Hello everyone,

My name is Dean and my first car was a 1971 RX2 way back in 1979!
I immediately went to racing beat and bought a header and holly carb and manifold kit and had one of the quickest cars in my area lol.
I owned 2-RX2's and a few 1st gen RX7's and gave up rotaries about the early 90's.
When the RX8 came out I went to the dealer and test drove one but at the time it didnt make much sense I had a family and the seat room in the back just wasnt going to work. But I did really love the way it handled and how smooth the power delivery was. Now I had many peaky 10k RPM big street port motors in the past and all were pre FI and I have to say the new 13B was very refined in the way it makes power.

Well now it 2016 and I dont need back seats anymore and I will have a RX8! I am looking to get a 2009 and up series 2 maybe a R3? if I can find one and I have learned a great deal from this forum and all the really passionate rotor heads here.
Please bear with me I have a lot to learn again alot has changed in the almost 20 years I have been away from rotaries I may ask dumb really stupid questions but I am asking for a little slack lol

One thing that has really changed is the price for a RX2 I bought mine no lie from a little old lady in Pasadena CA for $750.00 and my first RX7 (1983 model GS) for a little under a grand. now it seems these cars are IMO are priced insanely expensive.

Well thanks for reading and hope to talk to some of you here soon,

Dean

 

read the new owners threads and get a comp test before you buy one.

gl and welcome

 

I had a question about that, Can it be done any Mazda dealer?

 

I wouldn't say 'any'.. a lot of them don't even have a rotary specific tech anymore. Find one with a rotary trained tech, that has the rotary specific compression tester.

 

Thanks Dominarian

 

No worries Friend of mine took theirs to a Mazda dealership.. who ended up trying to say it had 6cyl.. just an example.

And welcome back to rotaries ^.^

 

Wow some things never change lol