New horse in the stable

My brother's RX-7 has been sitting at my parents house for a while. Well its gotta get out of there, and I couldn't see junking it. So I'm taking it home. I believe its a 85 GSL-SE. Its either an 85 or an 84. They were the only 2 years they had the 1st gen RX-7 body with the GSL-SE option - the new 13b powerplant. Can't wait to start checking it out.

The car's running

Its not running too bad. The compression test came back with 190, 185, 185, 157. So I'm pretty sure I bent a valve or 2. At least its back on the road agian.

I missed my 10 PSIG of boost....still gotta turn that up someday.

Fixed the Cam dowel.

...but I'm takin a break right now. I ended up using a spring pin of the same diameter. After dremmeling it to the right lenght it seems to be working like a charm. I'm working on resetting the timing belt right now. Shouldn't be too long before I can test fire it.

Couple things to blog about

1) My car is dead 2) I went to a car show

I'll talk about the car show first because its just more pleasant. Every year my friend Chris coordinates a CF benifit carshow in Peddler's Village. It was excellent this year. They had cars covering the entire lawn area. My favorite car was probably a brand new Corvette, with a twin turbosystem and nitrous. 1000 horsepower. Amazing. There were soo many cool cars from all the different factions. Hot rods, domestics, imports, antiques, 4x4 monsters. Unfotunately it didn't have MY import, cause well....

A few weeks ago I was following my wife's truck home from the weekend. Cruising along at 50 and all of the sudden - nothing. The car just died out. Had it towed home 88 miles. I replaced the cam position sensor and the crank position sensor because the computer told me too. Then the computer tells me to replace the coil. So i dutifully follow orders. When that doesn't work, I stopped listening to the computer. I've been swamped with work lately so I've let it go for a few weeks till I really got into it. After a 8 hour stint in the garage last night, I came up with not much except for some wierdness on what positions my camshaft position sensor was reading. It was basically 40 degrees off from what the FSM was telling me it should be at. Everything else seemed to be ok, and I looked at alot of stuff - tracing down wires for continuity, testing relays, testing computer functionality in general. But I had to give up at around 5am cause I wanted to make it to the car show in the moring either way.

But on the way to the car show I was thinking about the cam sensor test. I didn't know if it was possibly just different for my 95 than it was for other years. Then it dawned on me that maybe the little dowel that locates the cam gear sheared. I wasnt sure till after I got home from the show tonight. Checked it and sure enough - thats the problem. I'm gonna see what I can do to fix it up soon. I've missed driving it.

Its a 95 Mitsubishi Eclipse RS, 5 Speed, built motor, custom turbo system and a whole bunch of other stuff...so basically I'll get it fixed.

Ok I'm blogging

I don't know how often, but I'm doin it. Really, I just want to have a picture when I comment on Bart's blog.