Mattias

Hello!

Im new on the forum, 1st post
I live in Sweden (bad on english) and i am looking around for an rx7...

The bad thing is that i just missed an 94 with 50,000 kilometers thats about 8000 us miles four 10,000 us dollars!

The good thing is that i hawe found an 93 with 22,400 us miles with new engine 1600 us miles ago, for about 10,000 us dollar

Is this a good buy?

What uses to break besides the engine??

Should i buy this one or save for another?
have found a 95 R1 3680 us miles for 20,000 usd

Whitch one would you pick?

Jordan

so the 22,400 miles is on the new engine?

I am confused.

well, if I were you, I will buy the 94 RIGHT NOW

funnyguy_11

Multiple Kilometers by 0.6213712 to get miles. 50,000 Kilometers is 31,068.56 US miles, still a low amount. Buy the '94. That's a great deal. Mine was $20,600 with 34,000 miles.

Mattias

Hmm i gotted confused my self when i read my own tread...

i would have bought the 94 at once but its already sold....
thats what i ment when i wrote that i had "missed it"

But the 93 fd with 140,000 kilometers are still for sale
new engine 10,000 kilometers ago. 10,000 usd

or the 95 fd R1, 23,000 kilometers 20,000 usd

So should i save another 10k for the 95 or is the 93 a good buy?

airborne

the 93 is still a good buy.
on that year you should look for peeling paint and check to make sure the dashboard is in good condition. besides that...do you have a rotary mechanic over there? get it checked out with a compression test. searching the forum and looking on the web i'm sure you can find an endless amount of information on this.

here's a page to start with:
http://www.robrobinette.com/buyaused.htm

good luck!

Mattias

what im most worried about is that everything starts to break!
I have an audi S2 now 280 flywheel hp and 4 wheel drive. a very fun car but it has about ~140,000kilometers (~84,000 us miles?) and just every part has broken on that car! im puttin away 500dollars every month on parts...

will it be the same whit the rx7?
if so, i would think its better to by one with lower milage
so i dont have to change alot of parts...

airborne

93-95 rx7s are NOT the most cost effective cars out there, many of them are kept as second cars. there are modifications that can be made to make them decently reliable but its considered a good idea to have some money on hand 'just incase' something happens...

short answer: start with a good one and take care of it, do the reliability mods and it should be reliable

Brede

I would not recomend this as your only car and daily driver! I live in Norway and know what it's like to own an FD over here. It takes ages to get parts and you'll have to pay a lot for them! You'll also have a hard time finding a competent mechanic. Luckily I have two cars and only have license plates on the FD 6 months a year, it's not the best car on ice and snow!

RonKMiller

And that is an UNDERstatement. It is probably the WORST car I have ever driven on a snow packed road, and I grew up driving in the snowbelt of Ohio......
The things that make it so remarkable on dry pavement are hell on even wet roads.......

Nathan Kwok

If this car is going to be your daily driver, I'd go with the '95 because it shouldn't need any major service for awhile. Even with a new engine, the '93 will probably need stuff like pads, clutch, fuel filter, usual maintenance items, plus stuff will probably start to break. It IS $10k cheaper, but if its your only car, you don't want it to be grounded for long periods of time, and its hard enough getting quick compentent service here in SoCal, which probably has more good rotary shops than anywhere in the world. If you have another car on the other hand, I'd probably go with the '93 and just fix it up, assuming the paint looks good.