jspecracer7

Max,

Yeah, I forgot the stupid electrical load one as well. But the fans never coming on high? Someone's smoking some good ****....I DARE anyone to cut the wires that kick their fans on high(or pull the relay)...let's he just how hot you car can really get.

I got all my information from the datalogit software. It shows exactly what temps the fans kick on and the under what loads.

jspecracer7

Power Plant Frame is held in by 4 21mm bolts on the transmission side, and 5 21mm bolts on the differential side. You can use an impact gun on all of them EXCEPT one.

artguy

if the radiator upgrade is one of your first upgrades it could save you from losing a motor due to high heat later on down the road.


j

jspecracer7

Now THIS is wrong. If you use ATF to unflood your FD, you're going to make it WORSE. ATF does not unflood anything. The "ATF" trick is used for people who think they may have a stuck apex seal and it is the LAST step before they realize that the engine is truly blown.

To unflood your FD(and Mazda fixed the flooding issue in the FC when they built the FD...for the most part), pull your EFI INJ fuse and all your spark plugs(Or you can pull just the leadings). Push the gas pedal down, start the car for appx 7 seconds. Wait. Repeat as necessary. Put plugs back in(after cleaning them with wire brush and some brake cleaner) and fire her up. I used to have to do this in my FC all the time...not put ATF into the brake booster nipple

CCarlisi

Heating up the vacuum lines with a hair dryer makes it much easier to get them off the solenoids.

rpm_pwr

Mazda, for reasons known only to themselves made 2+2 FD's. I had a person in the back once and she was in serious pain.

-pete

rpm_pwr

The vacuum chamber is cunningly designed to not be removed without breaking.... or so it seems

-pete

rpm_pwr

Some (all?) JDM models came with a red flare that is held in the passenger footwell. It is used so you can walk back down the road and look for your apex seals

oh yeah and All JDM/Aus delived models have a turbo dump pipe that narrows so thin, that at one point you can barely get fingers through. This is so it can wrap around the steering column. This excludes the OZ-only SP.

Thats enough, for now

-pete

Lunar7

'93 RX-7's do not have a pasenger side airbag.
'94+ RX-7's are equiped with passenger side airbags.

RedR1

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for some FD owners, monies can by the head of neck.

jspecracer7

LMFAO!!! I was waiting for someone to say that!!!

Mr. Stock

This is NOT true.

The hoses are rubber.

RedR1

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Another startling fact, some FD owners stalk ferrari's, and try to size up so they can get free test drives.

Jspracer, i can go on fer hours about our quirks as FD owners

tookwik

The FD came with 5 spoke wheels made 2 different styles. One... has a rounded edge when you reach around back of the spokes and Two... has a squared edge when you reach aorund back of the spokes. The second having a tendency to produce stress fractures.

tookwik

Other than the stock muffler... the FD has a normal catalytic converter which can be replaced with a high-flow cat or midpipe (mp). It also has a pre-catalytic converter located on the downpipe which can be replaced with a straight pipe just called a downpipe (dp) which is the most common primary performance modification on FD's other than maybe exhaust or intake.

RedR1

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the "suede" seats are not "suede."

tookwik

There is often a 3/4 mod rule that proves to be necessary after the 3rd or 4th modification. The rule being get an aftermarket ecu to put up with the increased stress on the 13B rotory engine.

tookwik

I'll shut up now... time for a brew

tookwik

oh... i think there are 72 different RUBBER vacuum lines in the car which proves to be a very bitch of a reliability problem.

Mr. Stock

The Mazda engineers tried to save as much weight as possible from each FD part. For instance, it has a single exhaust as opposed to dual ones of the FC.

The weight reduction program was named "Operation Zero", an inspiration from the Mitsubishi Zero fighters of the World War II.

Mr. Stock

72 is not the correct number. I know for a fact that there are more than 72 rubber vacuum hoses.

maxcooper

Notes on previously posted facts:

I think the hoses are Neoprene, which may in fact be a type of rubber (? I don't know).

Tri-point makes a downpipe with a cat in it.

I have heard that the square wheels are stronger than the webbed, rounded ones because they have more material in the spokes. I also believe they are heavier. I've weighed 8 of them and they were all 15.8 lbs. I never weighed my webbed wheels.

New facts:

The exhaust overheat light turns on when the heat sensor located on the passenger side of the transmission tunnel/floor senses high temps.

The FD uses a speed-density engine management system that delivers fuel based on RPM (speed), air temp and manifold pressure (density) measurements. It offers excellent throttle response and has no air flow meter to restrict flow, but it must be remapped to adjust the mixture when you change the flow characteristics of the engine system [intake, IC (temp changes ok, but this also changes flow), turbos, exhaust]. The cars run rich from the factory, so you can make it flow a lot better before going lean on the stock maps.

-Max

spyfish007

The stock intake air sensor is plastic and slow to respond to temperature changes.

CantGoStraight

If you lift on any of the door levers a light will light in the drivers key hole (unless your lamp is burnt out) or the door lock module is defective. Jack

RedR1

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i prolly got a burnt out lamp. . . . never had the light shine on me when getting in the car in a dark, horrid parking lot at night.

The FD was aerodynamically designed with a double bubble roof.