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My RX7 is now for sale as i\'ve just been offered a once in a lifetime engine for my Civic and i\'ll need the money from the RX7\'s sale to pay for it.

I know the ad says i\'m open to px\'s but unless the px is a cheap one with plenty of cash my way then i can\'t do it.

£5750 as is or £5500 without the HID\'s and the head unit.

The car is booked in with Mazda this week for a compression test so i can see if an engine rebuild has been done in the past.

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/258231.htm

Cheers
Nick

Hi Guys,

Just bought an FCD to eliminate  the last problem i\'ve got with my FD but it has arrived with no fitting instructions.

All I need to know is which wire on the ecu loom I\'m supposed to cut in order to fit the FCD?

I\'ve done several searches but haven\'t found a definitive answer so thought it would be easier to ask.

I\'m not planning on altering the cars boost at all and have no further mods planned for the car so the FCD should be all that is needed otherwise i\'d be buying a PFC and having the car tuned.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Nick

Cheers for the reply

I knew i should have used the search function :rolleyes:

Hi guys,

I was fitting a HID kit to my FD yesterday and noticed that its got twin oil coolers which I didn\'t think it had. That got me thinking which model my car is and i was wondering if there was any way of telling?

Cheers in advance guys
Nick

I\'ve spent the evening checking all the earths under the bonnet and there\'s no sign of any bad contacts. I took it out for a drive and seems to be cutting out worse now.

The problem seems to be when i\'m driving the car off boost and then try to accelerate. the car cuts out and the abs light comes on then the car kicks back into life and the abs light goes off till the next time it happens. If i\'m driving the car hard it doesn\'t do anything but go like stink but pootling around off boost it hates :s

Can anyone help?

I\'ve got two problems with my FD that I need to get sorted so i\'m asking the masses for advice.

The first problem is an easy fix I think, ive had a search about and it sounds like my car is overboosting due to an aftermarket exhaust and filters which is causing the ecu to cut the fuel when the second turbo is spooled on full throttle. It doesn\'t do it on 80% throttle so am i correct in thinking that if i fit an FCD this problem should be sorted?

The second problem I think will be a little bit more difficult to diagnose. When driving the car at a cruising speed on little to no throttle ie sitting at about 60 @ 2k ish rpm. when i go to accelerate the car often cuts out (no lights on the dash but a sudden loss in power) and on a couple of occasions the abs light has come on in conjunction with the cutting out but the car has never actually died on me and after the brief cutting out it pops back in to life with a kind of backfire and then were off again. It doesn\'t do it when i\'m giving the car some stick (apart from the overboosting issue) and didn\'t do it all the way back from glasgow to north wales last week when i bought the car.

The car fires up first time and when its running right, pulls like a train but the cutting out is really bugging me and i want to get it sorted so i can fully enjoy the car.

Anyone got any idea\'s of what the problem could be?

Cheers
Nick

Cheers for the welcome guys :Thumbs-up

Yeah i bought the car off Mccaly up in Glasgow. As ive said above its got a few issues but they aren\'t anything that can\'t be sorted and all in all i\'m very happy with it :wiggle

Nick

Hi Guys,

My name is Nick (Tex is my nickname from school and D2 TEX is my private plate) I live in North wales near a town called Pwllheli and i\'m 24. I\'ve been a Honda nut for years now but made the move into boost when I bought my Nissan Skyline R33 GTR. I sold the GTR two weeks ago an on tuesday I drove up to Glasgow to pick up my new toy











Its a 94 RX7 Efini and was a bit of an impulse buy. The spec is as follows:

Exterior:
Re-Amemiya full lip kit
Work Meister 2 piece 17\' alloys
Fully adjustable GT spoiler
 
Interior:
Recaro half bucket
Nardi steering wheel
Trust gear knob
 
Chasis:
JIC magic fully adjustable coilovers
Half roll cage
Front upper strut brace
 
Performance:
Joe Bounds R exhaust system
HKS twin filters
HKS boost and temp gauges
Paddle clutch
Dump Valve
 
Electrical:
Electrical earthing fully re-conditioned
Fully remapped for UK fuel
Alpine double Din md/cd player

It apparently had a rebuild before it was imported which i\'m not 100% on but it does fire up first time and pulls like a train. Its got a few issue\'s which i\'ll post about elsewhere but they aren\'t anything major. I\'m really happy with the car and it handles superbly. Its as quick as my GTR was but handles better and i love the noise it makes :InLove

My car history is as follows:

Here goes:

