Or go buy a C5 and leave the 7's for the rotary enthusiasts. ;)

Actually my stock is paying me $.19 on the dollar as an annual dividend (which is skyhigh in terms of dividends), has paid that dividend for the past 2 years consistently and I do not foresee it going down anytime soon as Ben Bernanke's 60 minutes interview suggested that he not lower the Fed's interest rates for years to come. In 2 years time I am going to try to get a 2nd job, a professional career that has the potential for promotions or other career oppurtunity's, while I work my first job that pays me a better salary than some sap working at Walmart. I mention all this as I want to give an FD a good home.

Through dividends and wealth accumulation, I can set my own income to what I need it to be prior to purchasing a liability, and I enjoy doing my homework prior to a stock purchase. And if the market goes down, that makes for a great buying oppurtunity more than a huge loss for me.

I was mentioning that as I want to make sure I get my ducks lined up in a row this time, prior to purchasing a finicky automobile, unlike what happened with the MR2, I am well aware what I can get into if I get another turbo japanese import. This time Im gonna try to do things as right as possible, do plenty of research on the car and make sure I have finances to give the car a good home, and I will not cheap by buying one in poor condition, I want one that already runs really good the moment I purchase it, looks great, and give it a thorough inspection.

and there are RX7 owners locally that Im sure would be glad to help out a fellow enthusiast, I doubt they are that elitist to not want to help someone new with their FD. There is a local sports car garage that had an FD, and several speedshops locally that seem to know their way around an FD.

I would also consider a LS6/LS7 swapped FD as a potential candidate since you guys make the motor out to be somewhat of a hastle to get it to run right.

Oh and I don't like C5's, way too common, I prefer rare cars.

They aren't a hassle if you have the right people work on them. Thats what everyone is trying to say.

lol

+1

Eh based on this thread as well as one of my MR2 friends advice, I need to focus my money and time on some serious wealth/income accumulation before creating daydream threads like me buying an FD RX7.

Sorry for wasting your time with my daydreams of someday owning an FD.

Or just buy one and roll with the punches. Learn from the problems. That's how I did it. No biggie. It can get expensive. But when it comes to the love for certain things, you wont let anything stop you from getting it so just go for it.

Obviously you've been a member since 06 so I'm sure you know a bit about the RX7 already.

As a lot of members already posted,

FD's require a lot of time, effort, budget and patience.

If you're not familiar with auto maintenance, I'd stick with something like an s2000.

S2000's are incredibly fun, reliable and fast at the track right out of the box.

Good luck.

I know its just I LOVE the styling of the FD. To me its the best looking car that came out of the 90's. Its a big goal for me to accomplish and I want to be dead positive that I give such a car, a GREAT home and do not cheap out on anything on it, and for that to happen, I really need to focus on wealth and income accumulation first, unlike how I did with my MR2 Turbos'

I would settle for another MR2, but the FD is a dream I have always wanted to acheive. Currently, I putt around in a 95 miata thats had its headunit jacked, on the *cheap* while I figure out what car I want to get. I would also consider a yellow 2002 Miata SE and a 2004 Turbo miata, but I consider the FD RX7 to be one of the ultimate GT cars to ever come out of Japan and to be an ultimate dream car I want to own sometime in my life, unlike the S2000.

Well get an FD man, like everyone else is saying take the leap. First of all we dont need to know about your finacial status or stocks. You can be filthy rich and the FD will still be 17 yrs old so problems will come and go. Its how you go about fixing them.

This isnt a negative reply just though you should know it doesnt take someone with deep pockets to own a fd nowadays.

St Lou has 65 police departments out of 93 municipalities??? Holy EFF!

^Above Post^ that statistic is according to the St. Louis County Police Lieutenant I had for a CRJ teacher in Criminal Justice Policy class I had, and based on my observations of driving through St. Louis area, I am highly inclined to believe him. It is a very fragmented area for police jurisdictions and is unlike most metro areas in the country.

Well I can get this for about $10k, cant say I care for the Lambo doors, but it might keep me happy.

Has a tad less hp than my MR2 when it ran *right* (about a week)

http://stlouis.craigslist.org/cto/2135415964.html

Or this1

http://stlouis.craigslist.org/cto/2130195092.html

As long as you have the finances to take care of an FD and maintain it.

By all means, welcome to the club

If the bottom one runs like they say it does thats a steal. I would be real cautious about buying an fd that is advertised as basically perfect for 6800. Who knows though, it might be as advertised and be a steal. If the bottom one needed an engine rebuild you would still be getting a good deal in my opinion, at least based on the pics.

if its a goal for you to own an FD and you can purchase one then by all means, take the leap. If you can find a well sorted sequential twin turbo car with all the reliability mods that would make a great place to start. They are finicky, but the unreliability has been blown way out of proportion.

When I was 17 I posted a similar question here on the forums and got similar replies as you, "FD is not for you" "FD's will break down a lot" etc etc.

5 years later, granted I bought my FD with 37K miles and now im at 52K, I am increadibly happy that I was stubborn enough to still buy a FD. IF you really want an FD and feel financial stable, why not? Ive had a few mechanical issues here n there but nothing catastrophic. Ive enjoyed my car everyday of its ownership. The positives do outweight the negatives... IF you do things right.

- Make sure you either buy a clean, maintained lower mileage car OR a rolling chassis and get the motor built by a known builder (this I recommend, it will be cheaper)
- Make sure you do all reliability mods, and TUNE it by a known tuner (MOST IMPORTANT)

Im the type that likes to find things out myself and not take peoples word.. People swore that Id be buying apex seals as often as I buy toilet paper but to be honest, I am still on my original motor making 330whp; and I track my car a lot with a very heavy foot.
My .02cents

My opinion is if you want one then get one, but make sure your prepared to do some work on it yourself if there isn't a rotary shop near you. If I compare my FD to my FC my FD likes to suck up more money, there's always a part out there I must buy for it cause I want it or doing maintenance work or upgrades and finding something rigged and having to get more parts in order to get it correct. Driving it is a huge blast though and is worth all the hard work I put into it.