wow man not to bad lookin and another s4!! glad to see since pretty much everyone now days changes there s4's to s5's gotta keep it real anyways congrats man welcome to being broke for the rest of ur rx7 days!!

 

Super clean FC. It's an SE I presume? My gawd it reminds me of my 88SE checkout my juicecan tips! LOL that was back in 99' Got it off of my wife's uncle for 1100.00 with 73k on it...

 

No, I changed the plugs before it started doing this. Goes like this:

Changed the plugs, fired the car right up. Took it to the store to get something to drink, fired right up when I left there. Parked it in the school parking lot for about 20-30 minutes, then decided to leave for the night. That's when it just kept cranking but wouldn't start.

 

Maybe try unflooding it. It can't hurt and might help. I don't recall being able to hear my pump, but I can't go outside to check it
That is a really clean car, though. I want your interior. Mine is pretty crappy.

 

hrmf... from what i remember, our fuel pumps do not prime when the key is turned on...

 

try the unflooding procedure. then try to pullstart it if that doesn work. id start with that

 

My walbro primes when the key is on. I thought my car was out of gas the other day and it wouldn't crank. I rolled it off and it was fine when I got gas in it. It wouldn't crank because the battery was dead and wouldn't run my pump. It sounds like your alt is ******* up because the system isn't charging right. Check the alt and if thats fine then do the rotaryresurrection grounding kit. I did it and all of my dimming problems almost completely vanished. To check the alt you need to let the car idle and take the neg batt cable off. If it dies then its the alt not charging correctly.

 

After about 20 minutes trying to figure out how power was supplied to the fuel pump, we figured it out. Does anyone here have a fuel pump "kill switch" in their car. Yeah, I figured out what the black switch on the center console between the seats was, and now I feel stupid. Car started right up.


As far as the stalling at a stop light. I raised the idle to about 850-900rpm and the stalling went away. I'll let you know if it comes back.

 

Seems to me there have been flooding issues in the car before...

 

Don't most FC's have flooding problems?

I'm thinking this kill switch may have been installed after the car was originally purchased. Either by the dealer, or someone else. I looked in the owners manual, and it has zero information on what the switch is for.

In this picture you can see the switch next to the orange security thing between the seats:



BTW: Does anyone have an extra thing that goes there with just the security light? I'd like to eliminate the kill switch...

 

i put a switch in mine. its most likely "aftermarket". if it floods alot, send the injectors out to be cleaned.

 

no idea about your problem, but those are some righteous pics of your car, its really clean, and then you must just be an amazing photographer

 

or he's an expert in photoshop lol.... that car is way too perfect

nice rare find

 

No photoshop here. The car does have it's flaws, a few door dings on the outside, that panel with the kill switch is cracked. The severe curbing that screwed the passenger side up.

All in all it was a good buy though. Just can't wait to get modding.

 

Nice pick up.

Why eliminate the fuel kill switch? They come in handy.

 

For what exactly? I'm not the only one with this switch I presume. It's not in the owners manual, so was it put there later by Mazda?

 

Here is the basic look Im going for at the moment:

(Please excuse the BAD photoshop skills )

 

Super nice, super jealous of the interior, good luck w/ your problems.

 

Well, as of right now, there are no more problems. I ordered the clutch kit today, should go in next week. And I still have to get the car on a lift to see exactly where the oil leak is coming from. Have a pretty good idea that it's coming from the oil pan. (I hope)

 

These never came from the factory, they were put there by owners to act as a bandaid for flooding. You might as well keep it, it probably well come in handy sometime soon.

 

hey guys sorry 2 take up the thread but my fc has been acting weird lately.. 1st of all my starter is gone.. 2nd wen i turn on my car the rpm gauge turns off and the check engine light turns on the engine light goes on because of the rpm gauge im assuming..3rd wen im drivin my car decides 2 start choking and backfires alot at like 2k rpm.. im assuming its sumtin 2 do wit 2 much gas going into the engine since its backfiring like that.. wen its sputtering like that the temperature gauge goes up into hot and then goes back 2 normal wen i let off the gas.. can any1 help me out and lemme kno wat the problem can be? thanks