@@thelastsignature I’m not in Oregon I’m in Utah but I’ll be passing through Eugene in a month or to lol but I got a killer deal because it “was” automatic as of 2 days ago it has a 6 speed manual.
As an owner of two in the past 15 years. I learned that the motor wasn’t unreliable, I was just broke. 35yrs old now and done with partying and festivals I finally got myself to bring these back to life. It’s the initial investment to replace every aging part that’s expensive. Especially if you’re trying to remain 100% stock. Switching to a stand-alone ECU made the car much more easy to love. If ya need a rebuild the replacement parts are much stronger than OEM so it’s well worth it. I’d say Maintaining it the same as a Camry except with more oil.
@@mauroghen The denso aka supra pump is totally fine. Power FC does its job. It's just that today's ECU alternatives have a much better prevention system that can save your engine from a catastrophic failure. This is coming from a Power FC owner who has been seriously contemplating its replacement.
The more videos like these, the better. Sure, there might be some details that are off or are a little misleading, but as long as it interests a few people, you did your job! Yes, any Mazdapseed parts on the FD's are extremely rare. Simply because the company no longer exists. There are a ton, but you covered the more common factory one's that were put into production cars straight away. There is numerous brochures listing all the parts though. The video would take forever.. :-) As for colours, you might never have seen a real yellow mica before. It's actually very gold dusty yellow. So it shines and sparkles in the day just like gold. Where as they had Sunburst yellow which is a standard colour for the Bathurst R edition. That's a non metallic paint. Flat yellow. Same goes with Chaste White and Pearly white. You can tell which one is the metallic one straight away. ;-) Apart from colours, you can get a rare colour on a rare model making the car extremely desirable. While most people would assume that the latest version of the RZ before the Spirit R is the rarest (which it is, considering the model). The rarest last production model of the FD is the Spirit R in Vintage Red. Yes, there are less of those than there are RZ models. :-)
A few correction from a looong time owner: 1) The OMP can fail, however its not a common failure point and is in fact kinda rare for them to go out. Yes when they fail, it is catastrophic. 2) Pearly white Rx-7 is the most rare color. However, you nor anone else is getting it. Reason: it was *ONE OF ONE* (yes thats is correct) and last I heard it was totalled. 3) CYM is rarer than chaste white. Only 350 CYMs ever existed, only 93 model year and it came only as an R1 trim. Chaste white in comparison, came in 94/95 years and in multiple trims with a total of 670 cars.
Compression tests are not the be all and end all people. The readings between modules vary, and the compression can also be manipulated by doing things such as adding 2 stroke oil in to the housings before cranking. Rad Potential has a fantastic video explaining this top to bottom.
Yeah, true but modern testers have a variance of less than a single psi- and if you test your compression hot like you should, there is no real difference than if you premix or not
Good video but disagree with the rotary not being as reliable as piston engine. I have a Fd and 3 piston cars. On my last video I did a pull and hit 8300rpm with no issues. If I would to do this in my 392, I would still being picking up pieces of my motor on the roadway. N/A rotary engine is as reliable as a piston N/A engine. Also a turbo rotary is as reliable as a turbo piston engine.
@@arrivendrive6831nah. Reliability has nothing to do with rpm and wankels definitely need more care to be as long lasting as any decent piston engine. I’ve put 80,000 trouble free miles on a 100,000mi+ bmw M20 with an added turbo. Have you ever heard of any wankel dealing with that? Mine have both needed rebuilds before 120k, and they were all well cared for cars (FC and FB with an FC engine).
The reason why they stopped selling them in the US was because 1996 was the first year of mandatory ODB2 compliance. Mazda had just put this car into production and would have to completely redo the electrical system to make it ODB2 compliant. The fact that it wasn't selling well was the justification to just pull the model from the US market rather than invest more money into the platform. Once again, the government screws over the car enthusiast.
