Rebuilding the carb for an RX-7 is not hard. I had literally zero experience when rebuilding mine and no tools other than a screwdriver when I started (that changed pretty quickly).

RX-7s actually last equivalent or longer than piston engines on a racetrack, where they’re under heavy stress all the time.  Their main downside is that driving them easier doesn’t make them last any longer, which is absolutely not the case for a piston engine.

The 86 has pretty nice cloth seats.  You can’t really see the pattern in them from pictures though since it’s pretty thin lines.

Am I the only one that absolutely hates the term kilowatt hour?  Watts are Joules over time.  Multiplying them by time just cancels out the time entirely and all you’re left with is Joules.  Just call it that.

Seems like you’re the ideal buyer for the BRZ/FR-S.  It’s a cheaper Miata that has a ton more luggage space and a hardtop.  Makes a much better daily driver and is still fun.

In LA or NYC, 2.5 million would buy you what, a small apartment?

Rotaries are also an exception. Even for the RX-8 Mazda recommends against synthetic oil. The reasoning goes that it doesn’t burn as cleanly. Lots of people use it anyway with no problems though, or switch the OMP to burn 2-stroke instead of engine oil.

I’m at the opposite end of the spectrum: I hate that when I’m looking for a used car, 90+% of them have tinted windows.  I live in Ohio, I do not need tinted windows, and I think they look dumb.

It may not have a trunk, but pretty much every supercar at least has a passenger seat.

I want to put a 20B 3-rotor into a C3 Corvette.  Not sure I will ever commit to it though, at least not before a C3 shell will become out of my price range.

It’s not entirely speeding that’s the problem. People are more likely to ignore limits that are too low.

Selling one version in CA and one version everywhere else IS CA dictating how every car is sold. Were there consistent standards, manufacturers would have a higher design budget, since they aren’t wasting resources designing for multiple sets of regulations. Even RI setting their own standards would affect everyone,…

The point is that regulations for cars affect every car sold, no matter the state, even if the regulations only apply to one state. Something like that should not be subject to individual state law, because it’s a national (technically international) standard that every car is going to be designed to.

Don’t read it literally.

It’s so easy because the aftermarket doesn’t have to pass emissions testing worldwide.

For what it’s worth this is a dumb special edition. You can still easily buy the base car for $25k or less.

For a university, sure, but if you have to maintain that system for twenty years, I’d be happy to write it myself over outsource it to someone else and just have to hope their ‘tech support’ has even the slightest idea of how it works when it breaks something else we’re building.

The Indy 500 should be the ONLY oval race.  It’s totally fine with me if they reorganize the season so it’s the last one.

The ONLY condiment that makes any sense on a hot dog is ketchup.  Anything else and you may as well eat a real sandwich instead.

While that isn’t a common usage, the phrase is sometimes used as an insult to a person’s appearance. That’s honestly how I read it.