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Dedicated enthusiast from New Zealand
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 11:26 am
by 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.
Re: Dedicated enthusiast from New Zealand
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 12:25 pm
by 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
Re: Dedicated enthusiast from New Zealand
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 4:13 pm
by 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
Re: Dedicated enthusiast from New Zealand
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 4:56 pm
by 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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Re: Dedicated enthusiast from New Zealand
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 7:19 pm
by Chud
Welcome dude
Re: Dedicated enthusiast from New Zealand
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 11:59 pm
by codge
X 2, Welcome from me.
Codge
Re: Dedicated enthusiast from New Zealand
Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 10:13 am
by 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.
Re: Dedicated enthusiast from New Zealand
Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 1:27 pm
by 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
Re: Dedicated enthusiast from New Zealand
Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2014 11:38 am
by 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
Re: Dedicated enthusiast from New Zealand
Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2014 3:02 pm
by ian65
seaglen wrote: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
