Thanks guys! I'll read all these pages and try some stuff. The other fun thing is I went to check timing yesterday afternoon after work, and now the car won't crank at all. I'm ready to kick it off a cliff, but then I'd miss it. Anyway, thanks. I'll get back to you on what I've done, and what worked. I think I'm going to start with new plugs and wires, then move to the coils, then the distributor, then the carb area. What do you think?

 

Another thing I found out THE HARD WAY. I went by the title to order my radiator (yes, I have a virtual non stop shipment of parts for this car) and so I got a radiator for an 85. The damn thing was too big to fit in the car AND close the hood. So I measured the radiator with a tape, and matched it up with (guess...you are correct!) an '82 rx-7. So now I've ordered the new radiator. Does anyone know why the 85 radiator would be so much larger. I thought the compartment size was the same between the two. Just a question.

 

useful stuff. Hey Donna, does that plastic plumbing pipe hold up to all the heat in the long term??

 

not sure what pipe and where,

 

at first, when I read your reply Donna, I thought you were implying I was smoking something



no, in your pictures with the air intake tube that you made. It has a plastic elbow(90deg). You have a link to the pics earlier in the thread.



ps, nice clean engine bay, well done

 

Woo Hoo!!!! My rx is legal again! After changing the spark plugs, the coil wires, the plug wires, fooling with the air mix, fooling with the fuel mix, fixing the exhaust in three places, tightening the throttle cable, replacing a mirror, adjusting the headlights, and fiddling with the power windows (how do you actually fix those things when they start tracking funny, anyhow). If everything in life could be this easy, man, I'd be happy, happy, happy. Now I can move on to bigger problems. I have not had a chance to get it out on the highway and let it loose yet. That was where my original problem was. When I had it all warmed up and on the highway for about ten minutes, it would get cranky and not want to keep speed, let alone accelerate. But that could have been fixed already. Man, those plugs were NASTY. Buttheads at the auto shop that dropped in the new engine put mostly fouled plugs back in the car. You have to love it when they do exactly what they say they are going to, no matter what. Anyway, thanks for the help, guys!

 

Woo Hoo!!!! My rx is legal again! After changing the spark plugs, the coil wires, the plug wires, fooling with the air mix, fooling with the fuel mix, fixing the exhaust in three places, tightening the throttle cable, replacing a mirror, adjusting the headlights, and fiddling with the power windows (how do you actually fix those things when they start tracking funny, anyhow). If everything in life could be this easy, man, I'd be happy, happy, happy. Now I can move on to bigger problems. I have not had a chance to get it out on the highway and let it loose yet. That was where my original problem was. When I had it all warmed up and on the highway for about ten minutes, it would get cranky and not want to keep speed, let alone accelerate. But that could have been fixed already. Man, those plugs were NASTY. Buttheads at the auto shop that dropped in the new engine put mostly fouled plugs back in the car. You have to love it when they do exactly what they say they are going to, no matter what. Anyway, thanks for the help, guys!