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sorry, should add it's a round pin

what's the style/brand name of this kind of crimp pin connector? 3mm OD

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"

that trademe listing is pickup only unfortunately, you'd think it wouldn't be too hard to post I'm leaning towards the nzefi coils as they're cheap, local, and do away with the ignitor as well. Just gotta work out where they'd fit! and whether the power FC will be cool with them

I was looking at sakebomb and vinnyfab plug n play options but both cases I would say the actual hardware makes up less than half the price, the rest being a big premium on the convenience of not having to do too much work to install them. My coils are all in spec but I'm sure they're original, I guess I might just relocate them for now so if they do crap out eventually they'll be easier to replace

so with the new air seperator cap on, the cooling system has finally been able to build to operating pressure. which of course means all of the leaks have now become apparent. Including the water lines that somebody secured with zip ties, wonderful I ditched the plastic AST at the advice of everyone and fitted an aluminum one as the original one is apparently a hand grenade Then it developed a misfire, and then I got too cute moving the thing around the workshop in small trips and inevitably flooded it, lesson learned. So. Changed the plugs (very wet and very worn), dribbled some ATF into the chambers, and it fired back into life with a hiss and a roar, or rather, a miss and a roar and a LOT of smoke. Decided to pull the leads off and check them. #2 leading was having none of it yeah that'll be the misfire Mazda had the forethought to put the coils in the dumbest fucking place on earth, so I had to pull lots of bits off to get to them. My wife walked past at one stage, saw the mess and said "I guess that's the end of that then isn't it" One silver lining is that I was able to take the throttle body off and get a real good look at the fast idle adjustment (which is on the back side of the throttle body because it was designed by the same guy who mounted the coils). found a wear notch in the idle stop cam which probably caused some of the weird surging idle, dressed it out. I'm conscious that with the age of the car, anything still original on it is probably getting towards the end of it's first life. I don't really want to just clean out that coil and use it as-is. I definitely don't want to put them back in that location. The stock coils are apparently good enough, but they're pretty pricey new from mazda. And the engine bay is cluttered, there's no really obvious candidate for relocation. So again I'm staring down the barrel of spending lots of money modifying a car that I never really intended to go crazy with, because the alternative is spending lots of money building stock problems back into it I'd add more (not particularly interesting) photos but I'm not savvy enough to resize them.

funny enough I just did that, pulled the earth out and re-seated it, and it worked for a little bit, now it's dead again too fucking hot today anyway

our elderly Toncon TIG-200 gave up this morning. Even with it set to 100 amps, and trying to arc directly to the ground cable, it could only produce a handful of weak sparks. is it worth pulling this sort of thing to bits and trying to fix? or straight in the bin? makes me feel better because the last time I tried to use it I was producing even shittier welds than usual, now I can rightfully claim that the machine was on it's last legs

I'll give him a go, thanks. rotary people seem to be pretty cagey, it's hard to even find the right people to ask

honestly everyone keeps telling me to ditch the twins but I love them, the first turbo is so responsive, if I so much as breathe on the throttle I get glorious spooling noises. By the time the second turbo joins in, I wouldn't want to be going much faster anyway really really want a set of the stock wing mirrors, you'd think there'd be tonnes of them gathering dust around the place but I've yet to find any for sale

fuck this thing uses some gas