katkaroto

before buying the car, the car had hail damage on the hood. a baseball size dent near the third brake light. driver side door dent and door mechanical failure.

after buying the car, i had the s4 tail lights swapped out for s5 tail lights. fixed the mechanical failure in the driver side door and installed power locks. replaced the slave clutch cylinder and rebuilt the master clutch cylinder.

kept the car pretty much stock, and has about 115,XXX miles on it now... some of the paint is peeling, i sprayed some paint to cover some areas i sanded for future paint job to prevent rusting in that area.

how much am i looking on getting?

katkaroto

also, the car idles at like 2000 rpms and the engines been idle surging around 2500... plus there's an exhaust leak

ifryrice

I'd say probably $2200 or so with just the information given (Which isn't much, it doesn't really say the year, interior quality, or anything else). But for a body in need of paint/minor repair, somewhat older engine, and not much done I'd say that be an average ballpark region. Or slightly less, given your second post.

87 t-66

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$1000-$1500 probably. hard to tell without pics. if you had a receipt of a rebuilt engine you could get more. 150,000 miles on the stock motor is kinda high.

breezetime

sorry to say 750 to 1200 to much work to do, body and paint $2000 ++ idles at like 2000 rpms and the engines been idle surging around 2500... plus there's an exhaust leak this can get $$$$ to fix. now that said part out could get u a lot more.

clokker

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"Body and paint $2000"?

I want to go to there.

lonetlan

$500,000 cash!

martinjon666

Got my body and paint for $500

Guess you can come here if you want to

katkaroto

i'll get pictures later... i live in winter land. its a 87 turbo 2 with maroon interior. interior is good. some broken plastic.

clokker

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You look awfully young to be driving.

Paint looks very nice though...seriously, $500?
Was that a "good guy" price or the regular deal for anyone.
Hell, for that kind of money I could drive up to Idaho and stay in a motel for a couple of weeks and still save over a paint job down here...

katkaroto

<a href="http://s265.photobucket.com/albums/ii204/my_rx7/most%20recent/?action=view&current=img1233542005787.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii204/my_rx7/most%20recent/img1233542005787.jpg" border="0" alt="these tail lights will be on the other one"></a>

theres one picture... that's the baseball size dent i was talking about. this picture was taken before i swapped the s5 tail lights and put on the stock spoiler.

what can i say, i bought it from some guy who use to do some autocross and then became a doctor.

martinjon666

Good guy price, i am actually a woodworker and i built a cherry bedroom set for my buddy's new daughter, he felt like painting it for me, had the car in his garage to change the clutch and when we got done with that he just started sanding it, said now we had to paint it cause it looked like crap, i believe he said for anyone else it would be around $2k cause the car is so small.

And that is my sidekick, he just loves daddy's "racecar" because it "goes faster"

Back on Topic: I really couldnt see you getting much more than $1000 for the car if there is that much wrong with it, but it wouldnt hurt anything to post it on craigslist or a local classifieds for more and see if anyone takes it, I hate seeing cars on here parted out, one less 7 in the world, kinda sad

katkaroto

yea, i'd hate to part it out. which i wont... i rather sell the thing whole. but i'm waiting to get my car fixed up a bit more... at the very least i know its still strong, i can pull away from those first generation DSMs, but get killed on the long run.

ColinShark

Well give us a clue. How much did you buy it for? You've done some work to it, so the value is probably up a bit.

blwn rtr 89'

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200 dolla

datsun1200

Is this the car that's on universaty???I think i saw this car at the same spot that a gray one with gold whee's.Im not a stocker LOL..

katkaroto

yea, i use to have a primed 88 rx7 GTU. i got rid of that one, but i got a turbo 2 last year. Some guy's wife was trying to get rid of it, so they sold it to me for $1600.

Hypertek

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gahh man dont listen to these people.. rx7owners run down the value of our cars lol

Fix the engine problem, sounds like a vacuum leak somewhere. Check the turbo condition etc. Than push for 3-4k. Take Awesome pictures, its all how you market the car, Know what your talking about... If you act like you dont know much about the car, than you will receive low offers.

A good runing rx7 is what keeps its value.. a nice rx7 with a bad motor sadly isnt worth much because of the general consumer's fear of the rotary engine.

katkaroto

yea i know what you mean... but its still to cold up here. i'll probably check and clean the throttle body in spring and maybe repaint the hood and fill in the hail damage and other areas, but i still got to check the exhaust pipes... i know a part down there is broken cause i can feel the exhaust fume/heat come from under.

RTRx7

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If you're not going to fix it completely, I would part it out. It will take longer but you will make twice as much.

katkaroto

yea, but its still working fine and even better than my first 7. this is a complete car.. except i swapped the stock deck out.

katkaroto

here's the driver side dent

katkaroto

katkaroto

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87 t-66

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$1000-$1500 is a fair price. you might be able to sell it for more to someone who doesn't know about rx7's. get it running well and you could probably get $2000-$2500 for it.