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Started by _Mazda Rotary Boy_ , Jun 29 2006 12:48 PM

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#26 RIM-010

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Posted 29 June 2006 - 07:21 PM

Not at the same time... I never drive after any alcohol.

I drive in the day and drink at night!

Ive been drivin for over 7 years, but i spose you could call me a new driver...

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#27 _73LJWhiteSL_

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Posted 29 June 2006 - 07:27 PM

Saw some headlights advertised the other day...

'To fit UC Torana/Mazda 808'

Perhaps they have more in comon than we think...???

UC and 808 headlight surrounds are very different... But i am sure most people here alread knew that one.

I can't see how you could even confuse them... I mean maybe they have similar sized lights in them (Early 808 square headlights) but the surrounding nosecones would be very different. It would be like trying to fit LX headlight surrounds into a LJ.

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Posted 29 June 2006 - 07:32 PM

Are you sayin that LX H/light surrounds dont fit LJ's?

There goes my plans...

Nah, i really dont know how you could get em confused.

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#29 _TORANASS_

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Posted 29 June 2006 - 08:18 PM

Rim you say youve been drving for 7 years? How old are you now mate?

I have a mate thats a TAXI driver, his only been driving for 5 yars or so, iv been drivning for 15 years, yet his probly done about the same hours on the road as me..

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Posted 29 June 2006 - 08:21 PM

I'm 15 now. Turn 16 in March next year.

Ive been drivin since i was 7 or 8.

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#31 _TORANASS_

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Posted 29 June 2006 - 08:48 PM

So RIM who was helping you drive, i mean while you were down at the pedals who was steering..Or were you steering and some one else was doing the pedal work?

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Posted 29 June 2006 - 08:52 PM

... Your a funny man, TORANASS.

I have been driving on my own (with my dad in the passenger seat) since i was 7 or 8. i had been steering, sitting on dads lap, before that.

I got my first car when i was 11...

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Posted 29 June 2006 - 08:53 PM

driving once or twice on the weekends hardly counts

Road driving is a whole different ball game.

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Posted 29 June 2006 - 08:58 PM

Crickey.....people talking about school holidays! I thought everyone on here was in there 30's or 40's........go figure?

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Posted 29 June 2006 - 08:59 PM

driving once or twice on the weekends hardly counts Road driving is a whole different ball game.

I know. But still, I was driving when i was 7... so have i not been driving for about 8 years?

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Posted 29 June 2006 - 09:01 PM

Kudu, there are plenty of younguns on here.

RIM-010 - 15
Heath - 15
Liam.W - 13
chevy_253_torana - 15

I cant think of any more lol.

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#37 _pallbag_

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Posted 29 June 2006 - 09:31 PM

Nah, i dont mind RX3s at all, I just dont like rotaries.
RIM

Now there is no way I am going to claim to be as "worldly" as RIM - but doesnt this quote contradict itself ?
RIM any idea what "RX" stands for in relation to Mazdas?

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#38 _TORANASS_

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Posted 29 June 2006 - 09:59 PM

Only one explanation to that palbag, RIM has a few loose screws!!!

OK OK OK RIMs screw are all tight, hang on either way his all mucked up hey? oh well

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Posted 30 June 2006 - 08:05 AM

See guys? The lack of driving and alcohol is messin with my head!

I like RX-3's like... Cant think of their name at the moment... They drag RX-3's with BBF's...

I like the look of them. But i cant stand rotaries.

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Posted 30 June 2006 - 10:13 AM

I can understand that. The whole Rotary thing doesn't really do it for me either now that I think about it. But I'll still go crazy with the camera over any nicely presented old Mazda

Anyway, standard 808s etc didn't have Rotaries did they? :huh:

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#41 _73LJWhiteSL_

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Posted 30 June 2006 - 10:52 AM

808s came with 1300 and 1600s. RX3s only came with Rotaries. 323s came with 1400s and 1500s.

The 1300 went pretty good in my 808... but i think it was a late engine with a early (non pollution gear) carby on it.

I know a lot of people hear hate rotaries and personaly i can't say i have ever driven one, but i reckon they would be great fun on the racetrack. Its a great design, good to think outside the square.

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Posted 30 June 2006 - 10:56 AM

rotaries are poo for reliability etc though, ive driven a s2 rx7, went no harder then a gemini which is understandable as they run the same shitty nikki carby.

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Posted 30 June 2006 - 11:15 AM

If i didn't have a Torry, it would be a 13bt or 20bt RX3......Love 'em.

And yeah,
I think most youngsters these days are brought up with a paddy basher of some sort.

I know I had my first go of the mini when I was 6 and moved up to the rolla when I was 8 as I couldn't reeach the pedals when I was 6. Had been terrorising the streets in my Go-Carts/Green Machine/PeeWee's since I was 4.

Thats what happens when you grow up on a farm......no Playstations or Internet, You get to play with "Real Toys" :rockon:

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#44 _TORANASS_

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Posted 30 June 2006 - 11:48 AM

Dude when i was growing up there was no playstation or internet so farm or city we didnt have toys....

RIM go and do some homework on the Wankel engine, You will find that your little old LJ almost ended up with one...

And everyone remember a 12A rotory is only 1200cc and a 13B is only a 1300, i reckon they go damm good for such small capasity..

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#45 _kaz from adelaide_

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Posted 30 June 2006 - 11:54 AM

Welcome to our world. :rockon:

If i go by RIMs calculations i have been driving for 30 years without an accident :tease:

shit that makes me feel old. But when I sit in my daily driver LX (HRT > hormone replacement therapy!!) i get to feelin like i'm 19 again :spoton:

I prefer the old school cars as they are a hands on repairer, not like the new computerised (spaghetti under bonnet) era of cars.

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Posted 30 June 2006 - 12:01 PM

I know that LJ's nearly ended up with rotaries... i have a book/magazine on Torana History (From Viva to Victory!)

There is a guy in Arno Bay who has a Rotorised Open Wheeler dirt circuit car... it put out speeds over 300km/h on the Dyno... I know that they absolutely hammer.

Most guys my age up here in Adelaide dont know how to drive a car, let alone own one... In the country it's a different story.

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Posted 30 June 2006 - 04:30 PM

i come from the country i only had one bushpig car an killed it fairly promply. we had it for three days (seira) and the frist 2 days dad fixed the brakes. then i got behind the wheel hammered it for a few hours then fanging down the drive way looking at the gearbox when changing, hit a stump on the side of the drive way. bent the chassis. dad got the tractor onto it but ended up blowing the gearbox afew days later. in the prang i wasnt wereing my seat belt, i puncked the windscreen out a hole in it, head butted the steering wheel hit me between the nose and top lip almost broke nose or teeth. and slip forward on the seat and put two knee shaped dents either side of the sterring coloum. taught me a few lesson's that day

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#48 _73LJWhiteSL_

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Posted 30 June 2006 - 04:44 PM

Glad you learned from that rather than ended up 6 foot under mate.

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#49 _TORANR AMORE_

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Posted 30 June 2006 - 05:26 PM

RIM, your problem with Rotaries,... ummm,... is it because they are one of the worlds most efficient designs in combustion engines.

maybe.

Like John said, Holden came close to taking the Rotary design deal, but turned it down, maybe a regrettable mistake.
You'll find that when you buy one seconhand and it developes some problems, you'll find that it most likely has had the begeezers thrashed out of it, probably because like someone said,.. they hammer.
Other people may not like them simply because they don't understand them or are able to troubleshoot them.

Don't get me wrong, I'm still loyal to the 308. But as for Rotaries, don't underestimate them:
http://www.ras.com.a...o_VS_Rotary.mpg

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