Check your fuel pressure and check for vacuum leaks.

 

Hows the oil look. my engine would start cold. Idled very rough. Would not rev past 2500rpm and it would die once it got warmed up. It was a bearing check for gold paint colored oil.

 

you guys are so great, THANK YOU SO MUCH for all the advice...

compression test would have been the first thing if I had a compression tester.... but I did do the 'ghetto' test, and it sounded "normal" at least it sounded like my fb did when I cranked it with a plug out. I could also tell from the plugs that I wasn't gettting any coolant into the combustion chambers, good sign. Checked for vacuum leaks and couldnt find any. oil looked good (sticker in corner of windshield said the oil was changed less than 1,000 miles ago, still going to change it as soon as I get her home though)

I checked, and reset the timing, didnt help. I pulled the bolts connecting the exhaust to the thermal reactor, didnt want to drop everything so I just pryed it back about an inch, hit the key, fired right up, idled smoothly, hit the pedal and it revved wide open !!!!!!!!!

I was SOO jazzed :] And another thing that excited me was how clean it was up underneath the car,there wasnt grease and dirt and sludge under there, the paint was even shiny, the ONLY rust I could find under there was surface rust on the flanges where the mufflers connected to the Y pipes, the mufflers themselves and they Y pipes were clean and solid. I still havent got it home, I need to get a radiator first, its got a small leak in it, no sense risking it. So, I got an RX7 with less than 90K, a perfect top a VERY VERY nice body, almost perfect interior, clarion cd/cassette and a running engine that needs exhaust work and a radiator and shifter bushings, shifter boot, and one center cap for 200 dollars :] I couldn't be happier

the exhaust is interesting though, someones got it welded up, from the flange on the thermal reactor to the flanges for the muffler is one piece, one ENORMOUS Y pipe, so much for changing just that cat, lol. Anyone in the KC area got a factory cat for sale cheap? or a radiator or shifter bushings, or a center cap lol

 

Nice work





Never heard of a clogged cat causing that much of a problem, but there you have it



Glad to hear it's solved

 

Just for the short term, go to a muffler shop and buy a cheap Cat. They'll weld in place for you.

 

thats an amazing deal!

 

well, to the guys that wanted to know if I ever decided to sell it, I'm gonna either sell it or trade it. Its too damn slow