Should I sell my rx7?
 

So I'm walking to the parking lot, and I see a piece of paper under the wiper, and I'm thinking is this a ticket? No, it cant be. So I open it up, and it has this person's number written on it. I notice the area code, and I immediately recognize it as my old training command. I start thinking this guy is a nuke like me, and he has his bonus money. This could be legit.

So as I'm standing there, I notice a car driving by and pulls a quick turn in into the parking lot. I begin to think someone who just wants to talk about rx7 or just look at the car.

He's all excited and he's like I love the rx7. I've been looking forever, and here's one right now in front of me. I've been debating with my LPO to let me go on leave to go buy a rx7 in some other states. Did you see my note? So this is the guy who left the note. So he's in the same field as I am, and he just re-enlisted and I know exactly what that bonus is. Which means he can pay me the 20k no problem.

SHOULD I SELL? I already said NO to him 3 times, but he keeps asking me to sell it to him. Maybe I could look into a 135 after this. Or that YCM that's in the classifieds.

Oh by the way, you other members don't send me contact info for me to forward to him. Unless you have a silver car with black interior. That's the only color combo he wants.

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an FD in this time for 20K hell yes sell it.

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sell it. I overpaid for my first 7 as well, out of the whole "I've got to have this car" mentality

then again, it's worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it. And your car looks clean from the pics at least, and it sounds like availability is limited in that area.

how many miles are on the car?

I'd keep it, unless you never want to own an FD after this one. Yours looks clean and unmolested, which is getting harder and harder to find as time goes by.

i also over paid for mine, but that was in 08 before the market crash. fully built FD's were pulling stupid money but sometimes i regret it but i love my FD so at the end it was worth it to me.

Def sell it.

Nowadays you can get an FD for cheap cheap cheap with everything already done. Single turbo, rebuilt engine, good paint etc etc.

Dont really know your history on your exact car so i cant really comment on that.

But from the looks of it, its a reg SSM with wheels. Unless its bone stock otherwise with low mileage, then i would prob keep it.

But if it has a rebuilt and/or high mileage on the chassis, just sell it and get another FD later on down the road when they are even cheaper.

And yes the 135i is a MONSTER.

Next door neighbor just got one 2 weeks ago. White with the taupe interior. Sooooo nice. Sounds amazing too. I could hear it from inside the house and it still has the stock exhaust. Those engines are amazing.

What wheels do you have?

SELL IT!!!! U bum!!!!!

Send him up to MA, he can buy mine!

THey look like BBS RG-R's but not sure.

The question is, what all is done to your car? I didn't see a mod list.

Yes, the exterior looks very clean.

As we all know, modifying our FD's can not only be very expensive, but time consuming. If your sitting on a fully built car, then I would reconsider. Especially with the prospects of purchasing another.

I bought my clean 94 for $10.5k.... After completing the suspension & wheel package, while now wrapping up my single turbo conversion, I have around $25k in the car....

I would not take $20k for it as it sits unfinished.

If you have always dreamed of CYM or another style FD, than I would say pursue it. But I would think long and hard. When you invest time & money in a car, it can not be replaced. Especially once you get it just the way YOU wanted it.

20k aer you kidding me? You could buy a decent 7 to use as a daily driver and a roller to work on for the tracks with that kinda money.

I purchased the car with 60k miles on it. It currently has 67,102 miles on it. I lost compression on the original engine due to my own fault. Not having the powerfc to manage things. I recently purchased a reman from a member here that only had 700miles on it. It probably only has 1200 miles on it now. When the engine was being installed I purchased all the gaskets, hoses, engine harness(4k miles used), new water pump, thermostat, used coils with only 10k miles on them, and so on.

