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ANOTHER New Guy
Howdy Folks, names Brian and as can be interpreted from the thread title I am new around these parts. I am a United States Marine that just recently returned from Iwakuni Japan after being stuck there for 2 years. I registered on these boards either thursday or friday, checked the classifieds for a first gen on friday, posted in a thread, got some info, and drove 4 hours the next day to purchase the vehicle and now I am the proud owner of another FB. Feels good to have a car again for the first time in over 3 years especially another 85 RX-7. Bought my first FB about 5 years ago but had to sell it due to joining the military and I have been yearning for another one the second I sold it. The new car runs a bit rough but I cant wait to get to work on it. Dont worry I wont clog up your forums with a ton of "wtf d0 i dew?!?!?!1" posts, Ill make sure to utilize the search function first before I do that 
Guess thats long enough of an intro post, heres to hoping I might be of some value to this community.
Guess thats long enough of an intro post, heres to hoping I might be of some value to this community.
05-14-07, 06:35 AM
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Thanks for the welcome guys and/or gals. Got a chance to take a closer look at some of the maintenance the previous owner did and I am surprised the car survived the 4 hour trip back to NC. I shoulda inspected it better when I bought it but I knew I was going to buy it no matter what shape it was in as long as it ran even for a second. I will take some pictures when I get a chance.
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Well, major issues with the stock rebuilt nikki carb on this thing. Secondarys are disconnected (found the return spring just sitting on the bracket somehow), its idles @3k rpm's, distributor cap is loose (screw missing to hold the thing steady) The rats nest removal seems to have been succuessful by the previous owner but there are some vacumn issues I believe (there is a hose plugged up with a 1/2" drive extension) To solve these woes I figure I will just throw down some big money now and save some hassle by buying up a whole holley intake and full headers back RB exhaust. The engine only has 20k miles on a new oem mazda installed engine, chassis has 150k miles on it. Dont believe its been ported and I dont think anywhere here in hicksville north carolina will have a shop that would be able to do it for me. Other than those two major upgrades what else do you think would be a decent upgrade for this car? I heard something about 2nd gen coils? I will try to get some pictures of the car tonight and find somewhere to host them tomorrow.
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the rest of the pictures.
I spent some time here at work yesterday trying to fiddle with the carburetor. Adjusting the idle screw didnt do a damn thing. It seems the previous owner disconnected the mechanical secondarys for a reason, it runs SUPER rich. I was looking through the manuals online that I found a link to in these forums but I couldnt get anywhere with it on this damn crappy government network. So basically, if anyone has a diagram and/or picture they could show me where I could find my metering and acceleration pump screws to try and bring my idle down stop pouring fuel into my engine I would appreciate it. The smell of gas is really bad in and around the car and I am scared to drive it for much longer for fear of blowing up my exhaust or something else important.
on a side note, I ordered the whole holly intake kit and RB headers back exhaust with the mallory fuel pump yesterday for a grand total of $1700 dollars. Figured I would just wipe out the jank *** rebuilt nikki carb from the system all together and start over new with something i was most likely gonna upgrade anyway. Until then though i would like this stock carb to run reliably and not destroy the car.
I spent some time here at work yesterday trying to fiddle with the carburetor. Adjusting the idle screw didnt do a damn thing. It seems the previous owner disconnected the mechanical secondarys for a reason, it runs SUPER rich. I was looking through the manuals online that I found a link to in these forums but I couldnt get anywhere with it on this damn crappy government network. So basically, if anyone has a diagram and/or picture they could show me where I could find my metering and acceleration pump screws to try and bring my idle down stop pouring fuel into my engine I would appreciate it. The smell of gas is really bad in and around the car and I am scared to drive it for much longer for fear of blowing up my exhaust or something else important.
on a side note, I ordered the whole holly intake kit and RB headers back exhaust with the mallory fuel pump yesterday for a grand total of $1700 dollars. Figured I would just wipe out the jank *** rebuilt nikki carb from the system all together and start over new with something i was most likely gonna upgrade anyway. Until then though i would like this stock carb to run reliably and not destroy the car.
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