escortwags

these guys http://www.davie.co.nz/

Are the stockists for these http://www.niceproducts.com.au/catalogues/wheel/bolts.php

13b turbo, extended port with a borg warner and off you go laughing... small lightweight, easy powa and reasonably cheap considering all these other uber worked engines everyones speaking of

SPECS $$$$

Lol google the size of FD brakes and let me know what wheels will fit

Series 3 RX7 brakes are sacks of turd I would never trust either

Love the shift handle. . looks like a bike grip? i think I'll copy that

Yup just a standard old BMX grip + glows in the dark haha, shifter is actually just made from a cut down BMX handle bar as well 

also Mr. DB8 please note that any RX with upgraded brakes eg. FC3S or FD3S can't have any wheels smaller than 15" anyway + these brakes also dictate offset and wheel style etc.

so doort doort away to that

^food for thought

Was just going to take it to magnum and let them give me a piece of paper. Shall see how I go.

Can't wait to hoon it and feel the difference in POWA

Problem solved

All is well in V8 land

Will see how it likes the abuse over The weekend but the MSD unit is way superior to my china burden I now own

Chur Oldschool

Jumping "one tooth" failed turns over fast only one big back fire.

Going back to basics and setting tdc now just waiting for mate with timing light

Edit

Took all of 15 mins and the g/f bumping the starter to find TDC chuck the dizzy back in and what do you know it turns over at normal speeds and runs all be it at 0 degrees bring on the timing light

Also note now there is no black smoke on start up or soot spewing out the exhaust

im 99% certain that I'm a tooth to far clockwise hence the massive advance
gar I'm over thinking things, will report back at about 6 either with a smiley face or drunken angry thoughts

Limited to the amount I can turn the cap due to firewall trying to be friends with it (get about 30 degrees of rotation

sweet

will be lazy and try one tooth back as I'm sure thats what happened if that fails will get TDC and start from there.
Has some wierd after market timing pointer on it so hopefully there are degree markings for 0 etc

- would I assume if there are no marking that dead in the middle of the timing pointer is 0 and anything to the left would be BTDC?

sweet will remove tach wire tonight, and yes only a 2 plug system (12v and tach) on 100% correct

by googling it seems ive got the dizzy in  way way way to advanced which is causing the slow starter motor issues

but in theory if the dizzy rotated further clockwise than it should have wouldnt that have made the timing more retarded??

Will rotate one tooth counter clockwise and see if that fixes everything, failing that will plug #1 plug out get TDC and start from scratch

you will probably be getting millions of texts feel like coming to the shore tonight? hahaha will see how I go

install process was as follows

- taped a mark where #4 point aligned to something on engine

- removed cap

- taped a mark where rotor aligned to something on engine

- removed

- installed new dizzy with rotor pointing at mark although not fully engaged in oil pump bit'

- aligned #4 point to the mark

- cranked it

- dizzy dropped down further which im guessing means it rotated further clockwise but would only be one tooth?

got running but barely

god im unlucky. Have a mate bringing over a timing light tonight, hopefully all goes well as we are leaving for Kumeu at 8am in the morn

GETTING THERE.

OK so new HEI turned up is 100% genuine and is 6094358xbetter than it's china counter part (see below)

bunged it in last night and tried firing the bastard which was very hard to start.

Also note the tacho was going spastik while cranking and engine was sucking so much power the interior lights were going dim! (battery standing has 12.5volts so definitely enough juice) would kind of crank then go slow try fire repeat etc. did get it running although only holding idle for about 10 seconds sounded way to quite and had a delayed throttle.

I lined everything up with where the old dizzy was but think it's off a tooth clockwise (had issues aligning oil pump and think on first crank it sloted in deeper putting it off the mark where it should have lined up MUPPET!) which ill try fix tonight fingers crossed that's all it is?

shitty comparison photos below, any ideas on the spastik tacho?

Ha I even have a full set of plugs, and yuck blue MSD leads to. Shall investigate 

Have purchased ya bastards.

Will update this thread hopefully Thursday night with te outcome

Anyone in the market for a sweet china HEI? Haha

good thinking shall get my google on now. The spares look genuine so hopefully the Dizzy works out to be as well.

F**k it if it's real deal Ill just buy the bastard.

Interwebs is failing me, it just goes on and on about the 6AL units nothing about HEI

Am waiting for a call from Magnum as they are going to dyno/tune it when a free spot comes up.

But just want the thing reliably drivable so I can atleast get there and zoom around when I want.

Man I really need to buy a timing light

yeh the spares make me want it more (module alone is worth $$$)

buuuuuut might just wait for Kumeu to see if there are any deals to be had.

Is she just a bolt it out of the box jobby or would I have to change all the advance weights and springs etc,?

so just to confirm if i hit buy now on this there is an 80% chance Ill fix my problem?

dont like spending money for no reason (well the missues doesnt like it)

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=684587944

yuh thats what I'm thinking!! it's way to temperamental and weird .

I think it just likes attention.

Will get a new one at Kumeu and chuck it in while I'm there and see what happens

gar its being such a c*nt its decided it runs mint now. To late to start it again as neighbours don't like loud noises.

Will hook up the vac advance tomorrow and see if that makes it a happier chappy.

Failing that will try find a bargain priced dizzy at kumeu and just swap it out there 

EDIT

definitely not a vacuum leak, car dies when rag put over carb then comes back to idle, only thing Iv'e changed to get it idling is a tweak on the floats and pulled all the wires off the dizzy then put them back on

Oh and vacuum advance is not hooked up and never has been
*should I jam this on?

Ok so no vacumm leak I just timed my rag on the carb wrong
I pulled the wires off the HEI put them back on, it started and took a 3 minute video of it idling happy as
In gear the revs drop down to 450-500 but that's a tune issue (might need more tranny fluid also)

Now starts off the key without touching the gas like it used to

Gave it some revs then a small one and a ball of fire from the carb burnt my eyelashes off.
So is it a timing issue then?

I'm chasing a ghost

Just found a lose manifold bolt and others needed a tweak, going to reset the floats now

Car doesn't have to be warm for it to go wierd choke is set to only run for 30 seconds (electric)

Running a bunch of the small old looking but new autometer gauges

Car running is putting out 14v