Hi from a new RX7 owner

[Wombat-007]

No worries dude, been there myself and it\'s not a fun time, although I did get a street port ahead of schedule:)

Don\'t know about the picture posting as was a member so had no problem. I use Photobucket as doesn\'t limit the photos you can post on the forum:Thumbs-up

[gonzodave]

I think you need to be a paid up member to add pics but not sure ?

[Benedunn]

:Giggle i wont lie i have no idea with the 7\'s and this \'champagne\' test sounds pretty cool (glad you added a vid so i could understand it) at 1st i pictured you feeding the rex some nice crystal to see it got wobbly :rollin
 
anyways ive only seen it on an 8 once 98k miles and i got \'brung in\' to assertain the problem after the cars local machanic had striped EVERYTHING of the top of the engine in an atempt to find a cylinder head :reallymad so 2 hours later and everthing fitted i filled the empty coolant tank with tap water (couldnt work out why the grease monkey had emtied it :xconfused)
 
the car cranked twice then BOOM she blew the lid off the tank and fired water everywhere, overflow tank empty again - i would have been :censored::censored::censored::censored:ed over this but it was made easier to bear because Phil (the chap whos car it was) had his head under the bonnet watching when it happened :rollin:rollin:rollin:Giggle

[Ada7]

Welcome to the club Matt. :wave
Glad to see you\'ve been getting good advice. Fingers crossed it nothing serious straight from the off.
Just as a worse case seniorio (?) and it is a water seal failure, then thats not as bad as it first may seem. Yes you\'ll have the hassle of getting the engine out but a new seal kit and checking everything over (fingers crossed its all ok) and put it all back togther, you should have a nice refreshed engine and shouldn\'t cost the earth to do

Adam

[Benedunn]

i like your laps attitude to pulling the engine and just changing the water seals adam general consensus is to change everthing and its a pain of a job rebuild - so its good to see theres someone else out there thinking like me - guess us rotary owners just need to take a different view of engine rebuilding - if your tyres wear ... change em - if your apex seals wear ... change em ... no brainer :chat

[Test Drives Unlimited]

Welcome to the MRC

[MattScott]

I\'ve finally got a couple of photos of the car so here goes......

http://i1211.photobucket.com/albums/cc426/MattyScottie/Mazda%20RX7%20FD3S%20Type-r/0820112.jpg
http://i1211.photobucket.com/albums/cc426/MattyScottie/Mazda%20RX7%20FD3S%20Type-r/0820111.jpg

Both a source of pride&joy and utter despair (depending on how the water situation progresses). Still at least it doesn\'t look like water seal failure - which is all good

Plan to track my progress in giving this Rex some TLC so will post more pictures as things progress.

[Nik da Greek]

Very nice looking car. Like the early nose/late spoiler combo. Needs a splitter to finish it off, is all.

[Wombat-007]

Looks really nice, White rex\'s deffo grown on me over the last few months.
Like the stock look with later spoiler, deffo needs a front splitter to balance the car out more.
Try and get some more photos up with some spec listing in the project section.
Looking forward to seeing how things progress.

[MattScott]

I will when it stops breaking on me!! Gggrrhh  

I hope to get a project started but the list of snagging keeps growing......or maybe the project has started and it starts with fixing the previous owners bodges.

I\'m still loosing coolant when it\'s been run up to temp and then cools down, so looks like the next job is to get a pressure test done and see it that shows anything.

Took it out for a spin down to the coast this weekend as I was fed up simly looking for leaks. Topped everything up, little blast down the motorway , got stuck behind 2 tractors and no over heating issues what so ever. Popped bonnet this morning to check coolant levels and had to top up with about 0.5 liter ! Just to make things even more interesting, the bonnet cable jammed !! grrhhhh. Turns out the heat of the turbos had melted the inner layer to the cable! Had to wait for RAC man (a nice bloke into drifting called Dave!) to come an make a new temporary cable so I get home again. Still I\'m beginning to get used to something going pear-shaped every time I drive it so the stress levels are slowly falling !!

I will certainly start a project thread although it will most likely be a fix thread to begin with as I\'ve many many bodges to fix. It seems the previous owner just loved duck tape and cable ties!!  All easy stuff to sort but the coolant issue is going to have to take priority.

Thanks for the warm welcomes and encouragement. Will keep everyone up to speed on the trials and tribulations of hopefully getting my REX in a more reliable position!!