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wouldnt the wear on one edge of the belt only suggest an alignment issue?

his claims to fame were more based around crashing various bikes at improbable speed and walking away, but yeah I got the feeling he was a weaver of dodgy yarns

talking to an old boy about my rx7 and mentioned the roll cage in it and that I had considered removing it at one stage He said 'oh you probably don't want to do that' - he reckoned when the side impact rules came in in the 90s, importers found it cheaper to import a car "for race use only" to circumvent the side impact requirements, then fit a cheap half cage, THEN recertify for the road where the cage trumped the lack of side bars True or BS?

I'm not sure about the dash, the car seems to have a lot of added extras so it might've been a factory option, but statistically, it's probably just aftermarket crap lol. TBH I've never liked carbon fiber effect, it just screams "kit car" to me. I'd swap for factory if someone offered, wouldn't go paying to change back though. The prices really really are coming down though (more that they were hopelessly inflated in the first place). a couple of years ago you wouldn't even get a running one for 50k, not surprising the prices weren't sustainable

Ignition is back together with the spare coil ex-trademe, and engine back together too. obviously I'm not foolish enough to see if it actually starts yet so I declared war on these crappy gauges instead the EGT gauge doesn't work (probe burned to a crisp) and I wanted a wideband AFR instead. I HATE the cluster pod. It doesn't match the dash colour, barely matches the contour, blocks a dash vent and was double-sided tape to the dash. So I tore the lot out, bought some fancy gauges and a very not fancy triple DIN mount. the old boost gauge didn't make the cut as it was too big unfortunately. New gauge is boost only (no vacuum) which might calm my engine compression neuroses much better. I am aware that I just dropped significant money on a voltmeter but something has to go in there. plus I like to know what's going on!

think I've found the problem

not a cent. @bigfoot qualified but was too nice to accept my charity turnout was low, people possibly trying to avoid hearing about my balls

nice to see everyone again, sorry I couldn't stick around longer

7 bucks worth of potato sure buys a lot of motivation

somebody is in charge of texting me a reminder on the day. Your chippies depend on it

yeah I'm thinking my money is safe, based on either a) nobody shows up in an OS car or b) i completely forget to turn up

I'll shout a side of fries to anyone who actually shows up in an oldschool car

I'm kinda trying to toe the line, it's already been messed with by virtue of the bodykit so it'll never be a concours machine. But most modifications are also serious upgrades well beyond what I need or want. Even the coil upgrades are touted as being for people who have hit the limits of the stock coils, which again is much faster than I want to be. I just want the car to last, and not be a huge bitch to work on. ie I started with the wrong car!

"this will allow for maximum nangs in any carbureted rotary engine"

it really is a bit of an endless rabbit hole right now. $700 for NZEFI coils, but will a powerFC run them? the dwell is different and from 30 seconds of googling it looks like power FC can't adjust dwell. But that's OK, because you can reflash the FC so it can ($$$), oh but the program to allow it only does it through a datalogit ($$$). much easier to just leave it in bits and do something else... The price is right, I was just hoping to have a set and forget solution rather than hoarding parts of unknown parentage but I'm starting to think it's not worth it, the FD coils ARE good. I've asked him, let's let him decide what I do As mentioned maybe I will just put my effort into relocating the coils so at least if they crap out and I'm forced to swap and change between old parts of unknown quality, it's a two minute job The typical thing is that you go and spend all this time and money on all these tried-and-true upgrades to get weak links out of the system increase reliability and quality of life, only for a potential buyer to come along one day, kick the tyres and moan that it's barely worth buying because it's been "messed with"