so i found a 88 turboII for 2300. The car needs paint and supposivly the turbo leaks. I was just wondering if this is still a good buy or if i should just look for another car. im sorry but i am pretty close to clueless when it comes to rx7 and turbos. Ive always wanted a rx7 and i love this body style. Like i said, im new to rx7's so please be gentle...i kno im a total nub...but hey, evryone has to start sumwhere rite???
oh and jus to throw this out there...the motor has 69k origional miles and has had 2 owners.
Thanx guys

here is a pic of the car for kicks

 

i'll be nice
anyways
take a video of the car, and rev it up. theres a good chance somebody on this site will be able to diagnose the problem pretty quick.
btw
KEEP IT
rx7s are amazing
you can make it faster than you could ever realistically flour it on the street.

 

thanx man...i will post pics and vid when i get the car...hopefully this doesnt turn out to be a serious problem....

 

keep that ****** looks like that could be a beast if you fuxed it up and so you wont get flamed later on try and use the search button for your q's and then post if you cant find answer and welcome to the triangle motor club

 

and take multiple pics of the engine bay too
judging by that FMIC (front mount intercooler) that car may have some mods done to it.

 

this is what i kno is done to the car...
fmic
braided clutch and brake lines
slotted brakes(all four)
battery relocation kit w/ kill switch
stage 4 clutch (on a stock rx7? )

 

hmmm, do you know what kind of clutch? sprung, unsprung.. lightweight flywheel? its not relevant to anything, i'm just wondering

btw, i'm not gunna flame you
but if you want to avoid it in the future, refer to it as a "rotary engine", not "triangle motor".. lmao

 

as soon as i find out ill let ya kno...this was jus the list that tha guy posted. not sure why sumone wud install a stage4 on a stock car...seems like overkill to me
oh and the whole triangle motor thing...lol yeah...will do.

 

am i the only person who is worried about that fmic in its current location? without *any* sort of protection? like, i could walk up to it and kick it, and it'd be ruined

 

yeh that would be unfortunate...
you should re-position it to the space under the hood latch.

 

wont you get better cooling how it is now??

 

You could walk up to any car and kick it and it would ruin something

 

Hate to say it, but I would recommend finding an unmolested Rx7. Judging by what i see in the picture I want to say its more than likely been driven really hard, profiling maybe but thats what I see. The upgrades it already has are mostly debilitating to the cars condition,exept maybe the braided lines. If its truly a TII then it has 4 piston fronts and theres no need for slotted rotors, they actually cause premature pad wear. And a stage 4 clutch seems overkill if you ask me.

Molested heavily, in need of therapy.

 

what's that red crap on it? A T2 with that level of mods may be a big headache for you if you don't have experience with the quirks of these models. It may have boost creap, a lean mixture, a hesitation... there are all sorts of common problems you could be chasing down if the previous owner didn't know what he's doing, which he probably didn't

 

correct me if im wrong but is boost creep is when you start off at set boost and it begins to increase from that point? If that is the case then cant i just get a
bigger wastegate, better wastegate placement, or get a less restrictive dump tube? Or maybe a combination of all those things??? If thats the case then thats not too much of a problem for me to do....
Oh and with the turbo leakin, can i jus buy another turbo? I kno it might not solve all the problems that the car MAY have...but could it be that easy of a fix?? Like i said...as soon as i can post some engine pics i will...

 

http://www.aaroncake.net/rx-7/buy1.htm
http://www.aaroncake.net/rx-7/buy2.htm

Buying a modified car is a bit of a crapshoot if you don't have any experience. You don't know how well the car was modified or what problems it may have.

 

Could be a pretty cool car definately looks like a sleeper with the **** paint and stock wheels and the FMIC.

but im gunna have to tend to agree with DavidHolmesIII, in that you would be better off finding an unmolested car to start with.

I know quite a bit about N/A cars but i bought an 88 RX-7 for $1900 and i am having tons of problems with it since the previous owner have tapped into most of the wiring for one electronic gadget or another and i dont think the turbo is hooked up right.

I guess stock is a good place to start

 

What bugs me the most is that it doesn't have the front beam anymore....very very dangerous in a front collision...

15mph and the car is dead.


Spec.

 

what ever happened? did you get it?

 

post then abandon........ come on.

 

Update, update, update....

*stomps feet.*

 

Hm.. looks like a good candidate for a V8 swap

 

i was thinking the same thing

 

Couldn't you go up to about any car with a front mount and kick it?? Update us fullrace!

 

NOOOO
dont listen to that talk