My major project!

[vest_racing]

Looks very good leeroy 25...

[leeroy_25]

Okay guy\'s,
I think for now the major panic is over. After reading through a 40 manual again and trying the factory set code for this it appears to have worked. I think last time I had not held the last button long enough. But I was all set to guess a few codes and I didn\'t need to! I still haven\'t driven it yet so it could all go horribly wrong on the way to MOT! Anway. I stil need to check the remote start works. Other than tht fingers crossed th alarm wil be okay.
Now moving on to the next problem. I have found a wiring diagram for my audio system but ths does not tell you what each colour wire is for. Can anyone help? I need to know which wires on the power plug correspond to what. ie. power, illumination etc.. I can figure power and ignition due to the wire digram but not the others. Also where is the inline fuse? is there another fuse box in the car? I think possibly the 10amp one is blown as I have ignition live but no constant. Finally what should the radio relay switch look like? I opened the relay box and in the audio position appears to be just some open wires looping the terminals!? I am sure that cannot be right? Finally for audio does te centre speaker not get used if you put in an aftermarket radio? I spotted a small blackplug wth amp written on it and presue this plugs to the amp which I guess is part of the standard headunit?? (Which I don\'t have!)
Last little problem. I noticed I do not have a fog light?! I presume being an import there should be a seperate wired in foglight? if so I need to sort one out as I cannot find any sign of one which is strange as it has been MOT\'d previously! What is the normal deal with this.. Can I wire into the spotlight/front fog switch on the centre console and put a seperate light by the bumper or into the brake light?

Cheers guys
Lee

[Nik da Greek]

Glad to hear you\'ve got it sorted alarm-wise, dude. Still cant help with your stereo woes, I\'m afraid. I didn\'t even know my centre speaker wasn\'t wired up to anything until it got taken out to mount some gauges!

You will need an independant rear fog light, and I believe that it has to have a switch that iluminates or other telltale on the dash to stop you from driving it around for months with it left on (though this doesn\'t stop my wife from doin it, lol). Methods vary, from just bolting a cheap Halfrauds one to the bottom of the bumper, to canabilising one of the reverse lights, to clever things with leds and such. Guess it depends how quick you need to get it done, wedging on a Halfords one to get the MOT done and doing something more elegant later is always an option.

I think the switch in the centre console is supposed to work front fogs, I think it was an option to get another for a rear fog with a telltale (cos Jap market doesn\'t require it). Mine has both, but it seems to be uncommon

[leeroy_25]

I have found a thread on converting the rear brake light with a LED style bulb and wiring into the front fog switch whihc is a good option! I planned to use that switch as it saves putting anything extra in the dash. Not sure about needing the tell tale light on the instrument panel as I don\'t recall that being in the skyline? Although I guess the switch illuminates if I use the foglight switch?

Fingers crossed for the weekend now!! Better not rain either!!

[leeroy_25]

Good news and not so good news!

Saturday p.m. the RX7 had it\'s maiden voyage.. Of to the MOT station! I was bricking it! having never been anywhere anything could happen! I took off gingerly for MOT and was very pleased to arrive at the station in one piece without any drama\'s. As the station were running late they suggest I go for a quick drive and come back in 15mins. As I went to start the car.. it fired and I let go of the key but it hadn\'t actually started. Instantly I thought I\'ve flooded it and lo and behold a subsequent attempt to start the car it just turned over and didn\'t fire. After a bit of panic I made a quick call to Martin @ speedline for some advice! Thanks to him.. I removed the relays for the fuel pump and EGI and whizzed it over a few times. First attempt it didn\'t work and the battery started going. So I borrowed a charge pack from the garage and the next attempt it barked up.
Afer that I nipped up the road to clear it out. As I got back to the garage and pulled in for MOT Smoke started curling from under the hood with a distinctly oily pong! Great!! THe car seemed to be running fine wit perfectly good oil pressure and no smoke fomr the exhaust. I popped the hod and couldn\'t see anthing. Then when we got it up on the ramp all we could see was the turbo clearly had a little oil around the housing which was dripping onto the exhaust. No sign of where it was coming from though! After the MOT which it passed! with only an advise on slightly pitted brake discs! (It has been sat for 2 years or more!) I took it back home gingerly. I had another look under neath and found there also seems to be a very slight leak of Power Steering fluid coming from around the bottom of the bottle I think. Hard to tell. As for the oil on the turbo it seemed to be coming from the actuator for the second turbo?! Then I spotted more oil on the little brace bar that fits in just above the radiator.. agian no sign of where from! After more investigation today with my dad we found the oil is coming out of the induction system and hence how it has got into the acutator and appears to be coming from that too! As it doesn\'t appear to be burning any oil I am not sure where it\'s coming from. Although when I got the engine and tried to compression test it I did put quite a bit of oil onto the rotors to help seal it?! Hopefully it is just that.. But I will have to keep an eye on it!
Also I have foind that is seems to be a bit of a pig to start when hot? I have heard this is normally a result of low compression? I certainly hope it is something else! (could it be plugs getting oily from the above issue?) last thing I need now is to have to rebuild the engine! It goes like a train and doesn\'t smoke at all! Quicker than I expected to be honest! I wll hopefully get it to reworx next weekend for a compression check.
The only other bad thing I noticed which could be an oil leak into the box from the engine seal or the oil from the turbo getting in there or even just where it\'s not been used. When I gave it a bit more beans the clutched slipped quite badly as the second turbo kicked in. It only did it once or twice then it was fine.. Even if you tried loading it up in a high gear. So another one to keep and eye on! Is it common for rear oil seals to go?
Last little problem is I notice on y way back fomr MOT the Speedo is reading in KM/h! Is it easy to get a conversion done. Is it just a chip you plug in DIY?

