How many Rotary in your life?
04-06-2012, 05:36 PM
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4 DOORS FOR MORE WHORES
The deal breaker is when it doesn't come with its own garage!
I don't care if it's a remote garage in a different appartment building (like my current garage) as long as it's covered from all sides.
Screw carports and open to the element car spots!
04-06-2012, 06:31 PM
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Glitchy Rotary Madness
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I've owned two Rotary cars:
'84 GSL-SE bought in 1992, sold in '95 for a new Miata. The buyer's son totaled that Rx-7 not 3 months later.
'twas Brilliant Black over blood-red leather. I had purposely sought out an FB instead of an FC, the FB's a special car to me.
'05 Shinka, bought to replace the very same miata after it got rear-ended and broken beyond repair.
There will be more. Maybe old, maybe new. But yeah, there will be more Rotary in my garage. I know I'll have another FB. That car is very special to me, in many different ways. Some people lust after old 911s, some after old Ferraris, (I'm one, come to think of it..) but it's the humble little FB that would make me do stupid things at Barret Jackson one day.
'84 GSL-SE bought in 1992, sold in '95 for a new Miata. The buyer's son totaled that Rx-7 not 3 months later.
'twas Brilliant Black over blood-red leather. I had purposely sought out an FB instead of an FC, the FB's a special car to me.'05 Shinka, bought to replace the very same miata after it got rear-ended and broken beyond repair.
There will be more. Maybe old, maybe new. But yeah, there will be more Rotary in my garage. I know I'll have another FB. That car is very special to me, in many different ways. Some people lust after old 911s, some after old Ferraris, (I'm one, come to think of it..) but it's the humble little FB that would make me do stupid things at Barret Jackson one day.
won't be the last i own either haha
04-10-2012, 04:03 PM
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1973 RX3 coupe
1974 RX4 coupe
1976 RX4 sedan
1978 RX7, later modified and raced for years.,owned thirteen years
1989 RX7 Turbo II, later modified and raced
1991 used 323 for the wife
1993 RX7 FD Twin Turbo, later modified
2000 Protege EX, later given to my brother in 2005, still running strong today in DFW Texas
2008 40th Anniversary Edition RX8 w/Mazdaspeed Cold Air Intake
2008 Mazdaspeed3 GT w/Mazdaspeed Cold Air Intake
I have easily a million miles driven in rotary Mazdas alone (combined street and track miles). And NEVER a Rotary engine failure in any of my cars while I owned them.
1974 RX4 coupe
1976 RX4 sedan
1978 RX7, later modified and raced for years.,owned thirteen years
1989 RX7 Turbo II, later modified and raced
1991 used 323 for the wife
1993 RX7 FD Twin Turbo, later modified
2000 Protege EX, later given to my brother in 2005, still running strong today in DFW Texas
2008 40th Anniversary Edition RX8 w/Mazdaspeed Cold Air Intake
2008 Mazdaspeed3 GT w/Mazdaspeed Cold Air Intake
I have easily a million miles driven in rotary Mazdas alone (combined street and track miles). And NEVER a Rotary engine failure in any of my cars while I owned them.
85 gs
88 10ae
86gxl
85 gsl-se (current)
04 rx8 (current)
I have been driving rotaries for 8 years and (knock on wood) have never had a rotary engine fail on me.
04-10-2012, 10:08 PM
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RX8: God of Swiftness
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I've owned four:
1973 RX-2 Sedan
Bought new in December 1979, by the time I had it paid off I was tired of trying to coax horsepower out of the original 1970cc "MA" engine (super long-stroke, 98mm by 80mm bore). I tried an Offenhauser intake manifold, Weber carb, high-lift cam and high-dome pistons but it just wouldn't rev. So I found an abandoned RX-4 in a creek in Ohio, paid the landowner 50 bucks, scrapped the body in a dumpster after an acetylene torch treatment and overhauled the 4-speed manual transmission. As for the 13B engine, it received an excellent street-porting overhaul from Racing Beat and I dropped it in the 626 with a RB high-rise intake manifold, Holley carb and the coolest looking mushroom top air cleaner, also from Racing Beat. For the exhaust I used more RB parts to build an RX-7 based extended system with the longest primary length runners I could fit. All the pieces fit amazingly well, including an RX-4 radiator and oil cooler and the best of all it had the deepest exhaust sound I've ever heard from a rotary, especially at idle. Had to sell it though when I moved from Columbus to Phoenix because it couldn't pass emissions.
2007 RX-8 Touring
1973 RX-2 Sedan
Purchased slightly used at 8,000 miles, wish I hadn't wrecked it. 
1984 RX-4 WagonYellow with stick-on woodgrain, glad I sold it. 
1979 626 Hardtop CoupeBought new in December 1979, by the time I had it paid off I was tired of trying to coax horsepower out of the original 1970cc "MA" engine (super long-stroke, 98mm by 80mm bore). I tried an Offenhauser intake manifold, Weber carb, high-lift cam and high-dome pistons but it just wouldn't rev. So I found an abandoned RX-4 in a creek in Ohio, paid the landowner 50 bucks, scrapped the body in a dumpster after an acetylene torch treatment and overhauled the 4-speed manual transmission. As for the 13B engine, it received an excellent street-porting overhaul from Racing Beat and I dropped it in the 626 with a RB high-rise intake manifold, Holley carb and the coolest looking mushroom top air cleaner, also from Racing Beat. For the exhaust I used more RB parts to build an RX-7 based extended system with the longest primary length runners I could fit. All the pieces fit amazingly well, including an RX-4 radiator and oil cooler and the best of all it had the deepest exhaust sound I've ever heard from a rotary, especially at idle. Had to sell it though when I moved from Columbus to Phoenix because it couldn't pass emissions.
2007 RX-8 Touring
This one is a keeper! 
04-11-2012, 03:18 AM
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Blue 2004 RX8 is my first rotary.
Having said that, in 2004(ish) I almost bought an RX7 but two things stoped me, the price which at the time couldnt afford and the small inconvenience of not fitting in the driver side. Being slightly large on both dimensions, my knee gets wegged between the steering wheel and center console so I can only drive an RX7 in a straight line ^^
If any future rotaries follow the RX8 consideration of tall ppl, I can safely say that this RX8 won't be my last.
Having said that, in 2004(ish) I almost bought an RX7 but two things stoped me, the price which at the time couldnt afford and the small inconvenience of not fitting in the driver side. Being slightly large on both dimensions, my knee gets wegged between the steering wheel and center console so I can only drive an RX7 in a straight line ^^
If any future rotaries follow the RX8 consideration of tall ppl, I can safely say that this RX8 won't be my last.
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