Rotary As A Daily Driver?

[Duncan]

Not neccessarily, depends on the driver. Have owned many non-power steering cars. Some of them are a pain, but I found the series one RX7 I had to be quite light in steering at slow speeds.

All of the above are optional - in Tasmania I don't really care about air con, want air conditioning? Wind down a window. When I move to brisbane my opinion may change

Yeah quite right - I was thinking of sydney/melbourne style commuter car, where you are going very slow, tight turns/parking, windows up and down all the time for drivethru/parking station tickets etc etc. Its just not worth living without the luxuries. In fact most people would add automatic to my list but I just can't handle the things.

One other thing to consider is any of the old rx-x are very expensive compared to other cars their age. If you have 5-10k to spend on a daily there are lots of 10 year old options instead of 20-30 year old

[Chrisrotary]

Yeah hi. I've had a couple of early rx7s and i love em but not as dailys so much. now i have 1978 323 rwd 1.4lt it has the same floor pan as the rx3/808 coupe i left a note on the guys windscreen a year and half before he called me say i could have it for $200 (yay for me) cost $400 to it rwc. Get one of them if you can. They worth more like $1500-2000 was thinking about putting a rotor in coz they are fun.

Screw fuel consumption who cares when you have a rotary its not often something you think you about. you more thinking about the oppertunity to give it a flogging because they really like it. i have never had trouble with them. Except freezing cold mornings when the carbs flood because you have't got the choke on juuust right.

But don't want to convert my little 323 to rotar power because to look after them you have warm them up.

As i say i have owned a couple and you do get used wandering out starting it going back inside finishing your breakfast brush teeth by that time its nice and warmed up. but my rotary builder says its a must. the motor he built going into the fc atm he said will easily hold on to 30psi at 9000rpm he didn't see why i wouldn't do that but says "make sure every day you warm it up first". Just get temp gauge to register some heat. even 40 degrees then cruize it till its warmed up properly then let the flogging commence.

Me i want a car to start and drive before the oil light turns off (actually the 323 does not have a working oil light lol)

RX3 / 4 are great don't lower it tho to me dailies need to be comfortable thats the main thing. rx7s are a sports car stock comfort is ok lowered gets old quickly around town.

Reliability becomes an issue when the motors have gone over 100k or when you do a quick slap back together re-build with stock apex seals and expect it to hold on to more than 15psi or when your mate convinces you that they are meant rev to 14000rpm and you give it go till something lets go.

Slap together reco $3500 good apex seal corner seals add $1000 all the fruit expect to pay $7000 to $10000.

[joewalsh86]

I don;t know how much this adds to the topic, and know its not as old as the older rotary's, but I daily drive a 2000 RX7 series 8 and i love it. Easy to drive in traffic, very smooth gear change and power delivery and very comfortable. The only real issue i have is fuel use but that's only when i drive it hard - my needle visably drops when i put my foot down! Other than that, if you respect the engine, warm it up adequately before hard driving and let it cool for a while after, then I've never had any trouble. Still going strong on stock apex seals and a few power upgrades.