1987 RX7 GXL project
 

So I picked up very first RX7 a couple weeks back. Now my second car after heavily upgrading from a car I'd rather not admit to have owned haha. The fella I got it from said it was a blown engine....Well, new spark plugs and upgrading from the ones that were caked with oil (I'll post some pictures of them in the next little bit) and more than they should have been even with a high mileage car, a new battery and topping up the coolant, it decided to run; all for $600.

I decided to insure it and take it for a spin around the block. It's insanely flooded and the intent was to clear all the crap out with a good highway run but the brakes need some attention from sitting for months and then the rpm's decide to drop upon braking. New pads and rotors to be ordered in the next few days and then I believe (after looking through forums) I could just clean the BAC valve and from there she'll run smoothly, if not then most likely look around for a vac leak. So for $600 I got a running RX7 with an aftermarket exhaust (still dual exhaust) that I can't recall the name of (swapping to an Apexi N1 single most likely), a limited-slip differential, some decent wheels with a bit of wear and tear but no matter..and to boot a more rare colour being the darker gray.

Anyways, as a quick note of what I plan on doing to this thing and will most likely be posting updates when I add a couple of new things to it are as follows (for now a lot of random things apposed to full performance and tuning):
1. Apexi N1 Exhaust
2. Entire interior swapped and re-done considering how ugly it is
3. S5 taillights swapped in
4. Momo Corse steering wheel (for now boss kit, perhaps quick release if I have extra cash)
5. Audio deck because of dickhead thieves
6. After market seating...probably both driver and passenger (will be a while cause I have seats lined up off another car when I buy its interior)
7. Engine swap with a street port somewhere in here, already lined up just gotta get around to it

No specific order, just do what I can first depending on my money situation. I've had this thing for a couple weeks and I've already got probably $1000 waiting to be dropped into it...uh oh.

Cool man, nice score. I would have jumped on it at that price too

Where in BC are you from?

-sean

Pleased to meet another BC area RX7 owner! Incredible find for $600, hope the project goes well.

I'm over on Vancouver island near Nanaimo, (decent little scene of 7's over here too, 4 2nd gens and 1 3rd gen in my town alone) and yeah I was pretty happy. Just randomly thought, "hey, lets just try it for shits and gigs" and it really seemed to want to turn over so I started trouble shooting it.

My bank account won't like the project too much haha, but thanks, hoping to make it as mint as I can too

The infamous spark plugs

Those plugs... YUCK. And the flooding could also be the injectors leaking.

I plan on working on it soon, just been horrid weather as of late and haven't been able to. I'll post on how she runs when I finish with that. I'll take a look at that as well if my BAC valve theory is a bust.
Thanks.

nice man. a good buddy of mine is living just outside of victoria right now. he just blew up an 87 gxl 6-port turbo last week ha ha. i feel kind of responsible cuz it was my old turbo :P

thing worked great for a while though, went like stink.

-sean

Haha oh no. Cruddy luck.

Quick thing I put together of my 7 and how it ran the first time it fired and today once more of the crud was burnt out.

Nice man! Sounds much better than before

Oh yeah it does. Putting on some new brake rotors I picked up today hopefully tomorrow and then it should be good to drive. Rpm stopped dropping upon braking. Just needs a weld on the exhaust cause it's leaking some oil. Then it's good.

Yet another addition to the perfect display of how little this car was maintained. I introduce to you, the holy shit rotors..this one took two of us an hour to get off and beat the living hell out of it with a 7-10lbs sledgehammer..was really warped on stuck on there.

Anyways, a nice before and after shot haha

SOLD! Traded rather. Buddy of mine had a 1986 n/a with full interior and what I would have eventually swapped to, manual windows (much more reliable). We had be same condition cars and since he wanted to strip his and mine was basically there, we thought screw it...trade!

(Going to start a new build thread for the new car I think, seems right anyways)