Help/advice needed

[Initial-D]

Sorry to hear about your FD Candi - hope you get it back on the road soon!

Regarding the milage - When you fit a new speedo eg. RE Amemiya/Mazdaspeed 300km ones, they reset the milage to 0km!! Hence the low milage on your car, so you essentially have had 19000km since the new clock was put on.

Great if you want to reduce your milage, although you\'d need to bear this in mind if your buying a motor with aftermarket gauges.

I\'ll do you a swap with my 88K standard one which still clocks up Km\'s too (nice authentic Jap touch there)! :p

Wish you the best in getting your car sorted, I understand your perils in finding rebuilders as theirs alot of stuff flying around at the moment with regards to who you should use. Just look around the forum and ring around, I\'m sure you\'ll see who\'s a safe bet!;)

[ro284]

Hi guys,
             Back to basics for a min, candi says that the car is leaking water, as i understand it if the engine seals have gone, it wont show outside the car at all, as the engine consumes the water,with clouds of white smoke! or have i got the wrong idea?  could just be a leak.
Bob

[Carl]

Originally posted by ro284
Hi guys,
             Back to basics for a min, candi says that the car is leaking water, as i understand it if the engine seals have gone, it wont show outside the car at all, as the engine consumes the water,with clouds of white smoke! or have i got the wrong idea?  could just be a leak.
Bob

It can do both,or either.
Kind regards
Carl

[ro284]

Thanks Carl, you are the expert on this of course, i was just surprised candi did not mention any other symptoms, like misfiring, poor running, overheating,white smoke,wont start.etc. the cause of the puddle under mine was the thermostat failed to open, overheating and bioling the water and forcing it out of the expansion bottle, mine seems ok now now, fingers / legs crossed.
kind regards Bob

[Candi]

Just driven the car home to Essex from Horsham this morning (6am start - yuck!) after having no work done at RX Heaven.

After having a chat to Clive on Monday afternoon, we think the car might just be running with too much water in her so it\'s just getting chucked out. I\'m going to check this theory over the next couple of days, as on the run back, she ran perfectly. My dad was also following me the whole way and said he didn\'t see any smoke or water coming from the exhaust, or anything unusual at all.

Keeping my fingers crossed that it\'s what Clive thinks, but will keep you all posted.

Thanks heaps for all your help and advice, I hope I get to meet a lot of you soon...

[ro284]

Glad the car ran well candi. it seems so easy to assume the engine needs a rebuild, just because of a puddle, even that garage seemed to think that! had you left it with them, you could have had a rebuild you hopefully don\'t need! good luck with it.
Bob

[Carl]

Hi Candi,
That is great news.
I like many assumed that the garage knew what it was doing.
After speaking to Clive about it he came to what is in all likely- hood the right conclusion.
Happy motoring!!
Kind regards
Carl

[travellinbob]

Hi there guys, when my 1st gen rx7 went bang it was an intermal water leak due to it overheating in a big way. It would start so we left it for a while and when my engine builder came to check it out we took the soark pluge out and turned over the engine and sure enough it spat water at us. It is always best I think when dealing with a potentially expensive repair to know what might be wrong or roughly therabouts.
  good luck with it anyway.

[AdrianE]

You could also try using a \'water pressure tester\' to see if the engine is consuming water. I managed to borrow one from Paul-Tll (thanks mate!), who lives in the Surrey area I think. This will tell for sure if your water seals are damaged!