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this is when i first picked up the car not going turned out the hose clamps on the fuel line was lose and wasn't getting any fuel pressure
it already had a 4 age conversion done and certed but was very rough with the engine on a huge angle which made the drive shaft on a Z sort of shape made it vibrate real bad
found that there was a heap of vacuum hoses that had been pulled out so the map senser wasn't hooked up and the tivis so first goal was to get it running better
put new spark plugs leads dizzy cap etc hooked up vacuum hoses now it would idle and was driveable still needed more work
checked timeing and it was way out and i couldn't get it to adjust in thought it was a tooth out so tryed moving that all it did was make it WAY advanced or WAY retarded
went to a mates place he had a engine looked at his dizzy and noticed the cap clips were a fraction different so stole that and put it in and swaped all my bits on to it that brought the timing into were the marks were and made it run like a dream
so ive since been told that there are 3 different dizzys for the 16 valve blue tops
next was time for a wof and reg took it down for a check the guy didn't like the way it was lowered with cuz springs with only 2 coils in the front and reset springs with lowering block holding it hard on the bump stops in the back and according to the cert plat the ride height matched but he wouldn't give me a wof till i lifted it a bit
so out came the lowering blocks in the back well i hunted for some new springs for the front i found some std ke30 front springs but for some reason there a different diameter and the top and bottom of the shocks plus the shocker have been shortened so went to a car wreckers with one of my struts he had a huge bin of springs from unknown cars found a pair of king springs that were bang on for size and put them in made the car way to high in the front so they came back out
and with a little cut cut shhhhhh lol they were brought back down to a suitable hight and were well and truly captive as the shocks were short as
back for the recheck he was real happy with it so it was all legal YAY
next i found that the engine was on cortina engine mounts that was holding the engine real high had a mate that had a S1 12a mount in his shed that was the right thinkness so used that and made a dummy one out of a bolt and wood for the other side to see if it would fix my engine hight and angle issue and what do ya know it did the car is starting to get real good but every time i fix somthing it seems somthing else goes wrong the exhaust had been made for the engine on the angle now that it was down the exhaust bent up and went "rattle rattle rattle" on the floor with a quick chop and weld that was solved and a trip to repco turned out that S1 Rx7 mounts don't exsist anymorre if anyone can help me with a idea to fix this PM menext on the shopping list was a set of mags
found these through a mate 13x7 superlites they look mint
as you can see the height the wof guy made me put it at is bout 50mm higher then cert plate says so im looking at changeing this soon
how would you like it if i went to your car and stabed my pen through it well i guess if it wasn't rusty it wouldn't get through so that was a FAIL took it home and un bolted things of the firwall to sand and work out what is needed to fix turns out theres a bit more rust there then first thought that some nice person has covered with BOG.
