Making it last

[rx7ben]

the only thing about letting to warm up before you drive off the rest of the car is cold eg gearbox oil, diff oil, brakes.
Bets way is startup drive off straight away without boosting it or going past 4k revs until its warmed up.
 
Defo recommend getting the Apexi and a good map on the dyno with good safe AFRs

 
I defentley dont sit there letting it warm up its far to noisy to do that :yes
I allways drive straight off

[Bobbit]

I\'d say if it\'s your daily drive worry more about reliability than power. Get it mapped for safety and i should last longer, if you go for power then you stand a higher chance of it going pop. I\'m getting my PFC fitted and mapped soon and safety will be top of my list, even if i loose some power i\'ll be happy knowing it will be running happy.

[Nik da Greek]

Another daily driver here. I always drive off straight away and stay off-boost until I leave town, which usually is far enough for it to be warmed up enough for some fun. Fortunately my commute is at least 15 miles, depending how "scenic" I want the run in to be so it gets a good-ish run every time I drive. If I do loads of two or three miles short hops, she starts to sulk a bit and get a bit rough running, smoke on start-up, all that. Never flooded, though. I think you can be as careful as you want and they\'ll still go wrong horribly, or drive it like a TWOCer every time you go anywhere and have no problems at all. Sometimes, it seems, with RX-7 ownership, sh!t just happens! But it certainly doesn\'t hurt to shorten the odds by treating her as well as you can :Thumbs-up. I didn\'t have any major probs with either of mine for three years, then it all happened at once. But I\'ve always been lucky :Giggle

I agree with the others, btw, fitting an Apexi was the best mod I\'ve ever had, transforms the car in every way

[neutroncore]

Hi there,

I\'m a new RX-7 owner and learning the ropes regarding regular maintenance.

I don\'t have an owner\'s manual so have been looking at the \'93 manual that\'s on the net.

Regarding brake / clutch fluid, oil, that all makes sense and I\'m going to check it out on the car next chance I get.

Regarding the water level mentioned in this post, was the user referring to engine coolant?

Any recommendations on where to obtain a good owner\'s manual for a 1995 RX-7 or should the 93 book cover most things I\'d need to know?

Thanks

Robin

[neil_jdmr]

As far as power from a good mapping session with just a decat and a down pipe i gained over 70hp from pip(wgt) on a stock motor with just the add-ons.
 
Needless to say im over the moon

[m1tch]

Just make sure that the fuel pump is uprated

[neil_jdmr]

Just make sure that the fuel pump is uprated

 
My fuel pump is standard still and pip could have got more out @ 0.9 bar but for piece of mind settled for 0.8 bar safely and still a 70hp increase.
 
 
Fair enough though with a 255 fuel pump and regulator 90+hp extra @0.9bar could have been easily achievable

[m1tch]

My fuel pump in my FC is 17 years old...if it fails and lets my engine run lean its going to cost me a rebuild lol meaning that fuel pumps in FD are probably over a decade old at the mo.

[BenLewisMav]

Just a couple of things that were mentioned on here above;
1) Letting it sit at idle to warm up before driving.
I\'ve always heard that its better for the engine to get going straight away, just not to load it (e.g. no more than half throttle)? Not sure exactly why, blitzboy mentioned the other components, gearbox etc, but I heard specifically the engine. I also read in EVO that free-revving the engine through the whole rev range (using as little load as possible) was a very good way of safely warming the engine, and is used by many race teams (just not very sociable with 92db+ cars).
2) Letting it idle after driving to \'cool down\'.
What I have heard about this is its a bad idea, and technically that does make sense to me, as rotarys generate a lot of heat at idle and with no moving air flowing in to the engine bay to the Intercooler, Radiator, P/S Cooler, A/c cooler, etc ,etc all the engine has to rely on to cool it is a (comparatively) little fan. for the same reason a Turbo Timer is a gimmicy piece of cr@p.

[weejimmy]

i think leting it idel is ore like when you come of a track or have been kicking the crap out of it,
if temps are very high then siting ideling with fan on should cool it down to normal temps,
and its more about oil in the turbo temps as it can buger the turbo if you have super hot oil siting idle in the turbo,
 
prety shure thats what turbo timers are for too,
 
the best thing is on the road drive the last mile or two off bost with little throtle to get temps down,
 
with a pfc you can see which way works best to get temps lowest before shuting off