you want to drive it, not make you sell it.

 

Haha, that made me laugh .

I was without an FD for 2 years, ended up convincing myself that buying another was a sensible thing to do. Once initiated into FD ownership, you cannot escape .