Are there any good books on RX-7's? Especially second gens?

 

Repair book, or story book? There is a very very good book about the design of the 2nd gen by Jack Yamaguchi. Ive seen it on ebay a couple times, and I ripped one off from the local library. **** them!

 

No, just a general "care and feeding" book on 7's. Kinda like "volkswagens for the compleat idiot" sorta deal, where some long-haired hippie mechanic genius takes a bunch of acid and goes zen on his RX...Obviously this book would be WAY more helpful then a retarded-*** chiltons manual or tech manual.

 

The owners manual

 

I just ordered a book from the bookstore, hopefully it will tell me a little more then how to change a headlight..

 

What bookstore?

 

Barnes and Noble...Dont laugh. I was sitting around, drinking a mocha (im such a yuppie) and I went to the automotive section. I was looking for books on RXs because there is NOBODY in this town that works on them, and I hate to keep bothering people when I have a problem. So there werent any books. I ordered one. After a few beers, I have forgotten the title. But there has to be an RX bible out there somewhere.

 

There is a bible and it is called the factory service manual. You can even download for free the 88 version from Dave Gibson's website at FC3S.org.
Full of pictures and neat tests you can do to keep your RX running. Really simple to use and very few tools with numbers descriptions, aka GM service manuals.
Mine has gotten incredible use and I'm not anywhere the mechanic some of the guys on this site are.

 

Thats cool...I have the link to the Tech manual, and I havent gotten around to reading it yet. Are there any sites where you can download the whole document?

 

Boy that's cool, I understand why you're telling us about this...

 

They tried to charge me 20 bucks, because the cover was ripped, but it was ripped before I got it! So I say **** them im keeping it. Some other idiot is just going to tear it up obviously!

 

Am I to assume that the 87 N/A is covered by the 88 manual?

 

Yes sir.

 

sounds like a winner!