Tall2Guy

I'm looking hard to buy this TurboII. It will need to be a daily driver though. Mostly interstate, about 75 miles a day. It needs to be fairly reliable. I'm not looking for Honda reliabilty here, I've got other cars I can drive, but it needs to be decent. What do ya think? It's a 87, the body has 125k miles on it. Engine has 20k.

*J-spec motor & 1991 Turbo (< 20k)
*Racing Beat 3" turbo back exhaust
*Centerforce Dual Friction Clutch
*Starion front mount intercooler
*HKS Super Powerflow intake
*MSD 6A
*RB Ultrawires
*720 cc secondary injectors
*Gforce ECU upgrade
*Apexi S-AFC
*Manual Boost Controller
*Turbo XS Type H BOV
*FD fuel pump upgrade (rewired)
*GAB strut tower brace
*4 Wire O2 sensor
*All vacuum hoses replaced with silicone and tie wrapped
*Chrome upper intake manifold
*Throttle body modification
*Coolant bypass modification
*Oil bypass pellet mod
*Welded rear differential mount
*Redline oils
Emissions removed.
No A/C

Felix Wankel

That car is good to go. Its ready to make some good power.

I have similar mods, but with a much higher mileage engine (damn thing just won't pop), and no fuel controller or FMIC (yet). I drive my car all the time, including trips to Huntsville and back. I haven't had any problems with it, save for the fuel pump switch I broke the other night.

vaughnc

Sounds like the motor has good compression. If everything's wired correctly, you not running lean, and you have a few gagues or monitoring devices you should be fine.

With your emissions removed I'm not sure how your deceleation system is working, but stop & go traffic may be a bit of a pain without it.

Not sure if 720cc secondaries will give you good gas mileage, so you might want to swap back to the OEM injectors if you fuel economy REALLY sucks.

Looks like your flywheel is OEM, so shouldn't be any issues with lightweight & warping.

I'd assume with a daily you'd want to keep the boost at OEM levels. You'd also want to do oil changes every 2500miles & tuneups every 18-23K miles. Synthetic in the transmission & rear differ. Regular 10W30 (or similar) in the engine.

Well that's all off the top of my head.

-- vaugnnc

Tall2Guy

Thanks Felix. Damn you've got a lot of posts. lol


deceleation system? That's a new one on me. What is it? I'm guessing you missed typed, cause this is the only post found in a search on it.

I'm not to concerned with gas mileage. Unless it gets real low, less than 15 mpg. Would it get that bad?

Felix Wankel

You shouldn't have a problem with no emissions, just the occasional little backfire and of course the flames from that RB exhaust. Every RX-7 I've ever owned (except one) got the emissions junked.

I get about 20 mpg. If the S-AFC is tuned really rich it could get down to 15 mpg, but its easy enough to pull the injectors back a bit with it.

vaughnc

controlls bucking at lower rpms speeds and is especially noticeable in lower speed stop & go traffic. I read in the mazda repair manual a few pieces make up the system like the air pump that connects to the main cat.

That how I figured out my TII's air pump wasn't connected removed

BoostedRotors

As a fellow Alabamian, I feel obligated to post here! That car sounds sweet! If you get it you need to bring it by and let us see it...were all not too far apart...I work on my TII in alabaster...good luck!

Tall2Guy

oh yeah, if I get it I'll be showing it to everybody, wether they want to see it or not.

I've seen yours before actually. Looked just like yours anyway. But I was in my truck so you wouldn't remember. If you do see a red MR2 turbo with a bra on it running around, give a wave.

BoostedRotors

Youve seen mine? where at and when?

Tall2Guy

I'm not 100% it was yours, but it was a red turboII that looked an awful lot like yours.

It was.. months ago. You were going north on Hwy. 31 by RiverChase Parkway.

BoostedRotors

may have been, its been sitting in alabaster since november...but as of this afternoon no more. Bryan in Pelham (BNR Supercars) rebuilt my block, street ported with hurley seals, and anthony (Felix) and I put it all back together...gonna go crank it in a few for the first time!

88'gxln/a

does it hurt the engine when it shoots fire out the pipes?

Tall2Guy

nope. Just means it turns really rich. It should only do it when you shift or let off the gas.