Tenny

A couple things to say... Are you guys mostly talking about me? When you are saying i'm too young or the other guy thats 16?

ANd yes i know Speed Kills... My Lic Plate Cover "Speed Kills, Drive a honda live forever"

And I have a good amount of knowledge, i know how fast i can take corners, i'm not perfect no where near it, but i've been driving a sports car for the past 2 years.

I know Cost is a big thing about this to me, I'm looking at how much imake etc... and if i can afford it. I can afford it, i know i can i just wont have much money to play around, i understnad that i'm sacraficing going to clubs, partying, getting drunk etc. But thats not my style, Everyone around me drinks and dose drugs besides gf, and I'm ok with that, its just not my style. Dont like drinking / smoking so i know i wont do that. I can have fun without that. And i'd rather drive my car around anywhere besides stop and go traffic than go to a party or a club. Driving my car as it is now the stealth is when i'm having more fun than anything elsein the world. To me at least. I'm just not that much of a partier i guess?

Zoomspeed

I know exactly how you feel. THere are times when you never feel more alive then when your driving in your car with the wheel in one hand and the shift **** in the other.

Freaky Monkey007

TY that is the best thing that i have heard from anyone. People are gona be stupid. People are gona do things regardless of what you say. If he wants an FD then hes gona get one. He is smart enough to come to the forum to get help. Im only 15 and im already working on an FD. Although its a friends i do alot of the work on it. And it will be mine 5 months from this time next year. If all goes well. And i have plenty of money so that isnt a issue. Well right up till Sept 11 and my stocks crashed. I dont know all in the world about an FD but i know how to ask a question. If your gona get an FD get one that has the realiblilty mods done to it. You will be so much happier. 2k that you save is money you can put toward a single. Well do whatever your mind wants. Were not gona stop you. I say learn what you can. Read the forum for a while and go to some sites about the FD. After that if you think you know all you need then get an Fd. People make mistakes. Its part of learning. This may be a mistake this may be the best thing to happen to this kid.

f2racer

iTrader: (1)

I've been practicing with the RX-7s in Grand Turismo for the last coupla years, ya think I'm ready for a FD?

FDpro

I say think really hard before you buy it....I just bought a 93 R1 a few months back and I already spent 4K on just making it run right including the reliability mods and try to keep yer camry as a daily driver otherwise the Fd's get really expensive just to drive around......

Tenny

I dont have Grand Turismo Sold PS2 for 700 last year..

ApexRX7

I got my first FD at 16. I worked my *** off to mod it, I didn't mod it in the correct order, and bam! There went the motor! So, I wised up, did my research, saved my $$ again and bought the FD I currently have (came w/rebuilt motor and all reliability mods) AND I had enough sense to buy a daily driver - HOnda CRX.

I speak from experience - buy it if you have deep pockets, and a good deal of knowledge, and enough extra $ for a daily driver.

I know it's been said before, but insurance WILL kick your ***!

Magnificent 7

Well, there have been many responses to this topic. I haven't read all of then, didn't have time. Some pretty good arguments on both sides so read up and listen, even to the ones you don't like. I suppose most are telling you not to get an FD. I would say do what your gut tells you to do. If your interested in buying one with a low mileage reman engine and new turbos, that has had reliability mods done (even a power FC), and has been adult owned and driven, then look at mine in the "FOR SALE" section. If you're intersted let me know.

I have had sports cars since I was 16, and although I dented a few of them up, I would still say "If that's what you want, then get it!" The only thing I would have changed about my early years is: I would have bought the '67 Vette convertible with the 435hp/427cid big block, and 4spd tranny back in '82 for $6500, cause it would have been worth a shitload now, and it's the best looking Vette ever made IMO.

Node

iTrader: (1)

LEARN TO DRIVE A STICK AND BUY A MANUAL IF YOU GET ONE
you'll regret it if you don't :-)
It's a sports car. Sports cars do not come in automatic.
it's not very hard at all.
1 week of practice here and there, and you'll be doing great. Hell I know people who learned driving their car home. Just ask a friend to take you out for like 30 minutes or an hour to a parking lot and just let you try to park in spaces where you can't hit anything.

