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how about the top secret silvia in the back :D yes!!!! but i think flips look way better
Clint, check out Hinson Super Cars and Granny's Speed Shop. RX-7 + Muscle: the best of both worlds!
I'm a muscle fan to the core but I like these a lot, mainly because you don't see many that have been butchered by a high school sophmore with underglow and a wide body kit
I like em with fixed ones, better dynamics and lighter weight. Looks good.
Flip headlights always turn into lazy eye frog headlights. There's a reason nobody uses them anymore.
It doesnt look dumb.. It might not look right for you but i think looks really nice...
I agree with ya here matt. Flip head lights look much better on this car
I hate when people swap out The flip up head lights for regular ones, it looks dumb
Description: It wasn't especially powerful, producing 135 horsepower in its most powerful form, but the very low weight of 2,500lbs made it fast enough to be a stand-out in performance within its price range...
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Had an 85 with the early 13b in it...only car I've seen run better on low octane gas
Zain stated you could adjust the boost "up" to 65psi. The stock boost pressure was 5.5psi '86-'88, 7.5psi on '89 and up models. If he meant 6.5psi it wouldn't make sense.
65psi... Yeah i'm sure you COULD adjust it to 65 but that would be the end of that engine rofl.
Didn't the turbo 2 FC come with 200 HP stock ? And weighed 2800 lbs . And u could adjust it's turbos psi to upto 65 PSI with out even spending a dime . <3 rotary
They would have to redesign the entire motor for more liters and as previously stated the 20b is 2 liters an 26b is 2.6 liters
If the volumetric efficiency is so good why not make it a 2.0L or a 3.0L? Give this light weight freak some power man! I mean who wouldn't want a 300hp RX-7 from the factory? Lol
Description: The new enlarged engine had lighter rotors and an increased compression ratio. It produced 146 horsepower, but a turbocharged model was now offered as well, and this produced 185 horsepower. Best of a...
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It almost looks like the bumper or hood was meant for another car. I think the good may actually be the problem, it doesn't flow with the car well.
It's like Car Buzz went out of their way to find the UGLIEST FDs they could! What the hell??!
Wow. the first half of the pic looked fine, then I scrolled tithe second half.....
What if with all the photos of cara with fixed headlights, I LOVE rx-7's but really?
Description: But with its lower price the RX-7 was the better deal anyway, although the second generation RX-7 still wouldn't be as popular with tuners as the generation to come after it. Despite being the le...
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Enough power to keep up wit the supra, and it was heavier... And in te handling department, they were very close
@ Ashely, no the supra had a better 1/4 mile time low 13's vs mid-high 13's for the skyline... After launch, the skyline didn't have en
@Matt, I don't think the supra had better performance than the skyline since the late 90's models beat it when it came to 1/4 mile times and over all handling.
@ Brian, they weren't really another level, (maybe) the nsx, but the supra deffinatey, is in the same class as the skyline (90's ones) as other than the fact the gtr's had awd, the supra had equal-better performance
RX-7 all the way, lighter and I can't bring myself to own a Toyota. Blandest manufacturer of cars and despite the Supra their cars are just cheap. I owned an 05 Camry and I liked my 04 Alero better.
I'd go for the RX-7. Never liked the looks of the supra stock but I love the look of the 7.
The rotary will last as long as almost anything else. People just don't know how to take care of it. Let alone tune it. I've had a few in my shop with over 100k miles on there original engine.
I would take a supra! Looks way better IMO, more power, handles well, record holding brakes (93-04) for any production car... So it wins in the performance category and looks but that's IMO and yea, the engine will last a lot longer as stated before
I'm not much of a Japanese import fan, but for those who are... Which would you guys rather have? An RX7 or Supra?
Description: An even 50-50 weight distribution made for more competent handling than most other cars in the segment as well. This is aided by the fact that the engine is so small that Mazda was able to mount it in...
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Gotcha, just when I hear mid engine, I think of the more popular 'rear of driver' layout in that context. So the RX-7 is a "front-mid" layout just like Nissan's aforementioned platform.
Not mid-engined, just that it was located behind the front axle. This is the same as the Nissan "FM Platform" vehicles (Z, FX, etc.).
Now if you look to the left side of this picture, you will see why headlight conversions were so popular.
That's sharp. And I personally think drifting is stupid, but that's a nice car.
@ Brian, I'm not being a hypocrit, he's saying that the flip ups suck cuz they always break, which they don't... I was saying I didn't like the fixed lights.... 2 diff things
On a completely unrelated note, I like the look of this. Not a fan of the hid kit though, would've gone with the white ones instead
Everyone else has said my piece and at least I finally put a smiley on it to indicate sarcasm by this point. I know I've said it a thousand times. :)
Whew! Finally the original flip up head lights! I just can't stand those damn after market fixed ones! Ha ha!
