DonVito

Just picked her up today, and I'm picking up a fresh(er) motor and tranny on monday, no streetport on the new motor though, swapping it out this coming weekend. here's the details and a couple of pics, must say I'm very pleased despite the high mileage on the chassis. Other plans include 720's all around, RTEK, a flywheel/counterweight, and then the mad hunt to replace all teh messed up interior bits. I can't wait!

The Good
13BT (FC3S-GTX) motor rebuilt by Pettit Racing
Street Ported with 3mm Apex Seals
Autometer™ A-pillar boost gauge
K&N™ cone filter
Bonez™ 3” Downpipe
Bonez™ 3” Straightpipe
Borla™ 2.5” stainless steel exhaust
Powerstop™ crossdrilled rotors in rear
Hawk™ brake pads
ACT™ Z65-HDSS clutch 3 months ago Recent new radiator
Recent new AC compressor
Alpine™ stereo with 6 disc changer
Audiocontrol Epicenter™
Fultron Little Black Bass Box™
JL Audio™ 10” subwoofer in Pro box
Precision Power™ PPI-2050 Amplifier
Fused 4-gauge wired distribution block
Momo™ shift ****

Included New in the Box
2 Tokico™ HG-3633 rear shocks
Energy Suspension Hyper-Flex™ complete polyurethane bushing kit

The Bad
230,150 miles
Leaking coolant seal
Leaking ABS pump
AC doesn’t work (leaks, needs charged)
Air control valve cracked
(can be replaced with a plate)
Check engine light comes on & stays on
Weak synchros on 2nd & 4th gears
Wiper switch only works on low
Rear wiper switch bad
Both passenger window switches broken
Factory alarm recently stopped working
Clock works only intermittently

The Ugly
Torn driver seat/dried out leather
Worn /dried out leather steering wheel
Torn center console lid
Several broken plastic pieces
Spots on carpet
Worn mats

NCross

iTrader: (18)

Most of those "bad" problems are common so dont feel too bad. Both of my RX7s were missing a butt load of interior parts like the vents etc. The alarm worked, but the horns didn't. the clock flicked on and off and lost memory. Id suggest you swap in the better motor/transmission and buy some coilovers. The body looks good from the pictures.

DonVito

Yeah, body is great, and we're making a junkyard run in the morning to see what we can find to fix some of the common problems. I'm expecting $60 to fix all the interior (aside from the seats), and another $10 for a new IACV. Either way, after teh drive I just took her on, I am not at all disappointed in my purchase, whoever said rotaries are lacking just didn't know how to drive them! I <3 this FC!!!

DonVito

Oh yeah, buddy w/ a 04' RX-8 says (after the drive) that he might just GIVE me his stock rims, (he has some Axis Shine's), so yeah, free bonus!

RRTEC

iTrader: (13)

CARE to share what yo upaid for it? If not, that's cool...

Looks wicked clean considering the miles.

DonVito

The guy was the second owner, bought the car in 93, and by the end of the year the paint was shredding off the car, so the dealer repainted it in early 94 for free. He's taken really good care of it, and for a TII with a body that clean, I had no problem w/ paying $2200 for it. She has a vacuum/boost leak, but we just found out where it is, so I'm going to replace that hose after the motor cools off. I think that the turbo's seals are blown as opposed to a coolant seal on the motor, because she doesn't smoke out the tailpipe at all, but she does form the turbo. I'm pretty sure when the motor was rebuilt the turbo wasn't, so 230k miles and it will still boost is pretty darn good.

Either way, I'm picking up a jdm S5 motorset this week from JHot, (about 3 miles away from my house) and dropping it in, and I'll send the original turbo off to BNR for a stage2 or 3 build, then send the ecu off for the old RTek treatment. So now I need to start hunting for a set of 4 720 injectors. Later today I'm heading over to a friends house to pull the tranny from his FD, so that should be fun.

DonVito

Doh, not RTek, Pettit's ECU service rather, maybe, gotta find if anyone else has used them.