Well, picked up my new car today for 500 after tax and stuff. Here's the specs for those that are interested.

Blue 1985 GS with 89,000 miles. (wow!) grey cloth interior. (perfect except for a hole in the driver's side door pannel.)

Everything is orriginal on it, and there's not even a door ding!! Needs a new paint job, though, cause the paint is faded. I'm thinking it was a sunday driver for a long time and whoever it was was small and light, cause there's very little wear on the seats. (no fat *** drove it.)

All that was wrong with it was a low battery and the choke cable was broken. I replaced the cable. (Thanks Brian!!) and then I jump started it after pouring a cap of MMO in the carb for extra lube and compression.

there's very little gas in the tank. It starts up just fine now, but it won't rev up much past 3.5k. I'm thinking it's prolly a combination old gas, little gas, and a clogged fuel filter. Might be a clogged cat too, cause it's quiet as hell. You can barely hear it run.

If anyone has any suggestions, feel free to throw them at me. I'm getting the filters and stuff tomorrow and trying to get it running properly. Need to get it registered, too.

I've got a new -7!!! Whoo Hoo!! Hopefully I'll be taking it to ABF!!

 

If I could find a guy to retro my racing beat header onto my car, I prolly give him my monza header. *ahem, cough, cough*

 

oh yeah, pics?

 

welcome back to the ownership side!

 

good job man. good to hear that you own a 7 again.

 

Get some pics up, Chris! Congrats!

 

If someone brought over a camera, I could do that. My ex took my camera, and I'm not buying another one any time soon.


Brian- no prob trying to get that RB Header setup on your car.

 

Give me a call if you want me to put some pics up for you... I should be home after 5:00

 

cool... I'll be outside tinkering on it all night, prolly.

 

well it's about freakin time.


some pic's would be nice

 

glad to get another one back, how'd you get such as steal?

 

as I mentioned in my first post, the choke cable was broken. It wouldn't start.

 

soliciting for a camera... someone? anyone?

 

Dude, you didn't call... call me or stop by, I will loan you mine! Better yet, drive it up to my place, and we will take some pics next to the Cobra!

 

gotta get it running right before I can drive it... also have to get it registered. Hopefully I can do that tomorrow. I'm going to tinker with it tonite.

 

Get 'er dun, and come on by man.

 

Well, I'll be blunt. I broke it.

The carb wasnt shooting much fuel in, so I did the old trick where you put your hand over the carb to let it suck the crap out of the inside. Yeah, it completely clogged the carb... won't squirt any fuel at all now.

Greg is supposed to be bringing his old Nikki over tonite, so we're gonna try to get it started with that carb.


Keith and I already swapped out the fuel filter, so that's not an issue. Wondering if it could be the fuel filter too... If I remember right, the series 3 has the fuel pump wired wierd... Doesn't work when just on in the accy mode.

 

Nice... what carbs are available for the rotary? If you are looking to get a new carb, definately find one that has a cheater plate made for it... makes nitrous alot easier to play with

 

umm.. there's one... the Nikki. no cheater plate known to exist.

 

Ack... this just means that we will need to be creative

RX-7 n00b question, is the Nikki the only carb that fits on the 12a? Since it is such a tiny little engine, I have no idea what all is available...

Edit: I just did a search for "Nikki 12a" and came up with a bunch of sites that have the Paris Hilton video... and a bunch of **** related to Nikki (her sister?). Funny ****... on a gov. computer...

 

they make a setup to replace the nikki with the Holley, but the Holley isn't very good around corners or at high rpm...

You can really mod the nikki a lot to get more power out of it.

 

If you're creative enough, you can plumb the nitrous in through the phenolic spacer. At least that's my plan. It's thick enough, and goes right into the flow.

 

brian, your not gonna run a dry kit are you? thats asking for disaster

 

It's a really nice lookin' 7, but it needs a paint job which I told him I'd help out with... everything works in the interior, and the whole thing looks great... just needs some more gitty up and go power... hint hint nudge nudge...

 

the holley doesn't cut out if you convert to center hung floats