I\'ve finally got her!!

[Brad1234]

Good news! I have finally managed to get my 2nd gen Rx7!!
 
My dad drove me down to slough on saturday to pick up Scarlett, (as seen on this forum) I met doug, who i had spoke to briefly on the phone, he was a great laff, but more importantly didn\'t try to pull the wool over my eyes. I also saw James who was great in letting me have a poke and a prod at his car too, for comparison.
 
I was happy with what i saw so i handed over the readies and grove \'Scarlett\' away. And what a drive it was, I drove nearly 200 miles in her back to Manchester and it was fantastic, I didn\'t want to stop!
 
needless to say she is back home safe with me now, albeit under a different handle, i\'ve decided to call her \'Ruby\', The only reason is, is because when I was a baby, apparently I had a bit of a thing for the song \'Ruby Baby\' by Donald Fagen, I couldn\'t sleep without it on!! :Giggle
I know some of you think this is sad but quite frankly i dont give a sh-it! :Giggle  I\'m just glad to have her.
 
A big thanks goes out to anyone who has given me advice on purchasing my Rx7, it was much needed and well appreciated, especially Brett and his UBER e-mails!!  :Thumbs-up  cheers pal!
 
Anyway I hope to be joining the club soon, so there will be plenty of good times to come for me and \'Ruby\' and i hope to see all you fine people at the various meets and shows throughout the year.
 
Cya all soon
 
Brad

[TiddlesRX7]

Good to hear Brad. See you at a meet soon. Enjoy.

[Brett]

Glad you got it home OK -

Welcome to the rotary world :Giggle

[Nik da Greek]

Welcome to the club! My FD\'s called "Ruby" already, but I\'m willing to let you use it so long as I retain the intellectual copyright!

[grinder]

oohh emails with brett - your a brave man matey !!

welcome to the great world of being a FC owner

there are a few of us around here ( FC & FD & FB ) - so keep yours eye peeled

[L18M]

welcome.. hope u enjoy ruby.
=)

[DemonRx4]

Hello mate how was the drive home? did you get a headache? lol

Also did you ring me last night?

[Brad1234]

hey doug, the drive home was brilliant, i have got used to the noise now and i have found out that there is a hole in the exhaust, so i will be patching that up very shortly and seeing what the difference is.

i did ring you the other night, she broke down in asda car park, i thought she was flooded but it turns out all the spark plugs were loose, one wasnt even in the block it was just resting in the hole, also the rotor arm and cap had loads of green corrosion on them, oh and the oil was just below minimum, after sortin that though it was fine! at first i didnt know that it had any of these problems and was just ringin u to see if anything like this had happened to you at all, just in case it was something trivial and so i didnt screw anything up.

shes runnin fine now though!!

[dthebuk]

good that your cars sorted mate!!

[DemonRx4]

Really? sh*te sorry mate i don\'t know what to say.
I checked all the fluid levels before you came down and she was fine, in fact i topped her oil off because i left you some in the back of the car. As for the plugs i really don\'t know what happened there, i don\'t know if they can work loose or if they just weren\'t put in properly at the time but i can\'t see it being the latter because i never had an issue with her starting or anything before.

Hope she\'s running okay now. Really sorry about that.

[DemonRx4]

Bizarrely enough the only place the car ever broke down on me was in an ASDA car park....

[dthebuk]

maybe she\'s trying to tell you something, oh and doug, any chance you can link me to the dials

[DemonRx4]

Oh yeah thanks for reminding me lol

Here is your link good sir...http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/i569-86-88-MAZDA-RX7-RX-7-NON-TURBO-FC3S-GLOW-GAUGES_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp3286Q2ec0Q2em234QQhashZitem300259081683QQitemZ300259081683

[Brad1234]

yeah no worries doug, she got me home fine and now she runs like a dream, my mate tried dragging me in his BMW 320i...   ....i made mince meat of him!
he said he gave it all it\'s got but to be honest i was barely tickling it!

oh ye, i had a look at the exhaust today, there were 2 brackets broken that i welded back up and it\'s a str8 thru system thats why it makes the racket it does!

hope you dont think i\'m having a go when i tell you about these problems, i love gettin my hands dirty and i adore this car, i\'m happy as larry!!

also, did you uprate the rear suspenssion with gas coilovers or were they already on it?

[Brad1234]

Just a quick note to everyone,

cheers for all the comments on here! i cant reply to every one because my wrists werent built for typing

im gonna start a new thread shortly with some pics of the car all nice an shiny! hopefully turn it into a kind of \'build diary\'

just thought id let everyone know

Brad