Won't run cold

[Don Pamponi]

Anyone know if its normal to need choke on for half an hour/all the time?

My car genaeraly stalls without choke if you don't feather the throttle at standstill.

It wants to idle between 500 & 800rpm.

I got no manual so I'm unsure as to how to adjust the idle speed - dont realy want to start randomly turing screws on the carb.

Any ideas? (plugs, leads & dist.cap are new)

[Gman]

Is the choke arm fixed?

When i had it I used a peg to keep it out a bit further until the engine was warm.

[Gman]

Did you change the plugs leads etc? they were only changed in November.

[Don Pamponi]

Yeah the choke is still knackered (your green clothes peg in full effect), I didn't change the plugs or leads cos I could see they were new.

Gonna change the starter & the oil+filter this saturday.

Do you know where the fuel filter is?

Man I'm clueless about RX7s, dont even know where the sump plug is yet! Useual place I presume.

So do you as a previous owner, know when it last had a rebuild?

I'd love to know how much life its got left.

[Gman]

Ahh the green peg , never left home without it. I never changed the oil so i'm not sure where the filter is.

When i bought it there was no engine history so i'm not to sure how long it may go. I thought the engine was the best bit everything around it kept breaking! Its got new clutch slave and master cylinders and the exhaust cost a bomb. You should have great time with it once these little bits are done - it looks great, the guy u got it from did a good job tidying it up.

Ps it had a DVD player and screen in it when i sold it - r they still with the car?

[Gman]

If you can find the clutch slave cylinder the oil filter is near there.

http://www.mazdarotaryclub.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2260&highlight=oil+filter

[Don Pamponi]

Clive kept the dvd im afraid.

The oil filter is obvious - right on top of the cooler.

Its the fuel filter im not sure of.

I realy need a manual for it.

Do haynes do one do you think?

[Don Pamponi]

its getting new oil, filter and a new srarter tomorrow if it stops raining.

[Cycaduk]

tHE FULE FILTER.
Get the car up on stands/ramps.
Crawl under it, just infront of the diff. On the left hadside, in the wide part of the transmission tunnel are a couple of cover plates, mounted with bolts and grommets. attached to one of these should be the fuel filter, the other one carrries the pump.

[Phranque]

If it helps at all, I've got the Haynes manual which is supposed to cover '1979 thru 1985' models ( yet manages to miss my 1982 Savanna!), and a 1979 Workshop manual. I'm sure I could photocopy bits for you if you want this?

[Phranque]

Also, it may be worth trying:

http://www.wankel.net/~krwright/cars/rx7/85_manual.html

Kevin would seem to have put a manual on the net - he's a very helpful guy. It's a bit puzzling though because the url says it's an html page but when I tried to access the 12a engine section it tried to download a .pdf file - and failed for some reason. There's a 13b section also.

My phone's acting up though, the BT men have been up a pole nearby all afternoon. It's been blowing a gale too so I imagine they've had their forelocks frozen off.