The 85 GS that I lovingly restored back in 2008 suddenly died on me last fall. The engine would run but barely. I parked it over the fall and winter and finally got around to diagnosing and fixing the problem after seeing my poor car sit nearly all summer. Found the issue to be traced to a faulty leading coil. It tested good originally but showed its true colors during a flooding incident while diagnosing the rough running issue on Friday. Replaced both coils with new oem Diamond coils and the replaced and adjusted the TPS. I adjusted the idle and mixture and the engine runs better than ever. So today, I took gave the car a bath and took it for a short drive and snapped a couple pics. Here's what I wound up with:

 

Running excellent after fixing the rough running and adjusting the TPS, mixture, and idle:



Pulling back in after the drive:



A quick should with one of my 944's:



A short acceleration video showing no running issues :

http://vid246.photobucket.com/albums...830_145110.mp4

 

Running excellent after fixing the rough running and adjusting the TPS, mixture, and idle:



Pulling back in after the drive:



A quick should with one of my 944's:



A short acceleration video showing no running issues :

http://vid246.photobucket.com/albums...830_145110.mp4

 

I'm glad you didn't give up on this....congrats on getting it sorted

 

Thank you! I'm glad its fixed and on the road again. It was killing me seeing it sit. And I'm in the middle of restoring two 944's and having a second car here that will not run and drive is not good, especially when the wife asks questions about it, lol.

 

Looks good love that color never seen one GSL-SE in that color. Rare!

 

The color is why I bought the car. Its color code L6, called Ocean Blue Metallic and was only available for one year, 1985. The car started life as a GS but I bought it with a bad engine and did a complete SE engine conversion. I wanted reliability, smooth running and a little more power over a 12A. Here is my build thread:

https://www.rx7club.com/build-thread...ration-822222/

 

Excellent! Good to see it's back where it should be - on the road!

 

I'm sure she'll forgive you, Dave - - just tell her it was a vacation.

 

nice job good to have her back on the road

 

Good work Dave. You should take a day and drive it down to Cincy and really test that reliability. hehe.

 

Thats not a bad idea Rick...

 

Anytime buddy, you let me know when.

 

Looking good Dave! That looks like a really fun driver. Just the right amount of "patina" where you don't have to worry about hurting anything while you are having fun with it.

 

Its all original paint sans the passenger side fender. Until it gets painted I'm not afraid to drive it anywhere. You are correct, it does have some nice original patina!

 

Glad you got it going again, I liked that car last time I was out there, ran and drove really nice. I was hoping you wouldn't give up on it

 

Nah, I couldn't give up on it. It got tossed on the back burner for awhile, but its back now and its better than it has ever been!