mazdaverx7

iTrader: (6)

Car looks fantastic and the engine rebuild looks great as well!!! Are you pleased with how the car runs and drives?

Ikigai

Good job man. People like us makes this automotive world much more interesting! :D I want to rebuild rotary in the future on my own too, very interesting engine to dial into.

Joeyjoiner

The car drives fairly well. Still keeping it under 5000rpm, so not a lot of power yet!
The issues are brake shudder from about 100km/h.
Suspension needs doing & some new rubber.
New updated stater motor to come as well.

mazdaverx7

iTrader: (6)

Brake shudder is likely warped rotors or a poor surface area from hot spotting or pad/rust deposits if it had been sitting. Glad to hear it does drive well overall!

Joeyjoiner

mazdaverx7

iTrader: (6)

What do you have planned for the interior?

Joeyjoiner

I bought a complete set of black seats and door cards, but decided that I liked the black / grey door cards and so have left them in.




Bulk two-stroke oil.....

mazdaverx7

iTrader: (6)

I like the look of the interior!! The black seats look great in there! Nice work! Also, was the car originally Brilliant Black?

Joeyjoiner

I.D. plate states A3F - so brilliant black.....

Deathstar24

lookin good, i have a 40th anniversary car i want to get running so bad. ran poorly and smoked some 2 years ago when i bought it for $400 and i tried a new fuel pump and coils and now it doesnt even want to kick over. I may have to engine out the thing and rebuild mine too. Ton of work i really didnt want to do lol

Joeyjoiner

The check engine light has been on post engine rebuild. I have LS coils installed and thought that was probably the issue. The issue was that my engine builder had the earth bolted to the front frame cross member. The earth needs to go to somewhere on the engine. I relocated the earth wire to the intake manifold and the light is now off! Result!!!!

Update: The CEL does come on intermittently. Further investigation required.

Joeyjoiner

Finished running in the engine last weekend. So tomorrow I will be changing the oil and filter and giving it a general check over.
Would like to get a compression check too.
Anything else I should be doing???
Thanks.

GB115

Redlining of course! Have fun with it!

Joeyjoiner

Have covered nearly 8000km since I got the engine rebuilt.
Had the front crank seal replaced yesterday.
The CEL issue was finally solved, recalibrated the crank sensor.
Great car.......for the weekends!

Joeyjoiner

$480 for a new drivers side exterior door handle......ouch!
At least I can get one here in oz.

eves405

SHINKA! Congrats on bringing it back to life!

Joeyjoiner

Last weekend I got around to installing the RX-8 perfromance radiator undertray.
Looks great...