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Old Jun 9, 2005 | 12:29 AM
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Smile What is your total rotary Mileage?

How many miles have you driven on rotary's:

My Cars:
1981 Base RX-7: 40,000
1986 GXL: 135,000
1993 Touring: 35,000 and counting
1986 Base: 40,000 and counting

Numerous "trader and parted out cars": 15,000

1975 Cheeta snowmobile (sachs 295 wankel): 100

Total: 265,100

Number of years I have at least owned 1 RX-7: 17
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Old Jun 9, 2005 | 12:31 AM
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you mean the body or the motor
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Old Jun 9, 2005 | 12:35 AM
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1 93 fd with 135,000 miles still on original motor.
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Old Jun 9, 2005 | 12:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Jayseven
you mean the body or the motor

The number of total miles you have driven a vehicle with a rotary engine.

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Old Jun 9, 2005 | 12:43 AM
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Originally Posted by rx7what
1 93 fd with 135,000 miles still on original motor.

You Da Man! It proves it can be done. You should list your mods, if any, and your maintenance regimen as a guide to others.
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Old Jun 9, 2005 | 12:53 AM
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You Da Man! It proves it can be done. You should list your mods, if any, and your maintenance regimen as a guide to others.
It's either BS or pure luck... that's all there is to it.
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Old Jun 9, 2005 | 12:53 AM
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Originally Posted by rx7what
1 93 fd with 135,000 miles still on original motor.
out ******* standing!

Def list mods. Maint records would be nice too... What kinda compression you still running?
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Old Jun 9, 2005 | 12:54 AM
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Originally Posted by wReX
It's either BS or pure luck... that's all there is to it.
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Old Jun 9, 2005 | 01:18 AM
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1983 FB purchased new - one motor, still running strong when sold at - 123,000 miles
1991 FC purchased new - on second motor, still owned - 165,000 miles
1994 FD purchased used last year - on first engine, daily driver - 6,100 miles

maintenance - I change the oil every 1,500 to 3,000 miles.

TOTAL 294,100 miles
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Old Jun 9, 2005 | 01:27 AM
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~13,000 miles, 2 engines... that's enough for one lifetime.
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Old Jun 9, 2005 | 01:30 AM
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1979 RX-7 GS: 55,000, sold 6 years ago...
1995 RX-7: 31,000

Total - 86,000
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Old Jun 9, 2005 | 01:51 AM
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94 RX-7 (sold) made it to 123,500 miles before i WANTED to rebuild it. I had full 3inch exhuast intake, PFC M2 large SMIC. The compression was 110psi on all 6 faces! drove it 27,000 miles

93 RX-7 (sold) 83,000 down pipe and catback, its going to need a rebuild soon. drove it 1000 miles

88 GXL (sold) 165k stock everything drove it 12,000 miles

88 GTU (sold) 200k+ stock everything running on 1 rotor some times. drove it 100miles

86 GXL (sold) new motor when i bought it, about 200miles ha! drove it 200 miles

85 GSL (sold) 250k running on bearly 1 rotor. drove it 0 miles



total time driving rx-7s about 40k miles

New FD???????????????????????????? give me a week or 2 then ill have a post for teh new FD w000t. If its the one i think im getting, add another 2,000 miles hehe

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Old Jun 9, 2005 | 04:20 AM
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1994 R2 - 57000 orig miles
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Old Jun 9, 2005 | 06:50 AM
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7,000 sweet miles
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Old Jun 9, 2005 | 07:52 AM
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1993 FD, driven 5,0000 miles. Total of ~40K on the motor.
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Old Jun 9, 2005 | 09:24 AM
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1985 GSL-SE driven about 100K and sold
1990 Vert bought with 85K - driven to 150K, put a new engine in and drove ~10K and wrecked
1990 GXL drove ~75K
1990 GXL drove ~20K
1993 Touring drove 6K in 2 years.

FD, FB, and vert (respectively) are my three favorite.

Total: 276,000 miles on 6 rotary engines.

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Old Jun 9, 2005 | 11:16 AM
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Not sure how this is a 3rd gen specific question, but any way

57,000 93R1
42,000 87TII
15,000 74REPU
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114,000 total rotary miles
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Old Jun 9, 2005 | 11:21 AM
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somewhere around 70,000 total rotary miles.
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Old Jun 9, 2005 | 11:22 AM
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1987 turbo 2, drove for about 1500, it had 110, xxx when i sold it

1993 r1, had about 67,xxx when i bought it a year and a half ago, has about 70201 (around there) right now..
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Old Jun 9, 2005 | 11:28 AM
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[EDIT]

Took an RX-8 for a 2 mile test drive and drove my FD home

276,002 miles

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Old Jun 9, 2005 | 11:40 AM
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1986 SE 185,000~ (original engine until I overheated it and that motivated me towards the FD)
1993 FD 261,000 (more engines than I can count on my hands).

so total miles to date 446,000 miles.

Wow, that's alot of miles.

I don't even want to think how much I spent on gas.........
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Old Jun 9, 2005 | 11:41 AM
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Originally Posted by jimlab
~13,000 miles, 2 engines... that's enough for one lifetime.
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Old Jun 9, 2005 | 11:44 AM
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oh crap batmans back......

got about 50k rotary miles from 2 motors.
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Old Jun 9, 2005 | 12:27 PM
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4k mi on (previous) fb. 1,500 mi on (current) fd
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Old Jun 9, 2005 | 01:16 PM
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my car

MY fd has 80,435 k miles, 7k of which I have put on in the past year, but on my other vehicles:

2000 Ford Explorer(new)-145k miles(all mine!)
1996 ford Econoline Van-bought w/ 23k miles in 2002, now has 167k miles
1992 Jeep Wrangler- Bought at 92k miles, now at 178k miles

in the past 5 years I have driven.......145k+144k+86k+7k

that makes 382,000 miles in the past 5 years! sadly most of those miles are work related(except for the 7),

On average(during the summer at least) I do about 400-600miles per day, during the winter its about 100miles a day. I'm so sick of driving, but not w/ the 7 for some reason!
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