You are a rx-7 owner if
04-11-2006, 08:23 PM
#1
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 218
A girl asks if you are single and you bring her over to the front of the car and pop your hood.
If you enter your car from the passenger door.
You have to pull a fuse when you start your car. Or have to pull the fuse everyday.
You carry a fire extinguisher in your car because you ACTUALLY think it might catch on fire.
Your neighbor across the street fires up his chainsaw and you run to the window because you think your car is being stolen.
You hate SUV's but only because you can't see through them. You can't complain about "wasting resources" because your car gets half the mileage of a typical truck.
Your interior smells like 2-cycle oil.... and you *like* it.
You find cars with rear seats to be novelties.
You find nothing unusual about staring directly into the license plates of Focuses at stoplights.
You watched "The Rock" only for that scene after Sean Connery lays waste to the roadways. You know what I am talking about... Nicholas Cage is on his appropriated 2-cycle dirtbike, and he stops for some reason, and the bike is just idling there... brrp brrp brrp brrp brrp brrp
Your sister gets her leg bitten by a neighbors dog, she's crying, leaning on your car, and you're worried she's going to dent it.
You drool at 1.3 liters or the almighty 2.0 liter engines.
You pride yourself in having less pistons then somone else.
You wonder what the fascination is with going down a striaght strip of road for less than 20 seconds and trying it again.
Seat belt light goes on randomly to remind you to put on your seat belt.
You laugh at the people picking down frost-destroyed roads in their bourgemobiles at 20mph as you blow past them at 45-50.
You refer to the warning lights as idiot lights.
Your idiot lights twinkle like x-mas lights
If you accept that the stereo surround is broken and never try to fix it.
You pretend that you are playing astroids while driving on a high littered with pot holes and you try to dodge everyone of them.
You drive extremly hard at night just to see the turbos glow.
When seperated from your Rx-7s you miss them and what them with you every night.
You have asked people if they want to play with your Wankel.
You know what a pulsation dampener is, and you shudder at it's potential to ruin your life.
You quit bothering to reset the radio stations 'cause you keep pulling and/or disconnecting the battery.
You put premix in your car like it's a snowmobile.
Backfires go from a bad thing, to a very very "cool" thing.
Your neighbors always wonder why you leave your hood up after you get home.
You look at other sportcars weighing 3200lbs and think they're "Fat Pigs".
You use straws and tortilla chips to explain to other people how a rotary engine works.
Your interior clock is always flashing 12:00
You continue to insist that you car will run soon.
You check all your fluids every time you drive the car.
People often remind you that you left your car running.
You see highway exit number 13b and you think of your engine.
Or you see highway exit number 20b and you dream about another engine.
Or you see highway exit number 26b and you get chills down your spine.
When driving someone else's car, thats a manual piston car, you bring it up past redline and shift, and the owner gets all mad, then you claim its because of the 7.
Your local mechanic can't fix your car.
It ran 625 miles in a year ,and the engine has been open 3 times allready.
You hear other RX-7s in the area miles before you can see them.
You think that 15 MPG is good!
You avoid drive throughs because you can't shift and hold a cup at the same time
You cringe when you see a AAA tow vehicle, but also relieved its not for you THIS time.
Your car catches on fire at an autocross and you get out of your car like its nothing out of the ordinary while the rest of the people are rushing to your car screaming its on fire.
You try to explain to people that it should idle @ 1500 going brap,brap,brap.
When at a busy gas station everyone stares at you and gets pissed at you becuase you cant get your gas tank door open.
When even your wrist watch looks like a rotary engine.
when your back hurts from leaning over the car too much.
emission testers fail you as soon as you walk in.
you cry when gas prices go up.
you can't eat alphabet soup because it reminds you of emission controls.
you know everything about your car, but for whatever reason it still won't run. (my case)
you've explained that the 787B isn't a plane a thousand times.
you laugh at treehuggers and speed up.
you damn near **** yourself everytime someone asks you "that thing gotta hemi?"
you've explained that the MOP isn't used for cleaning floors.
you have to tell people "yes, its supposed to sound and smell like that"
you actually need 3 inch piping for your exhaust.
you can rip a civic-- stock.
you rip out 10 pounds of carpet and foam for "weight reduction"
you install 8 different kinds of gauges to make sure you engine doesn't overheat.
you can take off the upper intake manifold in your sleep.
If you enter your car from the passenger door.
You have to pull a fuse when you start your car. Or have to pull the fuse everyday.
You carry a fire extinguisher in your car because you ACTUALLY think it might catch on fire.
Your neighbor across the street fires up his chainsaw and you run to the window because you think your car is being stolen.