In terms of upgrades, I have the power fc, Greddy SMIC, SR motorsports intake, Greddy E01 boost controller, eibach springs and tokico illuminas, and autoexe chassis reinforcements underneath the car. The wheels are BBS RX series. They are of the same design as RGR wheels but are cast instead of forged. Thus making them weigh closer to 22-23lbs vs 18 and lower of the RGR wheels. Also I have the Sakebomb HID upgrade and B&M shifter. The KOYO N-flow is in the mail as we speak.

So in reply to some other forum members, no, its nowhere near where it can be in terms of expenses for future upgrades that I can do for it, since I'm still running stock twin in non sequential mode. One could say this could be a perfect time to walk away before the money pit gets deeper. Because I don't know if I can control myself enough to not continue spending money on this car lol.

Try this:

>Take a quarter
>Heads = sell
>Tails = keep
>When you flip it, your brain will "wish" for either heads or tails instinctively. Try to remember which one it is when the coin is in the air.
>Do the action corresponding to the one you "wished", not the one that the coin lands on. That's the thing you really want.

>Find the Joker, he will help you kill the Batman.

Are you sure this guy doesnt want a nice white FD with black interior? :naughty:

For 20K I'll drive I'll out to the guy :nod:

I'd sell then turn around and buy Charlies stock cym that he has for sale :drool:

Don't do it you will hate yourself forever! Like me.

dont sell man, 20k is great money but if its paid for keep it. i sold mine in 06 for 20k after investing about 25-30k and thought i was getting a deal. in the long run here i sit 4 years later looking for another one. Lol....

sell it and start saving for an RX-9. That 16X engine that Mazda are developing for it looks to be mean as. :)

:)

You will NEVER get an offer like this again.

20k is a great price but I don't think you can compare an fd to a 135. I know it's super easy to have 400+whp and there are some real fast ones running time attack but they still seem like awkward looking little cars, can never compare to the lines of an fd, also the n54 is so boring compared to a 13b.

I agree with what driftdreamz said about the 135. My buddy has one and granted it's very nice being new and having a good amount of power. However, it just looks weird, like a smashed 3 series but not in a good way. The FD just flows so much better!

Take it from a guy who has sold a lot of fds, when someone is hot on buying a car, sell it. You wont get that money again, you have about a $14k car and are being offered $20k.

I would sell it and buy and look for a better car. 20k is ALOT. This shouldn't even be a question. Look at the FS section and see what 20k gets you. That is what should ultimately convince you.

Sell it for the CYM, you wont regret it! ;)

That sig looks distorted.

Yeah I guess it was like that when I shrunk the image down.

I have no need for the money. I don't need to sell the car to help out pay some bill. It just seems like one of those moments where its a rich guy and every woman has her price. Twenty thousand was the magic number. Since he offered it that's what I will hold him to. When we go over the paperwork and records I've kept on the car and he mentions anything below 20k then I'm going to say NO.

I'm not going to take him seriously after I have sat down with him and covered everything about the car with him. Then I'll see if his gotta have this car mentality is still strong. If so I might decide to sell, and save up for the Rx9 as long as its better than the outgoing Rx8, or as supernaut suggested take a look at the classified and see what finished product I can buy off a member.

SOLD for 20k!! Wow that has to be the quickest sale for a rx7. It took less than 24 hours to make the sale and at 20k that's impressive.

Good for you man.

No SHIT?? Wow, that was fastt!!

Supernaut, I like your new Sig much better ;). Looking sharp!!

Damn congrats. I wish someone offered me 20k for my car, id take it. Then buy another FD thats already done to what i was gonna do to my current FD anyway for cheaper, and pocket the rest lol

Are you gonna get the 135i??

Its a serious machine man. Trust me you'll enjoy it.

cool man! now get to saving for that RX-9. :-)

you let your dog sit in your CYM?!?!? he goes well with your car though.. nice colors. :D

Congrats, wish I could sell mine that quick too...

What do you have in it? Some fancy expensive parts? Stockish? If so Id sell.