So a few smal problems..  But after all the work that has been carried out ofver the last ew months I think it as to be expected really!?

I have ome work to do one a couple of other cars over the next two or three weeks so there will be no major progress on te FD for a little while. I need to sort out an electrical issue as I still have no Coonstatn live to the radio. Everything else including the earth check out fine? any ideas greatfully recieved!

Lee

[dandan]

ooh, let me know if you plan to go to RE:Worx, and me and Rich will meet you down there for a chat if you like.

[leeroy_25]

Dan, I meant to reply earlier. I will be down at rework tomorrow morning about 10.30am for a couple of hours getting a once over!!

Feel free to come say hello!

Cheers
Lee

[dandan]

damn! You should have replied earlier, this is the first saturday in about 2 months that i havent had a reason to go down there! never mind, i\'m sure well catch up at some point.

[James H]

Nice work dude & good to meet you at Re:Worx, will keep my eye out for you around Pompey, take it easy.

[leeroy_25]

Hi James!
Nice to meet you too! I am sure I will be back down there in the near future! Good luck with your engine swap!

Dandan.. We will hook up some other time. No problem! My fault for not getting in touch sooner! bit of a mad week though!

Well... I had my check over at re-worx this weekend. The news wasn\'t all bad.. Could have been a damn site worse! As I suspected I have a failed rear oil seal which is causing a bit of clutch slip every now and then. I also have a weep off the powersteering pipe which I can change no problem. Not so good is I have a suspected oil leak (seal failure?) in the rear turbo. I had hoped it was just a little oil from the intercooler that had got sucked through the inlet system and squeezed out of the actuator. but there is a fair amount of oil sprayed around the turbo housing when you look from underneath. Turbo seems to be working perfectly okay and it\'s not causing any smoke! Just the oil leaking onto the exhaust is a bit of a concern! I was planning to go single turbo some time! Maybe a little sooner than I thought!
The goodish news was the compression wasn\'t too bad! between 6.5 and 6.7 on the rear rotor and 5.8 -6.0 on the front. So for some reason the front is running a little low but I gather it\'s not the end of the world!
I was also told that I have a paper inlet gasket which would be a good idea to change. Maybe it\'s not helping my warm start issue as even after a bit of a fiddle and a setup it\'s still just as bad. I presume my slightly low front rotor wouldn\'t cause that much of an issue for warm starting?
The guy\'s down at re-worx are brilliant. Very helpful and friendly. I spent plenty of time quizzing them about the FD\'s and rotary engines in general! Also found out what my electrical problem was on my stereo. There was a fuse completely missing! But as I didn\'t have a cover on my joint box I didn\'t know! I had a hunch it could be but thought I wouldn\'t risk it just in case till I knew for sure.
So slightly happier I went home and fitted up my stereo and rear speakers and put all the dash back together properly! Sadly I had no camera to take pics this weekend. I will try and get some for next weekend!

[James H]

Oh yer almost forgot to ask you where you got hold of an "arche roller" wanna roll mine so can put some spacers on for a nice tight fit to the arche, thanks??

[leeroy_25]

Hi James,
I hired mine from Martin at Speedline. Do you know who I mean? failing that ask around some of the body shops.

[James H]

Nope don\'t know Martin, how much did they let you have it for?? Yer will check around them, thanks?

[leeroy_25]

James... I can\'t remember how much now.. Not too much.. but it was a bit of a favor as I had bought a few bits off him. I also had to collect it from Cowfold! Not ideal from your point of view!

Lee

[James H]

Ok matey, thanks thou.