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Especially after it got wrecked, lol.

Yeah, sorry. The dealership let me return it to them because they never got me the title. WIN win for me. Sorry guys.

Oh I know, I'm not mad, just not ready yet. Lol.

Will do. I'll probably PM most of the people who have showed interest too.

Lol, wow you guys, I haven't even gotten this car home yet. Give me another week to get it back in my garage, and I'll put up a part-out thread.

I do. I'll let you know when I have them off the car.

Well, I've pretty much decided to cut my losses at this point. I have far too many cars to consider trying to rebuild this one, not to mention the cost would almost certainly not be worth it. It's but fun, but short, and I greatly appreciated my time in the 6GC world. I'll probably hang around a little bit and continue to suck information, and who knows, maybe one day I'll end up with another one.

For now though, I'm going to begin dismantling this car. Let me know if you need any parts, as they will eventually all be for sale.

Disaster!!



There are these dumb intersections in Charlottesville (Which is the city I work in) that are almost like merging onto a highway. I thought the guy in front of me had gone, so I accelerated to match traffic, and slammed right into the back of him. Airbags went off, steam and smoke everywhere... it was quite a spectacle.

Gonna try to asses the damage tomorrow, I was too exhausted today after everything was said and done. If it's worth saving... I'm thinking, Curren front end??

WOAH!! THOSE ARE SICK!! I'm totally gonna get one of those, thanks for the hookup!!

Same here, lol. I love them to death.

I don't really have any plans for it right now, I need to do the timing belt and the axles, but I'm not gonna do a whole lot right now. I'm gonna try to get my 86 VW GTI ready for H2O next month.

Non-turbo. GTU is pretty much the basic sport model, so you get basic up-options like 5-lug and the sunroof, but no power windows, and of course, no turbo.

I'd love to give it a look, do you have any idea which magazine it was? Adding power is no different from any piston engine, add a turbo, BPU's, etc. One of the biggest misunderstandings people have about rotary engines is that they are unreliable. While most examples have BECOME unreliable, the problem lies solely with the driver. Rotary engines MUST be thrashed, REGULARLY, or carbon will build up at a rapid pace, as rotary engines are designed to inject oil into the combustion chamber. They say "A redline a day keeps the carbon away!" and that's a mantra I can live with. So far my FC has been the most reliable car I've ever owned, getting me through 2 snowstorms when my HONDA broke down, and daily drove me 140 miles a day when my Astro's engine went bad.

So yeah, that's my soapbox, lol. Sorry, I have a great affection for the rotary engine, and I just like to explain why people are often mistaken about it. Have a nice day!

It's always a pleasure to whore out my heart-throb.

This is Jessica. She's a 1990 RX-7 GTU, and she's come a LOOOONnnnggg way.








I also race her as much as possible. Usually just Autocrosses, but I'm doing an HPDE in November.

I had an 83. That car was KICK. ASS.

Lolz, it's still in Project mode.







And when I first found it:



Towing it home:

Thanks for the welcome's everybody!

RabidTRD, thanks for the info, I didn't realize there was so much under the timing cover. This will be my first FWD Toyota I've ever dealt with, I've had two 3rd gen Supra's (and worked on like 12 others), and I'm working on a 69 Corolla Sprinter in my spare time.

As far as handling, I don't think it'll handle any better than my FC RX-7. But I was pleasantly surprised with how well it does handle, that's a nice change in a Daily Driver.

That'd be "Shelly, the silver Celi." Made that up myself, lol. Thanks! Although it's hardly silver anymore...

Greetings all. My name is Pierce Ford, I live in Richmond VA, and I look like this:



Great. Now that we have that over with...

Last Wednesday, this little gem was traded into my dealership for a new Elantra:



I jumped on it with a diseased quickness, and had the keys for it before the poor girl had even signed the title, Lol. Bottom line, this car is FANTASTIC. I love everything about it, except that the PO was a smoker...






I've been driving it ~140 miles a day since then, and it hasn't given me a bit of trouble. It leaks oil rather quickly, I top it up every other day, both front axle boots are broken, and it's due for a timing belt, but all in all, its an AMAZING car, and I'm pretty sure it's getting better fuel mileage than my Civic right now... It's also the only car I've ever had that has A/C, which is a MAJOR plus. It has 174,xxx miles on it, but feels like it'll run forever... I picked it up for 800$ out the door.

No real plans right now, I still am not quite sure what I'm going to do with it, as it was a bit of an unexpected blessing. I've been trying to build up this other Civic I have for daily driving duties, but that may be out the window now... Who knows. It definitely needs a paint job, I'm gonna do a dark matte green and maybe two tone it with everything above the window-line being matte black. I've been toying with the idea of slamming the piss out of it, making it all "Hellaflush" or whatever, as I've never seen one of these cars like that before, with some super stanced gold wheels. Wheels is definitely a priority, I HATE how sunk the stock wheels are, especially in the back. And seriously, WTH is up with this 5x100 BS?? I have a TON of 5x114.3 wheels, but I've never even HEARD of 5x100 wheels... Does anyone know if you can swap over SW20 hubs? Like, use their back ones for our front ones, etc?

So anyways, I can promise you this, this build will crawl along at an amazingly slow rate, trust me. But I would certainly appreciate any help and information you wonderful people can give me along the way, I know I'm looking forward to it!