This car goes way beyond just good looks,go sit in it,touch it feel it like a curvy woman.see the dash,the shift lever steering relation..so much thought went into into the design of this car from the black out rear lights to the double bouble bubble roof Alcanterra seats, the shave door handles, and then the rotary smooth as silk
I had a 1994. I think it was an R1 because it had the black alcantara interior. Mine was silver. I took off that hideous spoiler - it looked spectacular! Specs from the factory indicated 0-60 at 4.9 seconds. I think that was a slight exaggeration. However, w/ the supper tight clutch, I absolutely adored that car! Of course, I did not get that ridiculous Bose stereo system. You are quite correct about how ugly all that plastic was. Additionally, it took up A LOT of space. The car listed for $43,000. However, my girlfriend at the time was reading, I think it was Car Driver, and saw an ad, a little small ad in the back listed by a dealer in Virginia, selling these cars for $25,000. How? I don't know. But, I pay $25,000 for that car. A great joy until I wrecked it!
If it was a 94, then it was an R2 no question. Barring all the updates between the 93 & 94/95 cars, the only difference between the R1 and R2 cars was the struts. As people complained the 93 R1 was too stiff, so Mazda softened them a bit on the 94/95 R2 cars. Sorry to hear about the car. 😢
it's a bad engine mazda knew it too that's why they stopped making sports car for a while, it's good back the day but the rotary can compete to engines nowadays and it's not environment friendly that's why car company moving to electric vehicle
Moral of the story buy an fc because a running fd is far outside of your price range.
Funny enough I just bought an fd yesterday lol.
@@Lostbomberno way!!! How much?! Are you in Oregon?
@@thelastsignature I’m not in Oregon I’m in Utah but I’ll be passing through Eugene in a month or to lol but I got a killer deal because it “was” automatic as of 2 days ago it has a 6 speed manual.
@@Lostbomber you bringing that thing to Eugene?
@@Lostbomber what transmission you put in there? I have a 5 speed 98 fd that I imported the beginning of this year. Having a 6 speed sounds fun
As an owner of two in the past 15 years. I learned that the motor wasn’t unreliable, I was just broke.
35yrs old now and done with partying and festivals I finally got myself to bring these back to life.
It’s the initial investment to replace every aging part that’s expensive. Especially if you’re trying to remain 100% stock. Switching to a stand-alone ECU made the car much more easy to love. If ya need a rebuild the replacement parts are much stronger than OEM so it’s well worth it. I’d say Maintaining it the same as a Camry except with more oil.
I got an apexi power ECU in mine and an apparently popular supra fuel pump and streetport, wonder if those are alright
@@mauroghen The denso aka supra pump is totally fine.
Power FC does its job. It's just that today's ECU alternatives have a much better prevention system that can save your engine from a catastrophic failure.
This is coming from a Power FC owner who has been seriously contemplating its replacement.
I'm buying one in the next 6 months, I've been doing nothing but saving
Its been 3 months. You any closer to getting one yet?
Its been 6 months. How are we doing?
Bro you got it? 😁
It's been 8 months buddy....are you there!
10 months now! Did you ever buy one?
The more videos like these, the better. Sure, there might be some details that are off or are a little misleading, but as long as it interests a few people, you did your job!
Yes, any Mazdapseed parts on the FD's are extremely rare. Simply because the company no longer exists. There are a ton, but you covered the more common factory one's that were put into production cars straight away. There is numerous brochures listing all the parts though. The video would take forever.. :-)
As for colours, you might never have seen a real yellow mica before. It's actually very gold dusty yellow. So it shines and sparkles in the day just like gold. Where as they had Sunburst yellow which is a standard colour for the Bathurst R edition. That's a non metallic paint. Flat yellow.
Same goes with Chaste White and Pearly white. You can tell which one is the metallic one straight away. ;-)
Apart from colours, you can get a rare colour on a rare model making the car extremely desirable. While most people would assume that the latest version of the RZ before the Spirit R is the rarest (which it is, considering the model). The rarest last production model of the FD is the Spirit R in Vintage Red. Yes, there are less of those than there are RZ models. :-)
A few correction from a looong time owner:
1) The OMP can fail, however its not a common failure point and is in fact kinda rare for them to go out. Yes when they fail, it is catastrophic.
2) Pearly white Rx-7 is the most rare color. However, you nor anone else is getting it. Reason: it was *ONE OF ONE* (yes thats is correct) and last I heard it was totalled.
