as of yesterday i am officially the owner of a '93 RX7. i love the car so far! bought the car with 18,000miles on the odometer. still smells just like new inside.

anyways... my friend tells me the stock vacuum lines gotta go. can you guys tell me what i should do with the car? should they be replaced with high quality silicon hoses? what else should i do?

thanks
sam

 

Welcome and congrats!

Take a read here, and it should help you get started.

http://www.scuderiaciriani.com/rx7/reliability.html

 

that is excellent! i'll have to read throught it first. i'm sure i'll have questions later on.

 

holy **** those are low miles

 

With that low mileage, if you are not having boost problems I would leave the vacuum lines alone.

 

hell yeah!

what did you pay, if you don't mind me askin'?

 

Shoot I put more miles than that on min in the last year!

Welcome to the fd3s assylum!

 

1. get a boost gauge to make sure your turbos
working correctly.
2. if #1 isn't working correctly. Vacuum hose job.
3. Temp gauge or ECU upgrade with temp reading.

After 1, 2 , 3.. Mod to your heart desires..
Good luck...

 

Congratulations and welcome. Be sure to check out the newbie sticky at the top of the threads for great links (Majik got you started with one).

Good luck with your car.

 

Welcome dude !! Most of the problems with the vacuum lines is that they either crack or pop off........A lot of people zip tie them to secure the lines, but you should be ok.......Get a boost gauge, so you know if your turbos are working correctly.

 

thanks for the warm welcome. i come from the dark side... y'know... the 8 cylinder crowd. :p

it's funny how a few mentioned the boost gauge. i'm used to the gauges on my other car and am having a hard time with the stock coolant temp gauge... it works but it's just that silly reading between "C" and "H". lol. not to mention lack of boost gauge.

i was thinking of getting nordskog gauges. they look nice imo. but i figure with the oil cooling aspect of the rx7 i better get an oil temp gauge as well.

i think i'll be getting, oil temp, oil pressure, coolant temp, fuel pressure, and boost. just gotta figure out a nice way to mount them all.

but mods won't start until a lot later on down the road. i'm still parting out my other car... couldn't pass up the opportunity to buy this one. the mileage on the car is just amazing.

 

Personally I would ditch the oil temp and go with H2O temp instead. I'm sure a lot of people will agree with me on this.

 

I agree, no need to monitor the oil temp, ya know it's going to be HOT so let it be hot. It's not going to tell you anymore than that. The water temp is important though due to its boiling point and knowing just how hot it is passing through those lines. If it even remotely gets close to gaseous form, the pressure while traveling down them hoses will surely make them burst like a mother.