How Not To Build An RX-7
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How Not To Build An RX-7
This car belongs to a customer of mine. The gentleman purchased it for a heafty chunk of change, something close to 18 or 19k without knowing much about the car. The car was sold to him as being in "perfect mechanical condition" He brought it to me to look over a couple issues and concerns, which turned out to be problem after problem from very sloppy work and installations by the previous owner and mechanics.
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Damn, that's a LOT of shitty work right there. Did your customer actually inspect the engine bay before the purchase? Looks like he got ripped off. Any particular reason why he payed so much for it? Low mileage, single-turbo, bodykit, etc.?
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Originally Posted by str8ryd
Damn, that's a LOT of shitty work right there. Did your customer actually inspect the engine bay before the purchase? Looks like he got ripped off. Any particular reason why he payed so much for it? Low mileage, single-turbo, bodykit, etc.?
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**** makes me sick to the stomacheeee!!! WHY! first off on installing something, if you have to grind down anything, you know your in the wrong, half port job on the TB, un-real, and people get away with this ****!!!! that is sad that someone would sell that and list it in perfect flawless running condition, just wondering, did the kid get back to the guy who sold him this pile of junk after you pointed out all the hackjobs?!?! that is just silly!!
Sorry BOOOT the loss!!!
Sorry BOOOT the loss!!!
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Banned. I got OWNED!!!
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Originally Posted by Rotary Experiment Seven
Eric I don't know who does your work, but I certainly would hope you or anyone else would not pay for this type of garbage. From what I've seen your car is pretty flawless.
What I'm saying is, I've seen more ghetto FD's than FD's that have been well built.
So, seeing your pictures doesn't surprise me.
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I was told previous owner of the car is on this forum. The car also smokes pretty bad at idle. I suspect it was either ported too aggresively into the oil control ring track or the oil control rings themselves are worn. There is no oil in the intake tract so the turbo appears fine.