Carb help. Just bought a RX-7 again after 20 years
Long and the short of it is that I had a lot of RX-7s growing up. My last purchase ( which i have had in storage for 20 years) was a 1983 GS with a Dave Kent wide body kit, 13b street-port and a cartech blow thru setup. I recently bought a crashed 1985 GSL with the idea of using some tid bits from this car to help get my 83 going again. Once I showed up to look at the 85 i found a car that hit a guardrail and front and rear on the left side is a bit mangled but the car was really nice before it hit the gaurdrail. Unfortunately the owner past away earlier this year (unrelated to the accident) and now all I know is the guy put a lot of time into this car and was supposedly getting the car ready for boost. So here I am torn about what i should do with car. I'd really like to have the body work repaired (pretty sure i have all the front end parts in storage) and drive the car a bit but i think that I'll be way to upside down in the car if i do that. For now I'm just going to tinker with it and get it running right.
My carb while it is the stock Nikki looks far from stock. It's been a long time since I played with a stock carb but I can clearly see a lot has been modded, I'm just not sure what exactly since it's been so long. The car has a nasty dead spot in the throttle range, I can see the accelerator pump isn't squirting fuel when I give it throttle. I looked on the local parts store websites and no one offers a stock accelerator pump diaphragm. I'm not even sure if this one is stock, the linkage is modified. here's a few pictures, if anyone can shed some light as far as this overall carb setup I'd appreciate it. https://imgur.com/a/j5W6bry |
Other guys will be along shortly to help with the carb, but on the topic of which car to fix - it comes down to nearly ALL of us being 'upside-down' on their 35-40 year old cars! In the end, if you keep an older car long enough, you will have expended more in repair and upgrade parts (* and even gasoline costs) that far exceed the value ofmthe vehicle, making it upside-down for cost, however - you got to drive a car that inspired you, and earned the satisfaction of keeping it running for all those years.
Don't worry about the cost of doing so; worry about the cost of NOT fixing it and driving it and enjoying the hell out of it while it and you are sharing the fleeting moments in our lives... |
Originally Posted by LongDuck
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Other guys will be along shortly to help with the carb, but on the topic of which car to fix - it comes down to nearly ALL of us being 'upside-down' on their 35-40 year old cars! In the end, if you keep an older car long enough, you will have expended more in repair and upgrade parts (* and even gasoline costs) that far exceed the value ofmthe vehicle, making it upside-down for cost, however - you got to drive a car that inspired you, and earned the satisfaction of keeping it running for all those years.
Don't worry about the cost of doing so; worry about the cost of NOT fixing it and driving it and enjoying the hell out of it while it and you are sharing the fleeting moments in our lives... |
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