New to the forum

[rossonza]

Hey all,
 
My name is Ross, im 20 years old and i live near Worcester in the West Midlands.
 
A friend of mine introduced me to the idea of a rotary powered car a few months back and since then i\'ve been trying to see what i can get insured on and what would be fun and yet still safe for a first RWD car.
 
So.... as the story goes i ended going to view a car in Nottingham i had seen on Ebay and decided i would put a bid in for it. I ended up winning the car last Saturday night for a nice tidy sum of £281 with a 13b engine included in the deal.
 
The plan is to fix the issues with it and get her on the road ASAP (shes been in the last owners garage for the last 10 years.....)
 
So here are the pics, shes a lovely Gold 1984 FB with 79k on the clock
 
 

Here she is on the back of the trailer being taken to her new home.
 

Unloading her
 

Paint\'s in very good condition
 

slightly different angle
 

Under the hood
 

Hard parked along side my friends cars (corrado 1.8 16v, VW polo saloon with 1.6 conversion slammed with front splitter, and then my mate\'s 230bhp mx5 (soon to have the 13b engine i got with the car under the hood)
 
Then came the task of transporting the engine to my mates house.
So we set about dis-assembling the gearbox from the main block and taking off the manifold etc...
 

 

 
Engine in passenger side of car and gearbox with the rest of the kit in the boot. with all that in his car was slammed! haha
 
 

 
Got a few issues to sort out mainly carb issues, having the car not turned over for 10 years appears to have a float stuck open as the car\'s leaking fuel out of the exhaust and leaking into the engine bay just when the fuel pumps primed so will be cleaning the carb and then getting some new tyres, 1 or 2 different things welded (boot has a few tiny holes and the front left sill has a little bit of rust to get rid of) and then back on the road (hopefully )
 
let me know what you think! i\'ll soon have a build thread up showing all the work bit by bit.

[syebba]

Cool,welcome to the forum.
If u need any hinderance ask me,if it\'s help u need the others can assist.
U got it for a cheeeeeeeap price,more dosh 4 goodies!!
ta stu..

[Ian65]

Welcome to the forum.
Have a look at the posts by A7RXY. He recently put his 1st gen back on the road after a 11 year layup. Similar problems to recommision... carb, brakes, tyres etc...

[syebba]

u can\'t miss A7RXY his avatar is a Nikki Carb!

[David Nock (RIP)]

Welcome Ross.
If there\'s any info you need just ask. We live in the 1st Generation section on here, we\'re think we\'re nice and polite people (most of us.....) and it\'s good to know where your car went to from ebay.

You might be interested to know that we\'ve only noted about 20 Series 2 FB\'s taxed and on the road with about 30 or so further project cars (SORN or unlicensed).

Hope all goes well.

[syebba]

Captain Bizz will be happy,another gold Fb.
ta stu..:WaveBye

[rossonza]

Thanks for the warm welcome guys!!!
 
going to clean the carb tommorow. ill keep you posted and im sure i\'ll have some questions to ask you!

[chrisJDM]

Welcome to the club good to see a young driver buying a rotary they can afford instead of going for a fd and not being able to afford the insurance

[Brett]

Welcome to the forum :wave

You will love the 1st gen, few cars can match its balance on the road

[Marcrs]

Welcome - I too am new to the forum, and to the world of owning an FB. Good luck with it, I\'m sure you\'ll find all the help and advice you need here - I can\'t offer much myself, but I can offer words of encouragement

[myatt1972]

Hi Ross,
Welcome to the mad house, looking forward to seeing your car get back on the road, keep us posted, we love lots of pics!
Keith...

[syebba]

Just out of interest did u get an insurance quote?
£?
 
I\'m a fossil so insurance is cheap.
 
ta stu..

[mooragerx7]

welcome mate
good luck to you and welcome to the wonderfull world of rotarys
no doute yours will be another one on the road before mine really must pull my finger out :2Rolleyes

[kiwi-mick]

Welcome mate this forum is one fantastic resource for knowledge, the guys on here are all keen to share their wealth of knowledge which makes working on and getting your car in good shape much easier and not to mention cheaper.
Glad your planning on putting that gold series 2 back on the road was worried someone was going to scrap her for parts
 
cheers
mick

[captainbizzaro]

Hi Ross,

Welcome from me,would be good too see another Gold S2 on the road:Thumbsup!

Don\'t be scared to ask anything here you won\'t get flamed, keep the piccys coming and good luck.

Tim