Another thing, have you ever messed with your timing? Had the front pulley off or the CAS out? If it hasn't been messed with then I wouldn't suspect timing, but it's another angle to pursue.

 

labor day last weekend of august first monday of september or close to that. What to come home beofre going back out on the boat. Just hope this time it doesn't catch fire like the washington did.

 

Sounds good to me, we'll work out more details as it gets closer and everyone's plans change and everything gets ruined. Optimism! And the good thing about boats catching fire is you don't run out of water. At least until the pumps catch on fire, I guess.

 

No liz, the CAS hasnt even been touched since I put this motor into the car, so timing is a none issue. Though when I got home today and pulled up the ebrake the idle jumped....so maybe it IS that fatass brake booster line...

 

So I tried something different and unplugged one of the OTHER bits of solenoids... turns out the ABSV (Air Bypass Solenoid Valve) was bad. Pulled it off and blocked off the two intake holes it left and fixed the shitty idle issue, and before anyone asks, this solenoid is only there for when the powersteering pulls too much power andd needs more air to bump up the rpms, since i dont have PS anymore I dont need that valve woot!

 

Well I'll be damned, congrats on getting it sorted out!

 

Thanks, quite happy with it now, after i had to fiddle with screws and bolts to re-sort out my new idle

 

well i decided to keep my FD so ill have something when i get down there, the question now is, can i afford the run? xD

 

If I had an FD I would sell it and dump the money into a solid scca solo 1 wide body 1st gen, hand built, with all the goodies and a nice trailer. But hey thats just me ... you decide .... No further comment.

 

Alriiiight, so the first gen is running really good now, although it's hard to start when cold. Doesn't want to fire immediately like before, and idles at like 200 for a little bit. Runs really great once it's warmed up... any ideas?

 

Maybe it needs the choke now ...

 

My FD is my only car and my daily driver xD or atleast it will be once i move.

 

The idle speed and mixture are probly out of adjustment . If the idle is fine after warm up , then just give it a little more or less low end fuel untill it smooths out , also for winter you will need the choke without a doubt. cheers!

 

Believe it or not, this car would always start in the winter without the choke. That's how awesome it is. All I'd have to do is pump the gas a bunch and crank it. It might take a couple starts if it's freezing out, but it would stay running. Usually when it's more than 70 degrees out, all I have to do is turn the key and it's running. So naturally the idea of having to use the choke now to start it after a carb rebuild is APPALLING. I already played with the idle speed, I'll try the mixture... I think it's actually getting too much gas on startup. Thanks RU. I don't know why all this would be out of whack anyway, it wasn't messed with. I swear, I think this thing is starting to act more and more like the bike!

 

If you remove the choke , it will lean out the air/fuel mixture and run even leaner then the factory settings , unless you replace the factory jetting with gross jets its not a good idea. Rotarys love to run on the rich side on the low end.

 

I'm not removing the choke, I still use it to bump the idle up so it warms up faster in the winter. I just don't like the car to be dependent on it when it never has. I feel like I broke the golden "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" rule with the carb rebuild. Although it does run even smoother than it did before. I'm sure I'll be happy with it once I work the bugs out.

Also, it didn't feel like my secondaries opened when I ran it hard this morning. I have the vacuum secondaries on the dizzy both hooked up to a vacuum source on the carb. Do they need to be T'd together to function? I'll probably just go mechanical now that I've got it running again.

 

Yes liz, you did break the golden rule, and I think by me fixing my shitty idle ima have to redo my tune on the SAFC since it doesnt seem to be getting decent MPG atm...

 

Fix one thing, ruin five others. That's how it goes! In other news...



Been having a blast with this thing. I've almost decided on a paint scheme... metallic black/dark metallic silver two tone with red badges and graphics. After I replace the front upper fairing, get a lower fairing, and fix up all the others. Also I'm going to revert to the factory turn signals and replace one mirror and the taillight. I've even thought about making a fiberglass rear cowl for it. Ah the fun of having three projects going at once!

 

lol yeah thats how it is Jimi, though be careful with it...I hear buying tires for sport bikes tend to equal a grade A *** raping

 

Yeah, they're expensive, but that thing has a pretty common size I'm sure. That and I typically fork out over 400 on tires for the TII every 6-10k miles, so it shouldn't kill me, right?

 

wait....you buy tires every 10k miles? LOL and here I thought I had a lead foot...
But yeah it looks like it has a common size, but that generally doesnt matter, its still a bike tire and its not a car tire, just the rear could be a single $400 and the front another 200-300, but im guesstimating here, though GL with the lil beast.

 

christ tyres every 10k miles? and i thought i was bad... damnnn

 

10k miles is an overstatement. I haven't even put that many miles on the car since I bought it 4 years ago! It had 95k and now it has 104k. I put the Kuhmos on at probably around 96k or 97k. After 103k, the rears were completely bald so I swapped them to the front. The other pair still has maybe 25%. I bought this car for the sole purpose of driving the **** out of it. Most of the miles on it are from the Dragon, other mountain roads, backroads, and autocross. So yeah, I'm really hard on my tires and I drive it like I stole it. It is my toy, afterall! What's sad is that I never do burnouts, and I don't do drifting either. I think the hardest thing on it was the Devil's Triangle... that road was just awful on the tires. I could literally see the difference in my rears after one run up there.

 

man i cant wait to get down there... i swear imma spend thousands on gas and every weekend in the mountains with my FD xD

 

I don't doubt it. Expect to blow through an entire tank per mountain run in an FD. Not to mention tires...