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Old 06-19-12, 08:33 PM
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(FC) What are the best aftermarket part websites.

I'm buying an S5 N/A and I'm new to the rx7 scene. I know more about Miata's and Honda's than anything. I'm curious if some of you can kindly give me some great websites to buy aftermarket parts similar to gomiata, passwordjdm, JHPusa etc but for rx7's.
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The forum venders listed in their own section are a good resource and we would like to support them.

A lot of what you are looking for can probably be found on:
Mazdatrix
RacingBeat
Corksport
RX7store
and MANY more specialty vendors depending on what you are looking for.
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Originally Posted by RXSpeed16
The forum venders listed in their own section are a good resource and we would like to support them.

A lot of what you are looking for can probably be found on:
Mazdatrix
RacingBeat
Corksport
RX7store
and MANY more specialty vendors depending on what you are looking for.
I have checked the vendor listings and most of their websites. I'm looking for a website that has a lot to choose from. Racing Beat only sells racing beat parts. I'm looking more for a general website like horsepowerfreaks gotuning which sell parts from multiple different companies.

I'm mainly looking for an exhaust and lowering springs. The racing beat exhaust is far out of my price range, the corksport looks great but I can't find many videos of it that are at least a decent quality.

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It doesn't exist. The problem is that RX7 specific parts do not sell in the volumes to sustain a vendor like Honda and miata parts do. There are also very few parts that even swap between generations, so that limits the volume even more. You're going to have to do the leg-work to track them down.

Sure some websites will have universal fit, brand name parts, but you have to figure out what is going to be compatible or not.
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Just picked up an 89 GTUs this past friday. Am THRILLED to find the vendor lists here. Mine's clean and runs great! But I've spent time on online vendors sites just to see how much of what parts are out there. Thanks!
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Originally Posted by RXSpeed16
It doesn't exist. The problem is that RX7 specific parts do not sell in the volumes to sustain a vendor like Honda and miata parts do. There are also very few parts that even swap between generations, so that limits the volume even more. You're going to have to do the leg-work to track them down.

Sure some websites will have universal fit, brand name parts, but you have to figure out what is going to be compatible or not.
That's what I feared. Even Subaru has rallysportdirect. I just figured there would be at least one big website everyone used. I'll do a quick search on the forums and I know for a fact there will be threads on which exhaust to buy and such.


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Just picked up an 89 GTUs this past friday. Am THRILLED to find the vendor lists here. Mine's clean and runs great! But I've spent time on online vendors sites just to see how much of what parts are out there. Thanks!
I'm picking up a 91 N/A tomorrow (well giving the guy a deposit so he can get the mechanical done). It's got 95,000kms and looks brand new! I'm hoping I don't have any surprising problems as a lot of people are telling me I will have.




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