hey everyone, it's been a while since I've been on here. But I just got another rx7, it's a 89 N/A with a TII conversion. It was built by a friend of mine who passed away in the winter in a snowmobile accident so I decided to purchase it from his parents with the promise that I will make it exactly what he wanted.

I've always had a 89TII, but it's kinda got a LS1 in it (don't shoot me) I never finished it and probably won't. The shell is pretty rusty so it will now be a donor car for this new rx7 and all of the TII parts + black interior + diff will be swapped in, since the new one is a base.

Anyways my friend Jamie who built the car was nearly done installing a PowerFC, it looks like he got everything done, even the modifications to the trailing coil, the FD temp sensor, the GM Map sensor, ect (it was a Bonzai kit that came with everything). All of the sensors seem to read fine but the damn thing won't fire up, the most I can get is it wanting to fire for one roation every once in a while, the engine seems to flood out right away. There is spark, fuel and the compression sounds VERY healthy, it seems to be timed correctly, But I'll keep working at it. But feel free to give me some suggestions. I haven't touched a rotary in a few years so I'm a bit rusty, but it's all coming back to me now.
It should be noted that it has a 6 port N/A block with all of the TII stuff around it. When the 4 port died he put a 6 port back in and modified the lower intake manifold to work. I don't know if that would change anything with the PowerFC..

Anyways, just wanted to see what's up, it's been a long time since I've posted on here regularly.

here is a pic of the car when I took it home yesterday. The flat black S5 in the background has the ls1/t56 in it. Already started stealing body parts from it and swapping it on this one.

 

Good to see you back in the game, haven't seen your name in f-o-r-e-v-e-r!

 

Welcome back. Wish I knew what was wrong with the car. Sounds like the timming is not set.

 

Set timing with stock marks and enter the timing into the idle area in the pfc (top left corner about 3 wide and 10 down in the table if I recall correctly, maybe only 7 rows down :s I forget (do this for the stock timing in the pfc for both leading and trailing) then do the fine tuning with a timing gun after its running.

Then buy a datalogic and talk to forum member arghx about joining the group. Then sit back and learn! Get it running and there are some good tuner around that can help you out. Pm me if you need to. Or even forum member AmT_T. We just went through all that fun **** with his car.

And I am also sorry for your loss.

 

Rip to ur friend man.I guess this will be a tribute build to him? Feel free to pm me any questions. I just had the same problem with my TII and just managed to get it running about a week or so ago.

 

Have you fixed the map sensor issue yet? Its not going to fire until that is fixed.

thewird

 

Thanks everyone for the input.
I have found a PowerFC Cable and the Datalogit software.. I don't have it yet but will have it in the next few days so I can fix the map sensor scaling.

my biggest issue right now is that the timing is wrong. I didn't realize this right away but the pulley is a S4 pulley that was modified to fit, I have tried timing it using the wire trick with the rear rotor to find tdc but I don't think I'm close enough. I will be borrowing a S5 pulley from my friend Terrh so I can get it timed correctly. But I do realize that it won't fire without the map sensor working so I've given up on trying to make it fire until I have the correct settings in the ecu.

 

Sorry for the loss.
but at the same time..
BOB is Baaa-aaaaccckk!..welcome Back Bob!