So I picked up a rolling chassis the other month and have just now been able to start working on it. I got a rebuilt motor sent in and was able to pick that up on sunday, but now I am missing a few pieces. I am working on it up in Wilsonville while I go to school down in Corvallis, and wanted to know if it would be ok for me to post up some pictures of the parts that I am missing here in the NW section so that I can have some local guys be able to tell me what they are ? I have never owned an RX7 before and I am excited to get this one up and running. It is a 93 R1 model, so I really want to do it right. When I head back up to Wilsonville this weekend I will take some pictures of it just for all of your sakes. Thanks everyone and let the learning begin!

 

congrats! welcome to club!

 

Welcome! Put up some pics.

 

woot, another 3rd gen on the forums, welcome btw! if u got questions, pm me!

 

Thanks guys! I will be putting up some pics here this weekend, but the motor isnt in yet because I am waiting on some turbos. But hopefully all will be well. I cant wait to start going to some meets too, that would be a blast!

 

Was it blue?

 

im in the corvallis area and have a bunch of parts laying around so let me know if ya need some random stuff i might have it, i have a set of stock twins too if you need em

 

Yeah spider, its a montego blue... that bluish green color. Thanks Bosscobra, I will hit you up with some pms if I cant find anything, I really appreciate it.

 

I've got some random accessories like airpump, A/C system, and stock intercooler still available I'm trying to part with

 

Congrats on the 7, your in for a hell of a blast.

Also let me know as well on parts, I have a shitload of them as well probably have at least one thing you might need.

 

You dint pick it up from a fellow in Milwaukie with a Mazdaspeed bumper on it?

 

I saw that one for sale on CL. Did he really get rid of it?

 

Yeah that is where I picked it up. Why is there something wrong with it?

 

No, but read my pm. :p

 

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo i wanna know. whats the deal on this car?

 

Is it that purple one? The dude who had the Z too? Griffon on the forums

 

Its nothing.

Aquanius is a pretty cool fellow and it should be a great car when he is done .

 

Haha, yeah I guess you could call it a purpleish color. It really depends on the light, when it is under the halogens it looks almost purple but in the sun is montego blue haha. Spyder is awesome and has helped me quite a bit, and was just asking me a couple of questions about the car. Nothing wrong with the car at, he was just looking at it and had been tempted to buy it, but I swooped in for the kill first Sorry for not posting pictures this weekend like I said, I was trying to get the motor together first, and I am missing a few things. But it is nice that NAPA is so close, they seem to have almost every type of nut a bolt that fits our cars, and they dont want $80 for the manifold stud kit

Right now I need to go buy a Die grinder so I can cut out the flanges for the turbo precontrol, I think that is what it is called, and hopefully port out the waste gate. Does anyone know if it is better to weld the manifolds flapper open, or if it should be cut out? It is welded right now, but I think I might just get rid of it completely. The only reason I am doing all of this is that the motor came to me nonseq. so I thought I might as well go with it because I really dont want to redo the rats nest lol. After that, I just have to put the accessories on the motor, find some vaccum hosing for a couple of the nipples that I have no clue to where, and then drop the sucker in!! I will be updating this on friday when I head back up to Wilsonville to try and get all of this done in one day... but you all know how that goes.

 

The best way to maximize the wastegate's effinciency is to port the opening to very near the size of the flapper and allow the flapper to still function and do it's job. If you search the 3rd gen archives you'll find plenty of step by step threads an measurments.

 

Yeah, I was thinking of following the rotory ressurection step by step where they use paint to show where to port to. I was going to get the specs so I could have a more accurate measurement though.