Hey my name is Chris French, I live on the east coast of Canada on Prince Edward Island. I am a new member to RX-7 Club and I am loving it so far. There is so much useful info and I like to read other peoples stories, see what they drive and the projects they are working on. October 22 2009 was when I bought my non turbo 87 RX-7 GXL. It had 160,000 kms and was almost mint, no rust anywhere, underneath looked like new and it ran very well for the amount of kms it had on the motor. I am currently driving it as my daily driver in the summer and I take it to car shows and occasionally to the drag strip, but don't worry it has never seen and will never see snow... I have a 96 4 Runner as my winter beater for now. I used to own an 89 Nissan 240 SX, ever since then I was into the older Japanes sports cars. I do have future plans for my car; I was thinking a rebuilt 13B with a big turbo or even a rebuilt 2.0L 3 rotor twin turbo. Either way when I'm done with it, it will be a crazy little machine with BIG POWER!... Project "ZOOM"
Sorry' I have no pics of my car yet, but hopefully soon.
If anyone would like to comment or give there thoughts or suggestions I would love to see them!

 

Well, dang, Chris, how is it you've had an RX-7 since 2009 and you're only just now getting around to find out about RX-7 Club?

Thanks for taking the time to register, come out of the shadows and welcome aboard to RX-7 Club!

Myself, at 160 km mileage (that's about 100,000 english miles, right?), I'm thinking you just need to worry about replacing a lot of wearable items and tuning on the safe side. No point killing off the engine unless you know of a cheap shortblock somewhere.

Mario III

 

Yeah right now I'm just focusing on the maintenance, It won't be till a while down the road that I do anything major to it. I'm just going to drive it till that engine has had enough, then make a project out of it.
Thanks for the reply.

 

I'm also new, make sure you have enough resources for the maintenance and enough budget on that.

 

haha, i could have guessed that i would come across you on this forum...

 

Hey buddy whats up? This is a great forum, tons of useful information. You kinda have to be careful what you read though cuz some people don't know what they are talking about, but most of it is from people who really know there stuff.

 

yea i know what you mean... dont take your first answer as truth... keep searching and see what worked for the majority of people. btw if you need any help or whatever you know where I work and dont hesitate to come see me!

 

Welcome, and good luck on the car man