1979-80 RX-7 High Performance Exhaust System

syebba · January 05, 2008, 02:56:15 PM

Arghh!From what you guys are saying its a bitch to replace the exhaust system.Maybe its best to leave it to the pro\'s!?
Jon i\'ll give you a call,its worth having a look.
Cheers stuart.:wave

shaunwil · January 05, 2008, 03:09:50 PM

More the case that you can\'t get a socket on it at all. Alot of the guys on rx7club say a wobble bar will cure (pg243 item 5 in machine mart cat). But I struggled. Just ended up taking the whole upper assembly off with the carb and the got a ring spanner to it.

Shaun

MikeLMR · January 05, 2008, 03:17:57 PM

it isn\'t so bad ... but then again I\'ve had to re-evaluate my understanding of impossible to work on cars after rallying Lada Riva\'s for the past 5 or 6 years ... now the manifold bolts on those are b@stards.

Great news is once you chuck all the standard cast iron rubbish it\'s dead easy to get to all the nuts :-)

Don\'t forget you need to blank all the polution gubbins on the manifold as well so budget some time for making blanking plates or purchase some.

captainbizzaro · January 05, 2008, 07:33:23 PM

Mine came with the reactor already long gone. WOOO!

David Nock (RIP) · January 06, 2008, 11:02:36 AM

Quote from: syebbaArghh!From what you guys are saying its a bitch to replace the exhaust system.Maybe its best to leave it to the pro\'s!?
Jon i\'ll give you a call,its worth having a look.
Cheers stuart.:wave

Nooo... it\'s just one nut really, once the heat shields are out of the way. It is simplest to allow for taking the inlet manifold and carb off - everything is reasonable then. So the degree of difficulty is more the extent of what you have to do for one nut.

syebba · January 07, 2008, 12:18:41 AM

jacekr35
The guy in oz has an elec distributor listed for 2nd& 3rd series.
Its a used one & tested.
Price Â£130.83 & Â£26.61 postage.plus any duties payable ie tax...
Theyre not cheap!!!
cheers stuart:cheers

Brett · January 07, 2008, 08:38:21 AM

Is the emmisions control setup on the 1st gen similar to the 2nd gen EGi? I\'m looking at doing the same on Moonwrap\'s 1st gen. :wave

David Nock (RIP) · January 07, 2008, 01:26:48 PM

Quote from: BrettIs the emmisions control setup on the 1st gen similar to the 2nd gen EGi? I\'m looking at doing the same on Moonwrap\'s 1st gen. :wave

No, I think you mean is the ECU variable? (do you young \'uns call it remapping)? The FB has a simple ECU of sorts in the passenger footwell for basic control of the emissions solenoids, but it should never need touching. The electronic distributor is just a series 2 and 3 replacement for the old points system on the series 1. There may be a bit of resetting of advance etc and it\'s worth checking the Haynes for details of which plugs etc, but apart from that it should just be a swopover. I\'ll swot up on Haynes a bit and report.

Brett · January 07, 2008, 02:33:13 PM

Nah - not worried about the electronic gubbins - just wanted to know if the plumbing was the same :Giggle

David Nock (RIP) · January 07, 2008, 06:05:46 PM

Quote from: BrettNah - not worried about the electronic gubbins - just wanted to know if the plumbing was the same :Giggle

Ah - air pump etc? Don\'t know what the FC is like but the FB has an air pump that feeds air into the thermal reactor. You remove the pump and reactor to fit a stainless system, blanking off here and there as you go; becoming a lot simpler plumbing, then finally you have to reset the idle and mixture slightly because by now its now over-rich. Is that what you envisaged?

shaunwil · January 07, 2008, 06:06:39 PM

Plumbing wish its quite similar. They both use the thermal reactor and have an air pump.

Shaun