How is that different from big talk about how you'll beat him in the 1/4 mile over the internet...

...which is what he was pointing out, incase you missed it.

 

STi trannies are pretty much bullet proof. You're thinking of the old WRX, smart ***.

 

The Sti 6 speed is porsche built if I am not mistaken.

Damn shame, ***** stole yo bike.

 

Meh.... its still attached to a subaru

 

i like STI's but im stickin to my roots!!!

teh 7 cant lose!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

LOL so true

I was watching a hot version review of the 06 sti and the drift king (idk who to spell his real name) was trying to compare the new sti to a new M3 as a "luxry sports sedan" lol its a subaru for christ sakes

subie owners need to put there dick back in their pants and go play with evo owners and then brag which four banger cost more

 

Saying he has 3 maybe 4 launches left on his tranny is like saying the 7 only has 3 maybe 4 WOT runs left before a rebuild. LOL at RX7 owners attempting to insult another cars reliability.

Seriously guys, teh 7 CAN lose. There's always something faster. Oh and a lower E.T. means he IS faster in the 1/4 even if it is because you suck at launching. The STI could do better as well. A 1.5 60' is not uncommon.

 

Right.... Because comparing a depreciated value to a new value counts for anything. How much was a brand new FD? That's not even including inflation.

 

Who says that the person who posted the "3 or 4 hard passes left" even owns an Rx7.

BTW, Rx7 > EVO

 

OMG you hurt my feelings. You're making me like one car that I own over the other car that I own.

BTW, my Evo is very much capable of 12's with nothing but a reflash, but here's the kicker: it will run like that forever. I love my 7, but rotaries are a bitch. Right when the car is running right something else pops up. You can be as much of a fanboy as you want, but you're just coming across as ignorant.

 

I've had mostly great success with my Rx7's and have never questioned their reliability. And yes... Therfore I suppose I am a fan of them, if that's what you mean.

But yeah, you're probably right--your EVO will, like, totally run forever...

 

Actually, my rx-7 has been more reliable then my mom's 2001 Kia Optima and of course i push the rex much harder than the kia. (now gas mileage is another story)

 

of course somthin gonna happen to the 7 !! HOW OLD IS IT!?!?!
you expect a car almost as old as you not to break? cmon! get real! the EVO is just a little newer...

 

https://www.rx7club.com/2nd-generation-specific-1986-1992-17/5th-blown-motor-my-tii-481415/

Right... Because 7 rebuilds is what I would consider success and reliability. You don't want to be a fanboy. There's a difference between fan and fanboy. Look it up.

I'm fairly sure the Evo will last much longer than the 7. Sure it's newer and thus should be more reliable, but face it, the RX7 is not exactly a model of reliability even when compared to other cars that age.

Don't get me wrong, there's something about a turbo rotary that no other car can really match, but to put on your blinders and consider everything else to be lesser is just ignorant.

 

Well... I haven't done 7 rebuilds on my Rx7's--just 5 as the thread states. Regardless, there is a HUGE difference from blowing a motor due to an incorrect rebuild or from running too much boost. Several of those rebuilds lasted only several hundred miles before I tore them back down to fix something minor (coolant seal, corner-seal spring etc.)... And that's the best part; can you rebuild your EVO's motor in a weekend for a few hundred bucks?

That being said, I've been RIPPING on my current TII for thousands of miles, with well over 300bhp, and have experienced ZERO problems... That's the joy of my setup--I can do whatever I want, and fix everything so easily. I know this engine-bay like the back of my hand, and like I said, if by chance I get greedy with the boost and pop my motor, I can have the thing out, rebuilt, and put back in sooo easily...

But yeah, I like to bust people's ***** on-line... And heh, I could care less if you think I'm a "fan-boy". The nerd language is tiresome. And even then, I think you're wrong... Both of my TII's lasted 150k miles before being rebuilt, and my several other N/A's have all pushed well past that.

Regardless, I don't consider everything else to be lesser. What a STUPID position to take seriously... However, gullible people like you take the bait and can't take a joke like:

Rx7 > STI, or Rx7 > EVO.

However, I can always fall back on the general blanket statement of these claims and just for fun turn it into a arguement about the 3rd gen. vs. whatever...

So yeah, 'grain of salt' my friend...

