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qwakers
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Re: welcome to my basket case.

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so yesterday i was bleeding the cooling system and all was well until i blipped the throttle and :splutter: :conk: :dead:. i started it back up and it cut out. and a gain. oh dear.

i popped the airfilter off and gave the afm flap a poke and the fuel pump didn't run. hmm...

stuck a SOS up on two brutal and paul woods told me which wires did what so followed the testing procedure and discovered id lost the AFM earth somewhere between the oil level sender and the chassis. so my plan for tomorrow is the meter the loom to find if the brake is before or after the sensor. if its after the (already broken and looped out) sensor, ill just earth the wire to the block and all will be well again....

they send these things to try us.


so all that said and done, i ran it for a while with my temporary earth in place to run it up and get all the bubbles out of the coolant lines and i took a video of my OBD live data.

does this look ok to the experts on here?

https://youtu.be/96GgbNN36L4
markstevieandmads
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Re: welcome to my basket case.

Post by markstevieandmads »

Had the same problem with a v6 conversion we done.
There is a sensor for low oil level which cuts the earth to afm and stops the engine before damage occurs so worth checking.
qwakers
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yes the oil sensor has already long since been looped out so im thinking its a broken wire
qwakers
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ok now im pi$$ed,

it just threw a rod through the bloc. cyl1.

that it.
game over

if anyone wants it they can have the entire car for £500 :evil:
Draven
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oh god, that is not great at all.

:( sorry to hear that mate
Madabout
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Post by Madabout »

Sorry to hear of your problems. I had been catching up with your progress on this project and a shame it has caused you problems. I am looking into maybe a v6 mr2 myself. GLWTS.
qwakers
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ive looked through the recording of the livedata from my obd tool just before it started knocking the timing went Waaaay advanced and stayed there. im pretty sure the ecu caused it, if (big if) i rebuilt it id want to fit another ecu. i think i screwed up the resistor mod or my ecu wasnt compatiable with it, and this is the result. two blowups can be no coincidence....
qwakers
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well the blue one is sold.

i doff my cap to you sir, im bested.
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thats honestly never happened before. :cry:
Madabout
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qwakers wrote:well the blue one is sold.

i doff my cap to you sir, im bested.
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thats honestly never happened before. :cry:


The one time I honestly can say I felt the same as you was with a FD RX7 I had. It stung me for cash like a barstard. I drove it to my mates to break it and can honestly say I had never been happier!
qwakers
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as a certain member of this forum is already aware, ive already bought its replcement.....


Image

:mrgreen: :roll:

ironic reeally, a rx7 bested you and you moved on to mr2s, and ive moved on to a rx8 :mrgreen:
Madabout
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Post by Madabout »

Haha.

I've only been in a RX8 once. It was owned by Hayward Rotary and essentially stripped out for track. Handled and went better then I expected.

My old FD RX7 was a bridgeported single turbo. It used to idle at 2k rpm due to the engine, impossible to drive at low speed and needed a second mortgage for the fuel bill. If it had been reliable and not a weekly failure point I'd have maybe lived with the negatives but it relentlessly pushed me to the limit.

Hindsight I'd have done a street port, kept it more stock and maybe it would have been different.

Enjoy the RX8. A lot of car for the money.
craig
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Post by craig »

Am I in the wrong place? Is this the Mazda RX8 owners club? :mrgreen:

Shame about the V6 bud, that must have been a kick in the nuts, but good that you're back in the saddle. Onwards and upwards. Enjoy the RX :thumleft:
qwakers
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ive sold the blue one to a member or is that a new member now ive told him about this site? im not quite sure about that and i have no idea what his username is :oops: :oops:

so i thought id wave at him through his screen and invite him to say hi :salut:


<nb> yes i know thats a salute, close enough #-o
Draven
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Looking forward to seeing what you're gonna do with this one. :thumleft:
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Draven wrote:Looking forward to seeing what you're gonna do with this one. :thumleft:


V6 conversion?
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aussieGT wrote:
Draven wrote:Looking forward to seeing what you're gonna do with this one. :thumleft:


V6 conversion?


V8 conversion

whaaaa???/

:twisted:
qwakers
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lol no, i like the idea of the rotary revvyness..

it might get a bit more track foccussed, but the mods will probably stop with brakes and suspension. bar adding cruise control, which ive already done :)
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qwakers wrote:bar adding cruise control, which ive already done :)


Its a brick and a stick isn't it??
qwakers
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hack the ecu to turn it on and add a mazda 6 steering wheel and a bit of wiring. dead easy, took a hour :mrgreen:

remains to be seen if it works or not...
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qwakers wrote:hack the ecu to turn it on and add a mazda 6 steering wheel and a bit of wiring. dead easy, took a hour :mrgreen:

remains to be seen if it works or not...


Stick and a brick works just as well. :mrgreen:
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