well I am now officially a RX7 owner.
About a 1/4mile from my house the logicon lights up everything.
crap
look at guages everythings ok
100 feet from the driveway I get a shot of steam from the hood
crap crap
coast into the driveway, check guages temp guage is at 3/4
shut the car down and flip the hood open
the alternator belt is broken and the water pump belt is off
I thought all the belts were new but appparently the alternator belt wasn't
guess I'll need to get a repair manual
it's dried and cracked on further inspection on whats left of it

WOOT WOOT, the event was pretty kickass

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OMG! Garcia doing something that involves something more than two wheels and a V-Twin! Alert the Press!!!

haha, everyone said i would get out of cars as soon as i rode my bike. i still have love for my car. ill never give it up. :D

Dude, Sunday when me and Joe where over John's house and all you and Mike did was go 'bike this, bike that', I just wanted to through a rotor housing at you or something. Come up and see us sometime damnit!

yea, well 170 miles with 16 other bikers was pretty hardcore.

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Looks like the drift event was fun in the rain.
I picked up the GTU this weekend. To my surprise, it runs and it's not in bad shape at all. I pulled the spare motor apart and everything is junk except for 1 rotor housing, so that kinda sucks. Should be a fun project!

On continued further inspection I don't like one of the other belts either, so I am going to replace them all. I must say it is real easy to get the belts off and on compared to every other car I've ever owned, the tensioners are very easy to work with.

well over lunch I bought the rest of the belts, ran home at lunch and removed all the belts and got as far as getting the new alternator belt on

Sooooo, did you fix it? Another rex for the auto ex?

I need a few parts, can anyone help me out? I don't feel like going to CAP, because when I do they see me coming and get rid of all the 2nd gen RX-7s:

Drivers side FTP
Radio Surround
Drivers side door trim

the belt for the P/S pump doesn't fit right, friggin autozone
I'm going to go to NAPA for the last belt (where all the old belts are from)
I am 99% sure I am running the rex at the sept 26 AutoX @ VMP
for the sept 19th event out in Verona (BRRSCCA) I'm going to run the Ghia
my parents bought a place out in Stuarts Draft back in January (15 minutes away from Verona) they have a really nice workshop/garage, it's 900 sqft
my sway bars for the ghia finally arrived so that should tighten up the cornering nicely

Hey Zach,
I just remebered, I still have the original radio/cassete deck from the rex does it have the stereo surround you need or is that a seperate component? (noob question I know but well hey I am noob to these cars) You can have if it's watcha need, I had a new sony cd player put in the first week I had the car.

Zack, I've got an S5 surround and shifter trim. Give me a call, I'll cut you a good deal. 687.6199.

-Jayson

I need the whole surround piece (around vents, controls, ash tray, ect.), but I can use the stock stereo. Hopefully the old plug is still in tact.

ok thats whats meant by the stereo surround, stereo was working when I had it taken out, and looks to be in good shape, it's all yours (glad I didn't chuck it) and got the belts back on at lunch today, put in a 1/2 gallon of coolant, and runs just fine. Tonight I double check the belt tensions.

Thanks Jayson! Looks much better!

Still looking for driver's side S4 trim. Anyone?

yay!!! drove the RX& to work, the belts seem to be tensioned fine
Zach: I can bring the radio to the next autoX or meet up with you at some point

I didn't realize how far away the next autoX is... maybe we should meet up? I'll be in touch.

what a f'n week, my phonline has been down (no dialtone) since monday and they said it'll be next monday before they can get a tech out there, so that means no DSL at the house either DAMMIT!!! thank god I at least have a working cell phone on the bright side of it no telemarketers for a week :)

That's why I don't have a house phone.

$6500? I'll take it! :)

well, I'm not dead, will wonders ever cease, anyhoo, I'll be back up in richmond this weekend and I'll have my 7 with me, so this semester should be interesting.