**** the good quote is, "we do it nice, cause we do it twice!"

casue thats how alot of people do thier cars...

im changing my ways, just ask tweak....

 

Where are we planning on meeting at? and would this be the Saturday of the 17th?

 

i think im going to get tabs this week, but by no means will mine be ready for a trip.... on to fix the intercooler coupler tonight....

 

If its the 17th I will be working that weekend.

 

im down to meet at anytime, so someone pick a date and we will plan on it.

 

hey driftN7 where did you get your car?
is that luis old car?

 

ya it is Luis's do you know him? Hey Tweak said you have a s5 turbo for sale and I really need one I blew mine, but I dont have much money, I would like to get it this weekend, I need to pay some bills on friday and see what I have left, oh and get somthing for mothers day!

 

yea im pretty good friends with luis, i have worked on that car a few times too. what happend to the T4 and **** that was on it?
and i got that s5 turbo, pm me what you can do. maybe i can work with ya.

 

the T4 went bad, it was a shitty turbo anyways, that car has givin me hell. So what is a used s5 turbo worth anyways, I dont know what there worth.

 

umm just search around on the forum in the 2nd gen section, or pm me an offer, have you done anything else to the car?

 

well you will see it if I buy your turbo, the intercooler has been moved to the front of the car instead of behinfd the radiator, LOL. the safc is gone, a dual apexi N1 exhaust, gutted, the T2 hood id fucked up from the carwash. new speakers all the way around DVD player, the supposidly new ACT clutch went out in like 5 months. new alternator, new fuel pump, soon to have aftermarket fuel regulator, new sec. injectors. some knick knacks.

 

hmm, thats wierd, i remeber he had the intercooler mounted in the front, and hacked th **** out of the bumper.... did he move it before you bought it?

why did you take out the safc?

 

Im not sure, and i sold the safc.

 

how much did you sell the safc for, im thinkin of getting rid of mine...

 

well I dont know if you know (eriks7) on the forum, but when I lived in seattle he did some work for me, and I gave that to him to reduce the price of my bill, that was like the first SAFC so I think he sold it for $100. Eriks7 is the guy thats selling that sweet JDM white rx7 on craigslist right now for $8 grand. Beautiful car, he helped set up my car cuz luis had it set up all weird and i was new to the rotary world, and didnt have a clue.

 

ahh, yea i have the safc II, wo what kind of stuff did you have to fix on the car? you said he had things wierd?

 

well the intercooler, the exhaust was matted to the turbo, alot of cut wires that were not capped off. His name was etched in the radiator resevoir, he sold me the car with 2 bad sec. injectors, and what he said was a new clutch, the throw out bearing went out in a month. overall the car has been a real pain in the butt, most of the big problems have been my fault though for not knowing eneogh about rotaries, im on my second engine in one year.

 

Second engine in one year is nothing. I like a quote from one of my rotary elders "the key is to learn from mistakes. actually our cars are not that complicated and you eventually cover all the bases. once you do, you will find the journey was worth the cost... "
Hopefully you won't be like me and go through ... ohhh 8 or 9 engines before you start to get it right. I learned the hard way, as you are. Read the forums like a bible, but also second guess everything (like the bible haha) and do even more research on the forum. There is a wealth of information here and reading/searching just a little bit will save you tons of money, but even better yet, time. It's great having an rx7, and getting to play with it, but if it's broken/dead half the time, how much fun is it really?

At least now you understand what you did wrong in the past, and I can tell from when I first talked to you on the phone, you are starting to figure it out. Instead of just shrugging it off and listening to your JDM friends you are doing research. Keep it up. JDM friends are cool and all, it's just that your playing a whole different game than them with a turbo rotary.

 

hey tweak we still on for tomorrow.
im lookin forwared to help tearin that engine down...lol

 

hey Tweak Im going to call you later Im having some serious problems now, its something wrong everyday this week, I love that car to much to give up on it.

 

Yeup come on down! I will be taking the engine out today, but then I have to take a lot of pictures of all the stuff I am going to be selling so that's about as far as I am going to get. Friday morning I will take all the stuff off it and we can start looking inside to see what's inside.

Alrighty, call me when evers no biggy. Having something wrong every week .... yeah it seems weird now ... you will get used to it.

 

Tweak is on top of things, what a great guy, for helping everyone here, set up theres cars properly, and learn from his rotary ways.
+5 for Tweak!

 

hahah thanks, but having the name "Tweak" has a minium requirement of 5 blown engines a year. I do what I can, I have had a lot of help also. My group of advisors; Jenkins, Rob, Chris, and all the other gurus on the forum have helped me tons. The people that I really admire are all the people in the late 80s and early 90s that didn't have a forum or any clue what was going on with their engines. Everything was somewhat new, and communictaions were only limited to your local friend and mechanics that also had no clue what was going on with this crazy engine. I could NOT have lived / owned an rx7 back than. Scary. So really it should be +5 forum.

On a side note, without a forum, it would have takin a long time, if EVER for all the people in Yakima and such to find each other. Without chris's help right when I started out, I bet I would not be owning a 7 today. Back then I had to go through him for parts and such because I didn't know anybody. I found him on the forum, and he was VERY confused because we used to go to YVCC, and I used to be hooked on 240sxes. haha.

I am nothing special, I just have a little too much free time, the ability to sit on the forums for 5+ hours at a time, and I have enough resources to complete projects. I am a little obessed with my car though, but I think there are a few other people out there like me.

 

thats a good point I cant imagine not having this site and owning an rx7, I would deffinatly just give up.

 

im not around yakima but i wouldnt mind a drive there... maybe you can take me to a few good slidin roads Driftn7