Dedicated enthusiast from New Zealand

[seaglen]

Hi All
I'm from Auckland and my current 1978 Series 1 RX7 is my 6th rotary. I've had:

• Two RX2s, both NZ assembled.
  One RX3.
  Two series one RX7s.
  One series 6 RX7.

I got my current car as a rolling body in 1994 and installed a low mileage factory 12a Turbo motor in 1996. I have driven it 3km since I've had it. Since then the car has been garaged. At the time I garaged it the only thing it needed was a new front windscreen. Now to get it back on the road its going to need a lot of work done to replace rotten hoses, rusty brakes, the normal sort of stuff and the windscreen.

Low number ex Japan

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Looks good for its age

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Hasn't been run since 2007, will it start?

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As soon as I can I'll put a whole lot of stuff in the projects section. Looking forward to sharing the project with you.

[Lucky]

Looking forward to seeing it! Welcome in, plenty of Kiwis already both domestic and abroad here to make you feel at home That's a rare beast you have there

[KiwiDave]

Kia ora bro and welcome along.

Come to thimk of it, I'm also on my sixth RX, albeit spread over many years.
In NZ
2 RX-3's
RX-4
RX-7 S1
RX-7 S5
In UK
RX-7 S3

Looking forward to your project thread and seeing some Kiwi summer

[spirit r]

"Dedicated enthusiast" affectionate regards from a german. Excotic projekt hope to see better photos from the wheels fitted on the car.

Thomas

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[Chud]

Welcome dude

[codge]

X 2, Welcome from me.

Codge

[seaglen]

Thanks for the welcome.

Thomas the manifold and fan were orange, the same colour as the spark plug lead you can see which is original. The manifold had a crackle powder coat finish. It didn't clean up so I painted the fan and manifold to match the car.

The engine is the original factory build with 43,000 km on it. It uses the original factory ecu to run it.

[RamoNZ]

Howdy!

Is that Velour seats I can see??

While we are having a rotor competition:

Blue S3
Silver S3
Red S3
Silver S2
Red S4
Orange RX2

Welcome about and get some more pictures up

[seaglen]

Yeah the seats are from a series 3 ( 1st gen 3rd model) , wish I could have afforded the back seat as well. They are hard to get in good condition now.

BTW This is now on the projects page under Red RX7 Resurrection viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1890

cheers

Alan

[ian65]

Yeah the seats are from a series 3 ( 1st gen 3rd model) , wish I could have afforded the back seat as well. They are hard to get in good condition now.

BTW This is now on the projects page under Red RX7 Resurrection viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1890

cheers

Alan

pity the shipping is so expensive from UK to NZ... I've got a rear seat set to match those front seats that I was going to skip