Valkyrie

Can someone tell me if a rear stationary gear leak will damage the clutch, or is it just an annoyance? I found a fairly clean FD for a good price but the mileage is a little high for a JDM (80,000 miles. Probably the equivalent of of 130,000 or so in the US. But it has a rear stat gear leak and I dont have the tools here to fix it myself, plus the last time I fixes one I had to pull the engine out and take it apart...

mono4lamar

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Why not just fix it. It's the o-ring on the rear stationary gear. They get hard and brittle and simply need to be replaced. The hardest part will be getting the flywheel off and then re-torquing it to 300ft/lbs.

Valkyrie

I could fit it myself if I was in the US and had my tranny jack, flywheel wrench, and bought a flywheel stopper for FDs, but I'm not so I dont. Only problem is that this particular shop wants to charge out the **** to do it.

But their attitude was a little shitty for a store that does nothing but sell RX7s... wouldnt let me test drive without saying I'd buy it, and wouldn't even go as far as to hook up a boost gauge so I could see the turbos worked right I and when I do a test drive.

GodSquadMandrake

That's kind of the attitude I got from the GTNet dealership that I went to which also specializes in RX7's Valkyrie. I found a different GTNet location, the one in Saitama, and the guy let me put the car on a lift and poke around under there for an hour. Really great staff. I'd say it's worth it to wait because there are so many good ones around. You could try the auction too. They give you a full inspection report on the car. I don't know if they do a compression test, but Saitama GTNet did the compression test for me and all rotors were over 8.0.

Valkyrie

This dealer tests comp and all rotors were over 8 which IIRC is great for the mileage. I think as long as you talk with them long enough to mms it clear you intend to buy they will give you a drive if possible, but I didn't like their attitudes. BTW, they had the actual Veilside Fortune FD from TFTF3... I remember making a comment on another car and they guy was like "I brought the car here for you, so why don't you look at it.". And eveytime I looked up from looking at the car, the employee had gone off somewhere.

On the phone they were pretty rude about test drives too. I was told that they were only for people who were purchasing that car. WTF, that's not a test drive, it's just a check ride...

The biggest problem is that they bump the price up 700 because I said I didn't want any service done on it... and don't need a shaken done for me.

Valkyrie

Theres a sports car garage near my home that I drove past for a year with a red MR2 turbo in front, and I finally talked to the owner the other day, and the car's owner wants 35man which is too much for a car left out for a year, but the owner was a nice guy



He also said that he could search auctions for me. And he sells Taiwanese sports tires for 1/4th Japanese-made ones.

GodSquadMandrake

Wow that's a great deal on the tires! I haven't been able to find anything like that. I've just been importing mine from DiscountTireDirect.com.

Anyway I can search the auctions too, if you're curious. There's usually about 80 RX7's per day auctioned in Japan. I'm sure my contact could also hook you up with a login. It's the All Japan auction system. It's universal and you see every car auctioned in the country. Full color pictures, inspection reports, the works. But if you want to buy you have to pay one of the auction agents. Some of them will do it for as cheap as 10,000 yen on top of the car price.

BTW I looked at a turbo SW20 last month. The owner was selling it for 150,000 yen. It had a TD06 HKS turbo kit with 400 HP, remote oil filter conversion, spherical bearings suspension conversion, Tein Monoflex coilovers with EDFC, just the works. Like something out of a 1999 tuner magazine. But the build was done in 2001 so it was 10 years old. Even though it had great parts, they would all need to be replaced. I could see a lot of blow-by was happening in the engine so it would need to be rebuilt, new turbo, rebuilt transmission etc. It ran good on the test drive, but I think that wouldn't last long.

Valkyrie

I would like a kouki FD in white with coilovers, a bucket seat. and aftermarket steering wheel with at least a few months of shaken for less than 55man...

Mileage under 100,000 km would be niece. No ATs of course.

that's just my ideal though... everything has some wiggle room, but a steering wheel and color is a big deal.

GodSquadMandrake

That's very easy to find. Mine was 480,000 only and it's an R2 so it has those suede seats, there was some sort of fancy pants steering wheel installed, coilovers, cusco LSD, HKS induction, 80,000 KM, etc. You can't find a stock FD these days. They all have some sort of modifications. It's just the quality of the modifications that is the determining factor. But I think you can find what you're looking for for 300,000 from the auction. Check GTNet's website, they have all their inventory online.

Valkyrie

I did but it didn't didn't let you search by location... and all the FDs were at least 39man plus shaken and tax... for much older cars generally.

I would expect at least intake, exhaust, boost gauge, tower bars, maybe a boost increase... any more and the gas bill would be too much, lol.

BtW I was in Yokohama today

GodSquadMandrake

Oh you should've called me. 今日はおやすみです。
If you click on the individual locations or advanced search there used to be a way to search by location, but maybe they changed the system. Either way I can give you the email address of my salesman at GTNet. He speaks English too so it was easy for me. His name is Tat and he's the manager at Saitama. He even delivered my car to Tsukuba and rode the train home with me! haha. That's a 3 hour train ride too so it's no small task.