I've been living behind the search button of this site for years (since middle school) I finally picked up a 91 N/A with 161k on the odometer the interior was terribly mutilated by the previous owner which I would like to refer to as "The Genius" ... it needs shocks/ the brakes are spongy/ the shifter bushings are gone/ the seat belts don't work/ the sunroof is crooked and cocked up on one side/ and the drive-shaft needs to have the front u-joint replaced.... but the engine runs almost flawless it doesn't smoke AT ALL it idles solid at 700rpm and keeps its cool with a good charge sorta creepy for $1000 I drove it 35 miles back to my house without any problems and now ill be trying to bring the car back to life

 

The day I got her home you can clearly see the work of the genius in these pics

 

Dirty:

 

finally got around to washing it yesterday its starting to look like it actually belongs to somebody now







even cleaned up the engine bay a little bit



but, the interior is turning out to be quite the project

 

Took apart a new logicon cleaned every button and replaced the light bulbs



finished product

 

Disassembled the din for some clean up

Dirty:








I broke the orange cigarette lighter light lens which is cool the previous owner painted it silver anyway

 

cleaned up and painted:



all together



S4 center console

 

working headlight switch:




came across a perfect non cloudy turn signal handle but its broken on the back and, its larger than the one I took off for some reason





I drilled holes in the teeth of a 50 AMP fuse I found laying around





Loctite epoxy set in place with styrofoam then I placed the the metal piece for the bond

 

Just picked up a $400 S4 Turbo2 parts car. GOOD TIMES!

 

what do u use to paint those pieces? looking good.,.,

 

Looking good dude, holy **** that interior is butchered...that guy must have been a ricer.

 

for the plastic pieces I did one quick coat of Dupli-Color adhesion promoter then a couple coats of Dupli-Color OEM black trim paint for the rubber textured surround part I used Dupli-Color vinyl and fabric paint

 

atleast the engine looked unmolested. can't wait to see the end result, you're doing a great job! i wanna see more lol

 

Wow that paint looks like it worked really well. Might have to do the same to a few of my pieces.

 

Looking good so far.

 

Hahaha my 7 came from a 'genius' as well. That cracks me up.

 

hahaha I find something new everyday with this car I'm not surprised by much anymore I found a weird box with antennae cables coming out of it under the carpet on the passenger side yesterday


:Today I'll go behind the gauge cluster shroud and see how hacked the headlight wiring is.

 

Haha.. back when I bought my car I found at least 10 empty packs of cigs under both seats.

 

Any advise for surgically removing a set of center vents? I found a set at a junk yard id like to stick a screwdriver to

 

mystery box under the carpet on the passenger foot area im thinking xm radio or satellite radio module



Finally took the duck tape off the gauge cluster shroud needless to say its bad, really bad The Genius really did a number on it to say the least

 

I need a little help guys: what ive searched out is from the s4 parts car I need to get the all the lower control arms and sway bar from the suspension everything else is pretty much the same?

 

Great buy and great progress on your project so far. The interior might need work but it looks like the engine is untouched.

As for the suspension, another "upgrade" you can do to the S5 RX-7 is swap in the S4 sway bar endlinks. The S4 are metal, while the S5 are plastic.

 

How did you clean your engine? did you pressure wash it?

 

with the engine warm i squeezed a whole bottle of the purple power degreaser stuff everywhere let it sit for a few minutes and pressure wash the entire engine bay ...the plastic don't like the degreaser so much

 

cool,everything else is pretty much the same though right?

anyway real way to tell if the engine was rebuilt? every vacuum line was replaced with silicone it has two new cats new o2 sensor and fresh plugs