Why Our Cars Have A Bad Rep For Reliability
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Originally Posted by Sinful7' date='Jun 24 2004, 02:19 PM
What's the big deal with shifting above 8500? I think i regularly see 8750 on the FD... At least that's what it looks like, I dunno what maz revs on the FD are.
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Originally Posted by mazdaspeed7' date='Jun 24 2004, 10:48 AM
I cant speak for anyone else, but Im still making good power above 9k. My car just keeps pulling. Buzzer, peg tach, pause, shift, repeat.
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"Whoa man, no way your Mazda went 16 years without a rebuild ... You've gotta change your pistons dude, Rx-7 pistons are horrible ... "
Thats rich.
As far as the buzzer goes, a guy on the REPU forum just posted how to disable it.
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Originally Posted by Sinful7' date='Jun 24 2004, 10:19 AM
What's the big deal with shifting above 8500? I think i regularly see 8750 on the FD... At least that's what it looks like, I dunno what maz revs on the FD are.
These are all people with t2's.
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reason why rotaries have bad rep is because there are 30,000 members on rx7club.com. 27,000 of which are broke and bought a **** *** car that no one in their right mind would buy and says it breaks down too much because they fixed it wrong, can't fix it, or have no money to fix it.
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I definitely think the major problem is that it's EASY to redline the car. You don't get all that negative feedback (vibration,powerloss)from the motor like in a piston engine. Plus 7's just beg to be beat...
Personally I don't give a **** about the rep they have, let the idiots get scared and drive something else.
Personally I don't give a **** about the rep they have, let the idiots get scared and drive something else.
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From: green brook, nj
Originally Posted by 1988RedT2' date='Jun 24 2004, 10:02 AM
While most piston engines sound like they're coming apart as they near redline, the rotary is very smooth at high revs. An ignorant driver might think it's cool to wind it past redline. These people are probably just brick dumb, or didn't have to pay for their car thanks to Daddy.
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other side to yuor arguement is....other people beat on their cars just as hard and don't always have problems...****, what do honda redline at...and I hardly ever see/hear about them blowing up their engines
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Originally Posted by BrandonDrecksage' date='Jun 24 2004, 03:38 PM
other side to yuor arguement is....other people beat on their cars just as hard and don't always have problems...****, what do honda redline at...and I hardly ever see/hear about them blowing up their engines
And they are also N/A's. N/A rotaries dont blow as much as say turbo ones.