my wife accuses me of being obsessed

 

I remarried the day I bought mine....

 

yeah... I have the same problem.
congrats on the buy, I remember when I first got my first one about a year and a half ago, I was exactly the same, you couldn't pry me from the car with a pry bar. Like it's been stated, r1 lip, lowering springs, and then search for "reliability mods" and do those. You'll love the car.

I also suggest a car to drive daily. By far my best investment.

 

gratz on the purchase. man i miss boise idaho. lots of open long roads and the snow was perfect. keep it in the garage man! make room for it lol. be prepared to spend a ton of money. that is the biggest thing any new fd owner has to know....i knew the basics of the car but nothing more...bought it for 15 and now close into 10k of add ons and counting and ive only had the car april 09.... im hella broke but happy just being able to drive it once or twice a week lol.

 

Front lips are gay (so are wings) and both are USELESS for the street (just extra drag)....don't screw up a good thing with a bunch of rice ****...lowering springs and Bilsteins, yes

 

dagoof, you have a PM on the Battery Tray.

 

dude I've been reading some of your posts about the definition of rice and damn you are way overboard... A front lip, 99 spec front

Whats next? car wax? lol....

 

One recommendation, buy an extinguisher

 

Congrats man on being an owner of such a fascinating car! Keep reading the forums they help alot! Just do what you're planning on doing and that will be great. Then from there you can do bigger and better things later on down the road

 

I'm curious...did this car come from a forum member? Congrats on joining the club. There is great support from others here....you'll be amazed.

 

It's in the original post.

 

Welcome to the forum. Read, then read some more before purchasing anything.

Start saving b/c the FD is already hungry.

 

Nope. I've liked this car for a long time. Then when I started thinking about buying a new car to go with my truck that's always a project, I got curious to see if there were any RX7's around and how much they would cost. There are not very many of these in Idaho, and there is not even a nearby Mazda dealership. So, I searched online on Cars.com and Autotrader.com. There was only one within five hundred miles me, but it just happened to be close to my house, all stock, only 60K miles, and listed at a reasonable price. The owner had bought it online from an old guy in New Mexico. I guess I'm lucky, cuz this is probably the one that I would have wanted anyways, and it just happened to be the only one within a reasonable distance of me.

 

congratulations on your newly purchased FD! take good care of it man

so now that you're part of the addiction, i suggest you begin saving up best you can. the FD requires lots of attention and it will put your love to the test. dont worry too much tho, good care and responsibility for it, will lead to the car paying you back with euphoric pleasure on the road.

 

This is very good advice.

 

For real!.. since when is an OEM lip rice? Maybe you would consider 18's rice since FD's came with 16's?.... You make no sense man.

 

I just realized that the wheels on my car have seven spokes.

I think that is fitting for an RX7

 

Awesome! That's quite similar to the story of my first FD, I was looking at one in Texas, but a local owner that let me drive his to see if I liked it was considering selling his, and ended up selling it to me for a very reasonable price. Once again congrats and happy Rotoring once the snow and streets clear up.

I also recommend a fire extinguisher. Consider it cheap insurance.

 

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You can see my other project in the background. I'm in for a big change. I'll be going from a carbureted 302 V8 4X4 ranger to the new FD.

 

got it figured out

sorry for the bump

 

Congrats on the new car. Be good to her, but not too good if you know what I mean

 

I'm one of the few in Idaho that have an FD and have many stock and aftermarket parts. Just PM if you need anything.

 

No way you can spend to much time on here As a new FD owner this is what you are suppose to do.

 

I've been an owner for almost two years and I still don't think I spend too much time on here, some other people that I know think differently...

 

R1 lips is amazing, you shut your ***** mouth.