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Single Exhaust: Left or right side?

Old Aug 22, 2001 | 01:44 PM
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Weight balance; that's right. That's why I put my liscence plate on the passenger side.
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Old Aug 22, 2001 | 01:59 PM
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i looked under my car and it looks like the paasenger side is bigger the the left side

wideness
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Old Aug 22, 2001 | 02:24 PM
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Re: hey

Originally posted by Ryde _Or_Die
Evil aviator, I don't see the crank, where is it exactly?
Lay on the ground under the front bumper. There are two rubber plugs, on on each side. Pull those off and you will see a **** underneath. Turn those to get the headlights up and down.

You have to pull the "Retractor" fuse under the hood for them to stay in place though.

Or you could do it the right way and track down one of the sleepy eye things from Japan that adjust how far they open from inside the car...


Oh, and passenger side all the way!
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Old Aug 22, 2001 | 03:10 PM
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Ryde _Or_Die,

There should be a small yellow sticker in your engine bay that shows you where the crank is.
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Old Aug 22, 2001 | 05:31 PM
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On the passenger side because its a bit less noisy for the driver, plus with no cats and driver's window down, less monoxide to inhale . Also weight distribution as was mentioned.
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Old Aug 22, 2001 | 09:37 PM
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Re: Re: o yea

Originally posted by Evil Aviator



If you open your hood, you will see that the headlights have a round manual crank so that you can deploy your headlights should the motor fail.
Hey I couldn't find this crank your talkin bout, could you help me out, I have a 88 N/A. Are the cranks on all Rx7s? Thanks.
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Old Aug 23, 2001 | 12:25 AM
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I personally think a single exhaust totally throws off the balance of the car, as far as looks go at least. I could never put a single on mine. I think it just looks absolutely terrible. And most people I've asked the question to agree. But then again, its what YOU want and no one else.

I just like the dual, looks much better, but thats just me.
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Old Aug 23, 2001 | 11:02 AM
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Originally posted by Ryde _Or_Die
Hey I couldn't find this crank your talkin bout, could you help me out, I have a 88 N/A. Are the cranks on all Rx7s? Thanks.
Oops, sorry about that; you can see the motor and mechanism by lifting the hood (with the lights up), but you need to reach under the front bumper to turn the *****.

See Felix Wankel's post. You can feel the rubber cap by reaching under the front bumper by the brake duct intakes.
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Old Aug 23, 2001 | 11:24 AM
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As far as exhuast goes I think dual is the only way to go. It's all personal prefrence though. I am putting on the apexi N1 dual (if they get off their ***'s and make more)
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Old Aug 23, 2001 | 06:13 PM
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I wanted to post a pic of the headlight thing, but for some reason it wasn't working. Since The Man is trying to keep me down, I put it on a makeshift web page here:
http://home.talkcity.com/ThePits/evilaviator/
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Old Aug 23, 2001 | 06:17 PM
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Thanks, Chris

Last edited by Ryde _Or_Die; Aug 23, 2001 at 06:19 PM.
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Old Aug 23, 2001 | 09:41 PM
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yea I found the things, they are white lil ***** with lil teeth on the outside right? I turned one and it didn't seem to do anything, does the car have to be on or no? Thanks once again.

Chris
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Old Aug 23, 2001 | 10:07 PM
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No the car does not have to be on. They are mechanical adjusting *****.

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Old Aug 24, 2001 | 01:15 AM
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Yo,


I'll chime in, since I've been watching Initial D on DVD for the past couple of days. The FC has it on the left side, so I'd put it there, but ONLY if you put big "REDSUNS" on your rear fenders. I really like having the dual exhausts, since it's one of the few things that sets the FC apart from the 944. *wink*

KS

PS: But if you wanted to stay true to Initial D and put it on the passenger side...you'd have to put it on the RIGHT side since they are right hand driver over there....*grin*
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Old Aug 24, 2001 | 04:46 AM
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Single exhuast is...
A) lighter
B) higher flowing cause it dont have Y sections
C) who cares how the farking thing looks
D) performance comes ahead of looks every day of the week
E) for what its worth my single exits the passengers side (THAT IS THE LEFT HAND SIDE OF THE CAR)
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