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Jimi_Hendrix

#15
February 10, 2009, 10:21:59 PM
I cmae to the 7\'s from owning a string of Hondas, most recently a 1990 JDM siR CRX.
 
Sold it and bought a UK 1990 FC3S Turbo II. Bought it because it only had 59000 miles on it and it didn\'t have a spot of rust anywhere. The seller was a really helpful genuine bloke and i kind of knew what to look for and what questions to ask but i didn\'t get any comp tests done on it, i just had a feeling that it was a good car.
 
3 monts or so later and she\'s still lush. Starts fine every morning and gets me wherever i need to get to hastle free. I dont understand these guys that are "scared" to drive their 7\'s incase they break! Lol!
 
RX7 aren\'t made of bone china! They dont just explode in HUGE numbers, its just a largley unfounded myth i think!
 
Mind you! The 13bt or tt aint no B16 or B18 when it comes to being able to take huge milage hits!! Lol!
 
Plus i drive like miss Daisy\'s on board! Ha ha!

dan_miles86

#16
February 10, 2009, 11:21:46 PM
Ive got two B16\'s, one is on 192k now! Thats an amazing amount of miles on a 16yr old piston engine that hits 8.5k rpm daily. Still works perfect and with as much power as one with half the mileage.
 
My other option to this is complete my turbo B16 build which would make it amazingly quick but wouldnt make it RWD!

Jimi_Hendrix

#17
February 11, 2009, 12:23:42 AM
Ha ha, yeah those Honda units are some of the best engines ever built. My CRX was on 110,000 miles and was still as reliabul as a wood burning stove! And being a sub 1000kg car it was BIG fun! Its just a shame they FWD cars. I tried so many times to convince myself i could build a RWD CRX! Lol! But reality has to kick in sometime.
 
Im a full on rotorhead now! Honestly man dive in! You wont turn back!
 
Untill you get the cash for an NSX!:InLove:chat

dan_miles86

#18
February 21, 2009, 11:07:23 PM
Did you find anything out about this one? Still looking for an RX7...
 
Cheers, Dan.
 
Quote from: G@NDY;583312Just found this old pic, it has standard alloys on now, not those nissan ones.

G@NDY

#19
March 18, 2009, 09:47:11 AM
Hi Dan, this car I think is getting MOT\'ed this week. If you fancy having a gander matey.
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dan_miles86

#20
March 18, 2009, 11:36:02 AM
Thanks for letting me know but I finally bought one yesterday :)

G@NDY

#21
March 18, 2009, 11:44:05 AM
Nice work, get some pics up matey :)
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G@NDY

#22
March 18, 2009, 11:45:16 AM
And now you have no excuse to register on our local jap forum
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Jono FD3

#23
March 18, 2009, 12:48:15 PM
If you do go down the route of a compression test matey, make sure it is done with the mazda digital tester & not the usual analog ones used in piston engines!! the reason for this is you have 3 chambers to read in each housing, al done through one plug hole!!!

Jono

gandyRX

#24
March 18, 2009, 04:13:59 PM
hello mate mines gonna be up for sale at the end of the week, it was compression tested by carl at hayward rotary a few months ago before mapping, he had a digital tester measuring all 3 cycles front and rear got a print out too in the paper work
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