4ever_sideways
Member
I'd have an FD rx7 over an silvia purely based on the shape of an FD. Not too sure about the reliability of the spinny triangle of a motor although they do sound awesome.
jonofd3
Active Member
RX7's with out 13B's in makes the baby jesus cry!!
The rotary engine is very much miss understood as being a retchind gold digger that rapes the wallet, but the thing to consider is this.... get a good one and it will always be good, get a crap one and it will be a bag of wank!! when the import business went ape shit over them companies were buying in all the crap most of the time, scrub them up and sell at an inflated price, as a result they brake and the scare stories travel a shit load faster than the good stories!!
Had mine for 7 years near as damb it now and never had a spot of bother with it..... recently put an engine in for a rebuild, but only due to the original being low on compression. Engine rebuilds are comparible to RB prices, so the cost issues are a farce.... go to a reputable specialist who knows what they are doing and the job will be done once, done well and at a sencible price, cut corners and use joe bloggs at the end of a back street who will do the job for £30, guarantee it won't be done properly and it will brake, causing you a head ach and a growing hatred for the rotary lump
Jono
The rotary engine is very much miss understood as being a retchind gold digger that rapes the wallet, but the thing to consider is this.... get a good one and it will always be good, get a crap one and it will be a bag of wank!! when the import business went ape shit over them companies were buying in all the crap most of the time, scrub them up and sell at an inflated price, as a result they brake and the scare stories travel a shit load faster than the good stories!!
Had mine for 7 years near as damb it now and never had a spot of bother with it..... recently put an engine in for a rebuild, but only due to the original being low on compression. Engine rebuilds are comparible to RB prices, so the cost issues are a farce.... go to a reputable specialist who knows what they are doing and the job will be done once, done well and at a sencible price, cut corners and use joe bloggs at the end of a back street who will do the job for £30, guarantee it won't be done properly and it will brake, causing you a head ach and a growing hatred for the rotary lump
Jono
And I think this is where people who have bad experiences with rotaries have problems. Instead of going to someone who know what their doing and knows how to fix a rotary if it ever were to break. They go to the same person that fixes their cylinders with their rotary and when they are driving home from the shop they wonder why it blew up again....cut corners and use joe bloggs at the end of a back street who will do the job for £30, guarantee it won't be done properly and it will brake, causing you a head ach and a growing hatred for the rotary lump
Jono
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I love the FD but went with a silvia due to price. S14s are cheap to fix and cheap to get power out of.
A local guy rebuild his rotary engine in a fd only cost £600 was a few years back and its still running fine single turbo now around the 400 but the torque is really low.
I would like to own a Fd at some point but I'm only allowed one project
A local guy rebuild his rotary engine in a fd only cost £600 was a few years back and its still running fine single turbo now around the 400 but the torque is really low.
I would like to own a Fd at some point but I'm only allowed one project
Team Tuffcore
Member
And here we were thinking that the rotary is just powered by wizard beards.....
FD's have got to be one of the most sexy cars in the world but i would definitely prefer the nissan engine any day....
And the rx7's have excellent weight balance.
FD's have got to be one of the most sexy cars in the world but i would definitely prefer the nissan engine any day....
And the rx7's have excellent weight balance.
B.Martin
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I am biased because I own an FC, but I love them (so much that this is my second one) I can honestly say out of all the cars I've owned (my current FC being my 5/6th) that the 2 rotary powered ones have by far been the most reliable. They handle superb, sound awesome, look awesome and I'm just talking about the FC here. The fd to the masses looks even better and the engine is just as reliable when looked after as reccomended. Regular oil and filter changes, correct warm up and cool down procedures and of course using the correct oil helps. It's also incredibly cool that Mazda reccomended you take the rotary engine up to its 'redline' at least once in every journey.
Rotary engines for the win with me, but they are not as easy to drift as s bodies due to the 50/50 weight ratio and the lighter 1308cc engine. The s body is more front heavy and this makes it easier to get sideways I beleive. Although I've never really tried to drift mine because I love it to much and don't wan't crash, scratch or dent it. It's also beyond my budget to drift right now, but back in topic. I just think that the RX-7 is a better build at in truth and the rotary engine is very misunderstood, tuning isn't as 'simple' as an sr20 but then it's not as complicated when going for higher figures, if you look into it you'll know what I mean.
Rotary engines for the win with me, but they are not as easy to drift as s bodies due to the 50/50 weight ratio and the lighter 1308cc engine. The s body is more front heavy and this makes it easier to get sideways I beleive. Although I've never really tried to drift mine because I love it to much and don't wan't crash, scratch or dent it. It's also beyond my budget to drift right now, but back in topic. I just think that the RX-7 is a better build at in truth and the rotary engine is very misunderstood, tuning isn't as 'simple' as an sr20 but then it's not as complicated when going for higher figures, if you look into it you'll know what I mean.
Exactly! Rotary engines are very reliable when looked after properly, but people don't like them because they don't look after them properly and they treat them as cylinder engines. The rotary engine has been plagued with bad experiences and rumors, but they never talk about the good experiences with them.
mk1rob
Member
hi i understand how reliable they can be. a friend of mine had 1 a couple of years ago and with him not been 2 mechanically minded he wanted to take it to a garage for a fix. not sure what was wrong. the only problem was no garage round our way wanted to work on it
. despite a few issues like that i would still go for rx7. cos like you said they can be very reliable. my brother has a rx8 and thats been bulletproof.
. despite a few issues like that i would still go for rx7. cos like you said they can be very reliable. my brother has a rx8 and thats been bulletproof.
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I'd love this Nuvola London : VeilSide Fortune RX-7 2dr Coupe but its also the same price as one of these AA Performance : AUDI R8 4.2 FSI QUATTRO VAT QULYFYING 12 MONTH AUDI WARRAN
DtheBUK
Active Member
Rx7 all the way. The engines are fine if you know what's going on. They do have a relatively short life, but seeing as you can buy a recently rebuilt one one around the price of a rebuild what's the problem?
Fd's are such an experience to drive and the way they tend to deliver boost gives a real good kick in the teeth.
Fd's are such an experience to drive and the way they tend to deliver boost gives a real good kick in the teeth.
FireStorm999
Active Member
The seating position in an RX7 is also totally awesome.
Hated my FC.
Didn't like the way the engine delivered its power, hated the lack of torque. Loved the way it looked though.
The only way I'd ever own another RX7 is if it had a piston engine.
But its a complete ball ache of a job to do it. Go see James Deanes FD build thread for an idea of the work involved.
Gorgeous looking cars but didn't like the engine or the handling.
Didn't like the way the engine delivered its power, hated the lack of torque. Loved the way it looked though.
The only way I'd ever own another RX7 is if it had a piston engine.
But its a complete ball ache of a job to do it. Go see James Deanes FD build thread for an idea of the work involved.
Gorgeous looking cars but didn't like the engine or the handling.
Right, I gotcha. Going back to what Stance said.
According to the D1 Grand Prix wikipedia page, the all-time car winning table starting from 2001 and going to 2010, says that the Nissan Silvia S15 is in 1st with 27 wins and the Mazda RX-7 is in 2nd with 15 wins, followed by everyone's favorite the AE86 with 8. Which leads me to believe that they are not horrible to drift if it is second.
