Hi guys I must say its good to be back after maybe 10 years(maybe? one of you (if you remember) may know me as my old account name Slidewaysfc (BTW ADMINS IF YOU CAN HELP ME ACCESS IT HMU ), I left the rotary life cause I got into motorcycle stunting, but I just had my first baby boy in June and quit the bike scene. I want him to grow up on rotary engines, so why not start now. Im glad to be back as I have found my perfect project car. A 1987 Rx7 turbo.

So after months of searching I came across a rx7 turbo 2 for 500 dollars up in Manteca, CA. I thought it was a fake ad, but still tried to reach the guy. after many attempts I finally got ahold of him and set up a date to go see and pick up the rx7 today 11/23/2019. 6 hour drive up from Ventura, CA and sure enough it was a t2 rx7 with 167,xxx miles and yes I got it for 500 dollars. Car had flats all over but I managed to load it on a trailer with the help of a friend. The body was in decent shape, dent on driver door, clear coat peelin etc,interior looked ok just super dirty. owner previously said engine was replaced but who knows, I wont till later this week. (compression test)

My plans for this car is to get it running first since its been sitting for 10 years, compression test and go from there, body wise im gonna keep it stock and just throw my old pbm coilovers on it. ill add pics of the car so you all can see it and I washed the car when I got home but its to dark to take a good pic so ill make an updated thread on the rx7 progress.

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Great come up. I just recently got back into the rotary scene after a 6 year hiatus. Also jumped into an 1987 T2. Good luck on build

 

That's a great find!!! Plus, the price you paid is great! Did the previous owner know any of the car's history and did he tell you why is was parked for so long?

 

Also, was your former user account name Slideways FC3S? I show that on my list of members but no Slidewaysfc in California, only a SlideWaysFC in PA.

 

Thank you im excited for the build, and good luck with your build aswell

Yes, it sat cause he didn't not know what was wrong with it. He mentioned that the car would turn off when the Ac was activated. so he took it to Mazda and they said he needed a new engine due to low compression. so he got a new engine but the problem still occurred, and he couldn't figure it out, this was all in 2003. He didn't have paperwork for the new motor so I don't really believe that it has a new motor, he mentioned it would lose oil, so he figured the oil seals were busted, or his apex seals were cooked, especially since he said he saw blue smoke coming out of the exhaust, So he eventually moved to Idaho, and left the car in his brothers storage, in 2004. This morning I found his oil leak coming from the oil cooler lines, I just replace them with ss lines I had laying around from my old t2.

Yes that's me sorry, slidewaysfc was my instagram name

 

Welcome back to forum

 

I'm pretty sure I remember you, I think you had a yellow FC as an avatar. Welcome back!

 

If you would like I can reset your password and recover your original account if you would like to have the Slideways FC3S account be your account from here in out. You just let me know.

 

That is a great deal man! Welcome back to the rotary scene! I am new here but found my way back to the rotary family since late 2018. Sold all my rx7s in 2009... and now have a 85 rx7 and a mazda b1600. cant wait to see the progress on yours!

 

Welcome back hope you can recover your old account

 

Damn I was gonna grab that one from French Camp Storage but the owner never responded. Congrats.

 

Thank you glad to be back.

don't really remember the color but it was an fc

if its possible yes I would like to reset it aswell as use a new email for that account if possible

Thank Glad to be back slowly working on the rx7, I work for amazon and fed ex and I have had no days off

Working on it

Yes that's the one, trust me I bugged the crap out of that guy, everyday I would email him like 4 times then when he responded with his phone number, that's it it was over text after text after text took me a month to sactully get it from him. lol

 

Shoot me a pm with the email you would like to use and I'll reset your password and email and you should be able to log in after that. I'll pm you with the new password as well.

 

I reset your email and password. You have pm with the new info.