Thinking about it, I feel kinda bad for my brother now since he did all that work for dirt cheap to help you out for you to just turn around and sell it. I didn't think about that earlier. I bet he wouldn't have gone through all that considering how much he charged. I'm pretty sure the reason he did it was to help you out so you could get back to enjoying your car.

I was thinking about how much money he saved me with all the work he's done and how, if I factored that in, I could NEVER even come close to getting enough to make it worth selling it. Then I started thinking of when I was at his house and he'd be working on your car and it would be a pain in his ass and how he probably wouldn't have wanted to go through all that if he knew you weren't gonna keep it. I bet he thinks about this next time someone asks for his help again, lol.

We can't predict the future Matt. I never would have considered that I would have been selling it. The guy offered a price I could certainly respect. I thought I was going to own this car years on end. Not to mention I told this guy no several times, and I never posted the car ever for sale. It was simply parked in the parking lot, and somebody made it their focus in life to hunt down the owner of the Rx7, and offer money for it.

Hindsight 20/20 right?

I'm just saying I feel bad for Greg. The only reason it was even possible for you to get it back up and running was because of him helping you out, if he wasn't around to help you out and you had taken the car to a shop you would have definitely lost money on this deal. No shit you can't predict the future but why wouldn't I feel bad for my brother. Think about it, to help you out he had your car at his house for what about 4 months, and only charged you $600 for the swap and another couple hundred for all the other miscellaneous and suspension stuff.

I'm not saying you had no right to sell the car, it's yours, no one can tell you what to do with your stuff (at least not while bad ass mofo's like us are serving in the military j/k just making reference to the freedom's of living in America). I'm just saying in this situation I feel bad for Greg, that's all.

then Greg should up his prices. /thread.

Oh, what camera did you get? The pics look good and I'm thinking of getting one, especially cause I need to take some pics of my headlights to send to SakeBomb Garage to show them what's going on with them.

He did it to help him out since he didn't have the money or the time to really go anywhere else. That's why I feel bad, that's not exactly what he would have charged if the situation wasn't him helping someone out that was kinda in a bad spot. If my brother didn't help him out his other choices were to spend a lot more money at shops that didn't have the time within his schedule or have it towed to his next duty station and sit with a blown engine for probably around a year. It's not a matter of his prices it's a matter of he did something to help out a fellow RX7/rotary enthusiast who blew his engine.

94touringFD-----I feel what you are saying, I do work on friends cars for no charge as well but with all due respect its $20,000 for a mostly stock FD, you can`t be mad at that.

The 135 looks like ass, even with the new supersport model supposedly coming out, the FD looks 50 times better than that warmed over barf

To the OP: you have a great looking car, I say keep the FD unless you're strapped for cash (how could that be when you're fresh out of the military?) and truly need the money. These cars (in nice shape) are becoming irreplaceable

Edit: just read that you sold....invest in gold my friend :)

If someone offered me $20k cash for my car as it sits, I would sell it no questions asked. With that kind of coin I could easily get into another FD and have a bag of cash leftover.

^ or you could buy someone else's problem. Alot of hack jobs out there; hidden gremlins waiting to bite you in the ass. For instance, I would never buy another reman engine.

Let's face it, for the performance a nicely modded FD offers, $20 is a deal. In order to match it you need something like a Cayman S, and even that isn't going to keep up.

94touringfd, I completely agree with your statements. If I was working on a friends car to help them out and then they sell the car not long after I finished the work I woluld be upset as well. I think your brother should get a little piece of the $20k for his time and effort.


John

If I were you, I would throw a little money to Matt's brother or at least a gift to show your appreciation. I don't know about you but if it were me, I would definitely want to pay the guy back somehow. If I got a special deal on stuff and decided to sell at a profit, I'd at the very least share the profits or pay the difference for the deal I got to the seller. It wouldn't feel right to me making a profit on someones kindness (and their loss of profit). In the end it is up to you but I really think you at least owe the guy dinner and a night of heavy drinking. You should also be his wingman and help him get laid and throw yourself at grenades need be.