Weekend Driver

BLK FC3S · 05-04-2008, 09:45 AM

--- 1k miles in 1 1/2 years. I let it warm up for 5 minutes before driving, checking tire air pressure while waiting. Check coolant level and oil as well. I don't do the redline thing, I don't see how that could help the car.

need RX7 · 05-10-2008, 12:28 AM

Yay! My car runs fine now!! Now I just need to put the interior back in (really just the driver's seat) and I'll be able to take it for a ride. I did stall it on purpose in my garage today to make sure the clutch was good

, all the tools I had carefully placed all over the car are all over the floor now

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Ender · 05-10-2008, 10:02 AM

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Originally Posted by need RX7

Yay! My car runs fine now!! Now I just need to put the interior back in (really just the driver's seat) and I'll be able to take it for a ride. I did stall it on purpose in my garage today to make sure the clutch was good

, all the tools I had carefully placed all over the car are all over the floor now

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hahaha
For that reason I make sure I don't do stuff like that when I have tools on the car. I don't want a wrench in my pulleys or gouge my radiator or something.

Ender · 05-10-2008, 10:00 AM

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Originally Posted by BLK FC3S

--- 1k miles in 1 1/2 years. I let it warm up for 5 minutes before driving, checking tire air pressure while waiting. Check coolant level and oil as well. I don't do the redline thing, I don't see how that could help the car.

Rotaries need to be run hard once in a while. So do piston engines, actually, but rotaries more so. If you ever open up an engine driven by a 'grandma' type driver, it will be carbon encrusted all over because it was babied so much that carbon had every opportunity to stick where it doesn't belong (and it doesn't belong anywhere in an engine). Driving it harder, but maybe not redlining, may be a decent alternative, and you can perform water treatments to help rid the motor of carbon, but really these cars were designed to redline, they do it readily and happily. Redlining is like an orgasm to a rotary, the more you please the RX-7, the more it will please you

That is, if the car is healthy enough for sex. Dirty injectors, bad grounds, leaks, low compression, low fluids, are all ailments that should be remedied before resuming aggressive intimacy, but once you do you'll quickly be reminded why you married her

05-10-2008, 12:28 AM	#2
need RX7 Clean S4 Nutswinger Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Sterling Heights, MI Posts: 485 Rep Power: 18	Yay! My car runs fine now!! Now I just need to put the interior back in (really just the driver's seat) and I'll be able to take it for a ride. I did stall it on purpose in my garage today to make sure the clutch was good , all the tools I had carefully placed all over the car are all over the floor now . __________________ -Ted -1986 Mazda RX7 Sport [DD/beater]: engine finally let go at 205k. parts car status. -1986 Mazda RX7 base [resto-mod project]: S5 n/a swap in progress.

05-04-2008, 09:45 AM	#1
BLK FC3S C088 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Mount Dora, FL (no its not a mountian) Posts: 112 Rep Power: 18	--- 1k miles in 1 1/2 years. I let it warm up for 5 minutes before driving, checking tire air pressure while waiting. Check coolant level and oil as well. I don't do the redline thing, I don't see how that could help the car.