Yes, believe it or not...

Sept 14th, 2004

Erik's Rx7's FPD fails and his engine catches fire

Nearly a year later



with the help of

Brad (13B-RE TII)
Myk (eage8)
Suds (sudseh)
Mike (f1bluerx7)
Steve (Turbo23)
Jung (HITMANEM2)
Mike (crashdummy)
Jason (tofuball)

And ofcourse

Ray Crowe (Malloy Mazda)

They all took countless hours out of thier lives to help me at one point or another durring the 11 months that my car was dead.

Ray allways was ready with whatever part i needed at a fantasic price.

Here it is for you non-believers

http://rapidshare.de/files/4194430/DSCF0002.AVI.html

Yes, that is the coolant buzzer - we think the sensor is broken - we are working on it - it has plenty of coolant, and we burped the lines.

The temp gauge isn't moving, so we need to fix that too. It is not ready to be driven yet, but it starts!

ERIK

 

Congrats man, I know what its like to have a car down, Hell i almost went 4 years, Different situation but i know how happy you are.

Congrats

 

w00tness! I'm practically freefor the next week or so, lemme know if you want help.
suds

 

awesome

I start school next monday and I bought a daily driver so I'll be able to come over and help you with it when ever just give me a call.

-the guy in the credits ^^^^^

 

I'm working on those pictures Erik, That was just a really weird coolant setup. Never seen anything like it before.

 

what's up with the coolant lines?

 

yeah his coolent setup is pretty crazy

 

Awesome!

 

so you WILL be at the fudd's meet?

 

Everyone - i get off work tomorrow at 230pm - and for the next few days i have NOTHING to do - unfortunatly, i will be in Nashville on the Fudds meet.

But Wed and Thursday my schedual is CLEAR

Who wants to come help Erik finish?

The coolant buzzer is going off, as you can hear, help me figure that out - and the temp guage isn't working

i need some people to come down, especially the really sharp guys - you know who you are.

And if we have time, i know a lady in columbia who needs a assesment of her Turbo II.

Thanks guys for all your suport!

come give me some more

ERIK

 

if u were only a little closer, ide be down wid helping

 

I can do it next week

this week is pretty much booked... it's the last week before I go back to school....

 

Suds came by today

Coolant sensor - fixed

Temp sensor - replaced plug and wire...still no luck.....

bouncing idle - TPS? we unplugged the TPS and now it is staying at 1.4k rpm and isn't bouncing. So bad TPS or does it need to be adjusted?

there are still some things that need to be looked at - may have a leaking seal on an injector, and that could or could not explain the ocassional bit of smoke from near the turbo.

Suds is coming by tomorrow to look at it some more. Let me know if you want to come by to take a look. I am free all day.

ERIK

 

psh, you forgot to mention how I drove it around the circle and then you drove it around the circle. :P

 

Oh yeah - i guess that was a big step =)

i was reading threads about bouncing idles, and they were a lot saying vac leak - but have we disproven it is a vac leak from un plugging the TPS?

Also - suds - i just thought of something...the TPS is on the UIM....i have THREE UIM, 2 of them in the basement...they have TPS on them....

 

the tps is on the throttle body

sorry I couldn't come down today.. this week has been crazy. I'll try to come over sometime next week

 

then i have a few throtle bodies too...

 

Congrats on getting it to run, and hopefully congrats no being able to drive it father than your parking lot soon

I took mine out last night for the first time (well, the first time I went more than 5 miles with it). Need that alignment and a bunch of cleanup stuff to do, but it was a great feeling to cruise on 695... my tags are even legal and belong to my car

And I'm mad cause I'm not in the credits... I told you how to fire up the torch to get the exhaust manifold off

(No I'm not really mad, I didn't do all that much )

 

TPS are easy to test to see if they are bad, just check the readings on them with a multimiter.

Also remember, if you unplug them, the ECU automatically says: "RUN ULTRA RICH"

So, if telling the ECU to run much richer is solving your problem . . . you might have a lean condition.

Lean conditions are most commonly caused by . . . .
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. . . . vac leaks! :O

 

Whoops - how could i forget you joey! you taught me that cool trick with the wrenches! i never would have gotten the tranny un bolted with out your guidance!

we replaced the TPS

that solved the bouncing idle

now we have this issue

https://www.rx7club.com/showthread.p...=1#post4705123

TII guys?

 

http://rapidshare.de/files/4389685/DSCF0001.AVI.html

Video of the Rev issue