pimpin7

Well I was having a little bit of trouble previously because the car was running rich. Not to mention that I was having a bit of trouble starting the car turned out the plug wires were bad. Anyways I had cranked the sucker over about 6 times thinking it was flooded, so Imagine it wasn't good on the cat but what could I do, and later replaced the plugs.

Today I went to pour some blockweld in my car, and went to do a 30 minute drive. About the first ten minutes I was getting exhaust pops because of the extra fuel in the system. I should have just stopped there but shiznet I already poured the stuff in, and figured well maybe the fuel should clean its way out. On the drive back home going up a hill I started shooting out blue flames a couple feet long, apperantly the muffler turned red, and that cat too, said that was enough for me and towed it home. Of course I was getting teased calling me 2fast&2furious. Why the hell does this car run so rich. What could be my problem? Well I just wanted to be the first to say I'm the best example of why people like me shouldn't own this car! Thanks....

S1lverbulletFD

i agree...first 3 weeks i woned it it gaved me 3 problems now my turbo aint working right not enough power. like your name name man pimpin aint easy, it's worth it though a high matinance car indead but why seetle for less?look at it like this..imagine all the white girls out there they are mustangs and camero and the rx-7 is a fine asian girl, how many white girls you see? a dime a dozen and how many fine azn girl you see? rarely? it's worth it man.

SiKoPaThX

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SiKoPaThX

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Also...Pimpin...I've heard of something like this happening when an injector sticks open. Perhaps you can start looking there.

plan9

If you bought an RX7 to pick up girls, then having a high maintenance car is the LEAST of your problems

Beny

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S1lverbulletFD

what i'm trying ot say is that the fd3s rx-7 is a very high matinance car and he's saying that he's an example of why he shouldnt own this car because a lot of people like myself didnt know what we got ourself into when we got it. The comparison was just a way of saying that thefun of driving it outweights the matinance problems, also it's a very rare car unlike mustangs camero integra and civics out there. get it? got it, good.

alberto_mg

find yourself a rotary specialist. sounds like you are in over your head and you will probably not solve the problem hanging out on the board here. go the regional forum and check for someone in FL.

speeddemon7

youre located in florida.umm hello.give pettit racing a call.not that hard bro.

pimpin7

The thing is this isn't the first time it has happened to me. It happened once before the cat was glowing. Again this was after I had cranked it too much trying to get the car started. I lucked out the cat didn't burn inside. Mind you this is a brand new exhaust on the car. And then I never had the problem until this time. I truly believe its, because this car floods itself way to damn easy. You guys know how easy this car is to flood itself. It doesn't take much and then the plugs get fouled. I suppose it wouldn't hurt to get the injectors flow tested.

I added an intake, replaced the entire exhaust, boost controller set a 7lbs, temp gauge. Could it be possible any of those mods could cause me to run rich?

S1lverbulletFD: I get your analogy, but I'm an equal opportunity employer so I'd take the white and asian chick together. On a side note: I can't deny the inevitable truth that the FD is a chick magnet. Out of all the cars I ever owned, I have never gotten so much attention in it. And soo many females trying to pick me up, it has to be the car, because if I'm driving in my other cars no one even pays attention. So I guess that alone is worth the trouble.

Scrapiron7

Shinobi-X

R1 POWR

i saw this 2-hrs ago, and i'm still laughing.....

BoostorLose

I don't know the extent of your problems, but my car will shoot flames sometimes as well. A big street ported rotary with a straight through exhaust will shoot flames sometimes. Mine has bigger injectors also, so plenty of fuel there. It doesn't do it all the time, but sometimes. However, for the muffler turning red, I have no idea. If the cat is turning red it could be clogged. Good luck man.
Mike

pimpin7

Thanks for the help guys. I'll let you know what I find out, ps I don't have the airpump in possibly contributing to my problems.

pimpin7

I'd give them a call but what are they gonna tell me? I can barely drive the car, maybe if I can get it to where it wont actually blow up on me I'll try it. Tick. Tick. Tick. Kaboom. fart..

yodaddy

do you have a highflow cat or midpipe? if not then you deffinately need to put your airpump back on. also, i can almost gaurantee it is an injector problem, i had this same issue at one time and it turned out to be a cracked primary injector. i have heard that it is somewhat common as well for the primaries to crap out. start by pulling those and getting them checked out. you might *** well do the secondaries while you're at it.

PwRFreaK

**** man ur in florida, i used to have a msutang with no mufflers and no cats. so just take off the cat and get it tuned by pettit racing their in florida, their a pretty good shop. jjust get it checked out while ur down there.

S1lverbulletFD

your not funny, you know what i mean. i wrote it in english

pimpin7

I have a highflow cat, I took it off this weekend and I was shocked the mother funker was just like brand new. None of the inner honeycomb got damaged at all. This is twice that the cat has gone into a glowing stage, and twice that it never even got affected at all. The cat is purty damn solid. I think it just got too much fuel on it, and since there isn't an airpump hooked up it couldn't burn out all the fuel in time. The engine is starting to act up on me now, I have a fealing it didn't like the 3 mile trip at all. I'm gonna go over all the vacuum hoses and see if that has anything to do with it, if it doesn't change anything I will then begin to pull the injectors out and have them inspected.




Yeah I think I'll have to seriously consider it. I'm kind a fed up on this engine that wants to make up its own mind.

Stevey629

I have a huge burn hole in my back bumper from shooting around a 4-5 ft. flame out of the exhaust. It was a stuck open primary injector. Just kept dumping fuel in, and it all got stored up in the stock exhaust. Firing it up after it was warm got just the right amounts of heat, oxygen and a fuel source for... KABAM! flames, hazards, and a completely toasted back end.

PVerdieck

Better. Its much easier to understand when you post in English, instead of Spaztish.

pimpin7

Did you ever happen to hear the rotor skipping notes? That's the weird thing I noticed too as mentioned above. It doesn't sound normal, but having never owned a rotary i don't know. If I'd have to make a guess: Possibly too much fuel or water in the rotary chamber wetting the plugs causing a misfire due to a leaky injector, or o-ring failure. It makes the noise ever so often at random. When I checked the compression all even sounds on the three faces, great compression numbers as well. It kinds sounds like normal then 'tunt' 'tunt' normal.

pimpin7

Oh man! that sounds so similiar to my experiences, also how did you get it fixed just replaced the injectors?

lopedl

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hey man you might have luck checking the wiring on the car. Lord knows that the wiring in most of the FD's are shot, toast, and basically worthless by now. Especially with the high engine temps under the hood its highly likely one of the wires has gotten shorted out. If one of the wires that controlls a sensor or the injector breaks it's possible that it would cause your car to run too rich, or maybe even lean, because the ecu isn't getting the information on how much fuel to pump. I'm thinking of doing a write up on this topic, because I truly believe that most of the problems FD owners are having is due to the wiring, and I believe this is one of the most essential upgrades that needs to be performed by new owners. I know in my experiences that it cured about 75% of the problems I had.

Laterz