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[nikp]

To be honest, unless he really knows his jap cars (particularly RX-7\'s) then he\'ll be doing a lot of head scratching - you might be lucky: he might luck upon the problem himself. But overall, i would say you\'d be better off with someone he really is familiar with their goings on.

[DaemonRX7]

Yeah - but i\'m keeping my fingers crossed - he\'s reliable and likes cash...sounds like i\'m bodging it but i\'m on a real tight budget!  If not i\'ll take it to RX heaven as suggested earlier!

Thanks!:D

[nikp]

I\'ve just thought of one test you could try: take off one of the pipes to the pressure tank - if you don\'t hear any pressurized air coming out, then you have a problem there for starters - but if you do, then at least you know that\'s being pressurized correctly. It\'s a quick simple test you can easily make.

[DaemonRX7]

Cheers dude - can you explain a bit more about the pressure tank as i don\'t know what i\'m looking for...

[Andyp]

Hey mate

Best of luck with your prob. I really do think it\'s worth taking it to a specialist. I took mine all over the place as mine never went over 0.5 bar. Turned out there were two pins that hadn\'t been put back in the rebuild hanging out (restrictor pins or somminc) and a hose had split connecting to the turbos - both were engine out jobs..

I bought a decat, new ecu and had a few trips back and forth to people who know jap cars - reworx solved it first time

ooh & I found I had 99 spec turbos woooooo

[DaemonRX7]

Last thing i want is the engine out - really dont have the spends for that!

Christ..............come on people i need some reasons as to why i should keep her....something to remind me its all worth it....

[Andyp]

wasn\'t that much at all mate - what was expensive was taking it to the wrong people hehe

[nikp]

Pressure tank is a black plastic bos about 4" by 2", odd shape, and visible when bonnet is open.

Basically, check out the piccy!

[DaemonRX7]

cheers nik i\'l check that out tomoro!  U guys are too good to me!

[gsb876]

Daemon -

Check the easier stuff first to see if its something minor, once all those have been checked then start to look for the bigger possible faults.

[Wav]

Originally posted by WeasleRx7
...seatbelt light and windows...

That\'s a faulty CPU box.  Sometimes called an F100, or ECU 2.  It\'s located under the dash on the drivers side by the fuses and controls the seatbelt light, buzzer, hazzards, to name a few things.  When it goes faulty you get the constant flashing of the seatbelt light, and if you try to open your windows, they move in time with the flashes.  Seems to happen most on 93/94 cars, and a few guys on here have suffered with it.

Get the importer you bought the car from to replace it, or if it was a private sale, one of the tuners can supply you one for around £25.  Mine came from Tim (RX Motors).

Both the one on the black car and Faheem\'s one has gone in the same week. Very strange, just hope Tim doesn\'t run out, lol.

Ta,

Paul:)

[TRex]

Not being unfriendly, those that know me on here personally, can tell I\'m far from.. (with a tenner of course)

 I still stand by my advise...
 If I JUST bought a car from an importer/someone(as you said) and it has problems... I would not touch a thing, it would go straight back to inquire what the hells wrong as it could be bigger than you think.

 Or you can take all the super friendly advise here and take a chance and muck about yourself..

 I know what I would do....

 \'Good luck with it....\'

[the lemster]

you want a reason to keep the car......

get it running nice  take it out for a spin...

2nd gear... 2500rpm  floor it throught second and third.... if you stop grinning within 12 hours then sell the car... if you dont stop grinning  you can make cheques payable to matt lemmy for my consultaion fee...

welcome to MRC by the way... dont worry about grumpy chops... can be difficult to get the right tone when typing... I am sure he was meaning it sarchastically.... wernt you   WEREN\'T YOU!!!!!

have fun.... dont give up just yet...  if it has come from japan it will have been on a boat for three months and and nothing likes being sat around....  though if you did get it from a dealer... then  they should have made sure it was running before you taking delivery of it....  if you are not happy with their service we have a name and shame thread somewhere....

[DaemonRX7]

OK....had all the vaccuum hoses checked out today - its not those.  Going to take it to SAS in aldershot for an hour on their diagnostics machine and take it from there....

[grinder]

sheesh what happened on this thread - all seemed to turn a bit bitchy for a while !!

got my eyes on all of you and warming up my banning stick ( yeah i know - gonna get all sorts of replies to that )

and out of interest - is it just me or does this thread only seem to put 5 replies to a page ?? - its 9 pages according to my pc - all other threads are the same

oh well eh

Take care

Stu