Update on the poor running & overheating on my RX-7 elfini
07-26-07, 05:50 PM
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Update on the poor running & overheating on my RX-7 elfini
I know the mods will probably tell me this is in the wrong place but I just HAD to share it
Update on my RX-7 elfini but more about the beginning of the affair
When I first saw the car at the auction it looked absolutely stunning cosmetically in silver metallic with what I think is a veilside full body kit, my main concern at this point was that the car was a private entry and why would anyone enter such an immaculate looking car in an auction, my head told me that it must have a mechanical problem but my heart told me that I had to bid!
Once in front of the rostrum the auctioneer announced that it was for sale without reserve, again alarm bells were ring but the car had sounded so sweet as the driver tweeked the accelerator, the car had its own audience and punters were looking and listening in the engine bay which was truly immaculately clean. I thought stuff it I'm going to have a go and consequently won the car
Only when I collected the car did I receive the V5 registration document, it showed that the car had been imported by an Asian guy on 01/06/07 who had apparantly sold it to a guy in Middlesex who had completed his details on the V5 as the new keeper then proceeded to cross his details out, at this point I guessed that the Asian had sold it to this guy who had brought it back with a problem, it was around about this time that I started to perspire profusely
Anyway you know about the journey home on Tuesday so onto yesterday, I had a couple of conversations with Pip at WGT Auto Developments who gave me some sound advice freely about topping up the coolant which I followed precisely, he also frightened me when he said that worst ways it could be an engine rebuild at £3,000!
I topped it up the first time, took it for a 3 mile run and as I got back on our drive the temperature gauge shot up into the red again. I left it for a while to cool down and when I removed the reservoir cap i found that it had emptied again, so again I topped it up and took it down the road, this time I only went a couple of miles and the gauge stayed in the middle but the car was definately not happy, when I attempted to accelerate the car was stuttering like mad, and I wasn't just whacking my foot down quickly I was driving it, or trying to drive it very moderately, I didn't sleep easily that night
On to today, I've got an Audi Cabriolet that needed a new electric aerial so I rang my mobile audio guy, Lee, who is a bit of an auto electrical genius and a lover of all things quick. When he arrived he told me that he had owned an RX-7 years ago when he lived in America, I immediately told him of the problems that I'd had and in a flash he'd forgotten the Audi and set about sorting the RX-7.
The car has a turbo boost gauge mounted on the dash and a turbo timer on the steering column, neither of which had worked from me collecting the car, he pulled a couple of fuse panels and tested them, they were all fine, then he noticed a loose wire that had just been snipped and left hanging, out came the volt meter and eventually he re-connected the loose wire which was the turbo timer, at this point it was as if the car gave a sigh of relief, no honestly it was, there was absolutely no lumpy idling as before.
Fascia back in place and filled with confidence we took it up the road, and I thought it only fair to let him drive, the difference in performance I just cannot begin to describe, the car was absolutely stunningly quick and totally free revving, the temp gauge remained central and God was truly in his heaven
I still don't understand why a non working turbo timer caused the car to use water at such a rapid rate but to be honest I am just totally relieved that the car is now running as it is meant to, Lee thinks that somewhere along the line the car had a security system removed and in the process of removing it the turbo timer wire had been inadvertantly snipped and not rejoined.
Apologies if I've bored any of you with this mini saga but I'd just like to say to the Asian guy,if you're reading this (hopefully), that obviously entered it into the auction thinking that he was about to seriously lift someone's leg and that it was in need of a VERY costly rebuild, THANK YOU, this is probably the cheapest RX-7 in this condition in the country and I can only think that you paid a LOT more to have it shipped from Japan. Admittedly after a bit of stressing ONE LOOSE WIRE WAS THE PROBLEM
If anyone is interested I can post some pics of my vision of beauty, let me know as I've probably bored you all by this point
Update on my RX-7 elfini but more about the beginning of the affair
When I first saw the car at the auction it looked absolutely stunning cosmetically in silver metallic with what I think is a veilside full body kit, my main concern at this point was that the car was a private entry and why would anyone enter such an immaculate looking car in an auction, my head told me that it must have a mechanical problem but my heart told me that I had to bid!
Once in front of the rostrum the auctioneer announced that it was for sale without reserve, again alarm bells were ring but the car had sounded so sweet as the driver tweeked the accelerator, the car had its own audience and punters were looking and listening in the engine bay which was truly immaculately clean. I thought stuff it I'm going to have a go and consequently won the car
Only when I collected the car did I receive the V5 registration document, it showed that the car had been imported by an Asian guy on 01/06/07 who had apparantly sold it to a guy in Middlesex who had completed his details on the V5 as the new keeper then proceeded to cross his details out, at this point I guessed that the Asian had sold it to this guy who had brought it back with a problem, it was around about this time that I started to perspire profusely
Anyway you know about the journey home on Tuesday so onto yesterday, I had a couple of conversations with Pip at WGT Auto Developments who gave me some sound advice freely about topping up the coolant which I followed precisely, he also frightened me when he said that worst ways it could be an engine rebuild at £3,000!
I topped it up the first time, took it for a 3 mile run and as I got back on our drive the temperature gauge shot up into the red again. I left it for a while to cool down and when I removed the reservoir cap i found that it had emptied again, so again I topped it up and took it down the road, this time I only went a couple of miles and the gauge stayed in the middle but the car was definately not happy, when I attempted to accelerate the car was stuttering like mad, and I wasn't just whacking my foot down quickly I was driving it, or trying to drive it very moderately, I didn't sleep easily that night
On to today, I've got an Audi Cabriolet that needed a new electric aerial so I rang my mobile audio guy, Lee, who is a bit of an auto electrical genius and a lover of all things quick. When he arrived he told me that he had owned an RX-7 years ago when he lived in America, I immediately told him of the problems that I'd had and in a flash he'd forgotten the Audi and set about sorting the RX-7.
The car has a turbo boost gauge mounted on the dash and a turbo timer on the steering column, neither of which had worked from me collecting the car, he pulled a couple of fuse panels and tested them, they were all fine, then he noticed a loose wire that had just been snipped and left hanging, out came the volt meter and eventually he re-connected the loose wire which was the turbo timer, at this point it was as if the car gave a sigh of relief, no honestly it was, there was absolutely no lumpy idling as before.
Fascia back in place and filled with confidence we took it up the road, and I thought it only fair to let him drive, the difference in performance I just cannot begin to describe, the car was absolutely stunningly quick and totally free revving, the temp gauge remained central and God was truly in his heaven
I still don't understand why a non working turbo timer caused the car to use water at such a rapid rate but to be honest I am just totally relieved that the car is now running as it is meant to, Lee thinks that somewhere along the line the car had a security system removed and in the process of removing it the turbo timer wire had been inadvertantly snipped and not rejoined.
Apologies if I've bored any of you with this mini saga but I'd just like to say to the Asian guy,if you're reading this (hopefully), that obviously entered it into the auction thinking that he was about to seriously lift someone's leg and that it was in need of a VERY costly rebuild, THANK YOU, this is probably the cheapest RX-7 in this condition in the country and I can only think that you paid a LOT more to have it shipped from Japan. Admittedly after a bit of stressing ONE LOOSE WIRE WAS THE PROBLEM
If anyone is interested I can post some pics of my vision of beauty, let me know as I've probably bored you all by this point