 

Well the man OWNS a 7 and OWNS an EVO. You can talk and give the man numbers and whatever, but he OWNS both. I think his opinion is more respectable. (i use respectable loosley).Taking no sides here

At least you guys arent flaming. good arguements

 

This **** is funny. I mean I roasted a VR-4 just a couple of days ago. All this back a forth whose car is better, face it, there is always somebody faster than all of us. But I did smoke a VR-4 a couple of days ago.

 

What's up brotha! I've seen you around Edmonds a few times... What's the story on your FD? All I know right now is that it's f**king gorgeous. But yeah, this is me if you're wondering:



Oh yeah, and for the haters--don't mind the wheel-gap, it's not like that anymore.

 

Yeah, but his '7 is mostly stock and he really doesn't know all that much about it. Not only that, his other cars are an S2K and an EVO... The only comparative Rx7 to those cars is the FD (which he doesn't have). That being said, I don't trust his overall judgement regarding 2nd gen Rx7's, or Rx7's in general--no offense to you, BlkS5TII.

 

I don't know much about them? I'd say you don't know me at all, and so to attempt to discredit me wouldn't make any sense. You don't have to believe anything I say, but to say it's because I don't know much is just rediculous.

The whole reason I bought another car to begin with is because I have the 7 torn down at least every other month. I, like yourself, enjoy taking it apart and putting it back together. I don't trust anyone else with working on my rotary. The only power parts that will be left stock when I'm done putting it back together again are the turbo and the ports, and both are because I'm saving for a supercharger for the S2k and don't feel like putting too much cash into the 7 when the end result could be another rebuild. I am working on getting a new suspension for the 7 though, since I track my cars and don't like how sloppy it's getting.

I would say the S2k compares perfectly to a well modded n/a FC. Both have peaky power curves, 50/50 balance, low polar moments, and RWD. My personal experiences have been driving all three cars very hard in track conditions, so take the following for what it's worth.

Handling:
Evo = S2k = RX7 FC (before the shocks on the FC blew)

Acceleration:
Evo > RX7 > S2k (My cars anyways, since there's always something faster)

BTW, your FC's always look great, or at least you take great pictures.

Straight out of that thread.

 

I'm not insulting you, I just browsed through your "2nd gen tech" history and made some basic judgements... However, I take it back, because you can also detail my learning curve throughout the past few years. No offense, it just seems as if the majority of your experience with your Turbo II has been negative. The only time my cars have been unreliable is when I blow the motor... But the reason why they've blown has been my fault, not the design of the vehicle. Granted, the engine doesn't allow for much error--that's fine, the problems have still been because I did something wrong.

Thanks for the compliment. I work hard to make them unique and good looking while keeping a pretty small budget. The pic I just posted was done by a professional photographer, but any other pic I've ever posted of my cars have been taken with relatively cheap digi-cams. Sometimes you can get lucky with a cheap camera, like this shot:



When I posted that, I had rebuilt 5 motors, but blown 7. One was an original N/A with 170k that I ran out of oil. I replaced it with a 60k mile core, but I blew the coolant seals after overheating it (bad thermostat) and trying to drive home with the gauge at 3/4+. The other one's were just minor failed rebuilds and one was running 15psi out of a hybrid TO4-B with 720cc secondaries, the other was running 14psi from the stock turbo, with fuel subtracted in the upper RPM's via an SAFC, on a high-comp motor... So yeah, stupid, preventable stuff. But since I've gone though that period of trial and error, now I'm able to do so much more with these cars and engines than I would've been able to--had I not had to get my hands dirty and learn from stupid mistakes. Blessing in disguise I suppose.

 

So you could have seen that I stopped posting in the tech sections a while back. I just picked up everything on my own after that, and anything I couldn't learn on my own I spent hours searching for on here. Sometimes I would also post questions just to b.s. and have something to check back on later(I admit I do that a lot). It might seem that the majority of my experience might be negative, but that's not true or I would have already sold the car to some random kid that drools over the word "turbo." A single man has no use for 3 cars anyways. People don't usually start threads about how much they love their 7, but that doesn't mean they don't thoroughly enjoy them.

 

Question... How the heck do you have three sick cars when you're not even 20. Blows my mind.

 

The Evo is financed, and the rest is hard work. Besides, RX7's are cheap.

I'm surprised you picked up on my age. I hate when people know my age because then it's assumed that I'm a spoiled punk.


It's like when I tried to buy an STI the Subaru dealer blew me off assuming I couldn't afford it, so I walked across the street and bought my IX. Age stereotypes suck.

 

Are you a spoiled punk?

Where do you work?