I recently bought a second gen and it was doomed from the beginning.On the drive home it overheated and spit coolant everywhere. I was told from the owner that "it's just the water level sensor in the radiator." I checked out the sensor and it looked fine to me ie.. no corrosion or broken tip. I also bought a new thermostat and installed that. Everything seemed fine....after the title finally got switched over in my name, I got tags for it. Take it for a drive and it's good very good. About 30 minutes.....idot light....yay!I get it home and coolant is shooting out of the bottle behind the driver's side headlight. The same thing that happened on the day of purchase. I am royally pissed and frustrated and cannot help to feel jipped. Someone please shed some light on this. Water pump?clogged hoses?dreaded coolant seal? Unfortunately it's to late to get my money back so i guess I'm fudged in the aye

 

your motor is gone, search blown collant seals!!!!! Start it up and look in the over flow, see bubbles coming out of the rad return, if yes, blown seals.

 

Well if it overheated, then you fucked your coolant seals. It could of been caused by a number of things.

http://www.aaroncake.net/RX-7/cooling.htm

 

the temp guage doesn't even move when this occurs.still coolant seals?