Hi All,
Doug from Portland.
I am a new owner (co-owner) of a 1st gen 1981 RX7. Our car is a retired ICSCC PRO 7 / ITA race car that has had many of it's race car bits parted out before we bought it. We are campaigning the car at ORP in Rat Racing and at PIR in ChumpCar.
Looking forward to the info available here since none of us has ever owned a rotary before.

 

Welcome.

Most of the racers hang out in the Race section and quite a few run Chump and Lemons.

 

welcome, thats sweet taking over an old racing car

you wont be dissappionted in the 1st gens, superb handling and acceleration
i absolutly love it and im the youngest here on the forum

 

Funny you should mention the handling. We did a "warm up" race at Oregon Raceway park (6hr 43min) and were a little disappointed with the handling. Too much body roll, and it REALLY didn't like any braking other than straight-line. A bit slippery too but that's because we were using pretty hard street tires. (my son actually pulled a 180 right in front of another car, no contact fortunately).
Hoping to get a bigger sway bar and maybe stronger shocks and springs before the next race on Halloween. And some sticky tires.

Doug

 

yea i still got street tires and i notice alittle body roll in autocross with all the hairpin turns and stuff, but other then that i love my car the accleration is probably the best part