gilmore03

Well i let my buddy drive my 83 GSL. Being the retard he is, dropped it in reverse, the car jumped all over the place, then it died. Drove down the road again and when it reaches low RPM's it would die....drove around a little bit farther, stoped at a stop sign and it was idleing fine, 800-900ish....what could of caused that?

rbf41182gt

that's why you don't let other people drive your car. If he did it on purpose, kick his ***!

aussiesmg

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Is it an auto, how the hell do you get a car moving forward into reverse if its a stick...

gilmore03

he was backing out of a parking space, and just dropped it

aussiesmg

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OK so he had the car kangaroo hopping, I get it now, it sort of sounds like a fuel issue, back to basics, fuel filter replacement.....Does it miss at constant throttle.

perfect_circle

check you wires, i got all kinds of wheel hop in reverse, and my ignition wire came undid...dont ask me how.. but might as well check it.

jutny

ugh, i dropped the clutch in reverse once by accident ( i WAS in a hurry... but) and holy hell the wheel hop, i've never felt wheel hop like that, it felt like the goddamn car was getting shaken in a paint mixer.

kevinbtz

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yep, spinning tires in reverse = wheel hop , I hate it

gilmore03

so i should be fine? i mean the car is fine now and i drove it for a few minutes, stalled that 2 times when rmps were low, but then idleing find afterwards

jfachner72

hows your fender?

perfect_circle

lol
^^^^^^^^

gilmore03

haha its actually good lol, getting it painted monday, i just cant get the fender and door to line up rite

LokiRx7.1

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........... I let my friends help me twice with my 7, now no more........ one of them hooked the jumper cables up backwards to thier battery booster.... toasted a fusible link. then my other friend being the behemoth he is tried to pick up my car when I was inside and bent my drivers side fender........... I hate "helpful" friends.... BTW his excuse was he thought it was lighter than it really was............. moron..............

rotornoob

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lol... that is why im glad that none of my friends are mechanically inclined....unfortunately its a double edged sword. oh well....thats why i have my dad help when i really REALLY need it.

i never let anyone drive my car....didn't even let my dad drive when it was having issues...just took him on a ride along

85rotarypower

Thats strange. I dumped the clutch in my 7 while in reverse once and all it did was burn the tires off and take off going backwards. No wheelhop to speak of.

Your friend probably just shook up the fuel pretty good in the carb and mabey starved it of fuel for a short time. Thats all I could guess.

FBdeluna

yea i let my cuz andy help me if i need it i think its because he has an 84 gs so i think thats y i let him and i help him but if it sonething like 2-3 hours long to work on it i will tell my dad or my uncles who had an 82 gsl (working on getting a 7 cuz he misses it) or my bro who has a 87 rx7 lol thats about all well my friends that have rx7 can help me other then that no no one will help me lol

gilmore03

yea thats what i was thinking

clean85owner

Did your friend rev the engine and dump the clutch while in reverse, or did he just completetly dump the clutch on idle?

gilmore03

he dropped it on idle

boyee

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this is a super dumb question and also i dont mean to jack this thread but on the topic...
i was wondering what would happen if u were driving forward (even at slow speeds like 20mph) and shift it into reverse? is this even possible? do our clutches have a reverse lock so when we are driving forward it wont allow us to shift into reverse? or would your engine and tranny blow up? or would you just stop really fast and hop backwards?
such stupid questions but i keep wondering what will happen.

IanS

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There are no synchros for the reverse gear. This is the reason that sometimes you need to put it into 1st gear first, then reverse. Most manual transmission vehicles have non synchro reverse gears. You CAN get it into gear going forward, but it would most likely take both arms and a really hard yank, and it would grind like a son of a bitch.

Dom

Same thing happened to someone else on this forum some time ago when he shifted hard into second (from first). He also said that the car hopped and then it had problems in the low rpms.

Turn out it was the temp sensor at the rad that had come loose.