Got a new 88 RX-7
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Got a new 88 RX-7
WOW! What a day!
Ok so today i was working on my car as usual and i got my sound system hooked back up after some tweaking with an amp... then i fixed my hose that was broke off of my catalytic converter... then finally i attempted to fix an oil pan leak and still dont' know if it worked. After all of this i felt lucky so i went to the one last thing that has been bugging me... the oil cooler leak. It was always leaking where the oil cooler connects with the oil line and it was getting increasingly worse. So i took a look at it and when i did i noticed a 3 little lines that were really small around the cooler fitting. I figured it was the aluminum forging lines and tried to tighten down the oil cooler line into it some more. When i did i noticed the lines were getting bigger and then i looked closely and i realized that i was cracking my oil cooler! So i stopped taht immediately and i started teh car... i made sure my sound system was good and then i looked out and to my dismay ALL of my oil was all overmy shop's floor. SHut off the car and took the oil cooler out and put kitty litter all of my floor. So today i take it to a machinist who tells me to take it to a radiator shop ... well on my way to the radiator shop i stop by a yard who tells me to contact a man named "Dave" who has impressively V8'ed 2 RX-7's. So i drive over to Dave's house and knock on his door and a nice man walks out and he tells me that he doesn't have any oil coolers but he knows someone who does. He gives me a number and tells me that this guy is selling his RX-7 for a hundred bucks cuz he blew his motor. I was excited cuz i thought it was an FB and i could part it out. So finally me and my friend drive to this guy's house and he says that he has totally forgotten about money and just wants it out of his driveway. My friend and i look at each other and decide that we would take the car. So we told him that we would take the car tommorow once we found a towing service and then i realized that my gurlfriend could tow it to my house with her dad's huge *** Ford.
The car is a 1988 RX-7 GX FC. It has some minor dents into it. The trim is ****, manual, with 115k miles on it. The car is completely stripped and has the paint faded as my work jeans. Should be awesome!
I am totally stoked and my friend and i have decided to make it into a project racing car for Auto X. So where are some good sites for the specs or is it just the same 13b that my SE has? I know that i should be talking to the FC forum, but i don't know any of them haha. Anyways i am going to see if the oil cooler will fit or if i will have to cut off teh fitting on the FC's oil cooler and weld it onto mine...
Zachstylez
Ok so today i was working on my car as usual and i got my sound system hooked back up after some tweaking with an amp... then i fixed my hose that was broke off of my catalytic converter... then finally i attempted to fix an oil pan leak and still dont' know if it worked. After all of this i felt lucky so i went to the one last thing that has been bugging me... the oil cooler leak. It was always leaking where the oil cooler connects with the oil line and it was getting increasingly worse. So i took a look at it and when i did i noticed a 3 little lines that were really small around the cooler fitting. I figured it was the aluminum forging lines and tried to tighten down the oil cooler line into it some more. When i did i noticed the lines were getting bigger and then i looked closely and i realized that i was cracking my oil cooler! So i stopped taht immediately and i started teh car... i made sure my sound system was good and then i looked out and to my dismay ALL of my oil was all overmy shop's floor. SHut off the car and took the oil cooler out and put kitty litter all of my floor. So today i take it to a machinist who tells me to take it to a radiator shop ... well on my way to the radiator shop i stop by a yard who tells me to contact a man named "Dave" who has impressively V8'ed 2 RX-7's. So i drive over to Dave's house and knock on his door and a nice man walks out and he tells me that he doesn't have any oil coolers but he knows someone who does. He gives me a number and tells me that this guy is selling his RX-7 for a hundred bucks cuz he blew his motor. I was excited cuz i thought it was an FB and i could part it out. So finally me and my friend drive to this guy's house and he says that he has totally forgotten about money and just wants it out of his driveway. My friend and i look at each other and decide that we would take the car. So we told him that we would take the car tommorow once we found a towing service and then i realized that my gurlfriend could tow it to my house with her dad's huge *** Ford.
The car is a 1988 RX-7 GX FC. It has some minor dents into it. The trim is ****, manual, with 115k miles on it. The car is completely stripped and has the paint faded as my work jeans. Should be awesome!
I am totally stoked and my friend and i have decided to make it into a project racing car for Auto X. So where are some good sites for the specs or is it just the same 13b that my SE has? I know that i should be talking to the FC forum, but i don't know any of them haha. Anyways i am going to see if the oil cooler will fit or if i will have to cut off teh fitting on the FC's oil cooler and weld it onto mine...
Zachstylez
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