ok whell here is the thing i drove it 2 days ago and then yesterday when i opened the garage when i had to get something... wow the garage smelled of gas like crazy.. and there was a huge oil spot... i moved the car out of the garage and cleaned up what i could and then noticeing that the idel was higher than normal.. usually when idling it would be just a little below the 1.. not it was about 1.5 or mabye just a lil less... anyone got any info on this kinda problem?

 

Well if your smelling fuel, and there is a big "oil spot" on the floor something is definately wrong. What did the "oil spot" smell like? Oil or fuel?

This sounds like a leaky FPD, cuz I had the same problems. If it is, be careful as you car can actually catch on fire.

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i don't think that the oil in your garage has anything to do with your idle. can you see where the oil is comming from? be careful because on my last FD, i had one of my OMP lines go out on me and my whole engine caught on fire. Also, give us some more information so we can help you out!!!

check your TPS, that will cause erratic idles, also check all your vacuume hoses, make sure that none have come loose or broken, you should remove your UIM and really do a good check of everything. Good luck

 

here is a shop manual discription of your oil system to help you track your oil problem, if you need one of your vacuume system let me know and i will post it. also check for the common places, i.e. rear & front housings!

 

i have no clue
if mabye one of u guys can come and look at it ali or who ever then can mabye tell me whats wrong with it

 

or i mite just bring it to mazda and let them cheak it out

 

NO!

You still have a lot to learn about owning an FD. NEVER take it to MAZDA EVER! They will screw your car up even more.


If it smells like fuel, in your engine bay while the motor is cool, something is leaking. I know because ive had numerous problems with injectors, FPD's ect. Is it pulling any CEL's?

Simon is also right about the omp's. Don't let those suckers leak, or something very bad will happen. Try to track down the leak, and find out where its coming from.

About the idle, hundreds of things can cause an idle to rise. Bad UIM/LIM gaskets, vaccum leak, bad TPS etc...

 

just like oneflytrini said never bring it to mazda dealers. They are as good as you reading a manual while trying to fix your car. if you don't want to get down and dirty just bring it to a loacal rotary spcialist in your area(no i dont mean the mazda dealer).

 

 

whell ASI is the only place i knew and it shut down

 

is it driveable? if it is then bring it by towers on sunday and i'm sure there will be someone there that will be able to help you out and find out what the problem is or ali has been servicing his car with a guy named Perry who he is very happy with.....you might want to try him

 

i'm glad you're around, justin. you make me feel not so lazy.

 

well you basically advised the same thing?

 

i wanted to emphazise that he should not take his car to the dealer

 

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Just check the 7 Shops sticky at the top of the SE page, as Im feeling too lazy to copy and paste it. Tell Perry Ali sent you. Hopefully he is trustworthy, as I dont trust ANYONE anymore other than Phil. That SOB lives in Miami though

 

umm perry lives in miami? ok and why towers on a sunday??? is there like another meet or somehting?

 

LOL which is what I said. Well I can't blame you some newbie will always have to find it the hardway right. Anyway come out to moroso next weeks with us and get that nice FD of your on the track. Ciao.

 

until i have that thing tuned.........i will only be embarrasing myself and the whole RX-7 community. I am running rich as SH@#$T just to be on the safe side. I cannot find anyone down here that can tune a PFC....i'm almost thinking of buying a datalogit and doing it myself. who knows? anyways, i'll try and make the moroso event.....the last one was great

thanks for the compliment on my FD

 

when is this moroso thing>?

 

You won't have to worry about Perry. Hes very good and he won't try to rob you by saying you need something when you don't.

 

i think theres a mazda recall for the problem pass by a mazda dealer and tell them to check for recalls or campaign and they fix it at no cost..

 

No, his shop is located in Margate, right off of 441...

 

if i go there which atm i cant me and my dad are gonna take a look at the car hopefully tonite and go under it but i need to get some oil just in case and a mini fire Ext. at pepboys or w/e but when i can gett it moviing and hopefully fixxed i just take it to mazda and ask them to cheak for recall problems and they will not charge me to look at??and if they say no problems i still dont have to pay even if there is any? (with the recall only)

 

ok whell we fixed the gas problem and now for some reason no oil is leaking... weird