You hate SUV's but only because you can't see through them. You can't complain about "wasting resources" because your car gets half the mileage of a typical truck.
Your interior smells like 2-cycle oil.... and you *like* it.
You find cars with rear seats to be novelties.
You find nothing unusual about staring directly into the license plates of Focuses at stoplights.
You watched "The Rock" only for that scene after Sean Connery lays waste to the roadways. You know what I am talking about... Nicholas Cage is on his appropriated 2-cycle dirtbike, and he stops for some reason, and the bike is just idling there... brrp brrp brrp brrp brrp brrp
Your sister gets her leg bitten by a neighbors dog, she's crying, leaning on your car, and you're worried she's going to dent it.
You drool at 1.3 liters or the almighty 2.0 liter engines.
You pride yourself in having less pistons then somone else.
You wonder what the fascination is with going down a striaght strip of road for less than 20 seconds and trying it again.
Seat belt light goes on randomly to remind you to put on your seat belt.
You laugh at the people picking down frost-destroyed roads in their bourgemobiles at 20mph as you blow past them at 45-50.
You refer to the warning lights as idiot lights.
Your idiot lights twinkle like x-mas lights
If you accept that the stereo surround is broken and never try to fix it.
You pretend that you are playing astroids while driving on a high littered with pot holes and you try to dodge everyone of them.
You drive extremly hard at night just to see the turbos glow.
When seperated from your Rx-7s you miss them and what them with you every night.
You have asked people if they want to play with your Wankel.
You know what a pulsation dampener is, and you shudder at it's potential to ruin your life.
You quit bothering to reset the radio stations 'cause you keep pulling and/or disconnecting the battery.
You put premix in your car like it's a snowmobile.
Backfires go from a bad thing, to a very very "cool" thing.
Your neighbors always wonder why you leave your hood up after you get home.
You look at other sportcars weighing 3200lbs and think they're "Fat Pigs".
You use straws and tortilla chips to explain to other people how a rotary engine works.
Your interior clock is always flashing 12:00
You continue to insist that you car will run soon.
You check all your fluids every time you drive the car.
People often remind you that you left your car running.
You see highway exit number 13b and you think of your engine.
Or you see highway exit number 20b and you dream about another engine.
Or you see highway exit number 26b and you get chills down your spine.
When driving someone else's car, thats a manual piston car, you bring it up past redline and shift, and the owner gets all mad, then you claim its because of the 7.
Your local mechanic can't fix your car.
It ran 625 miles in a year ,and the engine has been open 3 times allready.
You hear other RX-7s in the area miles before you can see them.
You think that 15 MPG is good!
You avoid drive throughs because you can't shift and hold a cup at the same time
You cringe when you see a AAA tow vehicle, but also relieved its not for you THIS time.
Your car catches on fire at an autocross and you get out of your car like its nothing out of the ordinary while the rest of the people are rushing to your car screaming its on fire.
You try to explain to people that it should idle @ 1500 going brap,brap,brap.
When at a busy gas station everyone stares at you and gets pissed at you becuase you cant get your gas tank door open.
When even your wrist watch looks like a rotary engine.
when your back hurts from leaning over the car too much.
emission testers fail you as soon as you walk in.
you cry when gas prices go up.
you can't eat alphabet soup because it reminds you of emission controls.
you know everything about your car, but for whatever reason it still won't run. (my case)
you've explained that the 787B isn't a plane a thousand times.
you laugh at treehuggers and speed up.
you damn near **** yourself everytime someone asks you "that thing gotta hemi?"
you've explained that the MOP isn't used for cleaning floors.
you have to tell people "yes, its supposed to sound and smell like that"
you actually need 3 inch piping for your exhaust.
you can rip a civic-- stock.
you rip out 10 pounds of carpet and foam for "weight reduction"
you install 8 different kinds of gauges to make sure you engine doesn't overheat.
you can take off the upper intake manifold in your sleep.
04-11-2006, 09:35 PM
#4
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: pueblo, colorado
Posts: 193
its amazing how many of those apply to me.... how about if
- you've notice everything in the world that has the shape of a rotor or housing
-if your rear tires wear on the inside alot more than the outside (FC)
-if everyone thinks your stupid for saying your car is supposed to burn oil
- you've notice everything in the world that has the shape of a rotor or housing
-if your rear tires wear on the inside alot more than the outside (FC)
-if everyone thinks your stupid for saying your car is supposed to burn oil
04-11-2006, 11:29 PM
#7
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2002
Location: California
Posts: 22,465
you know you've been playing with these too long when the kids (you call em kids) put the car together, you start it, and it runs funny with the check engine light on, you lean out the window and tell em to plug in the afm, they do, light goes out and then you go cruise around the block @8000rpms
