Help, My son is looking at an 88 rx7 100
miles away for me .
2 things make me nervous.
1. The coolant color is brown.
2. Loses power after 4000 rpm, starts to
pick it up somewhat over 5000.
It has 94000 miles, asking 3400.
Thanks, sorry for the off topic, but you
guys are the only rotary guys I know.
Hi Lonnie,
I purchased an '87 RX7
with 110k miles on it 3.5 years ago for $800. I drove
the
wheels off of it for 2.5 years during which time I put an additional
130k
miles on it (at least... I drove it everywhere, and I do mean
everywhere.) I
found it on Ebay, less than 100 miles from
home. I purchased it to get
experience with the rotary... my
attitude was that I was not going to replace
any failing
non-critical systems, but do whatever it took to keep it on the
road
until the engine gave out. By the time it hit 240k miles I'd
replaced
the water pump, radiator, a rear end (thanks to Oil Express
or one of those
places, where they didn't put the plug in properly
after a fluids change), a
set of plugs and wires (pm only, the
engine was running fine with the parts
that came on the car, but
what the heck <g>), a clutch, instrument cluster,
brakes,
etc... nothing that you wouldn't expect to last over 150k miles.
When
I parked the car to start driving something a little more
comfortable it was
still running. They are amazing pieces of
machinery. Anyway, my first take
would be to keep shopping...
there are lots of good deals out there. $3400
sounds a bit
much (unless it's a well dressed Turbo-II convertible.)
FWIW.
<Marv>
PS... here's a
link to quite a few... poke around..
http://motors.listings.ebay.com/Mazda_RX-7_W0QQfromZR11QQsacategoryZ6327QQsocmdZListingItemListQQsocolumnlayoutZ3