DD, My congrauts, you are in the top 1% of clean and gleam Rx-7 owners. But to break into the top .5% you have GOT to do something about that yellow toe nail of a radiator overflow bottle. My eyes! my eyes! They go right to it!

 

That engine bay sparkles beautifully.

 

Sadly, no longer available for a good many years. I will have to replace it sometime, though; starting to see the beginnings of stress fractures at the surface.

Not even bleach or oxyclean have been able to lighten it - the color's in the plastic.

 

I can help you put the white back in her smile, but it will have to wait until this fall when I return back home.

 

Is it time to switch to the round FB type? I installed one in my car yesterday. You know, you already went down a dark path when you installed the later alternator. What's another FB/FC upgrade here and there?

I'm corrupting you. Hahaha

Next it'll be DLIDFIS (J-105 style) and a full RB exhaust. After that an upgraded Nikki. When will it end?

 

I will await further news, then. Safe travels!

 

First time out in the sun all together and running:



















I did a full heat cycle, then shutdown for a couple hours, then restarted - - and not a hint of flooding so far. I need to get a couple vacuum tees so I can properly check the draw thru the refurbished canister, but thus far, all seems functional.

Yay.

Oh, and here's an air-cleaner rotary Yin-Yang for y'all:

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Excellent job DD! Excellent.

 

I like the lettering done in nostalgic Mazda air cleaner blue. Nice touch and great job overall!

 

Than joo, sir - - my intent was to 'reverse' colors on the original airbox. Original was blue with white, so the reverse would be blue letters on chrome ('white'). I think it came out really nice. It got a ton of compliments at Cars and Coffee Saturday AM.

Also, official; no flood or smoke after a full-temp run 40 miles to the meet point, then a 40-minute shutdown while everyone queued, then a hot re-start. Same deal returning after complete heat cycle; started clean on the choke, no flood or smoke.

I believe I can say with some certainty now that at Day 1,769 - - I seem to have eliminated my hot-shutdown flood. At last. maybe.

Next week will tell the tale for sure. Driving to Vegas for a meet. It's 250 miles each way, and probably will be in the high 90's or better. Couple of 4000 foot elevation changes, too. Serious test.

 

Great time talking with you and checking out your car in vegas. Cars amazing. Some good inspiration sir. Oh, and congrats

 

Wow, almost two years since my last update... the "what did you do.. today?" thread took a lot of the steam out of my build thread posts.

I need to spend some time catching things up, here - several interesting projects have passed by!

 

That is a long time for an update, impressive!

Should be interesting seeing the updates, keep 'em coming!

 

Looking forward to more updates! Your build is gorgeous, the workmanship is always top notch.

 

Also looking forward to updates. For whatever reason I almost never go in that "what did you do" thread lol

 

Day 4,071:

And so here we are, come full circle;

Decided to start the Beastie up today after too many months of not driving it.

Preflights all check out, pull the clutch, turn the key, and off she goes as normal.

For about 30 seconds. sudden rough running, sputter, die. Attempts to restart only bring the smell of fuel.

Check the float bowl levels. Both flooded. Ah, sticky needles. Garage reeks of fuel.

Set to pulling the top cover off the carb in 100-deg heat, trying to remember all the tricks for quick float access I learned in the first years of this thread, lo those many years ago.

Cover off, thanking myself for the dozenth time that I helicoiled all the cover screw holes years back.

Needles out... Yeah, little bit of a burr on each apex, & a little gummy. Clean and burnish.

Put it all back together, go to start it. No joy... though float levels are now correct.

Pull the plugs... fouled. Put in the clean set I keep for smog checks.

Starts, runs til choke goes in... dies.

What?

Manage to get it restarted, hold partial throttle, running well at 2k RPMs as long as I hold it. Let it warm fully, rev it a few times, all seems well.

Try to go to idle. Dies like someone shot it, below about 1400 RPM

Yeah, It's time for a carb rebuild. Idle or transition circuit must be gummed up.

And around we go, back to post #1 from... July 9, 2008.

So, I should be about 8 days from the raccoons showing up.

 

Welcome back! What kind of gas are you using while in storage. I try and stick to non-enthonal with some Stabil and Seafoam.

 

I don't really have a lot of options in that department... and if there's any non-ethanol gas within 20 miles of me I've yet to find it.

And the raccoons are late.

 

Disassembly about 90% complete. No surprises thus far.

The cleaninatin' begins this weekend.

 

Reassembly proceeding slowly. Round Tuits in short supply. Out of town twice in the meantime.

The crush washers for the fuel inlet spider provided with the rebuild kit were slightly oversize (inner dia off by 1mm) so I ordered some from Amazon of correct size.

Interior was somewhat gummy but not horrendously so... Hopefully I won' wrap up to discover another issue, but the chance exists.

Something I'll never understand. The rebuild kits all uniformly have the washers in numbered bags. The kits also come with instruction sheets that have numbered parts diagrams.

The numbers NEVER match. Nothing to do with each other.

So always remember, kids; either keep the old CWs with the parts until you reassemble, or measure and document the sizes (allowing for crush deformation).

 

Reassembly complete yesterday; driven inside by nasty weather. Adjustment checks today, then re-installation, testing, tuning... and hopefully resolution of the non-idle issue.

Still no idea how to dispose of the approximate half-tank of probably stale regular gas in the car. Nothing else around the house can use regular (all my yard tools are electric) and I don't have anything bigger than a 1-gallon gas can.

Only thing I can think of is to dilute it with fresh gas and use it up (which will require 200+ miles of driving), but it'll have to at least get me to the gas station with what's in there.

 

Late update: last Saturday I completed the carb, remounted it, and she started on the first attempt. Running quite rich on base settings, but some quick adjustments to the MAS and idle speed screws, and a readjustment of the throttle cable to increase slack, got her purring and the air in the garage breathable.
Good for another 5 or 6 years.

 

Great to hear! Hope to see you and the car again soon. Maybe Rotorcon or JCCS and Sevenstock.

 

If you liked that one... you'll love this one...

Still running, still passing smog, and still pretty much unchanged.

The car. Not me.

 

Glad to hear that the car is still running well!! I have two of the Rock Auto magnets with your car on it. I display them on my garage fridge!