Conundrums and the such

I have a particularly bad habit of jumping ship mid stream. I've been aware of it and I finally thought that I had made a turn in the best direction.

I have a running driving toy car that I actually like. I like the size of the car, it's possibilities and nature of the project. I like almost everything about the car. It's ugly. It's not going to be pretty ever. I accept that. It will however be faster and hopefully will be exactly what I imagined.

So a fellow car guy and GRMer mentioned that he wanted to sell his much nicer appearing, not as nice mechanically RX8 and the number was lower than expected. I want it. But I don't want it so badly that I don't have RXh8.

I would love to see both cars side to dive in the Garage M'Haul with the street car receiving the RXh8 engine and any other good components and RXh8 getting a V8 and R compounds and Drag Radials making both fun and functional.

1: What advice does the hive offer?

2: Have you dealt with similar issues? What did you do?

1: Do it.
2: Been consistently broke enough not to be able to do it.

I wound up with 3 of them.

Im no help. I know.

QuasiMofo wrote: 2: Have you dealt with similar issues? What did you do?

I'm treating the one on the right as an exercise in minimalist spending. Sort of an internal Challenge.

The one on the left is the funds dumpster.

Like Pete said....

(*that said I only currently have one of each of these now...)

Of course you should do it. Was this actually a question?

In reply to irish44j:

My friend with the 944 I was telling you about, just bought RX-8 number three, because it's a color he always wanted to have. That's #3 in parallel ownership.

Same guy who, if you know FB RX-7 lore, made a car that Never Existed - he did a complete GSL-SE drivetrain/chassis conversion into a car with a rare color only sold in 1983. I think. Anyway it was the only way he could get the car he wanted in the color he wanted.

Don't look at me for the correct answer, you know what my driveway looks like

I have 3 rx7s in the garage....

Nice one:

E36 M3ty one:

I'm failing to see the dilemma..

Knurled wrote: In reply to irish44j: My friend with the 944 I was telling you about, just bought RX-8 number three, because it's a color he always wanted to have. That's #3 in parallel ownership. Same guy who, if you know FB RX-7 lore, made a car that Never Existed - he did a complete GSL-SE drivetrain/chassis conversion into a car with a rare color only sold in 1983. I think. Anyway it was the only way he could get the car he wanted in the color he wanted.

I assume that the mechanical swap was easier than just re painting the gsl-se?

It's easy for them to multiply.

In reply to QuasiMofo:

I had that problem with MR2's so I am no help. Now I think it is morphing in to a problem with early 2000 GM trucks.

In reply to mblommel:

That blue is amazing on that car.

dean1484 wrote: I assume that the mechanical swap was easier than just re painting the gsl-se?

Yes, for two reasons.

First and foremost, doing mechanical work well is always easier than doing paint well. Always. If you want OE-level quality, anyway.

Second, the color tag on the firewall would no longer match A lot of people in the RX-7 community identify cars by the 2-character color code. I don't know what the '81 in my garage is (it's been resprayed a differet red anyway), but the '84 is an H1. My '80 was a WN (Aurora White). The most desirable FD RX-7 is the J9 (Competition Yellow Mica). And so on.

You have to be a complete nerd to be into Mazdas. We're cool with that.

Nick (Bo) Comstock wrote: In reply to mblommel: That blue is amazing on that car.

It seems like every other first generation MR2 was that color. For once, the common color is also the best looking color.

I am convinced that projects are magnetic.

They attract other projects....

I have so many projects I have problems deciding on which project to work on.

Then I have to move 3 or 5 projects to make room to work on the one I have chosen.

Then I drink a beer and I'm tired so I take a nap, I wake up and it's time to put everything away.

So that's today's progress, I found 2 more projects moving the 3 or 5, I drank beer, I took a nap.

In reply to QuasiMofo:

Couple of things.

You clearly like rx8s right? Would you want one as a daily driver?

Here is what I see in your post. You can make one version of the car that you can enjoy and use on a daily basis AND a second one that can be more of a toy.

I fully endorse that since we've been living like that for more than 2 decades.

For the toy, unless you see yourself racing on the track, don't make it so crazy that you don't want to drive it on the street- just make it raw enough to be just more than the DD.

But focus on finishing one car first, and I would suggest the DD version.

bentwrench wrote: I am convinced that projects are magnetic. They attract other projects....

Definitely true. I bought a complete Mercedes 190E 2.3-16 to donate it's engine to my 2.3-16 racecar. Now I find myself poking around the "parts car" thinking it's too clean, straight, and rust-free not to save.

So now you need a 450-500 parts car for the drivetrain to put in the 190.

Be sure to get one that is bent or rusted bad enough you don't get thoughts about turning it into an AMG!

Quasi, if the rx8 in question is the one I'm thinking of, I'd go ahead and snag it. I haven't been out to see it yet, but he says that it's pretty freakin' clean.

I thought about buying it, but I've had to put some unexpected $$$ into the Failblazer this week.

grafmiata wrote: Quasi, if the rx8 in question is the one I'm thinking of, I'd go ahead and snag it. I haven't been out to see it yet, but he says that it's pretty freakin' clean. I thought about buying it, but I've had to put some unexpected $$$ into the Failblazer this week.

Yes, that's the one.

It's a tougher decision than I thought! I'm going to sleep on it until January 1 I think.