A holidy tragedy
12-27-2005, 09:36 AM
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Well I went back home for the xmas weekend and met up with a buddy of mine yesterday who also came home from TX. He had ordered a full racing beat exhaust for his N/A a few weeks ago as well as a new driveshaft and was planning to put it on over the weekend. When he got home, one of his xmas gifts is that his old man actually installed everything already. Pretty sweet deal if you ask me. His dad doesn't know much about the rx7s, but did a great job during the install. One exhaust hanger was a little worn out so the drive muffler hung a little low, but other than that it looked great. I swung out by their hangar(where the car was being worked on) to see the car and catch up with him. Well while I was there he flushed out the tranny fluid, put some nice redline fluids in, had new spark plugs, and did a quick oil change. He was gearing the car up to be driving back from VA to TX. Started it up...had really bad idle, wouldn't hold the idle at all when cold...backed it from the hangar and started to let it warm up...still ran rough and wouldn't idle. We went to drive it to get it warmed up and check everything out. The racing beat exhaust sounded really quiet, but had an awesome tone to it. Anyways, while driving the car had NO power, I mean NONE..it decelled on the uphills...i started making jokes that his compression was low from the car sitting for last few years (it was driving a few months ago, but for the most part it just sits). Drove around, went back to the house....started checking the obvious..no vac leaks, TB secondaries were working properly... the aux ports though were stuck, but the car never went above 4K during our drive, so it wasn't like we needed those to really work anyways.. to sum this long story up...we pulled the spark plugs from the front rotor...cranked it...three really good puffs of air..best i've heard in a while! ...pulled the rear plugs... nada, zip, no compression... 1986 Base N/A Rx7 w/ 183K original miles finally gave up the ghost. he's going to try MMO thinking that maybe the seals are just stuck from sitting...but we're both pretty sure it's done. The car is in great shape, paint is only a few years old, interior is spotless for it's age... and he already has another motor, but now he has to tow it to TX..
I've got pics/vids/etc that I'll try and get up. It's just nice to see a rotary w/ 183K still crank up and run, even if it is one rotor...
I've got pics/vids/etc that I'll try and get up. It's just nice to see a rotary w/ 183K still crank up and run, even if it is one rotor...
12-27-2005, 02:10 PM
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keep at it, if its been siting for a while that happens, hell it happens when it hasnt been siting for too long sometimes as well.
my n/a ran great, sat for two days, and then the rear rotor lost compression. luckily i decided to try to go get gas for it and all of a sudden it backfired on the way there and bam it ran perfectly.
it was weird, but i dont mind it since it came back to working condition fine
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kevin.
my n/a ran great, sat for two days, and then the rear rotor lost compression. luckily i decided to try to go get gas for it and all of a sudden it backfired on the way there and bam it ran perfectly.
it was weird, but i dont mind it since it came back to working condition fine
kevin.
12-27-2005, 02:36 PM
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Yea, I mean..we are pretty good with these engines by now..and we know there is a chance it'll come around w/ some MMO thats why he's giving it a shot..but w/ 183K miles on the ticker...it'll just be borrowed time anyways... He just wants to be able to drive it back to TX instead of paying a tow bill...
12-27-2005, 02:37 PM
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Oh, but the funnier thing is his luck has been bad all month. He has a '91 T2 also that he just built the motor for after going through two junk atkins motors...ran it on the dyno, put down crap numbers..so now he has to dig around the haltech and find that missing power.. just not going good for him this month...
12-28-2005, 12:30 PM
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Lol... the best I ever saw was an '88AE w/ 220K miles on it.. it didn't run at the time, but still...it must have had at least 200K on it when it still ran..no way they put 20K miles on a blown motor.
I'm gonna check on the car later this week to see if he got it running or not..
I'm gonna check on the car later this week to see if he got it running or not..