Well heres the story I met MIchele through Facebook a couple months back. She explained how she had a rx7 that she has owned since day one and wanted to sell it. I asked her to send me pics and maybe I could help her out by passing the word. From my personal experience on my FCs that I built and over the years here on the forums. I learned 86+wear+weather + non routine maintenance = crappy FC.

Was I wrong! From the first picture I wanted it. She was a little curios but didnt want to sell it due to history with it. Over the weeks of communication she called me one day and said she wanted me to have the car and to come so I can see it. She has garage this car for 26 years and driven it until 2011. New motor was put in by Mazda 10yrs ago.

I gained a few things on this FC.
1-friendship from a complete stranger that will last forever
2-one of the cleanest FCs I have ever seen
3- Original owner rx7 with the same title from 1987!!!!!!
4- previous history and a solid future!

Now on to the car.
1986 Mazda rx7 GXL
Original owner and maintained by Mazda dealers

I will post better pics but for now here are a few, note on of the pics has Michele when she was 20 years old the day after she drove it off the Mazda lot with only 11 miles.

My only plans are to degrease the engine and replace anything that needs to with oem parts. Suspension I will continue to use the oem electronic suspension because they still work! Wheels I will swap with 99spec rx7 wheels and interior I will be installing rear seats Saturday along with a FD steering wheel. That's all I will do and maintain it. A/C is super cold ,shifter buzzer still works and still does the accelarated warm up to idle at then to steady 900rpms. Does not smoke or burn oil at all!!!!

 

 

 

Nice parts car Alex. Lmk if i can be of service lol

 

Now modify the **** out of it!

 

I say keep it stock and just with the wheels and nice steering wheel will make it look even better.

 

it's a great find. i'm happy for you. however, i recognize it's none of my business, but i must ask (being the internet and all) - why would post up her personal information like that?

 

Thanks didn't catch that fixed

 

It's awesome that you're keeping the car mostly OEM. ^

Great story... And awesome find!

 

Awesome! When I bought my FC the previous owner had owned it since the 90's and still had all the window stickers and documentation since new, and I thought that was cool! I keep in touch with email updates, he loves seeing the progress on the car. She must really trust you to give up her baby!

 

^^^^ yes sir she is very happy it went to me and not someone who was going to destroy it.

Update:
I scored a set of RX7 99 spec wheels from sponsor.
Those will be installed soon

 

now you must take 5 different color cans of primer and paint it various colors that make no sense, throw on 2 different sets of wheels with mismatched tires and buy about a dozen stickers from ebay to put on the front and rear glass.


just kidding!

looks clean and should have a few miles left in it due to the reman being only 10 years old.

tried to keep my car as unmolested as possible, i still have the original window sticker from 1987..

 

Very nice car! Thats awesome dude.

 

I think she beat him to the stickers, Ben, but they're on the windshield. She's doing it wrong!!

Nice find, Alex. I had a similar thing happen with an old lady and a '91 coupe. I really wish i would have kept that car.

 

i saw that... lol

 

Yeah those were parking stickers since 1988 every year was on the window lol

 

nice car! enjoy the stockness! i've actually done the same thing with my FC's lately, i've got a couple pieces that i change, like the steering wheel, and then it just stays stock, its so nice just to drive the thing...

i do recommend a non stock alignment, you can really sharpen the thing up when you loose most of the factory toe in

 

 

Great story, Now gut the interior,primer the car and pull the engine out. lol

 

It should burn oil, even if it is a new engine....

 

99 specs will look sick, but in my unsolicited n00b opinion, needs more MS01

 

did you just fuiguere out about the omp- oil metering pump and Oil injectors? Lol

When I say it doesn't burn oil I mean the following-
1- oil control o-rings are good!

For future reference - there's 2 types of omps electric and manual. Some people remove them and run premix for many reasons ,like me i removed it on my FD because I like the guarantee of constant oil been injected in the motor than relying on the omp.

FYI that's all

 

Dang, she was hot in the 80's!

 

I don't really know anyone in this forum, I'm fairly new to this one so I didn't knew about the knowledge you had. Sorry, I thought it was a good thing to tell it for those who don't really know about it. I better like to share my knowledge then letting another fc suffer from misinformation.

I knew about what you said, just didn't knew who I was talking with.

Back to topic, it is really clean, I wish I bought mine like this instead of redoing it.

Continue the good work

 

No sweat man I didn't perceive you like that. It's always good to let members know some friendly knowledge! I like that you are a new member and are contributing and not asking "crazy 20b swap questions" lol

UPDATE-
1- recieved a new idiot light cluster because mines the clock doesn't work so I want it to work even though I use my watch and phone for time keeping lol
2- I did not think it justifies to pay $38 for a vinyl "Mazda" emblem sticker so I got a set of Mazda and rx7 emblems off a s5 wich I will use thin 3m tape to secure it to the body
3- Wheel adapters are in route in order for me to use the 99 spec wheels on the
4- a set of s4 injectors en route then off to RC engineering for rebuild and cleaning
5-Doing a little trip tomorrow to mazdatrix to pick up a bunch of parts