You know how the coolant resiovor cap isn't supposed to have pressure?
Well apparantly whenever your coolant seals are bad enough the combustion gasses that superheat the cooling system cause it to explode off of it. I ran my red s5 until it got to the point of having to push start it because all the coolant would flood into the engine. (3years). It never blew off on me, but this one..... I pop the hood on my car because I saw the steam coming out and as I lift the hood up and go to put the hood holder up the cap exploded. My water temp gauge was about an inch or two past the BIG H. Anyways, water gushed up my arm/face. Face wasn't bad, arm looked nasty. The cap wasn't defective either, I put my s5 cap on it the next day, drove to town and about three miles down the road (temp gauge on the H) the cap blew off and I had hot water flying in my window and on the windshield.
Needless to say, I leave the hood down now... even though it doesn't do it anymore.

 

Wowww thats intense. I have never heard of that happening to anyone before, although I've never heard of someone driving a car for three years with an engine whose coolant seals had failed.

 

Yeah. I bought my s5 off my older brother who had drove it for about a year and a half after the coolant seals started going out. I drove it for a year, 5 months, and 13 days and it finally died. I was being rough on it for the last two weeks though.

 

^ Crazy story.

 

here is my s4... picking up a 5 lug swap shortly, need to refinish the left side tail light (sand paper and machine polish work wonders!!!) and get it to pass inspection!!! all emissions have been removed and has a fresh streetport engine. just hit 80k on the odometer! i feel bad putting so many miles on this thing

 

Im In

 

Wow that is a nice S4 you got there. 80k????? That is NOTHING omg that is awesome I am jealous.

 

bump! need more s4's!

 

These are the full ones I just posted the other day in my 88 GXL thread..

It's a 88 S4. 78k original miles. Never seen snow or rain.
You can see from the pictures, that the whole car actually still looks brand new. Right down to the original floor mats.
(besides fade to windshield wipers and mud flaps.).
I posted 2 of them in here a few pages back, but figured I'd post the rest of them here too.

 

^Nice! Something about a factory fresh S4...

On a less awesome note, here's one of my S4s (we don't talk about the other one):


Been laid up for over a year now with a blown engine (bought it that way). So far I have a S5 n/a engine for it and a good portion of the parts I need for the swap. Hopefully it'll be up and running by the end of summer. Blown engine aside, she's in great shape for a $500, 24-year-old car.

Here's some more random pics:




Here's what's going in:


I promise I'll have some less depressing pics soon .

 

I wish I could combine a GXL and a SE to get a low weight, AC and PS, no sunroof N/A FC. Clean SE by the way, very clean. That interior is immaculate.

 

I wish I drove a Lotus.

 

Bump for 180 members.

 

 

AWESOME AFTERMARKET TAPE DECK...that is a true sign of this car's 80's sweetness!!

 

Lol who tagged this thread "smoked"?

 

Also, everyone rate this thread 5 Stars. FD owners need a reality check.

 

I guess I can post up, as I've had a few S4's

Here's my first one. 87' base. Swapped in LSD and cleaned up. I'm so mad I got rid of those Mesh Wheels, They were old Hayashi racing 15x7 meshies. I didn't know what they were back then. And yes, the car had some horrible 17's on the back. It was highschool. They were'nt on there long.
It started out as a White california car, my brother drove it from San Diego to Virginia in 3 days, then rear ended some lady around the corner from our new house. After that he gave it to me because it was wrecked and he left for college. The car was 3 different colors for a while, then I had it painted blue.

Before paint:
After:



Yes, it also had an aftermarket glass sunroof, and suede FD seats.

After that car, I failed and bought a VW GTI. I missed my RX-7 too much and NEEDED a project car.
So I got this ROUGH 86' base for $250.

It had too much rust and the seat was falling through the floor so,

I cut it up and scrapped it with my dad's truck.

Then I scored and bought an 89' GTUS w/ a blown engine!

Only one picture, this is an S4 thread. But you can see how that is a superior car.

After I fixed that car, I bought a house and decided to take on another project.
I bought this pearl white 88' GTU with a blown engine, and a ROUGH 87' base(automatic) with a good engine. The car was **** but it ran great. I Swapped the 87 engine into the 88' GTU, scrapped the 87' and sold the 88' for engagement ring money.



Then I bought an 1991 Turbo, and have that and the GTUs currently.

I do LOVE S4's, the styling is timeless. I think they are easier. But you can beat the S5 engines.

That's my RX-7 history, full of S4's.

 

DIY paintjob! and it has since been lowered, just gotta give the car a wash and get some new pics!

 

^ Awesome.

 

S4 at heart, still shows a bit in the rear

 

my rx7 86 gxl
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sorry for the image quality!! it was take with my bb!

 

^ More pics from the rear and in different lighting please.

 

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What half bumper and sideskirts are those?