g14novak

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So I took my 89 GTUs to the Mazda dealership to get checked out. The only major problem with the car is that 5 of the 6 exhaust hangers are broke and the last one is about half-way done.

The Good:
-New Belts
-New Fluids
-New battery
-Interior lights work
-Exterior lights (except turn signals) work
-All 4 brakes and rotors check out good
-Moonroof motor is still running strong and they greased up the tracks for me

The Bad:
-Exhaust hangers are done
-Automatic seatbelts are broken and they don't want to replace them since they say they already have before for the recall
-Carburetor needs a rebuild
-Need to fix electrical so the turn signals and brights work
-Need a radio
-Need A/C

I got to sit and watch and talk to the guy working on my car while he was doing it. He does know a decent amount about rotarys, he had his first gen parked 2 cars down from mine playing music while he worked.

The people there were actually all pretty knowledgeable. I was talking to the guy working the parts desk as to what would be good parts to replace on my car and what parts I can leave alone for now. Not like the idiots over at nissan. I went to a nissan dealership a little while back and popped the hood on one of the new Maxima SV's because I hadn't seen one before. The guy walked over and asked me if I was interested. I played along and said sure. He asked me if I wanted to upgrade to the V8 Package.

The dealership was the Fairbanks Mazda in Longwood on 17-92 in case anyone was interested.



My questions are:

The exhaust hangers don't look like their that much work, but I could be wrong. Is their a trick to getting the exhaust hangers back on?

Where would I be able to get a rebuild kit for a 4-barrel 660CFM Holley carb? Are their different kits that will give me better performance in the end?

Aaron Cake

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Exhaust hangers are trivial for any exhaust shop. They just get welded onto the pipe...

You have a carburetor on your car? Any auto parts store should carry the rebuild kit.

g14novak

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It's not the hangers themselves that are broken. It's the little rubber rings. They don't look like they'll be much hassle, but I've just been eye-balling it. Haven't really looked too much into it yet.

And are all rebuild kits the same? Because I know I need a rebuild kit, but I want to up my accelerator pump since I was told it is bad and was what was causing my car to have random hesitations.

Roen

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I'm guessing it's not a stock RX-7.

The dealers have to perform the seatbelt recall. Search for the many seatbelt recall threads.

You can buy the rubber rings at a lot of places. The dealership can order some.

Turn signal is a turn signal switch issue. Get a new or rebuilt switch. Search the forum for places.

g14novak

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It's somewhat close to stock. Only mod is that its been converted to a carb setup (that im not happy with at all at the moment). Besides that, the car is pretty much all stock.

And I already ordered the rubber rings.

And I'm thinking your right on the turn signal issue considering I can physically pull the switch off the dash... I'll look into it more when I get home.