Tenny

yeah thats the only reason i'm getting another car is because mine is an Auto, when i bought it i thought that it'd be fine, becuaser i got it really cheap 4k less than kbb, so i was like cool, but after 2 years, now i want the stick, i drive my brothers little s10 truck around, to get experince, and its not hard at all very simple things. Just dont get an auto, people will rag on you etc, and they are so much slower!

jimlab

I was going to write at length about the responsibility of owning a fast car, and not even necessarily at a young age, but I think this picture sums it up pretty well...



My friend Trev and another friend of his named Jon died on the night before his 28th birthday, in his dad's car, testing out a new video camera mount and preparing for a weekend trip to California for a track event, which was to have been his birthday present.

Trev had a lot of time behind the wheel of this RX-7 and others (including his own '89 Turbo II and '93 VR R1) at high speeds and had been to several track events before. The car had brand new BF Goodrich G-Force T/A R1 track tires on it, and the corner he died on was one that all of us had gone through at high speed before. I myself had been through it at 120+ mph in my Supra Turbo, 140+ in my own RX-7, and 130+ in the RX-7 above.

If a mistake was made, it was probably in assuming that because he'd done it before that he could do it again, possibly at a higher rate of speed, because although the camera did not show the crash, there were four gear changes and the car was in 5th and climbing, and a heaviliy modified 3rd gen. in 5th gear at WOT means 140+ mph. We still don't know precisely what caused the car to leave the road, but the end result is obvious.

You can get used to anything, including high powered sports cars, but making the mistake of thinking that you're in control at all times can be your last. Since at your age you are, at least from a statisitical point of view, very likely to kill yourself (and probably someone else) in a car of this type, as much as I hate to say it, you might want to rethink your choice of car. Having a car capable of 150+ mph speeds is a big responsibility. You can have just as much fun driving a CRX "at the limit", and the speeds involved leave you a lot better chance of walking away should anything bad happen. At the speeds an RX-7 is capabe of, there's not much left when you crash.

As always, there is a time and place for everything, and obviously driving at these speeds should be saved for the track. As tough as it is to discipline ourselves not to mash the gas pedal on public roads, there is a very obvious reason why we should. If you can't respect the power, then chances are good you shouldn't have the car. I'm sure your parents would like to see you live to 20, not to mention 28. It's ironic that Trev's dad purchased the CYM R1 above solely to have something in common with Trev and to bring them closer together.

In any event, good luck with your car if you do decide to buy, but if Trev's life meant anything, let it be as a lesson that no matter how much you think you're in control behind the wheel, there can be a situation where you'll find out that you're not, and far too late to do anything about it.

relvinnian

I agree. I learned alot about rotories before actually getting my T2 from my roomate's modded N/A. I'd like to think that I'm a good driver, but immediatly after I bought the car I dropped some mods into it... Needless to say after driving it for a couple days, I thought I was good enough and started taking corners hard disregarding the way the back end slid out so easy. The back end came out a bit too much when I took a corner hard in traffic. This is a corner that has a large area in the middle which is why I usually take it hard, but I spun the car almost 2 times, just by laying on the gas in 2nd gear. My girlfriend was in the car, and that's when I realized that this is a car that can't be taken lightly. I drove like an old granny until I got some beefy tires for the back. My T2 is nearly as fast accelerating as a stock 3rd gen, but obviously doesn't compare in handling. Even so, I dedicated myself to learning how the car drives.

You can call me a moron, and say "That won't happen to me" but that is ignorance and lying. It can and WILL happen to you if you think that. You have to always know that you are never the complete master of the car.... there are ALWAYS times when it can master you, and that's what you need to realize. I'm not saying don't get the car, but know what you're getting in to. If you drive it responsibly than, age doesn't mean ****, but as Jim said, statistically you are at high risk.

Edit: Oh yeah, I'm 18... just so you know.

-Brian