i hava a 74 clean rx2 probably the only one in s.cali,running my daily driverand it hauls *** every day

 

I just picked up a 72 rx2 a week ago, so far so good. I am sure you will hear a lot from me in the future. I will have lots of questions on where to get stuff and what interchanges with what.

 

I used to own a S1 RX2 1971 model. With stockers twin dizzy 12A and all and Simmons wheels. Bought it as a wreck though... poor thing.

 

Got any photos?

 

I havent had a chance to get any decent ones because of where its parked at. Sorta between the deck, the garage, and an enclosed trailer.

I will get some good ones soon and post them.

 

Mine is at

http://thedotcommune.com/album.php?id=31

I should take new photos with the ugly bumper horn thingies off now and things kind of cleaned up. It looks a lot better than it did in those photos.

 

Some photos shot after making a 1000+mile trip back from Florida where we picked it up. Amazingly the only problems we had were a slowly leaking front tire and a carb set-up for Miami weather, with choke disconnected. Sorry its a bit dirty:

 

nice libra rims. I have been looking for years but cant find it in LA except for toyota/datsun bolt pattern.

 

this is a pic of my bros RX-2 after he had it painted.





here's the engine bay with a TII bridge

 

Man that's awesome, I've always wondered how a dark green would look on an RX-2, and now I really like it. That's also one of the nicest engine bays I've ever seen, just beautiful. Bridged TII motor, man thats my dream engine right there, has your brother finished the car yet? If not, tell him to keep up the good work.

Thanks for the compliment on the wheels, I really like them myself. They're actually the universal lug type from American Racing, so they fit 4x114.3 as well as 4x110. I first found that out when taking off the wheels and seeing the bolt holes were oval shaped, since its only a 4.3mm difference. These are 13x7's with only +3 offset so they have a pretty nice lip:




The tires on them right now are 175/50-13's so they're.... a bit stretched.

 

RE Matsuda, is that the Rx2 that was on ebay not to long ago, maybe about 4 months?

 

RE Matsuda -- why are your taillights different from the round ones?

wackyracer -- hmm... two MSD boxes wth two MSD coils...

 

Kick-

Yes it's the one that was on eBay awhile ago, the reserve was never met but we emailed the guy afterwards and made a deal.

gradedcheese-

I'm pretty sure that's what all the 74 taillights look like, it might be a little confusing because I also have the earlier shorter bumpers on the car.

 

Two MSD boxes and two coils. Hmm...

 

jeff and gradedcheese
yup, 2 msd 6-AL. my bad, its a 93 TT block, not TII. havent tried direct set up but not hard to convert. just add one more coil and bridge the wire.

 

I also love your rims RE Matsuda.

 

yep thats what the 74 lights look like. also in 74 the bumbers were HUGE due to a new law, as you stated you have earlier style bumbers on it....

 

I want to do dual MSD's on mine! Can you or anyone else tell me: did you need the MSD tach adapter to run your tach? If so or if not how did you wire the tach up? I like the MSD box, it's a really nice system and i use it on my BMW. Hooking up two of them seems like a nice way to get rid of all this emissions crap that's wired into my car (especially now that i have nice diagrams for it).

I want to keep my crazy dual distributors and use two 6A boxes and 2 blaster2 coils like that nice '74 blue car has.

The bumpers... stupid '74 USA DOT laws They ruined every single import car with the 5mph mandated bumpers. My '74 3.0CS had those stupid things. I swear I'll never buy anything made after '73 again ever

 

for dual MSD ignition boxes, the stock tach wire needs to be connected to either of the boxes. thats what i did to the RX-2. I've read some post that direct fire system doesnot work on a bridge port but, as usual, I will be the judge of that. I will try it when I have the time.

Now, for my RX-3, im only using a single MSD-6A but direct fire. The stock tach is connected to stock trailing location while the autometer 10K tach with shift light is connected in the MSD box. The reason behind this is to give me a warning if the trailing igniter becomes bad.

 

got it, thanks! I'll see if I can pick up a couple 6A's cheap