This is the best thing anyone has posted on this thread!^^^

 

Nice! You need to check out your suspension. I tooks higher than stock.

 

dude...geez it took me about 12 years to get my fd. just take of the car kid and dont drive like an idiot. also too, try your hardest not to spill all of your cash into that thing. trust me....its like being a crack addict ( not that i know how that is but i can guess : )

 

i bought mine when i was 21. and i still haven't driven it yet. lol

 

WHAT?? $1115 per month for insurance?? HOLY ****!! What part of Cali is that?? Unless you are one horrific driver with DUI and many many accidents, I just can't see paying 12k per year for insurance.

 

There is no way you are the primary driver of that FD to have a rate that cheap.

 

All these posts... yet, we still haven't heard from the 17 year old kid... where is he? Did you guys scare him away???

 

I got my FD when I was 18 and insurance was 160 per month, thats with a good student discount and a clean record.

 

250 a month rull coverage here. I'm 22 and haven't had anything go on my record, not to say I haven't had tickets, just pay a little extra

 

sorry I thought i put 115/month, not 1115, I saw 115, maybe i was drugged (taking medicine on a bad *** cold) Haha, but yeah, my insurance is pretty cheap. And yes, puttin money on the car is like addictive. Bought the car 3 months ago, already spent over 3.5 overall upgrades/maintainence. But hell, i love this car =D, been waitn to get it since i was 15 !!!

 

i got my fd when i turned 16, i worked 2 years to pay for it. Paid 13k for it with 43k miles, im almost 18 and never been in an accident, no tickets, and never put a scratch on the car. I think that has alot of it to do with it, as I know how hard i worked for it and wouldnt want anything bad to ever happen to it. I hear a lot of good things about that turbo, 2 year warranty and super quick spool up. I think the kit was $2700 installed, from davinci. Anyways good luck with the car, IMO you need some new wheels asap, as you are going to need a lot more traction. Im ordering work termist tm1 soons in 18x9 and 18x10 so goodluck and be careful.

 

insurane is 2000 for full coverage under my mom and i bought the car for 13500
i paid for more than half and borrowed the rest from parents. then engien has 9000 on rebuild

 

I wanna know what kind of jobs people are getting to be able to pay for a FD at 16 and 17, I'm 19 and bought a FD and pay for it myself (luckly I have a decent job =p), but seriously, how much do you get paid at 16? I was making minimum wage trying to afford a used neon.

 

Bought my FD at 21 for 13.9, had 59k miles on it, put 1400 down pay 292 a month on it, and my insurance is 315 a month (few tickets). All payed for by me, and now I support myself and my girlfriend, and still pay for the car. Needless to say, its only slightly above stock. Oh yeah, I do all my own work on it too.

 

my mom bought it for me .for 20,000 whith 800 miles

 

Good luck to you, you're going to need it. Please read the following ADVICE carefully, with an open mind. I'm not saying any of this to offend you, I just want to pass along a few things that I learned (sometimes the hard way) when I was your age.


My opinion is that teens shouldn't drive FD's. They're not a good learner's car. If you haven't already learned to drive well in an underpowered car with decent handling, you will NOT develop good car-control skills in an overpowered car with very good handling. The handling limits of the FD are so high that you won't be able to recover once you've found them.



Whether you can admit it or not, teens simply lack the experience (which develops the necessary skills and judgement) required to pilot something with the power-to-weight-ratio of an FD. There are many things that can ONLY be learned from experience, and driving is one of them. It's a physical skill like running or playing basketball; you can't get better at driving just by thinking about it or trying to be careful.



What's more, mistakes, accidents, or lapses of judgement can be expensive or fatal in a car, and a high-powered car will cause everything to be happening at much faster speeds, which leaves less room for inexperience.



Since you already own the car, you're going to need to learn quickly. Attend a race-driving school, it will teach you how to properly control your car. Start autocrossing, it's a very safe place to learn car control. Expect to spin out a lot, but be glad you'll be hitting cones and not guardrails.



Here are a few examples, all from the past year. Don't become another stastic.
https://www.rx7club.com/3rd-generation-specific-1993-2002-16/one-less-94-chaste-white-road-405893/
https://www.rx7club.com/3rd-generation-specific-1993-2002-16/boost-bald-tires-sand-%3D-ouch-361006/
https://www.rx7club.com/3rd-generation-specific-1993-2002-16/another-stupid-16-year-old-368567/
https://www.rx7club.com/3rd-generation-specific-1993-2002-16/almost-blind-one-eye-curb-checked-fd-%3D-359402/
https://www.rx7club.com/3rd-generation-specific-1993-2002-16/i-owned-myself-pictures-tommorow-452405/



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i have been driving for almost 3 years now and have 3 cars. My first one which is a toyota pick up and my bagged mazda b2000 and now my rx7.

 

im 17........and my mommy or daddy didnt do ****. iv been workin out in the heat for like 4 years....and i still owe fukn money on it. its worth it though

 

Haha, sounds like the same boat im in. But im 18 now. Well lets see...Im makin $200.00 payments a weeks, and I still owe $12,000.00...How many months is that gonna be?

Oh well, I love my baby anyways!

 

I saw an fd for the first time when I was like 18, I was working 3 jobs(total of 60hours a week), and was a senior in HS(full schedule of classes). I bought my FD in cash after 3.5months. I <3 no car payments! Oh an btw, I've been paying 500bucks a month in rent to my parents since I was 16(I know it was illegal for them to do it, but I couldnt do **** about it!) I still find it crazy that a 17 year old has a single turbo fd, thats alot of power to handle, I dont reccomend driving it in the rain, you'll be doing 360's all day loooong!

 

This is the first useful post in almost three full pages. Congratulations.

 

Try and hang onto her. She'll be a lot more then you can handle

 

MAN i know how you feel. im 22 and i worked for about 2 years at 92+ hours a WEEK to get that car. i quit becouse i got burned out. no days off for 3 months in alaska. it was worth it lol

 

I'm 24 and im still saving up for an rx-7. Nice ride though, be safe and take care of her.

 

17 years old with a fd
it could work..just take care of it and have plenty of money set aside for it if anything happens