ddub

That's right, I got a free 1990 n/a coupe white with black interior. Last owner bought it from a friend because it was burning oil apparently, he took the subframe, tails (put his 10AE tails in its place) and a couple other parts and parked it in the back yard of his girlfriend's aunt/uncle's house and left it there. A little over a year later I was towing it out.

Here it was originally before I started working on it.














Subframe was missing, suspension was all taken off, and the rear end wasn't hooked to anything really. So my friend (RXSevenSymphonies on the board) and I undertook getting it prepped to be towed out of there. We got a broken subframe for free and slapped that in. We were not concerned with alignment or camber or anything, we just wanted it out of there. Check out some of the later pics and you'll see some JDM camber going on That's mainly because we hooked the wheels up just enough tog et it out of there and onto a flatbed without screwing up the 5-lug/suspension parts.

ddub

And here it is on the way home. At first I'm following my friend in his dad's truck, but he eventually lets me by so I can start taking pics. The rest of the pics are via my camera phone, so excuse the quality of some of them.













And here it is getting taken up the driveway. (camber is awesome)



Here it is sporting 1 TII spare, 2 n/a coupe spares, and 1 96 mustang spare

ddub

And this is RXSevenSymphonies on the board watching it get put on the side of his house.




It's home! And it's dirty as crap as you can tell.





But we did give it a little bath. Notice the paint disappeared some more? Well someone repainted this car and boy did they do a shitty job! On the way home it was flaking off while on the tow truck too.




Well that's all for pics. This was my first free rx7, but hopefully not my last. RXSevenSymphonies has already gotten 2 free rx7's himself, 1 TII with 185k something miles on it carbon locked, but ATF fixed that. It still has its issues, and leaks, and well shitty motor, but it'll be rebuilt soon. He also got an auto 88 GXL with a fucked over auto tranny. This car I got is being the donor car for a manual swap into the GXL, he's taking the flywheel, tranny, and driveshaft. The motor is my next project for my GXL. It'll be a partial bridgeported s5 n/a with TypeI stat gears, oil mods, and lots of other fun stuff. I'm also taking a few misc pieces here and there and then parting out the rest of the car.

Thanks for looking

RotaryEvolution

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i barely have enough space for my 2 cars, which is why i passed on the free T2...

where do you guys get all of this room to store your donor cars?

ddub

That house has a boat in the garage in front of my free rx7, his dad's truck, an old boat style pontiac that is having a v8 from a firebird built up for it, and 2 of RXSevenSymphonie's cars. Symphonie's keeps his rx7's usually either down below (where there is some gravel area for parking) or on the side/in the driveway, wherever there is space.

My house had no room because we have my mom's porsche, my dads durango, my rx8, and my rx7, plus nowhere on the street to park it, so his dad was nice enough to let us borrow his space. But we only have brief time with this car, that was the deal

EDIT
Here's where he normally parks his 2 rx7's, at least lately he has. And that's my rx8 next to them

RotaryEvolution

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here in Cali space is a thing we have little of, i wish i had more space to work on and store or part out cars..

RotaryEvolution

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oh, and what condition is the black interior in?

been wanting to swap out my grey for black but i am kind of **** about the condition so it would have to be pretty decent.

planning on taking a trip up to washington in about a month so if it is good lemme know and i may make arragements to pick it up.

ddub

Believe me, I have zip for space at my house, 2 small car garage and a small driveway, good thing 3 of our cars are small.

The only way I was able to get this car is if I used his dad's house, and his dad let me under the condition that it is gone in 2 weeks and I give the tranny/driveshaft to RXSevenSymphonies

ddub

Rear carpet might already be sold but if it isn't it's yours. Front carpet has 2 people with dibs on it already.

Now that being said, though, the rear carpet is very dirty, and the front looks pretty bad. It'll need some cleaning and possibly shampooing to get it good again but like I said 2 ppl want it depending on condition once I remove it.

Dash is being used by me since my current black dash is just dyed, there will be some various panels left over if you want them, but not a whole lot. Seats could be cleaned, center large dash vent is still up for grabs, door panels are gone, console is gone... hmm I think that's it.

PM me if you are interested in any of those parts.

