Dude I'm a grandpa and totally understands the priorities things, sometimes the projects just have to wait it sucks but it's life.

But that's what gets me from what I have seen and heard the FD is quiet the sexy beast but they seem to have the most problems. So for me for now I'll push a slower car to and past it's limits and have fun then have the limit too high and not be able to flex the muscle feeling kinda cheated lol.

But that took me years to get to

Dude I'd rather see your car on the road (which I never have lol) then in the boneyard.

 

That's cool, and the Muscle Car, old School Chevy, stuff doesn't tickle me, one of the reasons to get an RX-7 was to have something not everybody does, and be able to enjoy that, there's far more old school Camaro ss's and Impala's that I see on a regular basis, then FD's or RX-7's in general.. and by the time I went V8 I had $20K invested in suspension, body, Headlights, and other stuff that I wasn't willing to walk away from, leaving behind all the cool stuff I had amassed over the years like Rotary Extreme's V-Mount and stuff was hard enough, just bailing on the whole car wasn't an option.

 

 

I'm glad I get rid of my POS, according to WackyPappy. However, I am itching to buy an LS2 Powered FD.

 

IMO though, your car is plenty quick, as quick as most moderately modded FDs. it just could use some paint and body work and will look nice. a different look than an FD but i still think a well setup FC can look about as sexy as a clean FD can(i know the FD guys will call BS and they are welcome to their own opinion), the only difference and reason to buy an FD is the resale value of the FD is higher since they were a much shorter run of cars and they looked better off the showroom floor than the FC did.

throw coilovers, clean paint and good looking wide staggered wheels on an FC and i think they look pretty damn nice.

 

it doesnt matter what car you get, you will never be happy. you need to find yourself to be satisfied or content .

 

that is true, i'm tired of my POS so i have plans on getting the body work and paint done. i feel sorry for people who go all out right out of the gate and wind up a few years down the road tired of looking at their cars and want to change it up.

 

I went through the same thing for many years so I know. To date, I have owned approx 3 dozen cars since I started driving, 80% of which were RX-3, RX-4, REPU, SA/FB and FC. But again, this was back in the 80's and early-90s when you can find the old school at recycler (similar to pennysaver and before the internet) for less than $500 with blown motor. Good 12-A or 6 ports motors were a dime a dozen at junkyards for less than $200.

 

what's a 12a?

lol, only ones i see these days have 200k miles on them in the yards and i won't bother to look at them even in the yard knowing they are tore up. too bad they're dying off. i was lucky enough to have 2 customers with low mileage 12a's that could still be restored. the REPU 13B was in the same boat, shaun's housings were on their way out, he was lucky he had that low mileage block that came with my truck. at least it will make a good display motor for the shows once i get all my **** organized for next year. i plan on laying out the early 12a motor in pieces, it's funny seeing people's reactions to the dual side seal 6mm carbon apex seal rotors.

 

junkyards are now bone dry

 

not if you own a honda!

i attribute it all to ebay. seeing people strip the 7's down and seeing parts pop up on ebay for top dollar in filthy condition. or the drifters going through trannies, engines and diffs in a matter of weeks, using all the sub-par components.

 

honda and toyotas are good for two things. gas saver and more $$$ in your pocket lol

 

so is that "hybrid" 7 i saw at SS13... i wonder what he finally claimed as gas mileage for that one trip with the hydrogen system on it was.

 

This is pretty much my problem. I guess I was just itching for a change. Originally I wanted to switch up my DD. I guess I'll do that.

Thanks for the input, Ben. By the way, the paint isn't BAD. It could use a cut/polish though, which I'll do and post pics of. Besides, I'd hate to sell a car that you pretty much built all of (sans drivetrain/suspension) and I'm sure you'd appreciate that I kept it

 

definitely, people who buy a car usually don't appreciate it as much as the owner who put the effort into building it.

 

oh yea, that red S4. he parked near me. was that thing even legit? (sorry jaime for the off topic question) =P

 

By you own account, you have had nothing but POS' in your miserable life.

 

why dont you save up for a fd with ablown motor and just rebuild it? And then youll have 2 rx7s

 

no car payment and the value will appreciate only not depreciate like your chevette

 

I would but there's not enough room for cars as is.

Well...that was short lived. Time to start looking for a new DD.

 

i've seen people claim it works but i honestly don't think it does anything for fuel mileage unless you set it up properly. you could probably tune for the hydrogen but the stock O2 sensor isn't adjusting the fuel mixture to lean out the fuel system on any RX7, so the alternator is doing work to produce the hydrogen which is mixing with the same amount of fuel as before. the only way it works is if the hydrogen is making that much more power to overcome the losses to produce it, in which case i would have to see it to believe it, and on top of that it could be made more efficient with a standalone or piggyback to detune the amount of fuel that is being wasted as is. n/a's in stock state run pig rich, too much fuel already is wasted, the timing also needs to be retarded because the hydrogen is MUCH more volatile than pump fuel is. think of it like an explosion versus a slow burn.

that kit also wasn't producing very much hydrogen, but then again it takes amps to produce more hydrogen and the more you make the more you have to detune your pump fuel to compensate. more amps = more electrical drag from the alternator and more necessity for the system to basically just use the pump fuel to start the car with then cut back and let the hydrogen do the majority of the work, basically you'd need a standalone to really utilize the H2O2 gas. i plan to test it but i also know that throwing one of those kits on a stock car, especially a pre OBDII system car is a waste of time without adding some sort of fuel management system.

it was the first rotary i've seen with that sort of modification, something i planned on testing but time and money don't grow on trees(although you could realistically build your own for less than a hundred bucks). i do honestly believe that the rotary engine has more to gain from the hydrogen fuel than most conventional engines due to the rotational benefits they offer(such as how boosted rotaries take to boost better than pistons do), so long as you do it conservatively, the seals are weaker than piston rings are so it is a touchy slope considering the explosion aspect versus slow burn of pump fuel i mentioned earlier.

there is some videos of guys running small engines strictly on H2O2 gas, but the engines cannot provide enough power to produce their own H2O2 gas while running so pump fuel is always necessary to overcome the loss. the idea behind the concept is that the combination of pump fuel and H2O2 gas is making the combustion more efficient, overcoming the loss of electrical drag and multiplying it by several denominators otherwise the people claiming it added 50/100/200% to their mileage is BS. i could possibly foresee it as possible but only with a large enough of a hydrogen system and a standalone to manage the fuel and timing properly.

in this particular case he had just tossed the kit on the car and driven it once, there is no scientific proof that he could offer that it was doing anything in such a short period of time.

 

Well, when your buckets are worth $0 from the junkyard, I guess $10 to $14 appreciation is a plus in your book.

 

Hell ya. Keep chevy engines where they belong. IN A FORD!! hahaha.

Friggen Rednecks....

amI rite, or amI rite?

 

roflmao

 

Why don't you make the exterior your new project? Or maybe clean up the engine? IDK try'n to help lol, if your board with the FC I suggest you get something else.