I bought the car a few days ago and the guy said, " sometimes it makes boost and sometimes it doesnt". To make a long story short he gave me a great deal. At any rate, I took off the main intake pipe, the rear BOV pipe and started to look around. I originally thought it was a stuxk WG or something b/c it would boost and then wouldnt. Maybe stuck? Ahh hah! There is a little screwed together connection at the WG, so when the WG rod moves, it opens closes the WG. Well, there was no screw. To make another long story short...BOOST!! Has anyone else has this problem? And sorry for the lack of Jargon. Newbie. Later all.

 

Pretty impressive for a newbie, seeing as I still don't understand what you're talking about..so I'm worse..

But congrats on the car and getting it working..did you get it for a good price???

 

I had the same problem when I got my car.

 

Right on man! Feels good to do things yourself rather than just take it to a shop doesn't it?

 

The car is a 93'. It needs some body work, like all imports of the time period. All paint chipping no body damage. The interior is mint. The boost wasnt working properly, but now is. Tiny water leak, haven't found it yet. Also feels like I need a motor mount. Not that bad considering what else could go wrong. Since the car is all stock my first money is going to be a vacuum hose upgrade. Aluminum AST. Clutch. Fluidyne or something similar. I want to replace the water pump, plugs, all of the normal stuff. Bottom line, I picked up the car for $6000, with 57000 orignal miles. Original Motor. I think I got a deal, we'll see how it turns out.

 

Sweet deal.

 

I just picked up my car from the mazda dealership after they replaced the water pump - and the car had no boost! And get this, the service manager takes it for spin after I complained, on the hwy, and says it seem OK to him! Even thou air is pissing out of the engine compartment when the turbos spool up. Now i'm no mechanic, but after some helpful advise from this forum, I found that an IC intake hose was not properly clamped leaving a 1/4 hole that was bleeding air. So yea it felt good to fix it myself! Imagine the SM of mazda thinking that a NA '93 RX7 making probably 140hp is normal!

 

I love that feeling.

 

man, mazda dealerships suck! a few months ago i ordered a waterthermosensor from them. they said, 50 bucks. 4 days later it was there, i picked it up only to find that they got a waterthermoswitch, not a water thermosensor. when i complained to the manager, he said sorry we cant take it back because its an electric item. and i was like WTF! (if anyone needs a waterthermoswitch PM me, i will sell it cheap-brand new). i had an argument with him, and finally he said, i will return you 60% of the purchase price. i stormed out of the dealership. i own two mazdas. the way i see it, they lost business of two mazdas.

 

Actually...I just looked at a vacuum diagram and I think now that it was the charge control actuator that was at fault. There are so many damn actuators on this motor. Does this sound more like it.

 

j00 0wn3d!!!!11

 

http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/G...route_diag.gif

On that vacuum diagram, it looks like the "Actuator (Charge Control)" is pointing to the freakin Y-pipe. Which part is actually the actuator?