Is there any love for the rx7?
Is there any love for the rx7?
I LOVE rx7's. Bur rotary's scare me.
Hmmm there is no NA Fd. And why would NA be an option for any of the choices?
"I think the Supra is the coolest, but it has to be NA." WTF?
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Well yeah but when you are talking about the ultimate muscle car rotary, its an fd. fc is a close second.FC was made til 91
I like all of them out of those choices, but each one of them has advantages over the other.
I voted supra for the targa top and 2jz.
heres a question, in what universe were any of those cars fast AND cheap? some of them werent even that fast, by early 90s standards...
the only japanese car sold in america that comes close to being a "muscle car" would be a gen1 turbo eclipse (or one of the many variants).
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Yeah this fucking gullwing 1g is the baddest japanese muscle car made ever.
One of 5 made and Jackie Chan has one.
Lasers rock my socks.
Yeah this fucking gullwing 1g is the baddest japanese muscle car made ever.
One of 5 made and Jackie Chan has one.
remindes me of my 1g I used to have
fd>*
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the poll isnt for the most overweight japanese car ever
anyway, musclecars are RWD.
I wouldnt call the rx7 a muscle car though.
Id say sports (rx7) and/or GT cars (the others.)
id call the supra the closest thing to a japanese muscle car.
Either way, the 3000gt is too heavy and gimicky. And most were FWD
Anyway, im kidding for the most part. I had to give you some shit lol
wel in a way they sorta do though...
but i didn't know USDM cars were made in Japan...considerin USDM stands For United States Domestic Motors..and any car made in Japan would be a JDM car..Japan Domestic Motors..just saying....
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screw u lightspeed! dont hate just bc all ur cars added together dont add up to the weight of my 3000the poll isnt for the most overweight japanese car ever
anyway, musclecars are RWD.
I wouldnt call the rx7 a muscle car though.
Id say sports (rx7) and/or GT cars (the others.)
id call the supra the closest thing to a japanese muscle car.
Either way, the 3000gt is too heavy and gimicky. And most were FWD
Anyway, im kidding for the most part. I had to give you some shit lol
...plus danica likes them
jdm = japanese domestic MARKET
usdm = US domestic MARKET
market not motors
house of turbo subarus...its all we'll drive
my point still stands, most of those cars would take a serious beating from a fox body mustang and costed 2 or 3 times more. atleast the dsm was cheap.
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LOL...he said "costed."
Not one of those cars listed would get outrun by a stock foxbody mustang. Most bone-stock (and "stock" means NO aftermarket parts and on stock tires, stock timing, etc) fox-bodies ran low 15's at the track at low 90 mph's... maybe. Those other cars listed are all stronger than that stock. There may be an occasional freak mustangs that were faster than that, but on the average, they werent that impressive in comparison to a lot of stuff today.
Ultimate muscle car, rotary? What an oxymoron, you cant call anything with less than a 302 a muscle car. All of these japanese choices handle too well (including the pig of a 3000GT)
Well yeah but when you are talking about the ultimate muscle car rotary, its an fd. fc is a close second.
I've always wanted to find a slicktop 300ZX 2+2 and swap a turbo motor into it and take out the rear seat. I think I'd go for a bright red one with black interior and the 99 300ZX bumper, headlights, and spoiler
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well i wasn't necessarily trying to sound like the smartest person..just stating my opinion..and as far as callin me out i would have no problem racing u in my almost stock N/a civic coupe with a D16Y7 cept for this one little thing...my DL's are suspended...so that kinda puts that outta the question..just saying...o yeah my motor is knocking like hell, needs a vavle job very bad, needs a new o2 sensor, it's running rich as hell flooding, needs new soark plugs and wires...basically my car is fucked for right now lol....but sure if i could drive legally i would have no problem running you roll or dig..eventhough i know i would prolly loose..it's all for fun...
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your "opinion" of what usdm and jdm stands for was wrong
house of turbo subarus...its all we'll drive
maybe so...but that's the only way i have ever heard it...just saying...
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If you read, I said the ultimate muscle car rotary in the states is the fd.
Not saying its a muscle car, but between the rotarys it wins.
Less than a 302 it isnt a muscle car? Then all the Japanese cars are out pretty much. Japan isnt about displacement, escpecially rotarys/
Exactly, they're about technology and turning which is why they're not muscle cars in my book.
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Mazda RX-7 Twin Turbo/NA, because the handling, style, innovation, and rotary is just so damn badass. Needless to say, even to this day it's still pretty impressive.
oh yeah, wtf @ the muscle japanese? lol? Japanese cars are not 'power', they are engineered and balanced, the way cars are supposed to be, in American's eyes, it's always, always, always about power first, no matter what they do, it's always messing with the engine first, before suspension...sigh.
I like the Nissan. Toyota is in far second....
...u ever worked on a 300zx? lol theyre cool cars no doubt but damn, just damn lol
my pick weighs less then 3k lbs... the rx7
to me its the total package, high reving, high proformance, well balanced with a close 50/50 (mazda has done this with ALL their early sports cars) and it just looks exotic
Well, actually my friend has a 93 rx-7 and it weighs a lil over 3k lbs without him in it. Its the trim with the bose package.
Z...duh
my old one
sweet toyota is winning.
But It may not be muscle cars to us.
But in japan these would be their muscle cars.
You must remember back in the day, what we would consider "muscle cars" were their "tuner cars"
I love the NSX but it is not a muscle car at all. Its about the total package and being lightweight.
It initially had a 3.0 liter V-6....nothing furious about that. Even with the 3.2 upgrade it made 290hp tops and 252hp with the auto......
NSX is all aluminum, hand built and almost an exotic!
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Somethings wrong then. My FD is stock (touring with BOSE). With me in it, it weighs 2900 lbs.
The heaviest RX7s were the 2nd gen verts. The 88 weighed 3003 lbs, the 89-91 weighed 3140 lbs.
My stock FD is faster than my 92 Mustang. So my 302 is a "muscle car", and it slower than my 1.3L "non-muscle car".
skyline gtr,gts-t and gts-t4 beet them all{not even including v spec or nur
91 RX7..its the corvette of the far east,lol
The only thing that sucks about the Rx-7 is rebuilding/replacing the engine every 100k miles at the most. The engine is like "glass". Also the maintenence and lack of torque. Other than that, its a bad ass car that will have heads turned and jaws dropped.
Damn, I must of gotten ripped off. My FD is reliable, and in all my years of rotaries, I've only had one blown motor - and that was because the car overheated due to a fan switch that was off.
Did you mean the engine was smooth as glass? Cause that is more like it.... :-)
Turbo rotarys aren't missing torque. The numbers aren't very different than 911s.
Maintenance is changing the oil. That's pretty much it. I have spent more on repairs this year on my 40K mile Mustang than my 160K mile RX7.
There are a lot of misperceptions out there about rotarys - usually started my mechanics who have no clue how the engine works.
BTW: here is a video of the a basic TII. This is the guy who built my new motor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg26m...elated&search=
My TII motor lasted 140k miles. Regular maintenance.
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yea,ive seen N/As hit over 200K
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