Friday, August 29, 2008

pretty much copying this from my post on the www.rx7club.com

We've started work on the S4 we bought a while ago. Money in the pocket is alot better, and weve also aquired a civic hatch with a b16a swap as a daily driver :P

NOW HERE COME THE PROBLEMS-History

We purchased the 87 SE model from someone here on the forums about a year ago almost from a not so frequent viewer/poster of here on the RX7CLUB.com

what came with it were a set of springs..will get to this later

S5 tails
RB header going into some piping into magnaflow mufflers (LOUD AS HELL)
Supposedly rebuilt motor...

New Black dash-no cracks, its in a really good condition with no dried out spots etc...

now when we bought it, the kid told us that him and his father had attempted to redo the whole harness...as far as how much or what they did, we didnt know at the time

i took it for a test drive w/o any gauges (gauges were out, this is why the previous owner attempted at a whole rewire of the harness -_-) made sure that the idle was fine, compressions was fine, no smoke at startup, nor any smoke during the drive. No air bubbles in the coolant so no signs of coolant seals going by by.

the only thing that i really saw was some electrical problem, the Room fuse kept blowing
the PD needs to be replaced
Rust
some dents
needs new controls for wipers and lights, switches work...jsut the plastic surrounding to go onto the dash are all broken n what not
door locks need to be fixed
hatch hydraulics need to be replaced...all mest up
carpet needs some RnR
Seats we tore out last night...garbage...we have a pair of Black S5 seats (dont know if theyre different from S4s)
tires and wheels (DAMN THOSE PHONE DIALS 2 HELL)
sunroof needs to be replaced
mirrors are mest up too...we picked up a pair of S5 t2 mirros tho so hah

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and so i get to the point of this thread

we were attempting to see what was blowing our ROOM fuse (7.5A)...went through alot. unplugged this and that harness and just said fuck it, and just went along the whole harness to see if anything he had spliced or w/e was chaffing against some metal...

we found this





These are all in the harness where the Main blue plug goes into...

MY QUESTION IS...is this FACTORY?? Should we just invest into another S4 harness?


yeh...and to some more pictures






gay seats







LT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



and me...with short hair :(

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

1st post

We have acquired a 1987 Mazda RX-7 -SE Model

It is the base model...with the ugly phone dial wheels

motor is supposedly rebuilt

Car came with S5 Tails (89-92)

Objectives we are currently working on

  • S5 Gauge Cluster Install
  • Relocation of the battery to the storage bins
  • Body work

Pictures will be up tonight...hopefully