RotaryEvolution

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that's ok, i figured i would ask. i would rather find a whole set rather than pick up a few then have to find induvidual pieces later on. the carpet i may just get new and get the panels as a set from someone.

thanks anyways.

elfking

Nice find! I got a free GTU (He wanted 300 for it, but later changed his mind and gave the cash back after seeing the crap I was going through...pulling motor/rebuild etc. It was a friend of a friend.) also, it had a blown coolant seal... (Well alot of the walls were gone for the coolant passages inside so that motor was toast.) I just got it back up and running last week with a new (to the car) mazda reman. Can't complain for freebe's thats for sure.

DriftingB26RX7

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hey dDub does it run....take sum interior pics

ddub

It was running when parked and ran perfectly but burned some oil for unknown reasons. I'll get some interior pics eventually but it's pretty nasty But it had no clutch MC or battery, or brake fluid, or brake lines hooked up... so I didn't even bother getting it up and ready to run, I just towed it.

The good thing, though, is that everything is cleaning up BEAUTIFULLY in the interior so far. I pulled the rear carpet and most everything vacuumed up/off of it, all the mold inside just brushes off and completely cleaned with simple green, so this is all good.

What is really interesting me so far is that the engine stuff looks SO new. The electric MOP looked PERFECT, the MOP lines look to be brand spanking new. Most the time MOP lines can be britle as ****, when I removed mine on my s4 the lines shattered in my hands, but these are still very flexible and bendable, and in great condition. All the vac lines were brand new and in very good condition, new gaskets, new everything. And to top it off the engine has had the irons painted blue and the housings black, so I'm wondering what might have been done to this engine. I'll find out when I crack it open

Mx6-Rx7 Addict

You have two NA rotory's already, why not build a turbo rotary?

Just a suggestion.

-Justin

ddub

I have 1 N/A rotary, and this 2nd one I got is for a s5 core motor to build a bridgeport out of and part out for $$.

Turbo is later, if I care. I already have a low 14 second n/a on my current motor/port setup, and this new motor will have better porting, more mods to it, and be tuned a lot better and I'm hoping to be in 13's with it, but we'll see. I just need to find someone to remap my ecu for me so I can take advantage of the TypeI stat gears and porting I'm doing, want to go to 8-9k rpms hopefully.

Turbo is nice, but it's not everything. If I'm not happy with n/a and 13's then I'll go turbo'd n/a.

jhammons01

dDub, that is not a repaint job. That is factory and that is the **** all of us with white paint is having to deal with. The adhesion primer back in the late 80s was changed to a new formula and quite a few factories bought this Adhesion Primer and used it. The problem is the bond breaks down over time and oxidation leaches under the paint. Now the paint has nothing to bond to so it just flakes off.

And you know if the engine is painted somebody has already gone through that motor. that would explain why the lines are so supple.

Icemark

Wow dDub, looks worse than my 10thAE when I brought it home. Good luck with the project.

3RotorRocket

I thought it was a S5 it has S4 tail lights? Congrats!

hondahater

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you almost paid to much for it

socrstd

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haha, that arrow sucks

SonicRaT

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Hurrah for spunky's yard!

ddub

No it's a repaint, there are some spots with overspray where they didn't tape up properly, the decals were removed, molding had some red lines put in the groove, etc. Plus the owner told me it had been repainted very shittily.

Yep it's beautiful! This car was in such good condition until it was parked and left to die! At least everything in the engine bay is almost new

Just like socrstd quoted from my post, the last owner took the s5 lights for his 10AE and put his AE lights on it in place.

Yah it looks pretty rough, but is cleaning up very nicely! Full black interior and it's coming clean and looking pretty damn good, and everything in the motor is so new and nice, I just hope the inside of the engine is the same

Don't care too much about the body, there was too much damage, too much missing, and too much that needed fixing and me with not a whole lot of free time, especially with summer quarter at college and this engine build, so I wasn't worried about trying to get it back on the street. It's suiting my needs just fine

Haha, that's funny. Free car is a free car to me, but if the engine hadn't been there and I didn't see the potential, I probably wouldn't have taken it.

And for those wondering what the hell James is talking about here, RXSevenSymphonies used to have the AIM sn of Spyquank, and he's just always called him Spunky

JamesBong

Hey, I have a grey s4 front bumper thats flaking with white underneath. That would match your car perty cool!

Node

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Dude, thats probably OEM Mazda paint, white s5's had recallsdue to flaking paint

10AEs do it too, mazda just cant paint white, except for mine, buwahaha!

ddub

Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, who cares? Like I said there is overspray in a bunch of places and the last owner SAID it had been repainted and had a shitty job done. I honestly don't give a crap if it has or not, don't care about the body too much!