At $27,500, Is This 1987 Mazda Rx-7 'mariah' A Fat-fendered Find?

Today's Nice Price aliases No Dice RX-7 sports an highly uncommon Mariah Motorsports Mode 6 Street widebody kit, which nan coming proprietor claims is conscionable nan 2nd 1 nan assemblage builder produced. Let's spot if that characteristic intends its value will besides beryllium wide popular.

In 'Back to nan Future,' Doc Brown fitted his clip recreation servants of nan state into a DeLorean because, successful his words, "If you're gonna build a clip instrumentality into a car, why not do it pinch immoderate style?" Similarly, nan Looney Tunes short, 'Show Biz Bugs,' has Daffy Duck performing his eventual shape enactment successful which he consumes flammable liquids and radioactive worldly earlier swallowing a lit match, causing him to explode. The assemblage goes wild, and Bugs Bunny tells Daffy's ghostly apparition that they want more, to which Daffy laments that he tin only execute nan stunt once. 

It's a norm of thumb that, if you're going to do thing to impressment people, nan effort should beryllium complete nan top. That was conscionable nan lawsuit successful nan motorcycle biz erstwhile Honda introduced nan audacious six-cylinder CBX successful nan precocious 1970s, arsenic it looked and performed for illustration nary different bike. The 1982 CBX Pro-link we considered yesterday still captures that over-the-top ethos, and astatine $11,500, its value proved conscionable arsenic wild. That flex, however, earned nan motorcycle a 66% No Dice nonaccomplishment from each of you.

We looked astatine an FC (second-generation) Mazda RX-7 conscionable a mates of weeks ago, and while that car was successful very bully clip capsule condition, it was besides beautiful overmuch bone-stock. The 1987 Mazda RX-7 Turbo we're considering today, connected nan different hand, is thing but.

That's patently evident by conscionable nan pictures. In fact, this car's assemblage mods are truthful outlandish that it could astir apt beryllium picked retired successful a parking batch from nan ISS. That phat bodywork is nan Mariah (not Carey) Motorsports Mode 6 Street widebody kit that transforms nan FC from a meek and somewhat anonymous slug into thing that looks for illustration nan world's astir pugnacious 944.

According to nan seller, who has owned nan car since 2010, this is nan 2nd Mariah kit to person been assembled, and is 1 of conscionable 3 that presently telephone nan U.S. of A. home. Mariah Motorsports parts are still disposable coming done Rotary Engineering, retired of Santa Barbara, California.

The kit proves handsome enough, pinch chaotic flared fenders which let for overmuch bigger meats underneath. Those are monolithic Nitto 17-inchers connected some ends, mounted connected HRE alloys. Other specifications connected nan car see an updated suspension and brakes, arsenic good arsenic not one, but 2 rear helping options. The consequence of each nan activity hasn't gone unnoticed by nan car mag world. That's thing nan seller points retired successful nan ad, showing a halfway dispersed from 'Super Street' successful nan photos, and linking to a 2019 article from our buddies astatine Motor Trend. 

The seller claims that, complete nan years, they person invested much than $60,000 successful nan car to support its personage status. Based connected nan pictures, some nan exterior and interior are keeping up appearances. That compartment isn't arsenic wildly-modded arsenic nan bodywork, but does support aftermarket pedals and steering wheel. Quite remarkably for thing pinch truthful galore mods, it apparently besides still has moving air-con.

There's plentifulness of powerfulness to rotation that compressor too. The advertisement claims nan 13B two-rotor Wankel nether nan hood has only 2,800 miles nether its loop since a full rebuild, and benefits from a bigger turbo, higher-rate substance system, and mostly stronger components throughout. The engine's still-compact size allows for capable room successful nan motor bay for nan intercooler to recline astatine parade remainder position correct successful beforehand of it.

The result of each of this activity is simply a heck of a batch of output. According to nan Dyno readout provided successful nan ad, this car is tin of producing complete 560 horsepower and 447 pound-feet of torque astatine nan rear wheels erstwhile moving E85. Naturally, that gives nan car plentifulness of spell to brace pinch its show. The powerfulness is channeled done an updated thoroughfare clutch and banal five-speed manual to nan rear end. No connection is fixed connected immoderate strengthening of those past 2 components, aliases if they should each beryllium considered grenades pinch freshly pulled pins.

These's a bully spot of absorbing history astir this car which would entreaty to immoderate FC fan. It's besides a car that shows nan awesome woody of clip and power that has gone into its attraction and feeding. That's a testament to its coming owner's efforts and a imaginable constituent successful favour of its not insubstantial $27,500 asking price. Plus it's a celebrity!

What's your return connected this car and that value tag? Does that consciousness for illustration a woody to get a astir one-of-a-kind car pinch a monster motor? Or does that asking value make this Mariah a pariah?

You decide!

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