Matt you've made the same comment on half the pictures "I hate fixed headlights" or some BS
Shut up Phillip, u already made that comment twice in this article, out of all the cars with flip up lights, I've seen one with one broken one
They should have one halfway up cause that's how they usually end up. :)
Description: Rotors and seals are still subject to damage, and a really serious tuning of a Wankel engine includes replacing these components. Although this is probably a good idea no matter what, since the third ...
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I use to bury the rpm gauge against the needle, full red zone on my '85 GSL-SE just to show my friends what a rotary could do. It never hurt the engine. Rotaries are rev happy.
Direction(piston motor) it is quite effortless and not extraneous on the wankel to withhold high rpms, their built to rev.
Then it's piston counterpart, you can sit at 8k all day with a renesis and all your doing is helping the motor and burning off all the carbon. Due to having less moving parts and spinning in the same direction as opposed to violent changes in...
Reving to 9k and it's dead? Please tell me where you heard that. First of all rotaries generate power through rpm, higher you can sustain it the more power, due to a 3:1 relation with eshaft and rotor, the rotor is spinning at a much slower speed..
Haha thanks for the shout out devin. First of all yes the fds3 was plagued with problems but it wasn't the motor blowing up, the turbos are utter crap and led to many problems, seen plenty of FDs with over 100k doing just fine when an ADULT owns it.
Well mu cousins integra is revving at 10,000 and the B18 is at mint condition And never blowed up,is knowing how to rev a engine
Don't worry children No Pistons should be along soon enough to set y'all straight
Actually the rotory engine can withstand being reved at 9000 rpm for a continuous amount of time without damage because if I remember correctly the rotor is actually only spinning at 1/3 of the eccentric shaft speed.
What kids can afford a fd3? The motors just are not reliable they rev so high and consume so much oil and gas.
Danny, most motors will break if revved for 5 mins straight at 9000 rpms lol.
This is the common misconception that hurts the RX7 "engines blow up at 50,000 miles". This simply isn't true; the 3rd gen RX7 is plagued with many issues, most things that fail are turbo and emissions control systems. The engines rarely blow until kids get ahold of them and start tweaking things, not knowing what they're doing. Then they blame the rotary engine.
The rotary engine is very weak。 It can make tons of power but is delicate。 Rev it at 9000RPM for 5 minutes and its dead.
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Ya all the comparisons I've seen it's the 8 that comes on top, people confuse I tighter steering ratio for better handling when that's not the case. All the SCCA and race forums I've read also agree the 8 is the better handling car. The rx8 is less
They've done that one a couple of times pretty sure the Miata was there for one of them, since that is what that car is known for. Will research and come back and clear it all up.
I just spent some time researching and no, the s2k an mx5 handle better, the 8 is faster than the mx5 around a track but that is due to the mx5 not being very powerful, not that it handled better... I know the comparison that ur talkin about through
Agreed, though what I love about the 8 is you have to know what your doing and put in some serious work for it to be a monster. I love a car that you have to work for and understand for power not just have money and bolt ons
RX-8 lacks power but I think it was Car and Driver that tested best handling cars. The RX-8 came in first if I recall correctly and it was up against the Mustang, Cayman, Corvette, Evo, STi, etc. etc. etc. You point it goes end of story.
RX-8 best handling car, tuned they can be beasts. Lot of people have compared their handling to a Miata.
Description: Few even noticed when Mazda decided to stop building it recently. The proof of the RX-7 iconic status is simply that when you hear the words "tuned RX-7" you're picturing one in red and...
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Thats probably because they don't know anything about how to tune them
This article has a lot less "tuner" content than the other ones, it's more just about the stock car, which is disappointing
Bad mpgs due to its inefficient thermal dynamics ie one side is continuously heated while the other is cooled. So hopefully over time there will be a solution to this.
I bought a trashed '86 5spd at auction many years ago. it was a temporary car that got me thru a few months. I could see the potential in it if it was not on its last leg. I kinda miss it.
"These stickers are dangerous and inconvenient, but I do love Fig Newtons..."
Glen Jung's car here is certainly not a tuner, but all out serious race car that with its 3 rotor motor, it does scream, literally. Always glad to see another SCCA racer get a cool mention.
I had one of these, it was a GSL-SE model with a 13B engine. Perhaps the favourite car that I owned. That little 1.3l Wankel wanted to do nothing but rev, and rev very high it did.
RX3's and 4's are my favorite.
Picture this; a drag race btw the R34, RX7 and a Supra. Twin Turbo Shootout, it would be so epic
Rotary powa . I like the FC better than the FD though
Don't even start something like that.....vvv
I like the RX-7 but the R34 Skyline is better IMO.
All of the photos are of FDs and only 1 FC???
@cho, the supra was too, so idk
i do appreciate a nice rx7 but i hate the solid head light conversion, and almost all the cars in the article have it done
Why was this car left out of the Japanese sports car series CarBuzz did a few weeks ago? SMH...
Aaawwwwww yyeeeaaaa. Rex time!