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Old Jun 17, 2021 | 11:27 PM
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Hello

Used to frequent this forum years ago, but cannot find my old account, or even the email I used back in 2005-6 ish.

I own an 87 RX7 that has been in storage for the last 14 years, finally was able to start fixing it up, and got it running again. Registered here so I can ask some electrical questions later though.

This is what the gas tank looked like after 14 years:

This is what the gas tank looked like after sitting for 14 years

This is after cleaning it out

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Old Jun 17, 2021 | 11:37 PM
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welcome back. tank looks terrible. let's see some pix of the car. what caused it to be put in storage?

any technical questions u have can be posted here: https://www.rx7club.com/new-member-rx-7-technical-256/

and u could start a build thread in the 2nd gen section here: https://www.rx7club.com/build-threads-294/
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Old Jun 17, 2021 | 11:40 PM
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The Air Force moved me from the US to Japan, the car went into storage in NC. I got out a few years later and moved to Utah for school stuff. and got it brought out here, but it just sat until had enough money to start getting it fixed up.



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Old Jun 18, 2021 | 05:53 AM
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Welcome to the forum! The car appears to be an 87 Sport. Fairly rare trim level to see anymore. Glad to hear that its running again. Does the car have a lot of issues that still need sorted out?
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Old Jun 18, 2021 | 09:34 AM
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It is a base model, guy at work had the sport version, and blew the motor, so I bought his as a parts car, and also have a nice rotor display piece. Transferred all the suspension bits over, and replaced a bunch of broken dash parts, so is why it has the 5 lug wheels on it. It does have the back seat as well, so it is a 2+2


Main issue I am having at the moment is the gauge cluster keeps releasing the magic smoke

Things worked fine before I removed the dashboard to get access to the heater core for fixing, and when I plugged it back in, if the speed cable is attached, the return to 0 spring on the sped cable is heating up till it is glowing red hot, I think there is a grounds issue somewhere. Previous owner, 14+ years ago had a couple of wires vampire clipped off, but they terminated so am not sure if I am missing grounds somewhere else.

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Old Jun 19, 2021 | 05:52 AM
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Welcome to forum
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