Pics of my new 19k mile CYM....
 

Well I just picked up my newest addition to the stable. She's an original owner, original paint/no accident CYM from Philly that has 19K original miles on motor/chasis. It has always been in a climate controlled garage and it def. shows without a doubt, all the aluminum control arms are still look new and the under belly shows that the car never say rain or snow like the owner swore. I thought lightning struck once before on my last CYM in terms of how clean and nice the car was when I bought but it struck yet agian when I went to pick this one up. The guy who owned it before me was very nice and you could tell it had been his pride and joy since he bought it new back in '93. He had the original window sticker and every receipt including many gas fill ups which was very funny to find someone about as anal as myself! I can't ask for anything more in terms of being able to find such a fine example of a well preserved stock FD in todays market. I'm very torn now because in my quest I never thought I would fine such a nice car and I'm now having reservations on whether or not to bastardize the car with a single and all the bells and whistles. But I bought a car to have fun with so now I'm at a crossing in the road as to keep the car and leave it alone (not likely), mod the hell out of it like all my other cars, or sell her to someone that will preserve the car and keep it like the museum piece she is, at least in my eyes. Its a hard decision but as parts are already showing up everyday at my door step the decision is swaying more to keeping her and making another clean monster like my old girl. What's a boy to do.....? Well on to some of the eye candy, I know you guys will appreciate these next few pics, let me know what you think!

Thanks,

Joe

Well sorry guys I just tried to upload the pics I took today but they seem to be alittle to big. I'm not the most computer literate guys on the net these days and I can't figure out how to shrink them to fit in this format. If anyone wants to post them for me I guess I can try to email them to you and try that way. Hope someone can help...

Thanks,

Joe

t51quicksilver@yahoo.com

Joe, sign up for a free account at photobucket and then you can link them over here. It's always best to use MS Paint or other program to compress the photos down to 800x600 pixels or so, IMO.

Congratulations. I would definitely think twice too about tearing up such a mint machine...

doesn't photobucket resize pics for you automatically?

Anyways, congrats on the car, keep it in great condition and treat it well. I'll be waiting for those pics. :D

There are so many, "If I had only kept it......." stories when it comes to other marques. If the FD ever becomes collectible....and that's a big if......a car like this will be one of the ones people talk about. Modded FD's are a dime a dozen. Unmolested, low mileage, original cars have become rare. So I vote for keeping it as is. If you've got other cars, what's the prob? And maybe you could take a middle course. Putting 2,500 miles a year on it won't change the value much and would still allow you to enjoy the car.

None of this is any of my business, of course, but so long as I'm at it..........Care to disclose how much you paid for this car?

It would be hard for me to keep it stock too. I bought mine completely stock, but with a blown motor @ 86K miles. My engine is almost done being rebuilt and I have after market parts waiting in my living room to go on her :)) If you decide to mod it, do it right the first time around.... That's what messes up all these cars out there, people trying to go the cheap rought and doing a hack job and taking short cuts.

KEEP IT STOCK

Edit: Please

Keep it stock - I have a 94 R2 with 25,000 on it that has never been in the rain or left out over night that I am keeping it totally stock...... There just seems to be something nostalgic about having one bone stock that is unmolested.

P.S. I'm 24 so if I can resist the temptation I would think most could........

i agree, a cym with 19k on it deserves to be kept stock.

Congrats man, I can't wait to see pics :).

I say keep this one stock, sell a kidney, and then mod the hell out of the 2nd FD you buy :bigthumb:

I agree with the 2 posters above me!

I agree with everyone to keep it stock as well. :)

Definately - no question about it - keep it stock..

Stock is best... especially in that condition...

No pics yet?

keep it stock . if you got others to play with just leave this one alone. i didnt even think that people still had cmy rx7's with such low miles and shape. if i was you i would just be counting my blessing everyday just looking at it.

fawk that, GO VEILSIDE!!!

congrads... 19k original miles... that car is a jewel. keep it stock dude... and try to get those pics up :D

Sorry, I agree with all of that :D

Stock is great. I'm kind of in the same situation with my low milage blk/blk R1..... but need to do things like the AST and radiator. even though it's low miles I'm finding that 11-12 years of age on the plastics and rubber is not that friendly.

F*** stock get a damn ast and radiator at least, maybe fan switch mod. Keep the bastard alive!!!!

STOCK!!! some reliability mods ok like above, up to a DP to lower underhood temps but that's all

How much did you pay for it?

Pics!

Still waitin on those pics. :) At bare minimum, do reliablility mods.. You don't want that AST breaking on you and getting coolant everywhere in that engine bay. And don't do the Fan switch mod.. that is just messing with the interior and what not.. If you don't upgrade your ECU, Put in the FC Thirmoswitch, it starts the fans at a lower temp.

I have my fan mod switch wired into an OEM fog lamp switch in one of the blank OEM spaces in the center console. Since this car is an R1, he can do the same. Definitely do the fan mod!!!

Just don't touch the body :)

agreed. reliability mods, keep it stock ( you already have other toys ), and get us SOME PICS ALREADY!!!!!!!!!



oh yea congrats too. good find!:bigthumb:

Mod the absolute shit out of it. Enjoy it so you can justify the price you paid for a 13 year old sports car. I understand it is rare and is a low mile car but if you drive it regularly and the mileage breaks 30k it wont feel so "special" anymore and you are going to be wondering why you have left it stock all this time. If you are a car collector maybe I can understand but I will be damned to show up at a rotary meet or any car meet for that matter and my 13 year old car that cost over 20k is one of the slowest cars there. Just my opinion.

Sorry guys but I just got home from work and I'm going to send the pics over to ErnieT's and he's going to put them up for me. I'm on my way over his house as we speak to give him a hand on his car and then we'll post the pics up.

