Cookboy

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Having refilled coolant and Engine Brighted the ignition side of the motor, this afternoon I made the connections to the Sterling, put a quick spray down its throat, and fired that baby up. Ran on choke cleaner for a sec. Leaking fuel from accelerator pump, maybe elsewhere. Guess I'm gonna rebuild my NOS Sterling before we try that again.

Side by side it's easy to see that the Sterling will flow considerably more air more quickly. It's all at once an engineering feat and work of art. But for now I need a dog that will hunt.

Reattached Old Faithful and she fired right up, seemingly perkier than last week, but the idle has dropped 400. (Had been at 1400 cuz that's what the AC likes) Drive 20 minutes at higher revs, beehive nice and clean, new coolant everywhere it's supposed to be.

Question: when disconnecting the Sterling one of the oil metering (brass) inlet tubes pretty much fell right out. What is the proper means of securing said tube?

Glazedham42

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The oil metering inlet tubes just slide into the bores. They are an interference fit. Nothing holds them in other than their OD is oversized compared to the ID of the hole. When Sterling pulled them out and reinstalled them the hole probably got a little "wallered" out. If it were me I would get some loctite and squirt a drop or two into the oil metering hole. Then squirt a drop or two on the outside of the oil metering nipple. Press the nipple back into the hole. Push a q-tip thru the center of the nipple once or twice to clean out any loctite that may have found its way inside the nipple. Let it sit for a day or two. It should keep it from loosening again if you do it right.

DreamInRotary

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Looks like a fun project, if I was staying 12a I'd be seriously hard-pressed to not get a Sterling and rock that thing till she dies. I like the what-I-believe-to-be-DGRR-sticker placement on the hood as well, looks good!

Cookboy

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Mr. Glazedham, thanks for that. It was largely your posts that pushed me out of my comfort zone to make my stripped Nikki. I have no real mechanical aptitude, but I read and understand English well. Patience and procedure are really most of the recipe.

Lindahl, when I got my car last May, having been out of the scene for 20 yrs, I really wanted to find a dellorto or mikuni. Reading this site, and Sterlings before it went down, changed that notion completely. He, and others here, are true old school 'Hot Rodders'. The hot rod heart trumps off the shelf stuff in my book. The Internet is the best thing that ever happened to the Rx7.

82transam

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Truer words have not been spoken

Cookboy

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Mama's day out left me with the little ones, but having gotten them to nap simultaneously (which she can rarely do) allows me time to look into my leaky wondercarb accelerator pump. No gas behind the diaphragm, the old never used gaskets looked good, so I merely inverted them.
The simplest answer is always my fave. Tomorrow I'll bolt her on and see what happens.




My carb workshop.

Cookboy

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It's Alive!! Reattached, a shot of choke cleaner to prime, and she fired right up!!! Need to finesse the idle, which I left at 1400 cuz my A/C likes it, but I wanna get it to 600 just to honor it's maker. Then I'll put it back to A/C standard. Had to tighten some stuff up (seepage).

This is definitely an improvement over my stripped Nikki. Fuel pump runs out at 6600-6800 in 3rd gear, which is fine. I have a carter that my son will install when he gets home from school in a couple weeks. I am delighted!!