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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.

Have you tried Retro Automotive in Dunedin? Cory has a huge stash of bits and might be able to help.

Wait till you go big single churbro and all of the boosts… lots of smiles for not a lot of miles! You will be able to pass anything. Except a gas station.

That’s looks like a metallic bronze colour? Looks bad ass.

I vote red paint job. Red cars go faster (unless it’s still has its original 1.3l motor in which case it’s almost certainly slower)

I say go link. And a massive single turbo. No regrets.

Anything fits with enough brute force and ignorance!

So today I went to take the little red Mazda out for a Sunday drive on Saturday. The intention was to do a bigger drive than usual 20 km round trip it often does. Probably going to be on the road for 2 hours. So the first thing I do is check the tyre pressures as one of the tyres tends to have a slow leak. Do a full walk around the car and get to the tyre with a slow leak and the and the side wall has a huge split on it. I mean huge. (Yes check tyre pressure when warm etc etc etc but this tyre has a leak. So it needs checking BEFORE you drive on it) pull wheel off, head to town, replace tyre with spare I had in storage. Continue with pre prepared trip. Job done. But that’s the problem right there. 2 weeks ago I checked and the tyre was fine. Today it was a massive accident waiting to happen. I know to constantly check these things. Fucking tourists wounders in their shìt wagons have no idea. We can’t trust people to maintain their cars. The accident statistics in Central prove that.