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Hoo boy, havne't updated in quite a while, I've since purchased another TII, this one an 88 in what I believe is called "Blaze Red". The paint is faded on the 'glass' parts, however it looks pretty damned good for a 15 year old car, body is straight, and the interior is clean as well. I've installed the engine from the blue car as the cars old engine had 90,000+ miles on it, and well, I popped it :P. Also, as of two days ago, I now have a HUGE GReddy FMIC, that basically spans from the center of my chest to the tips of my fingertips (Roughly, don't have exact measurements on me at the moment.) 2.75 inches thick and about 18 inches tall. Also, my engine management as well as fuel system has been revamped, we installed a microtech LT8 in the beast as well as 760cc primary fuel injectors and 850cc secondary injectors. Dats a lot of fuel. Now all that's required is to get a BOV and then it's time to start tuning under boost! Like a ninja I disappear.
Well, RX-7 #2 is now dead. The damage was going to end up running over $1500 and the disposable nature of the FC makes fixing the beast a financially unsound decision. So, I am now on the lookout for another rolling chassis, hopefully with paint that is in great shape as well as an interior that is clean enough to eat off of. Out.
Doheth, I had a little boo boo with the RX7 day before yesterday. I was doing my regular route up Sycamore Canyon; so coming out of one of the last turns I got a little too hard on the gas and my ass end swung out and i nosed into a mound of dirt. I think that the DTSS system in the RX7 may have contributed to the accident, but I wont blame anything but user error. As far as damage goes The passenger fender and bumper cap are fucked and I've got a bit of frame damage but other than that it should be a ok. Pictures coming soon.
Good news, as it turned out my fuel cut issue wasn't due to bad wiring in the boost controller at all. It was due to the fact that I'm a dumbass and didn't attach the last "L" of the stock airbox piping which was making the intake too free flowing, which made me boost to .9 bar or thereabouts. Badd joojoo, that. This also just goes to show how crappy the stock induction system, ass soon as I replace my turbo for a hybrid model with a ninja wastegate it's all about the single mandrel bent tube as my intake.
Well, I test drove my car after removing all of my emissions equipment and doing a basic engine bay beautification using Armorall and a boatload of zip-ties so of course, new problems arise. Firstly my idle shot up to about 2000 rpm (This happened before but I managed to fix it.) and I've only been able to drop it down to about 1450 with the BAC so it seems it's time to start fiddling with my thermowax and/or idle set screw. Secondly my home made FCD has started to give me problems again, by problems I mean I am hitting boost cut...again. It is for this reason that I am now strongly opposed to using wire taps for semi permanent/permanent installations. Fin.
Be afraid, be very afraid. My Rx7, after many many moons is finally getting ready to get back on the road, all that is required now is an alternator and some motor oil. Here's a little bit of my history with this project: I first purchased the car in Feb. of 2002 without a running engine from a man from Sacramento and had it shipped down to SB. After having the car for a month or two I started on the teardown and removal of the blown engine, and after a month or so of slow going work I had the beast out (well the 13bt is far from being a 'beast' in size). I then broke down and bought a rebuilt engine from Atkins Rotary. Unfortunately after receiving the engine, I started to hear that some of Atkins' engines weren't faring to well, but insofar I've yet to have any troubles with the 'keg'. It took some time getting the engine in, and I had always thought that getting the engine in would be the hard part. Wrong. The hardest part of an engine swap is doing all the damned fine tuning afterwards, after having the car running for almost three months, it's finally starting to run right and it's still hard to start sometimes. Hopefully after replacing the alternator, fuel injectors, and AFM it should start first time every time and pull harder than it already does. Wish me luck.