Thanks to all the kind words and I'll be back later on to answer some of the questions asked earlier.

Thanks,

Joe

anxiously awaiting ................................. :redface:

wow...now thats nice
wish i can find a cym in mint and low miles...

if you are gonna keep the car forever do whatever, mod the shit out of it and enjoy it. but as others have said if you are planning on selling the car in the future i would keep it stock. since so many people mod these cars, low mileage stock cars will be impossible to find and worth alot more than modded.

after looking at your other cars in your profile. you should get a pearl yellow 3kgt vr-4 spyder, how many of those were made like 8 or 9?

no reason on keepin the car stock if your intentions are for keeps....
havent quite figured out yet what the fascination is about on a low mileage rotary...
imho.. id rather have a low build number than mileage...

hey just put the new 99-02 y-pipe on and k&n filter and call it a day

Do black silicone rat's nest, new hoses everywhere, EVANS NPG coolant, a downpipe, and call it a day.

These cars will really be a collector car one day, I don't care what anybody says. The FD is a true to form sports car, and a rare US model. Being that it is a CYM R1, it would probably be the most sought after of the 1993 models.

I could just see it on Barrett jackson 2025 going to an avid rotary guy and being preserved for another century or two......


I hope to one day own a like new original FD that i can store in my garage and sit in. Then take it down some back country roads in the mountains and enjoy 1990's (canyon carving) technology at it's finest. =)

Do a T-Top or convertible conversion with Veilside body kit!!!

keep it stock and pass it down to your son

Pics Of Joe's Cym
 

I shrunk them down for Joe. Enjoy...

A few more....

WOW, that color is so vibrant! It looks like it just rolled off the showroom floor!

Mint!

God damn!!! So mint!!!

I didn't think there would be FD's out there that were put away like that!!!

I wish I had a bit more cash lying around... I would definately pick that up!

Congrats on the purchase! She truely is a rare find... I would definately keep it stock... with the small reliability mods.. no more than the AST, Rad and Downpipe... That'll be more than enough to keep her rolling as stock equipment! They're pretty simple mods to do and you can put the original parts back in if you ever decide to sell it... Crazy to sell it though!!

Lates,

Why would you keep it stock if your going to keep the car for a while?

beautiful car....can I ask what you paid?

I disagree that bone stock is the best option....bone stock is NEVER the best option with an FD, because these cars are a ticking time bomb bone stock, and I know someone with a low mileage CYM....nothing but problems once he hit about 40k miles

do the reliability mods, including dowpipe, AST, radiator, vacuum lines, etc....it will not decrease the re-sale value as long as you don't go nuts, and the car will be last alot longer before your first rebuild

You car look gorgerous. I still remember when I picked up my 26K miles 93 R1 few years ago. The car still smelled new at that time. With a car like that you really hard to resist not modifing it.

BC

engine bay shots!

I think when most were saying leave it stock, they meant as in Power Mods, not in skirting/avoiding reliability mods.

Why does everyone feel any near-mint FD should stay stock power? 255hp and a high 13 second quarter mile isn't as impressive nowadays, it was great for its time but it's been surpassed. I'll admit it, my near-stock FD is slow.

Even if you keep it at 19k forever, it's not like it will run good 10 years from now...

Unless you are NOT going to drive it, ever, and just store it for 20 years I'd say go mod happy....

Thanks BigT, I took the advise of a couple pm's I got and setup a photobucket account and just downloaded the album onto that website and will provide a link to all the pics. Just a note the interior has not been cleaned at all and the carpet is dirty so I'll have some other pics of the engine bay detail and interior detail hopefull this weekend. Getting to some of the questions presented earlier and some of the pm's, price of the car, I paid 25K for the car. It came from North Philly and it was heated garaged kept and it shows even more so after today and I'll explain. I took the car to get a Maryland inspection which passed with flying colors by the way ;-) and had a chance to take a real good peak at the under belly of the car and boy what a site. The bottom of the car looks jsut as clean as the top side believe it or not. I could not get over how clean the car was and that it reminded me of my both of my '98 Quicksilver Supra's which the first one only had 5K original miles on it and my current '98 Quicksilver has 22K miles on it. All the rubber exhaust hangers and all the boots and aluminum are perfect, not bad for a 13 year old car, huh? The verdict is still out on whether or not to mod the car, hold onto it and find something else to mod or sell it all together to a collector or someone who will take care of it. If anybody is interested in a *mint* CYM let me know...;-) you'll get a one of a kind I promise! Thanks guys for all the feedback and I just downloaded the whole lot of pics onto the photobucket website so you'll have to go to the 2nd or 3rd page to just view the pics of the CYM on its own or just scroll through the pics and enjoy some of my pride and joys and I think there are a few pics of yours truely in there with the biggest stud known to man Big ErnieT, he's the one holding the bottles in his hand and making those all so funny faces like he's go something stuck in his a**, love ya PERM!

http://photobucket.com/albums/b124/Holshot/?sc=1

Damn, after seeing the pictures, all i can say is that thing is damn perfect. Keep it as stock as possible, but do the reliability mods, get a little bit more power out of it, and leave it at that. That thing is pristine, please keep it that way. Once again, congrats.

and the son will rice it out and wreck it! :confused: :( :mad:

:eek: defenitely keep it stock! you should build a showroom with a rotating platform and leave it on display for the next decade. :bigthumb:

Holy mother of Christ!! I thought Ernie's car was in great shape. No offense to anyone else here, but that may be the cleanest fucking RX7 I have seen in my life. :eek: :eek:

BTW, if you keep that Supra for a while longer perhaps I would buy it off you at a later point in time. If someone would take over my damn GTO SmartBuy I'd buy it now!!