ejmack1

I think its pretty commonplace for our cars to see a little down time each year. For those of us that are in college that time is even greater. I had my engine blow on me Last January. Since then I have replaced:

Engine: Reman
Tranny: Reman
Turbo: Single Turbo Conversion
PFC
Front Mount
Radiator
Complete Fuel Setup
CWest Body Kit
Complete BLack interior Conversion
AC/PS Removal
Painted Engine Bay
And preparing to paint car

And everything else that comes along with those tasks...

So how long has yours been down?

GsrSol

Well lets see, ~400rwhp on stock twins, very very heavy foot, a 10 year old car, yea I break alot of stuff.

croatian 3gen

Mine has been down for two weeks...vacuum hose leak. I'm going to take it to rotary power after New year

96Rx7

mine for 13 months (blown engine), It's been running now for 2 weeks.Almost everything you see in the signature has been added during these 13 months.

Larz

MY 7 stays running. My 626 has been down for a long time. I think it needs a new timing belt, but it's a big pain in the ***.

ejmack1

I was going on nearly 3 years before mine decided to break... 3 years with no problems... man that was nice

HedgeHog

More than i liked but less than JimLab.

adam c

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When something needs fixing, the car doesn't leave me stranded. It has never stopped running. Most of the time that I can't drive it is because I took it apart to mod something.

ejmack1

Maybe I should have put an option for those that don't remember how long it has been down for

jimlab

I'm well aware of how long my RX-7 has been down...

Saturday, May 17, 1998

GsrSol

I know they say good things come to those who wait, but damn Jim!

jdhuegel1

Almost a year now... goddammit...

adam c

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Wow, thats the best way I have heard to keep your mileage low. Not much depreciation there!

jimlab

Well, considering that I had a BPU+ Supra or an '02 Z06 to keep me occupied during most of that time, the wait hasn't been that bad.

SVT Squasher

My FD was down for 5 monthes waiting for a turbo rebuild (parts to get back), 755 miles after turbos were put back on I have a major coolent leak, I havent had time and the weather has been to cold to realy look for it but I think its going to be real bad, real bad, real bad. I think I am actualy considering a V8 conversion. All this low milage **** is for the birds, the orig. motor was replaced at 50k and this one has 18k on it.

911GT2

Mine was down for about 3 months this year, not including garaged time during the winter (for the past 3 weeks).

SaiyanJin93

Well, my car been down for over 2yrs...Legal battles with the insurance company. It's all over now and will be back to life coming "SUMMER 2004" would be sooner if the weather stayed as hot as florida ...damn snow.hahahah

rotary

its down more than its up. but not for long getting it back on sat.

rotorbrain

my car has been down for over a year. . . and its all my fault. i got stupid and wanted a "really cool car". im still gonna "do everyting myself", but i doubt ill be making too many more custom parts after this intercooler installation is overwith. sheesh. . . what a headache. . .

paul

Toadman

Well maybe it's just rejecting it's heart transplant.

Sinful7

I waited 1 and a half year to get my engine rebuild!!(long story)A friend was gonna rebuild it for me but after 6 months he changed his mind decide not to do it for me, and during that time he managed to do the porting and they weren't useable because of it.
So I found another set of side plates and took it to a specialist.
Good things take time I guess

jspecracer7

My car's NEVER down for longer than 2 weeks...and most of that's waiting on parts from Mazda.

boostedrotor

7 months, nothing broke, just making some changes, shouldn't be long now...

TwinTurbo93

1 month or so, that was when I was doing the hoses and turbo rebuild and so on, for almoast 10 years that was the longest time, 2 1/2 years ago whe the first motor puked on me was only 2 weeks, daily driven 108K miles today.

lopedl

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mine has been down ever since I got it. But hopefully with the help I recieved I will be able to enjoy it soon.