3) CYM is rarer than chaste white. Only 350 CYMs ever existed, only 93 model year and it came only as an R1 trim. Chaste white in comparison, came in 94/95 years and in multiple trims with a total of 670 cars.
Compression tests are not the be all and end all people. The readings between modules vary, and the compression can also be manipulated by doing things such as adding 2 stroke oil in to the housings before cranking. Rad Potential has a fantastic video explaining this top to bottom.
Yeah, true but modern testers have a variance of less than a single psi- and if you test your compression hot like you should, there is no real difference than if you premix or not
I guess just watch out for the ones that have the readings presented, go check it yourself to be sure.
I wish mazda made new rx7 with pistion system, so we all can buy it to feel their design, so gorgeous 🤩
can you make a time machine buyers guide so i can get all these cars that nobody gave a second thought ten years ago
I wish but I’m waiting for them to go on sale😂
Good video but disagree with the rotary not being as reliable as piston engine. I have a Fd and 3 piston cars. On my last video I did a pull and hit 8300rpm with no issues. If I would to do this in my 392, I would still being picking up pieces of my motor on the roadway. N/A rotary engine is as reliable as a piston N/A engine. Also a turbo rotary is as reliable as a turbo piston engine.
@@arrivendrive6831nah. Reliability has nothing to do with rpm and wankels definitely need more care to be as long lasting as any decent piston engine. I’ve put 80,000 trouble free miles on a 100,000mi+ bmw M20 with an added turbo. Have you ever heard of any wankel dealing with that? Mine have both needed rebuilds before 120k, and they were all well cared for cars (FC and FB with an FC engine).
Absolutely sick!
Excessive camber looks fucking ridiculous!
The reason why they stopped selling them in the US was because 1996 was the first year of mandatory ODB2 compliance. Mazda had just put this car into production and would have to completely redo the electrical system to make it ODB2 compliant. The fact that it wasn't selling well was the justification to just pull the model from the US market rather than invest more money into the platform. Once again, the government screws over the car enthusiast.
This car goes way beyond just good looks,go sit in it,touch it feel it like a curvy woman.see the dash,the shift lever steering relation..so much thought went into into the design of this car from the black out rear lights to the double bouble bubble roof Alcanterra seats, the shave door handles, and then the rotary smooth as silk
Cool review but fumbled the CYM being its not just a yellow
Fumbled on a few things. But I agree, cool review.
New sub here 👍🏻 The mispronouncing of the rarer color names triggered me lol but in person you can tell the difference between the two whites.
Teh market love them to, low mileage stocker cost $70k USD now.
I had a 1994. I think it was an R1 because it had the black alcantara interior. Mine was silver. I took off that hideous spoiler - it looked spectacular! Specs from the factory indicated 0-60 at 4.9 seconds. I think that was a slight exaggeration. However, w/ the supper tight clutch, I absolutely adored that car! Of course, I did not get that ridiculous Bose stereo system. You are quite correct about how ugly all that plastic was. Additionally, it took up A LOT of space.
The car listed for $43,000. However, my girlfriend at the time was reading, I think it was Car Driver, and saw an ad, a little small ad in the back listed by a dealer in Virginia, selling these cars for $25,000. How? I don't know. But, I pay $25,000 for that car. A great joy until I wrecked it!
If it was a 94, then it was an R2 no question. Barring all the updates between the 93 & 94/95 cars, the only difference between the R1 and R2 cars was the struts. As people complained the 93 R1 was too stiff, so Mazda softened them a bit on the 94/95 R2 cars.
Sorry to hear about the car. 😢
Do a video on the toyota aristo jzs161
I have a 1986 Mazda FC RX7 let me know if your interested
it's a bad engine mazda knew it too that's why they stopped making sports car for a while, it's good back the day but the rotary can compete to engines nowadays and it's not environment friendly that's why car company moving to electric vehicle
It wasn't a bad engine,they just couldn't make cars that were environmentally friendly so they stopped
@@user-sk4wf3ve6z it was a bad engine
Delete ur OMP and premix it. Premix premix premix.