Hello from Daventry

[Ravell]

Hi everyone, I\'m Alex. I\'m from Daventry. I\'m a lifelong car geek and work as an Automotive Design Engineer. I\'ve been a BMW guy most of my life but have recently become a bit of an RX-7 convert. I\'m seriously considering importing a late Series 8 from Japan after experiencing a friends RX-7. With that in mind I\'ve been busying myself learning as much as I can about them and what they\'re like to own and live with and what you can do with them. The forum here looks like a great place to learn more and get involved in the community on my way to becoming an RX-7 owner.

My current car is a \'96 BMW 323i Coupe which I\'ve now had for 11 years, it\'s turned into my daily driver now but I do still love it and don\'t see myself ever selling it. Even so a change is in order and these days I can afford to run a weekend car for fun.

I play icehockey with a recreational team in Coventry and am quite a bit into fitness and weightlifting. As a true engineer at heart I\'ve always got project ideas and love learning and tinkering with things from electronics and programming to machining and design. I\'ve been lucky enough that I\'ve managed to make engineering my day job.

[boosted]

Welcome to club mate. Lots of info on here ....have a read of stickies and youll be armed with all the facts in order to get a great rx7 fd. Dont rule of the uk there are some seriuosly sorted cars here.
oh and cant resist..rx7s the indicators work!:rollin

only joking welcome to the club.

[clive]

Welcome to the Club Alex,

We have lots of good guys on here only to willing to help with info to help you find what your looking for.

I\'m sure you know that the FD whist an excellent car in stock form, it  is very susceptible to being modified and having your back round I would say it looks like you may well end up making a very different FD, that is unless you just like the ageless shape of the FD as is :Thumbsup!

[Ravell]

Thanks for the welcome! I can\'t stand most BMW drivers, I prefer to let people know where I\'m going before I turn the steering wheel! :Giggle

I\'m very picky when it comes to cars and have set my eye on a 1999 or 2000 Type RS in blue pretty much exactly like this: http://www.fdrx7.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=10863&stc=1&d=1371384207, I\'m yet to see one for sale in the UK.

Aside from the standard raft of reliability mods I\'m not intending to do too much to it. As I\'m 6\'3" I intend to fit a smaller diameter steering wheel (probably a Personal Grinta 330mm), I\'d like the RZ seats in red, but they seem very hard to find and quite pricey with rails. I\'ve also considered Feed side skirts and a RE-Amemiya rear diffuser, that\'s about it really. Oh and 18" TE37 wheels in gunmetal if I get bored of the stock ones, hehe.

[clive]

There have been many FD owners of your hight who have run with small steering wheels and the seat reclined but it may to know that whilst only 124 were on offer here they had seat runners that went around 25mm further backwards

[Ravell]

Thanks for the advice. It has been a concern.

I\'ve read the JDM seat rails can be modified to slide back further and that some people of my height and over find a smaller steering wheel is all it takes to get comfortable.

Either way, I\'m not too worried, I work as an automotive engineer and have access to a fabrication shop and laser cutters, so just about any mod should be possible.