silicone boy Posted August 20, 2003 Share Posted August 20, 2003 I haven't been on the board for a while because I've been sulking. Last month, I was firing up my motor for the first time when it got stuck. Well, to make a long story short, I tore the motor apart and found ANOTHER bolt had dropped into it (I'm the idiot who wrote about dropping a bolt down the intake manifold a while back). I put a nice dent in my piston. I used this as an excuse to a nice all forged rotating assembly, but rebuilding an engine when I was so close didn't cheer me up. Neither did turning my attention to making a nice new set of subframes for the car. Then, she walked into my life. I was wandering around on EBay, when I saw a 93 RX7 with a salvage title. The strange thing was, there was only a little bite out of the driver rear quarter panel and a bumper to replace. The rest of it seemed fine. There were a bunch of performance goodies (strut bars, 5-way tokicko's, stainless steel aftermarket exhaust, aftermarket intake stuff). I got it for $6500 (and I can get all the damage repaired for about a couple grand). Of course, my wife was furious and I had to beg her for the money as she controls the bank account. I have to admit it was irresponsible, but I eventually got my wish. It's a beautiful silver and runs great, except I found out that the lower control arm was bent (not a good thing to find out when the second turbo kicks in.) My Z isn't jealous--I'll bet she's happy to have a worthy garage buddy. I'll post pictures as soon as I figure out how. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heavy Z Posted August 20, 2003 Share Posted August 20, 2003 Great score, the perfect sidekick to any garage. I love those cars, and would've bought one if my insurance company didn't consider them an "unsafe vehicle" (their words), and said my insurance would be $2,700 a year! They wanted no part of those RX7's, but they'll insure my '71 Z for $23 bucks a month...go figure. Enjoy the RX-7 (and the Z), you've got some of the best of old and new sports car tech in that combo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silicone boy Posted August 20, 2003 Author Share Posted August 20, 2003 $2700/year!!! I forgot about the insurance thing. I kind of believe the "unsafe vehicle", though. These cars are getting very hard to find as are used parts. Part of it is that they only made them for three years, but I've also heard that an incredible percentage of gen3 RX7's were crashed soon after purchase (looks like the one I got was a victim of lift throttle oversteer). Maybe it's the wanna be boy racers who bought these cars. On the other hand, I haven't heard of too many people on this board who have crashed their V8 Z's. Maybe we're better drivers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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