Twin First Gen's Ruining The Streets
12-05-2003, 09:11 PM
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I'm from Queens NY right and have always been into "import-tuners". Back in the day me and my boy's used to sample anything we wanted. We had them all Super's, MR2's, Nissan Z's Mitubishi's and of course a couple of Mazda RX-7's. After get are kicks test driving all the different sports cars me and my boy both end up getting First Generation RX-7's. They simply were the most fun to drive. Light weight, low center of gravity, near 50/50 weight ratio and a rotary engine that could be revved silly all day and still come back for more. All this for lease than $5 grand (at the time) what more could two car loving lunatics from the hood ask for.
**** that was it. I had driven fast cars before but once we had this hooked up little pocket rockets forget-a-bout-it, we couldn't be touched. We used to tterrorizethe city and if you wanted to race you got it in the worse way and you usually were done twice by two almost identical Mazda's. We represented the rotary around my way and this was before there was a real import sscene We were racing big block Vette's, Stang's, Porshes what ever. I know I never feared anything. I belived in my car and in my driving enough to hold it down with some cars you would believe if I told you. BUt I think one of the advantages we have here in the city, is it's less about raw horse power and more about driving skill. If have a well balanced car, that's fairly quick and you know how to dip in and out of traffic nice, your the man. I you can be that out here than no one can touch you, not even the 5o.
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**** that was it. I had driven fast cars before but once we had this hooked up little pocket rockets forget-a-bout-it, we couldn't be touched. We used to tterrorizethe city and if you wanted to race you got it in the worse way and you usually were done twice by two almost identical Mazda's. We represented the rotary around my way and this was before there was a real import sscene We were racing big block Vette's, Stang's, Porshes what ever. I know I never feared anything. I belived in my car and in my driving enough to hold it down with some cars you would believe if I told you. BUt I think one of the advantages we have here in the city, is it's less about raw horse power and more about driving skill. If have a well balanced car, that's fairly quick and you know how to dip in and out of traffic nice, your the man. I you can be that out here than no one can touch you, not even the 5o.
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12-06-2003, 06:38 PM
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Originally Posted by ROTARYROCKET7' date='Dec 6 2003, 11:08 AM
Yo yo im from the Heights, Jackson Heights Killa Queens, Two FC's. My boys got me into Rotaries, if your old enough you probably know them.
12-06-2003, 06:57 PM
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Originally Posted by pk797' date='Dec 5 2003, 10:11 PM
...I think one of the advantages we have here in the city, is it's less about raw horse power and more about driving skill. If have a well balanced car, that's fairly quick and you know how to dip in and out of traffic nice, your the man...
racin on the streets is more of a factor of luck than skill..
goin toe to toe with someone at the track imho is a better benchmark of your skills..
as there are no other factors involved outside of all out racin ...
no excuses.. everythin left behind the startin grid..
12-06-2003, 07:27 PM
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Ya. THe cool thing was that wy'ell they were very similar, they both were unique in their own way's. Mine was an 85 13B, his was an 84 12A (no tags on either). We both were running racing carbs, competion clutch's, and full exhaust's(no cat's), but I ran a dellorto side-draft and he ran a weber down-draft. We use to argue night and day about which set-up was better, 12A or 13B, Dellorto or Weber, but the truth was they both were the two best set-up's out for a N/A rotary. Both cars were dropped low with suspension, five star rims and spoilers. Nothing fancy only what was need and that was one of our rules: If it didn't help make you go fast it's dead weight and needs to be thrown out. Accept for speakers of course. That was all was allowed- "A man needs his music and it had to be load enough to wake up the dead".
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12-06-2003, 07:41 PM
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Originally Posted by amp' date='Dec 6 2003, 04:57 PM
no offense pk...
racin on the streets is more of a factor of luck than skill..
goin toe to toe with someone at the track imho is a better benchmark of your skills..
as there are no other factors involved outside of all out racin ...
no excuses.. everythin left behind the startin grid..
racin on the streets is more of a factor of luck than skill..
goin toe to toe with someone at the track imho is a better benchmark of your skills..
as there are no other factors involved outside of all out racin ...
no excuses.. everythin left behind the startin grid..
Your point is well taken and I did go on to race (organized) later on with EMRA out here on the east coast, but still my man- nothing, I mean nothing compairs to going all out on the road 100+ against some "joe-look-at-the new-car-my-mom-bought-me" guy with a car worth ten times yours and just blowing his doors off with moves he couldn't dream of never mind carry off. Listen I know it wrong and I've all but out grew it now, but oh did it feel so good..