Not all Hand-Me-downs are as bad as I though... lol well that is what I think now that my Dad gave me his RX7, That has done nothing but sit since he got it, But I started it today.. and drove it aorund the block ^^


Tell me what that is in the back XD look hard








First tiem the cover has been lifted in a year, after I drove it around.. and parted it ti was smoking.. cause all the Radiator hoses.. dry rotted, so I gotta fix that..and its going to know new tired, umm brakes and rotors, anyway.. I dont know much about this car so Im hear to read up

 

welcome to the darkside buddy this should prove to be an interesting journey for you just as it has been for me

she looks good man. have you named her yet?

 

first off, welcome. nice gift. doesn't seem to be any rust that i can tell. get that air cleaner on it before u drive it again. must not have been sitting too long if it started right up. planning any mods?

 

^^^agreed with above on getting that air cleaner on. get rid of those awful ricer blades. your car is better than that my friend. got any interior or engine bay shots?

 

Get some semi-gloss black rustoleum spray for the trim and some 800 wetpaper to rub the trim down. mask and shoot. Makes a big difference. The red can be worked carefully with Polishing compound from the autostore. If that's the original red you can get matching paint from paintscratch.com in various forms and quantities.

Flush the cooling system thoroughly. It helps to get that $6 Prestone plastic flush kit from the autostore. I install the plastic tee in the lower heater hose on the passenger side near the radiator. You will find it useful.

Change all the lubes. Put a good gearlube (I use Redline MTF) in the gearbox, it makes a big difference in shifting, and the box will last longer. Use a good gear lube like Redline, AMS, etc., in the diff. Use the LSD stuff even tho you don't have an LSD. You can use dino oil or synthetic in the engine as long as you keep the oil sorta clean, which you can do by replacing the filter every month or so (it's so easy!).

 

Nice and WELCOME!! oh AND CHAGE THE FUEL FILTER ASAP!!!

 

My car is also a hand me down, if you would like to call it that!

I like to call it carrying on the tradition!

Listen to the advice you have been given! Change all your fluids, filters, hoses, etc! There is no reason to have an engine fail, becuase you cheaped out and didnt replace a cheap part.

Also, what are you refering too when you say "Tell me what that is in the back XD look hard?"

 

i see a couple of things , tools . some blue breather cover and ... oh my ... what big speakers you have !! they almost look too big for the back of the car ! what kind of stereo is in it ? oh , i think that those mirrors need to be replaced with different ones

 

Oh yeah, change the hydraulic fluid in the clutch system. It's pretty easy to do and it's worth wasting some fluid to get all the bad old stuff out and gone. And the old stuff IS bad, no matter what you may think. Most of us have replaced master cyl, slave cyl and flexihose because they deteriorated from nasty fluid with water in it. It's kinda hard to replace the master and slave, and it's sometimes a problem bleeding when you've installed new cylinders.

So get a big bottle of hydraulic fluid, a clear vinyl hose that fits the bleed nipple on the slave, and a quart beer bottle to catch the crap you pump out when you operate the clutch pedal. Keep refilling the reservoir until clean stuff comes out of the bleed nipple. You'll be sorry if you don't, because one day you'll have to drive back home without using the clutch (which you get a chance to learn in case you didn't learn it on a farm tractor when you were 12), then you get to skin knuckles putting in new cylinders.

 

hmmm mods.. dunno it wont start no more. so Im changing Fluids and what not.. lol the interior is crapy.. but I can take pics alogn with the bay, I was lost the first time I looked under the hood.. it looks like a ball of motor XD nothing is in the same spot as it was on my CRX... but Im slowly finding my way around it, I got som extra cash by selling the big speakers and amp in the back.. XD

 

fuel filter first meng

 

Looks good. Where in VA are you? I am in Lynchburg. I can give you a hand sometime if you are close.

Kent

 

Really!!! that woudl be great will need all the help I can get.. but I will ahve to wait a week or so when I get cash to buy some fo the stuff I need.. till then I would just toss all the cary on that is ugly.. like the wiper blades ><

 

Too bad you don't live nearby...I have an extra set of stock 83 wiper blades and mirrors....LOL Seriously...listen to these guys...I'm just a girl and have been told time and time again I can't possibly know anything about cars because I have *****, but I agree with them about the fluid and filter changes. I just went through something similiar. My car sat up without a motor for many years and before I would even turn that key on the motor I put in I changed out everything I could. Even with spare parts on the other car that I knew were fine, I put out the extra money for all new stuff. The only thing I forgot to change was one of the heater hoses....of course it blew on her first test run. She runs great now!

 

See its always the simple things that get ya. lol Its gotten me too!

 

Yeah, glad my friend works at auto zone.... inda short on cash but thanks to him got alot of the stuff I need for cheap, and I was just about to ask about them Side Mirrors.. as I look at others 7s.. I see that more are diffrent.. >< and I got new blades for it lol