Welp, I did it! I finalyl bought my Rx-7. I'm going to take pics later tonight and post them up for you guys to see.

But...anyway the story goes like so. I'm looking through autotrader for an Rx-7 and I found one that was in North Hollywood in CA. It was really damned close to where I lived, plus the guy was selling the 7 for 850 smackeroos. I decided that I wanted the car, so I went by, looked at it and picked it up. It's going to be my TurboII project car. I'm going to make this thing fly.

It's a 1980 Gs i think.
Blue (paint faded)
It's got a 12A engine.
The engine starts up fine, transmission is working just fine.

Only thing that i've found wrong with the car so far... are two problems with the breaks...

First of all, the brakes...don't brake all that well, in fact i have to almost push my foot down to the floor with the pedal to stop the car. Either the brake lines need replacement or i need new rotors, brake pads, and the correct brake fluid. Also...one of my front tires...makes this reeeealy awkward weep weep weep weep noise. Like...every full rotation of the tire creates that sound. Ya know...it gets faster and louder as you speed up. But i'm just saying this out of driving it only once, going home. I can't drive the car since it isn't registered or insured, but I can take a video of it and maybe you guys can help me out?

Anyway...here's what i'm planning on doing.

TurboII swap, different turbocharger (not stock), FMIC, change suspension, coil overs, struts.
New rims, Staggered in size from larger in back to smaller in front.
5Transmission or whatever it's called.
Roll cage.
Flush mount headlights.
Veeery simple body kit. Maybe just a front lip or something.
Some kind of full catback exhaust for Turbo cars (something soft toned)


But..yeah...i'll post more.

 

First of all, welcome to the forum!

Okay, with the brakes here are the possibilities that come to mind:

1. You've lost either your front or rear circuit totally, so only half of your brakes are working.
2. You are really low on fluid.
3. The system just needs a good bleeding.
4. Bad master cylinder.

LOL. Since that's basically everything in the braking system, I guess its not much help!

Anyway, the squeeking tire noise may be a wheel bearing (sounds like a bird chirping).

Good luck with her...

 

Thanks a lot dude, i'm gonna post some pics up!

 

Naw I bet the squeek is one of the pads are down to squeelers and it rubs on a slightly warped rotor on each pass of the wheel. Can you feel the warped rotor through the brakes as you stop? The reason it's worn right down is likely because the caliper is siezed and doesn't let off after you let the peddle off. (been there, done that) The rear calipers are esspecially bad for siezing.

If I had to guess I'd say the sponginess is just that you need to bleed the system. I believe (not 100% sure) that as long as the master and slave cylinders aren't leaking then they're ok.

But pull off all 4 wheels and inspect the pads before you do any more driving. A siezed caliper will wear out a pad quickly (couple hundred miles), and then you get metal on metal to ruin your rotors. If a caliper is siezed one good clue is that one of the pads is worn more than the other of the pair.

Oh, and congrats on the car! Welcome to the forums.

 

congrats!
we need pics!

 

Squeelers? If you're referring to those metal tabs that are supposed to make contact with the rotors before the pads wear down to metal-on-metal these cars don't have 'em. You either catch them during visual inspection before they start scraping or you re-surface or replace your rotors when you swap in new pads.

It it's as described, it sounds like a rotor may be warped. But this would also be accompanied by very noticeable brake pedal pulsations during braking. I've never had a wheel bearing failure so I can't comment on that.

 

Yeah those are squeelers. But there are some imbedded in the pads I think too. I know that my pads started to squeek like that before they got to the metal, even though I didn't have the traditional squeelers either.

Wheel bearings will be a constant sound (like a constant grinding/rubbing) and will undoubtedly change tones as you corner with more weight being put on them or taken off of them.