While I'm rebuilding: Are the following parts worth it?
06-12-04, 10:48 PM
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While I'm rebuilding: Are the following parts worth it?
Well, I'll know tomorrow afternoon what the condition of my engine is (zero compression on the rear rotor). Hopefully it's just some seals, but I suspect I'll have to dig up a rotor & housing as well.
Anyway, while I have things all apart, I was planning to do a bunch of other stuff. However, I'm not 100% sure what the general opinions on the pieces are, and I don't know where the best places to get things are.
The car (88 NA, 120k miles) is going to be used as a daily driver, mixture of city, city highway, and open road highway. It's not likely to be raced much (if at all), but I've grown to really like driving a car that has solid handling & power.
So, here's my theoretical parts list.
Racing Beat downpipe & midpipe. The main cat has been punched out, and I'm not sure of the condition of the precats - even if they haven't failed, they're not something I want to keep around to fail. Iowa doesn't have emissions laws, so it's not a big issue.
Lightweight flywheel: Snappier throttle response.
New clutch: Probably just a stock unit, while everything is apart I may as well.
One of my 6th port actuators is completely frozen, so I'm getting a replacement. Where do I get new gaskets for them?
Anything else I should look at? I'm redoing the brakes later on, but that's a separate thread.
Oh, and I understand from another thread that the 2nd gens have a Mass Airflow Sensor (I had thought all RX-7s were the pressure/RPM type units)? Does this mean that I could have intake & exhaust work without needing to replace the fuel computer? I'm considering redoing the air filter, but I don't want to have to put a new engine computer in (yet).
-=Russ=-
Anyway, while I have things all apart, I was planning to do a bunch of other stuff. However, I'm not 100% sure what the general opinions on the pieces are, and I don't know where the best places to get things are.
The car (88 NA, 120k miles) is going to be used as a daily driver, mixture of city, city highway, and open road highway. It's not likely to be raced much (if at all), but I've grown to really like driving a car that has solid handling & power.
So, here's my theoretical parts list.
Racing Beat downpipe & midpipe. The main cat has been punched out, and I'm not sure of the condition of the precats - even if they haven't failed, they're not something I want to keep around to fail. Iowa doesn't have emissions laws, so it's not a big issue.
Lightweight flywheel: Snappier throttle response.
New clutch: Probably just a stock unit, while everything is apart I may as well.
One of my 6th port actuators is completely frozen, so I'm getting a replacement. Where do I get new gaskets for them?
Anything else I should look at? I'm redoing the brakes later on, but that's a separate thread.
Oh, and I understand from another thread that the 2nd gens have a Mass Airflow Sensor (I had thought all RX-7s were the pressure/RPM type units)? Does this mean that I could have intake & exhaust work without needing to replace the fuel computer? I'm considering redoing the air filter, but I don't want to have to put a new engine computer in (yet).
-=Russ=-
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