Started off with an 85 polo coupe and promptly wrote it off within three days :oops:
Second car was a 90 5 door Daihatsu charade which lasted me a long time but sadly got written off by a bus in a car park
Third car was the first car i\'d owned and not actually crashed  It was a 95 Fiat cinquecento sporting (cheap insurance after the previous mishaps)
Fourth was my first Honda and i loved it, It was a 4th gen Civic VT on a J plate, i lowered it and put an exhaust on and was very happy until a cheap CRX VT came along and i sold the civic to fund it. The civic later ended up like this:


Fifth car as ive already mentioned was a 1990 CRX VT in white which i did loads to including Gaz coilovers, DC 4-1 manifold, Dc exhaust etc etc
In the end it looked like this:

Thats the only photo i have of it with the coilovers on
6th car was a 1989 CRX SiR in Gunmetal grey which i went to town on as you can see from my for sale ad:

The car is a 1989 G reg Gunmetal grey SiR with sunroof
Its got 140k kilometers on the clock and has just recieved a full service including cambelt and air con belt change
The spec is as follows:
UK spec glass headlights
Custom front bumper with number plate re-located
B16A1 140k kilometers
5 speed box with no crunches
Exhaust:
DC sports center section with custom made stainless De-cat
RActive backbox with 4 1/2 inch slash cut backbox
chassis:
AVO coilovers with spax progressive bump stops
Front upper, rear upper and rear lower strut braces
Center brace that goes between the front and rear seats
MG Big brake conversion using rover 620 calipers and pads (only been on car since feb)
Wheels and tyres:
17" OZ Chrono evolution alloys with 3 nankang pro sport ns2 tyres and one that i got from quick fit the other week. (one new nankang needed soon)
Interior:
REVO short shifter with Momo gearnob
Momo corse steering wheel
SiR steel dials with custom EL backlight
UV Needles
Corbeau Forza sport 2000 fixed buckets
3 point harnesses with mot passable buckle
JDM 1.5 Black cord rear seat
UKDM VT leather door cards with SiR chrome strip
CRX-UK Mats in red
ICE:
Kenwood CD Mask head unit
Kenwood dual mags Components front and rear
Kenwood 1000 watt amp
2*Kenwood 12" subs
Security:
Toad Ai606 alarm with central locking and immobiliser
The car was dyno\'d at the scotland meet last year when it had a supersprint manifold and a different exhaust.
it made 179bhp at the fly

I sold the SiR to buy my current Honda which is a 1987 Civic GT with a B20 :twisted:



CAR SPEC:

1987 civic GT (white) With a B20B

Mods:

B20b crv-tec conversion
B16a1 head 10 thou milled(port+polish)
Hasport mount kit
golden eagle vtec oil line
ITR intake manifold
345cc injectors
AEM adjustable cam pulleys
Mapped PWO ecu
DC sports 4-1 header
2 1/2" full stainless system
full race AP-Racing 4 paddle clutch + flywheel
2x cobra monico buckets
sparco 3 point harnesses
Lowered - Koni yellow adj rear shocks / spax springs
Lowered - stock front torsion bars/shocks
CRX 16v EBC turbo groove discs / green stuff pads
15" Rota Slipstreams

PERFORMANCE:

Last RR\'d @ 188bhp with 150 lbs/ft torque!
0-60 ~ 5.6 sec
1/4 mile ~ 13.6 @ 101 road tyres (before ecu upgrade, intake)
T- speed ~ 136mph (gear/rev limit)

I\'m nearly finished with a full bare shell rebuild of the GT now which i have been keeping a diary of (not been updated for a while though) Details and pics can be found here and here

After I started the rebuild on the civic I stumbled accross a JDM 96 spec Integra type R which i got a cracking deal on and promptly bought.

It went from this:




To this:





and:




Once i\'d finished what i planned to do to the Teg i started to look for the next step and had always wanted a skyline so decided to find myself one. Lucky for me a mate of mine had just imported one through his company and offered me a cracking px on it with my teg so i went for it




I didn\'t really mod the Skyline as it already had basic mods fitted so i just tidied the wheels up with a fresh colour scheme and basically enjoyed the car for what it was (and spent loads on fuel   :crackup: )

As I said the skyline was sold to a mate of mine 2 weeks ago and 5 hours later ended up like this:



Not a straight panel on it

So thats my car history done with. Sorry if it was too long and boring for you but its the best way i could think of introducing myself and showing what sort of things i\'m in to  

Cheers for reading and Hi :wave
Nick