Originally Posted by scotty305

Please read the following ADVICE carefully, with an open mind. I'm not saying any of this to offend you, I just want to pass along a few things that I learned (sometimes the hard way) when I was your age.


My opinion is that teens shouldn't drive FD's. They're not a good learner's car. If you haven't already learned to drive well in an underpowered car with decent handling, you will NOT develop good car-control skills in an overpowered car with very good handling. The handling limits of the FD are so high that you won't be able to recover once you've found them.



Whether you can admit it or not, teens simply lack the experience which develops the necessary skills and judgement required to pilot something with the power-to-weight-ratio of an FD. There are many things that can ONLY be learned from experience, and driving is one of them. It's a physical skill like running or playing basketball; you can't get better at driving just by thinking about it or trying to be careful.



What's more, mistakes, accidents, or lapses of judgement can be expensive or fatal in a car, and a high-powered car will cause everything to be happening at much faster speeds, which leaves less room for inexperience.


My advice to young people who want to own a fast car anyway: attend a race-driving school, it will teach you how to properly control your car. Start autocrossing, it's a very safe place to learn car control. Expect to spin out a LOT, but be glad you'll be hitting cones and not guardrails.



Here are a few examples, all from the past year. Don't become another statistic.
https://www.rx7club.com/3rd-generation-specific-1993-2002-16/one-less-94-chaste-white-road-405893/
https://www.rx7club.com/3rd-generation-specific-1993-2002-16/boost-bald-tires-sand-%3D-ouch-361006/
https://www.rx7club.com/3rd-generation-specific-1993-2002-16/another-stupid-16-year-old-368567/
https://www.rx7club.com/3rd-generation-specific-1993-2002-16/almost-blind-one-eye-curb-checked-fd-%3D-359402/



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Originally Posted by willjs7

its people like you that **** me off

im 17 years old

i bought my FD when i was 16. people told me i would blow it up, kill myself, yadda yadda,

its possible to own one that young, i do all my own work, i have done everything from a full fuel system, to PFC and tuning. i am a week away from my 67mm turbo being finished.

it is very possible.
as long as you have money, and know how to read, and care about the car and its well being, you wont kill yourself, and you will be very pleased with the outcome.

sorry for rambling, i just see the **** all the time, and its happend to me, a year and 1/2 later i have a badass FD and have a lot of respect around here.