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Old 01-16-22, 08:07 PM
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The Body Electrical Troubleshooting Manual is also incredible for diagnosing electrical issues. The best manual of its type that I have seen.
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Thanks for this thread by the way. Excellent resource!

If there is indeed Australian or British RHD manuals, those would be very helpful to new owners of RHD looking for explanations in English.


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Originally Posted by Redbul
Thanks for this thread by the way. Excellent resource!

If there is indeed Australian or British RHD manuals, those would be very helpful to new owners of RHD looking for explanations in English.


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Yes, there are Australian specific parts catalogues, wiring diagrams and workshop manuals for all RX-7s from 1979 to 1997. The FC and FD parts stuff is all on an Australian version of the EPC.

Mazda Australia has licensed a local company called Bookworks to reprint paper workshop manuals and wiring diagrams, as well as owner's handbooks, for Australian delivered models. Here is the FD one for s6: https://www.computeroutpost.com.au/item/ma12951091l/ and the s7 supplement: https://www.computeroutpost.com.au/item/ma15221096a/ They are quite expensive, but probably not when you consider this is a very large technical book and is properly licensed.

I have a reprint of the series 3 owner's manual for example. Here is the Australian delivered s7 owner's manual that came with the car new: https://www.computeroutpost.com.au/item/ma8m16eo97e/

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Glad I asked!


We should talk more often.
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Originally Posted by Redbul
I have been buying in the JDM Parts manuals of YAJ at about $200 a pop. Maybe they are on line, but I find flipping through the pages satisfying.





I have the PDF version of this (below). It says 413 pages on my screen. It is really excellent in explaining the intricacies of the FD in plan simple language and the diagrams are superb. Don't know where I got mine, but it would be cool to have a physical version.


i like the paper too, most of mine are service manuals. these days i mostly use the PDF's, the PDF is here, the paper one is over there....
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Originally Posted by KYPREO
Yes, there are Australian specific parts catalogues, wiring diagrams and workshop manuals for all RX-7s from 1979 to 1997. The FC and FD parts stuff is all on an Australian version of the EPC.

Mazda Australia has licensed a local company called Bookworks to reprint paper workshop manuals and wiring diagrams, as well as owner's handbooks, for Australian delivered models. Here is the FD one for s6: https://www.computeroutpost.com.au/item/ma12951091l/ and the s7 supplement: https://www.computeroutpost.com.au/item/ma15221096a/ They are quite expensive, but probably not when you consider this is a very large technical book and is properly licensed.

I have a reprint of the series 3 owner's manual for example. Here is the Australian delivered s7 owner's manual that came with the car new: https://www.computeroutpost.com.au/item/ma8m16eo97e/
that is neat, i wish Mazda USA would do something like that. i did find a place on the Mazda USA website where you could get a paper manual from them, but it didn't go back to the FD.
the newer stuff is all online and its pretty neat the wiring diagrams let you turn the switches and it shows current flows and stuff, but its not public, so its semi useless
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Originally Posted by Redbul
I have been buying in the JDM Parts manuals of YAJ at about $200 a pop. Maybe they are on line, but I find flipping through the pages satisfying.





I have the PDF version of this (below). It says 413 pages on my screen. It is really excellent in explaining the intricacies of the FD in plan simple language and the diagrams are superb. Don't know where I got mine, but it would be cool to have a physical version.


Woah!!! This reminds me of being in the service dept early 2000's. I had to do some library work more than once.

Quite a fine collection you have there sir. Very cool and thanks for sharing.

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That's just the "downstairs' collection.
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This manual is the explanation manual for the transition from the FC to the FD. Fascinating.


https://buyee.jp/item/yahoo/auction/...uggest_history
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Original Japanese FSM 1991 5 cm thick.


https://buyee.jp/item/yahoo/auction/...uggest_history
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if you compare those bad boys with the US equivalent, the US book will have blank spots where the JDM books have pics and writings
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ET4004 is the Training Manual - goes into things is more detail.


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Actually, I addressed most of this a few years ago. Sometime around 1984, starting with the new Familia, Mazda redid how they organized their manuals into several categories using the following format: NM-002

WM: Workshop Manual (also used for Engine/transmission/other maintenance manuals)
WD: Wiring Diagram
NM: New Model Introduction
ET: Edition for Training (or Troubleshooting)

The "002" is a Sequence Number. In this case, it is for the FC RX-7 and came out in September 1985. "001" was for the Familia. For 1989, Mazda added a prefix digit to the Sequence Number as follows, to denote which brand/division it was under.
2xxx: Eunos
3xxx: Autozam
4xxx: Efini

When all the brands were folded back into the Mazda name in 1997, vehicles in production at the time made under their Autozam/Eunos/Efini brands kept their respective prefixes despite re-branding under the Mazda name. After this, all new models went back to the old Sequence Number format from 1984.

There's probably a few details I'm forgetting, but I'm doing this from memory on the first cup of coffee.
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Interesting. This is not on the above list.

https://buyee.jp/item/yahoo/auction/...uggest_history
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Originally Posted by Redbul
Interesting. This is not on the above list.

https://buyee.jp/item/yahoo/auction/...uggest_history



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Seller is a junkyard operator in Japan. The other parts listed likely required gloves.
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looks more like kitten’s mittens to me
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the US parts books have a different part number format, and actually got ordered from a different place
this is the 1993 service manual

it makes sense i guess, its a different car, it should have a different part number for the service manual

currently, you'd order from the E store, except if you want it, they won't sell it to you...


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Go big or go home:

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/304324284526...IAAOSwaFdh6tu9
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Bonus Materials!

Mazda USA has a pretty recently revised pick sticker. A pick sticker is what the person picking the parts uses to actually pull the whole order. They get a series of stickers, and it has the part number, date, dealer number, and the location in the Mazda warehouse, among other things. So the part gets pulled, the sticker gets put on it, and it goes in the box for the rest of that order.

There have been a few different ones over the years, but the current one has a little picture of where the part is.
99% of the time its just a boring upstairs/downstairs, but you need to look at it every time, as there are some funny ones.

This one is an insect, why?

i've also seen a boat, which makes sense, but it was an old timey steamboat, which is pretty awesome, so look at your parts!
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Added this to the collection last night. Just need paper or electronic version of version 6 now.



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BMWs have exploded diagrams for everything on the car along with corresponding OEM part numbers. Wish there was something like that for the FD.
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There is to some extent. Often more useful than the FSM. For seeing how things fit together.

For example:


Can you spot the $10,000 part?

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Originally Posted by c0rbin9
BMWs have exploded diagrams for everything on the car along with corresponding OEM part numbers. Wish there was something like that for the FD.
yep, its a lot like the BMW one. foxed.ca - /rx7manual/manuals/parts_manuals/93/Low Resolution/

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Thanks for the link. This thread is turning into a gold mine!

(Caution: Link comes up as "unsecure" on my PC.)


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