$600 "no rust" 88 rx7

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mansfield is about an hour and 15 minutes south of cleveland

http://mansfield.craigslist.org/cto/1906650717.html

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totally, but knowing you guys someone is going to go over there, pick it up cheap, change (apex seals?), and have a good car. the 88 has a rotary, no? i don't know crap about them or i would go look at it.

patgizz wrote: totally, but knowing you guys someone is going to go over there, pick it up cheap, change (apex seals?), and have a good car. the 88 has a rotary, no? i don't know crap about them or i would go look at it.

All RX-7's have rotaries. Or all of the RX-7's that have not been bastardized with LSx's at least.

Mazdax605 wrote:

patgizz wrote: totally, but knowing you guys someone is going to go over there, pick it up cheap, change (apex seals?), and have a good car. the 88 has a rotary, no? i don't know crap about them or i would go look at it.

All RX-7's have rotaries. Or all of the RX-7's that have not been totally and completely improved with LSx's at least.

Fixed for ya.

Agree to disagree I guess. Nothing wrong with the V8 option,but not a direction I would head. I love the magic spinning Dorito's

-C

Mazdax605 wrote: Agree to disagree I guess. Nothing wrong with the V8 option,but not a direction I would head. I love the magic spinning Dorito's -C

I do to, but they would be soooo much better in lighter/smaller chassis. The FC does absolutely nothing to take advantage of a tiny high winding motor. Huge engine bay, huge transmission tunnel, fairly heavy chassis, diff that handles mucho torque (TII models of course), etc... The engine would fit in an 18" cube but they decided to put the accessories and intake as far away from the block as possible and hang a huge mechanical fan off the front so the thing would take up more room than a big block. Hell, with a compact intake the engine fits in the engine bay of a Spitfire and moves it like a proper performance motor should. The Rotary is not a V8, it shouldn't have to compete with V8's, and it shouldn't be packaged to take up as much space as a V8!

I don't like FC's anyway. I am an SA guy myself.

Mazdax605 wrote: Agree to disagree I guess. Nothing wrong with the V8 option,but not a direction I would head. I love the magic spinning Dorito's -C

I'm just joshing with ya. I've owned both a turbo rotary and am now on my 2nd V8 FC. Personally, I prefer the grunt of the V8.

Mazdax605 wrote: I don't like FC's anyway. I am an SA guy myself.

I do enjoy a nice first gen.

patgizz wrote: totally, but knowing you guys someone is going to go over there, pick it up cheap, change (apex seals?), and have a good car. the 88 has a rotary, no? i don't know crap about them or i would go look at it.

The problem is collateral damage. If you wait until the engine lets go, there's basically nothing worthwhile left inside. FOD gets everything.

You know the 2 liter Focus/Escort engine that likes to drop exhaust seats? Same thing. You can't just pop a new seat in the head, you have to replace the head because it's destroyed, you have to replace at least one piston (sometimes all four are wrecked), I've seen blocks scored, and of course even the intake manifold has to be junked because you'll never get all of the debris out of it...

All that said, I've looked at a few 'doesn't run' RX-7s where the problem was electrical. And one where they thought the black cable was ground and the black/yellow was positive when they connected the battery. Starters will turn only one way, incidentally, no matter which way you have the battery connected. The black boxes will leak their smoke out, though.