kiwi808

+1 for eleventy billion killawasps!

Drive back via central and we can Dorts

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I vote black so you can sell me the Modgies!

Did I miss the part where you built a new massive shed? Tang and desprung immediately

Or this…

You will never actually take this thing of road. If it looks like this…

8th - 9th February is the NZ Grand Prix at Highlands so that weekend is out for me. Should we lock in the weekend after? Maybe do a Saturday trip to Hayes, then a cruise around the Toto? Saturday 15th February? Central guys convoy down, Dunners dudes convoy up, Invers peeps mossy on over?

What about a trip and tour of Hayes Engineering? Then a feed at a pub (possibly the Vulcan). Otherwise Chatto creek has a mean as garden bar. All the roads around there are empty and super fun for cruising around. Will also need access to petrol as the 7 is, um, well yeah.

Dunedin is a bit of a stretch for a day trip but once upon a time we wondered around central Otago.

The shit thing about owning a rotary/any classic car is you inevitably come to a point where you have decide to either go the full Monty or pull back and give it up. Do you like it enough to go the full Monty. Is this FD worth it? You could upgrade from the Power FC to a Link and get smart coils. This also future proofs the car for later mods? All costs $$$ *The series 5 Rx-7 had a (stock) function that if you started the car with your foot flat to the floor on the accelerator it would disable the fuel pump to make it easier to start if it was flooding? Apparently flooding was a huge fault of the Series 4. Do FD’s have this or is that negated the moment you install an aftermarket computer such as your Power FC?

Also, Titans!

Just a mildly ported motor would be cool too. Back in the day the tall port/extended port (now called a street port?) would make a big difference but wasn’t tooooo noisy and obnoxious. You can then strap a churbro to that porting so it’s also future proofing! Pity the 12a turbo motors from the cosmos are so spendy as that would have been cool too…

While it can be fun to change cars, the current market isn’t great for changing at the moment. There seems to be a lot of cars for sale at the inflated prices people were paying when interest rates were 2%. If you sold it, what would you get for the same monies? I was thinking of selling the Ute but these are the questions I have been facing so have decide to keep it for now and maybe tweak a few things. So I vote to keep it. It’s a cool car and definitely a bit different to a batty/808/323 etc. By doing the manual swap and getting it certified will probably make it easier to sell in the future too. It will be like a new car! Besides they are super lush to cruise around in (by design) and has the extra doors for extra… people. Keep it, manual swap it. Cert it and enjoy it. Then maybe in a couple more years think about changing it up.

Cory and the team are legit. They built my motor. 100% would recommend.