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Hi Again.

there\'s a Location List that I did for 1st Gen RX7\'s in the British Isles. Date Jan this year.

It has 193 Series 3 cars, 112 Series 2 like yours and 41 Series 1 cars.

It\'s a pdf file. I don\'t seem to have attachment or PM privileges on here any more so perhaps you want to view it on rx7 dot com forum where I mainly post to now.

Your car is in the Series 2 section at No. 108, in the \'unknown location\' part at the bottom. The next list will have XLH relocated to Cambs area.

To give an idea of 1st Gens on the road (running taxed or on track) work on about 1/3rd of the cars in the list. The other 2/3 cars are SORN, in barns, project cars etc. In other words off the road but with a chance of living again.

Hope that\'s all useful stuff.

Dave

Hi mate,

I think your\'s is a blue 1st Gen, what we call a Series 2.

I\'ll check out some figures for you tomorrow. All data on my older computer which I need to fire up before I can check things.

Dave

Glad Maz is still looking the business.

Nice pics Dave.

Any chance of a pic Mick?

Here is text of the other post....



I got mine made up from genuine Hel components by Wallace Performance in Aberdeen. One of the guys there, Woflie, has an FD and was happy to make me up a set. In fact, he asked if I could send him the original rubber hoses back so he has a template to work from to make some more up. Only trouble is I don\'t have a clutch line to send, hence my Wanted thread for one. If anyone can help out, it\'d be nice to have a UK supplier for future sets of lines. wouldn\'t it? I\'m sure we could persuade a group buy out of them, sound blokes.

This is the text from \'the other place\'......see my other post in your thread about S2/S3 flexes.

I got mine made up from genuine Hel components by Wallace Performance in Aberdeen. One of the guys there, Woflie, has an FD and was happy to make me up a set. In fact, he asked if I could send him the original rubber hoses back so he has a template to work from to make some more up. Only trouble is I don\'t have a clutch line to send, hence my Wanted thread for one. If anyone can help out, it\'d be nice to have a UK supplier for future sets of lines. wouldn\'t it? I\'m sure we could persuade a group buy out of them, sound blokes.

Ah Mick, I didn\'t realise they were S2 lines......I think they\'re different fittings to S3??

On the other Forum a guy in the far north (Scotland I think) is setting up to produce sets of S3 lines from pattens that members have sent to him.

Hope that helps.

I think he has. I\'ve left him a message on RX7FB dot com forum to tell him you\'re trying to make contact.

Sandblasting or sandpaper will certainly wreck the finish.

Either paint stripper worked into the wheel then cleaned off over and over again or professional lathe turning at about £70 per wheel. As I see it them\'s ya choices.

It should only be heavy at parking speed Mick.
My missus is a tiny woman and our FB was her daily drive.

Mind you I grew to dread that raised arm when she wanted to clip my round the ear. Biceps like you\'ve never seen!

At normal road speed the FB is quite light on the steering with that big steering wheel compared to modern cars......a bit vague yes.....check the steering idler bushes out if that\'s the case. Easy fix.

C713 CKL.
Haven\'t seen that one for a while, not since 2009. I noted it then as a nice looking car.
Where have you seen it for sale Mick?

Made for unleaded fuel from factory.

For interest \'aerostart\' seems to be under \'engine start\' on ebay.

Use the aerostart first. If it works it will save work now and you know what to do in future.

Plus it will possibly have dried itself out to a large extent already since you\'ve left it alone.

The only occasions I have to use the aerostart is if our car has stood for say 3/4 weeks in winter. Then I give it a squirt before starting and it always catches 1st spin.
That saves the battery and starter cranking away in the cold.

Hi guys

Just went to move my FB however I think its flooded, I made the rookie error of moving it up the drive and shutting it down!

I Know the deflood procedure for cars with the EGI cut off but this being carb\'d it wont have it.. I assume its spark plugs out, crank( no throttle), clear the floded fuel leave for an hour to let fuel evaporate, some oil in(5ml or so), crank( no throttle), clean and heat the plugs, pop them in and start as normal with choke or no choke and at no other time touch the throttle??

Thanks

Richard

Exactly so.......not sure about the oil in though. Don\'t see that helping if flooded. Another simple solution is to get some aerostat spray, unclip the air intake, blast some spray down the carb for a few seconds, fix the intake back and try again.
They are a bit sensitive to being moved I must admit.