petey

Hello everyone,
I come from Essex and one of my freinds is seriously looking into getting a mazda rx7 type r now being a twin rotary engine it is quite a specialist car and servicing could be a problem.
Would anyone know of anywhere in the south east that deals with RX7's?

SideShowBob

www.neweraimports.com
Amongst owners and potential buyers, considered the best.
They are in Canterbury, and have a buyer in Japan who owns one, its who ive gotten mine through after a lot of research.

cfoster

Yup,

MOst Mazda dealerships will happily work on one.... There is a garage in Southend who will service them (they import them as well). It is the Seat / Subaru dealership on London Road (cant remember name.

Hope this helps
Chris

petey

right thanks alot guys
i'll tell my mate.

Danny Fisher

There are also two other sources of information that he can use.

WWW.MazdaRotaryClub.com and a Yahoo group called FDUKBuyers.

Dan

ADL

outside reading is roteknics rotary sepcialists, on autorader there is a yellow rx7 for about 12k, the bloke has recipts for 30k!!!!
Expensive to run though..

BOB.T

Untill you get into engine work I don't see why an ordinary garage would have problems, my mate has one... he used to race one and I've never struggled with anything on it!

Ordinary jobs/servicing is just like any other car, I think I'd struggle to rebuild an engine but then I've never worked inside a wankel.

Good luck, they're a cracking car

bazil2582

Petey,

my rx7 is up for sale, in silver 0 - 60mph in about 5.1 secs!! a serious little bit of kit

mail me

dominicm

Just remember that the 13B rotary engine in all Twin Turbo RX7's will need a full rebuild at about 60K miles at a cost of about 2K!! I have owned 2, they are great fun, very quick and very costly to run!

Dom.

Danny Fisher

ADL, the yellow RX7 has since been bought.

Dan

petey

yeah danny,
we my mate and i did see the yellow one! looked nuttey!!
Think it had a vielside kit on it..
Apparently my mate seems to think his insurance almost doubles when they hear of a full bodykit, shame coz they look gooood..

petey

bazil,
Told my mate about your RX7 apparently he wants one in black, he's a picky git!!!
Cheers n e way tho

markrchilds

thanks pete for posting this. i'm near giving up on the rx7 now. its too much touble and money although i'll still love to get one. i keen on that scooby type r now. still looking for a insurance quote lower than £2800 though

petey

i think thats probably a good move mate

bazil2582

petey,

tell him just to get mine resprayed

infact, i could get it done for him, whole car in black!!

mine is a Type R Efini model, mail me if u want pics etc

SideShowBob

Whoops, just reread post, newera supply, not service.
Ive had RX Motors in Dorset recommended to me for rebuilds/servicing, though a few others turn up to when searching on then net.

Good source of info is a yahoo group called fdukbuyers, deals with all these sorts of questions.


[Edited by SideShowBob - 2/3/2003 1:47:47 PM]

SideShowBob

Mark, it doesnt need to be all hit and miss with RX7's.
Newera are very reputable, and can source one to your exact spec/price range, and provide a years warrenty, including seals etc.
Okay, they are very heavy on petrol, but other than that, a good one shouldnt be too much headache.
A rebuild at 60-70k miles at £2k is quite a bit, but it means a reliable engine for anout 60-70k miles, so not too bad value really.

Dont give up on them yet, look a lot better than scoobs, and are about ten times as rare.
Type-R is nice though, but IMHO, dont look that special, getting into an RX7 feels special (only done it once thou ), it feels like a proper supercar.

[Edited by SideShowBob - 2/5/2003 1:26:25 PM]