I want to kill myself . . .
09-28-2002, 07:50 AM
#1
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Okay let me start this off with
"I just bought another Turbo 2 RX-7" (Huge grin)
Yeah okay, and now the bad news. The man who
sold it to me Jeff, told me that it would spit up coolant
out of the radiator resevoir bottle if I rode it to hard,
well I didn't. Anyway, on the way home the car died
twice (once a officer even had to push me to pop the clutch).
The resevoir bottle lid blew off shortly after that and I had to
make my third stop, yeah by now my wife was wondering
just a little why I bought such a horrible car, even though
I kept reassuring her that they are one of the best in the
business. Anywho, I remember that the seller told me
pretty faintly that it had something to do with compression,
he had taken it to the shop twice, only to have them barely
figure it out the second time. Well needless to say he hadn't
a clue what his mechanic was talking about and shortly forgot
anything important except the brief interlude to "compression".
My point in full is, has anybody heard of a problem similar to this?
The car drastically overheated on me today, and we all know how
friendly high heat is to rotors (yeah, um, not). Any suggestions would
help, all the mechanical work I can easily (or not so easily) do myself
if it comes to that. Thank you all for your time.
"I just bought another Turbo 2 RX-7" (Huge grin)
Yeah okay, and now the bad news. The man who
sold it to me Jeff, told me that it would spit up coolant
out of the radiator resevoir bottle if I rode it to hard,
well I didn't. Anyway, on the way home the car died
twice (once a officer even had to push me to pop the clutch).
The resevoir bottle lid blew off shortly after that and I had to
make my third stop, yeah by now my wife was wondering
just a little why I bought such a horrible car, even though
I kept reassuring her that they are one of the best in the
business. Anywho, I remember that the seller told me
pretty faintly that it had something to do with compression,
he had taken it to the shop twice, only to have them barely
figure it out the second time. Well needless to say he hadn't
a clue what his mechanic was talking about and shortly forgot
anything important except the brief interlude to "compression".
My point in full is, has anybody heard of a problem similar to this?
The car drastically overheated on me today, and we all know how
friendly high heat is to rotors (yeah, um, not). Any suggestions would
help, all the mechanical work I can easily (or not so easily) do myself
if it comes to that. Thank you all for your time.
09-28-2002, 08:10 AM
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Yeah, caps holding pressure, it's the fact that it's holding ALL the pressure
and it pushes it all back into my resevoir tank, which in turn gets entirely to
much pressure and either blows off (as it did about an hour ago) or it
spews out all the fluid that's in my radiator at the time. What could it be?
I know it's something simple, or atleast I hope it is....
and it pushes it all back into my resevoir tank, which in turn gets entirely to
much pressure and either blows off (as it did about an hour ago) or it
spews out all the fluid that's in my radiator at the time. What could it be?
I know it's something simple, or atleast I hope it is....
09-28-2002, 08:31 AM
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Oh! Well thank you! Yeah one of my friends from Atkin's Rotory (not sure if you heard of it, it's up in Puyallup near Jeff's Racing Rotory blah) suggested me here.
Side Question, do you think that this might end up being more trouble
than it's worth?
Side Question, do you think that this might end up being more trouble
than it's worth?
09-28-2002, 08:36 AM
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No definetely not more trouble then it's worth. What kind of shape is the car in? Glad to hear they recommended you, we think very highly of atkins as well. isamu bought his rebuild kit and had his porting don there.
I wouldn't think unless the car is a total wreck that it is more trouble than it's worth. you may be inline for a rebuild, but hey then you have an excuse to get some porting done and have some fun.
isamu has done the rebuild and used the atkins video, that is a slightly less expnesive alternative.
I wouldn't think unless the car is a total wreck that it is more trouble than it's worth. you may be inline for a rebuild, but hey then you have an excuse to get some porting done and have some fun.
isamu has done the rebuild and used the atkins video, that is a slightly less expnesive alternative.