Last year my buddy traded his blazer for a rx-7. Shortly the clutch blew on him and he parked it and got a 240sx. I seen the rx7 sitting at his house one day for the first time and asked him about it, he sold it to me for $2000 as-is a month ago. My dad put a new clutch in it, and now it is my daily driver (first car, first 5 speed. my first vehicle was an automatic nissan truck but I only drove it for half a year).



I finally have money (summer labour jobs rule) to fix my FC. I decided to post some pics and just kinda blog the progress on this thread. I will post all the cars mechancial problems later.



note all pictures have super reduced quality and were taken by my cellphone*

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Broken center console (1) Duck Tape to cover vaccumm leaks (2)

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Engine Bay

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Interior, no carpet or back seats in back.

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Front mount intercooler and broken mirror (both mirrors are broken)

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red door handle (1) very cheap paint on hood, and crunched bottom left corner (2) more cheap paint on passenger door handle, also notice car has been curbed.

 

right hand drive. turbo. a jdm????--- you bastard.

 

I think your car got some kind of computer virus. It's all hacked up.







That's a great project car for you, most of that stuff you can fix up pretty inexpensively, should be alot of fun!

 

Do you have to pass emissions where your at? will it pass?



Just wondering.

 

No we don't have emissions here. One of the upgrades done to the car before I bought it was the removal of the catalyctic converter.



So far heres my list on problems with the car (It grows almost by the day lol):



Broken Driverside (right side) door handle

Broken Mirrors

Hardly any interior

Major Hot Starting problem

Major steering problem (lots of play in steering)

Cold car will not idle

Car is really hard to shift, I have to double clutch (Dad says its Master and/or slave cylinder)



Theres probally more I cant think of right now.. but like Colinrx7 said, great project car, I am learning so much because I pretty much have to fix everything myself.



I love the fact that in the future I'll have conversations like this "My first car was a neon" "Mine was a sunfire" (Me) "My first car was a RHD Turbocharged RX-7"... hehe.

 

No emissions...you son of a bitch!!!



/wrists

 

They removed the airpump but not the power steering/ac?

 

nice project, car seems solid, just needs a bunch of little stuff. when you're finished it'll make a big improvement

 

lol nope i still got power steering and ac (which I dont use because it robs power and gas(in the long run) :P). ya its a fun learning experience. right now my major problem is steering, I have a good five inches of play in the steering which makes it hard to control the car. Does anyone know of any steering articles they could maybe link me to?



edit* my Dad looked at the steering and said I need a intermediate shaft (thats what the manual calls it). Is there any other names for this part so I can try and locate it?

 

update* I got my intake XD



I forgot to order a MAF adapter for it though so I have to wait till that gets here from ontario now lol.



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