Thinking of buying a FD

[turbo boy]

The girlies do love \'em!
 
PS: if you go for one with the back seats and you take a load of girlie mates taxi-stylee, when you reach round to move the passenger seat forward you always get a cheeky glimpse of knickers as they get out the back....a small point, but an important one :Tongue1 :Tongue1

Damn straight:Thumbs-up

[rx7toy]

Im just about to buy  FD, but do they really need a oil change every 5weeks?
 
Thats abit much is it not?
 
sorry for hi-jack:mmmm

[trotter]

Not at all mate. Most people go for every 1000miles or so. It\'s up to your personal preference. The service manual says not more than every 5000miles or 5months (whichever comes first)

I go for a happy medium of about 2500. Oil is only about £25 for 5litres. And the filter is a fiver. so it\'s not ruinous to do it often!

HTH

graeme

[rx7toy]

I see, 2.5k sounds abit more reasonable, Thanks for that:Thumbsup!

[trotter]

No worries, it also all depends how much you drive her and how hard as well.

Brutal driving a lot will require more care!!  But 2.5k isnt unreasonable!!

[FreddyM]

well lads. on the topic of changing cars i am planning of buying an fd in a few weeks but this will be my first time owning a rotary.
i will have the fd as a second car only. not planning mods in the near future after buying it and planning low mileage.
looking for opinions as im new to rotary and this site.
any comments will be appreciated.

[trotter]

Hi Freddy mate, welcome to the site.

First things first, if you\'re gonna buy a Rex, do it with your head and not your heart!! There is horror story after horror story on here of people buying one \'because she was the one\' and ignoring some tell-tale warning signs on the test drive of bad things a-coming.

Best advice I (we) can give is spend a few hours learning up about them (from here as well as FDUK.com, rx7city.com, etc). Probably worthwhile doing a bit of a search for how rotaries actually work on Google, useful and kinda interesting - well to me as an engineer it is!!

When it comes to actually picking one, make sure you give it a good drive. Should start cleanly form both hot and cold (don\'t worry about a bit of smoke, they all do it!). Find a nice stretch of straight road and give it the beans - boost should progress smoothly between both turbos (if still sequential) with a slight dip at around 3500-4000rpm where the changeover occurs.

Also, get a compression test done before you buy. Some problems are not easily noticed but this is a simple test that will save you no end of problems!! Costs around £40 or so (try and bargain with the owner to have it done for you somehow). If any results are below about 6.0psi then you are looking at a rebuild in the not too distant future.

HTH

graeme

[FreddyM]

Hi Freddy mate, welcome to the site.
 
First things first, if you\'re gonna buy a Rex, do it with your head and not your heart!! There is horror story after horror story on here of people buying one \'because she was the one\' and ignoring some tell-tale warning signs on the test drive of bad things a-coming.
 
Best advice I (we) can give is spend a few hours learning up about them (from here as well as FDUK.com, rx7city.com, etc). Probably worthwhile doing a bit of a search for how rotaries actually work on Google, useful and kinda interesting - well to me as an engineer it is!!
 
When it comes to actually picking one, make sure you give it a good drive. Should start cleanly form both hot and cold (don\'t worry about a bit of smoke, they all do it!). Find a nice stretch of straight road and give it the beans - boost should progress smoothly between both turbos (if still sequential) with a slight dip at around 3500-4000rpm where the changeover occurs.
 
Also, get a compression test done before you buy. Some problems are not easily noticed but this is a simple test that will save you no end of problems!! Costs around £40 or so (try and bargain with the owner to have it done for you somehow). If any results are below about 6.0psi then you are looking at a rebuild in the not too distant future.
 
HTH
 
graeme

Thanks lad,
 
I heard alot of horror stories about them until i spoke to a number of people who had or still have them. most were good but the bad ones were down to lack of minding as far as i could make out.
i will be in no rush to buy and as its my first time to go rotary, i hope to get someone who has experience with them to come with me for a second look at one.