Hi from switzerland !
 

Hi ev'rybody !

My name's Jeremy, I live in the french part of Switzerland (so sry for my future english faults :P ).

I'm 21 and an RX-7 FC owner !! :D

My first car was a Toyota Corolla AE86 Levin but I sold it last week-end...

My rotary story:

I saw the first FC in a corner of dark "warehouse" of a garage. I was about 15years old. It was the first year of my apprenticeship as mechanician. From that day, I started looking everywhere on the net to find informations about the rotary engine... and I fell in looove... <3

Then, 1 year ago, I bought a damaged FC TurboII first gen form 1988. 6 months later, I bought a second damaged TII from 1989 (first gen too). I made one with both of them, and now she's ready ton take me where ever I want !

Pictures:
(clic for bigger pictures)

the first FC:
http://i61.servimg.com/u/f61/14/31/4...h/snc00311.jpg http://i61.servimg.com/u/f61/14/31/47/32/th/fct210.jpg

the second FC:
http://i61.servimg.com/u/f61/14/31/4...h/dsc00010.jpg http://i61.servimg.com/u/f61/14/31/4...h/dsc00011.jpg http://i61.servimg.com/u/f61/14/31/4...h/dsc00012.jpg

And now:

http://i21.servimg.com/u/f21/14/31/4...h/dsc00210.jpg http://i21.servimg.com/u/f21/14/31/4...h/dsc00212.jpg http://i21.servimg.com/u/f21/14/31/4...h/dsc00213.jpg

With snow:
http://i61.servimg.com/u/f61/14/31/4...h/dsc00213.jpg

Some pics of the work:
http://i31.servimg.com/u/f31/14/31/4...h/dsc00013.jpg http://i31.servimg.com/u/f31/14/31/4...h/dsc00014.jpg http://i31.servimg.com/u/f31/14/31/4...h/dsc00016.jpg
http://i31.servimg.com/u/f31/14/31/4...h/dsc00017.jpg http://i31.servimg.com/u/f31/14/31/4...h/dsc00018.jpg http://i31.servimg.com/u/f31/14/31/4...h/dsc00019.jpg

and:
http://i31.servimg.com/u/f31/14/31/4...h/dsc00112.jpg


Bye :D

Welcome! Your English isn't that bad, don't be so hard on yourself haha.

But the FC was the second gen (unless you're talking about Series 4 or Series 5 FC but 89-91 was Series 5 and 86-88 was Series 4). I can't see the pictures on this computer at work but I'll look when I get home.

Yes I know :P

everybody says the same. S5 but... I'm sure it was an S4. 133kw and not 147, rearlights S4, bumpers S4, etc... :P

Oh so you WERE talking about second gen then, just about the series specifically, gotcha. I don't know enough about FCs just yet to be able to tell by HP, just some body pieces and the year haha.

there are just 2 generations of Turbo II, no ? the first with 133kw and the second with 147kw ?

Yes, but here in the US, we call 1979-1985 RX-7's first gens, and 1986-1991 second gens. 1st gens then break down to Series 1 (1979-1980), Series 2 (1981-1983) and Series 3 (1984-1985). Then within the 2nd gen you have Series 4 (1986-1988) and Series 5 (1989-1991).

Its confusing sometimes.

Nice FC though, you did a good job!

Words of advice: Americans don't readily understand Metric power units unless we do mental conversion in our heads to HP (550 ft-lbs/sec = 1 HP), where 1 ft-lb = 1.35582 N-m, thus:

133 kilowatts = 178.355938 hp

ok so series 4, and 133kw is 181 hp (not 178) so the series 4 has 181HP and the series 5 200 hp =D

are you sure that all the 1989 are S5 ? because my second FC was an 1989 but series 4... :/

i'm a native english speaker... and i'm sure you will know my language better than me...

Welcome! Nice crane!

i hope you enjoy her! I think i've owned almost 20 rx7s by now... its addiciting.

Oh I see where the disconnect was now. What djmitsu said haha. What you're calling a generation we call a series.

You could have had one that was swapped, although I've never heard of someone swapping S4 parts onto an S5 LOL.

I was going to say the same thing, he probably speaks better English than A LOT of people I've spoken with LOL.

+1million

Thx, but i'm sure I won't :D

Yeaaah!! :P

I knooooooow !!! :| more addicting than drugs :D but I have to wait before buying new RX-7 ^... I'm still student

Yes here too.. My fault :P

well both are S4. It's maybe different in Switzerland... Or maybe it was one of the last S4... :/