Hey guys,

Holy cow!! What an awesome car. I payed the **** Scum at the DMV today ($139 to get the car registered $75 late fee, $24 tag, $10 title Fee, and $30 sales tax) That is the third most expensive part of fixing this car, $300 car, $350 Engine, and now $139 to get it registered. Grrr... I thoght we payed taxes to cover all these "fees" anyways. Oh well.

So anyways, I have been driving the car all day without any problems, I think I logged close to 80 miles. I think I remember now why I used to find excuses to run to town, (so I could drive my MR2) but the 7 is so so much more. Wow..... New tires tommorow, I got the back end loose a couple of times today, and it is going to take some getting used to, I need a good wet empty parking lot....

Oh yeah, my question, My temp gauge never goes above 1/4. I put a brand new Mazda Thermostat in when I put the engine is, and I was a little worried, so I even popped the rad cap on the water outlet, and stuck a thermometer in, and it read 175 - 180. Should this be a quarter on the temp gauge?

Thanks,

Joey

 

the 86-88's run at 1/4

 

Awesome, one less thing to fix,

Thanks,

Joey

 

what year 7 do you have? thats fine if you have an s4. my 87 T2 never goes even to 1/4 on the temp gauge, thats exactly where i want it. if you have an S5 then i dunno, ive always heard the stock temp gauges in those things suck.

 

I have an '87 GXL... btw... While I have a thread with some traffic... What does FC and FD stand for? And what years are the different series?

Joey

 

i asked the same question awhile ago.....heres the info they gave me, this should satisfy your needs! Curtisy of Icemark.........

It has been covered many times, but...

FC3S Or FC is the Mazda designation for the RX-7 Coupe built between 86 and 91.

FC3C is the for the 'vert for 88-92.

Most people just use FC as a referance to that second generation of Mazda RX-7

The third gen RX-7 is the FD, built between late 91 and just last month.

As far as HP, differences and stuff there are several good sites:

http://2ndgenrx7.freeservers.com/page1.html
http://home.rmci.net/panther/tech.htm
http://fc3s-pro.com/

and my personal FC info pages:
http://home.earthlink.net/~icemark/FCseries4.htm

 

I'd also browse through those links, they give some really good info for how to mods, etc.

 

Thanks for the info,

Joey

 

I added a VDO temp gauge when my 1992 TII's gague was reading 60%. Turned out I was running 220degrees as the previous owner clogged the radiator with deposits from his tap water/hose.

I'm now running 185 degrees after a coolant flush.

 

The '89-91 temp gauges will sit at the middle of the gauge for a BIG temp range - they don't move off the middle until you're overheating. The '86-88 temp gauges actually move in a linear relationship to the temp.

Dale

 

Stock gauges suck.....period. Boost, water, oil temp, etc. I really wouldn't trust them.