Reno, NV Rx7 Meet
 

A couple of my fellow FD owners are planning on getting together July 7, 2012 at 5:00pm. Any other rotary people are also invited. Please contact me if your interested in coming out. Mr3pwood@yahoo.com 775-544-1305 call or txt Or you can send me a pm

Ill be there Nick, let me know if you need me to do or bring anything for the meet.

Hmmmmmm.... =]

I dont think we need anyone to bring anything. We are goin to meet at a either joe's dinner or mimi's cafe. So if your hungry you can get something to eat.

Your more than welcome to come Steve. Where you from?

I'll be there - I put a similar ad on Craigslist in Reno.

Joe

hmmm perhaps in the future we could set something up in between perhaps somewhere with twisties and such

LV to Reno
7 hrs 15 mins / 448.71 miles


and maybe have the folks North to join us for a future WHiV wooot

I'm from Carson, you sold me that s4 turbo a few months back!

If my car works by then I'll go haha. Might go anyways - I'll see, depends on if I end up having something that weekend

I hope your planning on coming out for the meet. How is that turbo working for you?

Im sure there are a few of us who would be intersted in meeting up sometime. Right now we are just trying to get the Reno guys together.

Yeah, im hoping to make it out there depending on time, I work til 5 that day.

As far as the turbo, my new turbo motor has 30 miles on it and I cant go above 4k rpms for a thouand miles so as far as I know its doing alright haha.

I think you should edit your craigslist post to have more common tags in it like RX7 and RX-7 etc i could only find it if i searched "rotary" and i have a feeling not many people search that lol

for sure, just threw it out there ... plus I would think once it cooled down a little

Ok the meet is set for this Saturday at 5:30 at Joes diner

6350 South Virginia Street, Reno

How many cars going so far?

I'm gonna try and make it up but I work til 5 and I'm battling heat issues with my car.. Think you guys will be at Joes for a little while?

I think we'll be there at least until 7pm probably closer to 8 though

We guys Id say the meet was pretty successful. Everyone thats interested send me you email and I will stay in contact for further meets. We are looking at meeting next month around the 18th.

Nick-

Thanks for putting that together. It was a lot of fun to meet others in the area. Looking forward to more meets.

Dave...

Reno mechanic
 

Hey, I just joined the forum due to a problem with my 89 GTU non-turbo - 108K Posted the issue on the new members technical section and according to Ben at Rotary Evolution a carbon build-up has caused a rotor to stick on an apex seal, so I have no compression. He told me how to squirt some miracle oil into two unused ports near intake manifold but I'm just not finding them. I actually want to get a rebuild done by Rotary Evolution and if I can get it started I can drive it down. Or if I can't get it started I'll need to find someone who can do a removal and reinstall and ship the engine down to Vegas. Do you Renoites all do your own work on your cars or is there a mechanic in town you might recommend? I'm striking out finding one. Only moved here a little while ago. I've done the basic upkeep on the car for the last fourteen years, but I'm definitely shade tree and this is over my head. Thanks for any help.

here is the picture of the cap/line to disconnect to inject oil into the engine to help unstick the seals.

https://img846.imageshack.us/img846/1995/97109669.jpg

Welcome to Reno and Im pretty sure most of us do our own work but thats more because thats what we like to do not because there is no one in town that can do it. I may know a mechanic who can do the remove and replace, just call or txt me and we can talk details my number is in the first post.

I sent my car down to Ben about 5 months ago to get a PFC, watermeth, and a tune. The car transport cost me $375 each way. I went through a broker that found me a truck and their fee was $115ish, so if you found your own truck you could save some money. If you need anything else let me know. If you do get it running again you might ask Ben if a steam clean of the engine will help clear out the carbon. Ive read about it but Im sure Ben can give a better opinion about its effectiveness

You could also check uhaul, they have stuff so you can tow cars. I have no idea what their prices are though.

As for the engine, I don't know of any shops here that do that kind of stuff.

i did recommend a decarb on the engine as soon as it is running to buy some more time, sometimes it works for a while sometimes not for very long. depends on the consumption and how quickly the carbon replaces itself.

unfortunately the road between Reno and Vegas is pretty barren, basically ghost town after ghost town. if you do plan on driving it, leave the engine running while pumping gas.

I'd be willing to help, I'd have to come up from Carson tho.