Monthly Archives: September 2010

Have the Title

The previous owner of the car couldn’t find the title when I picked up the car but gave me a bill of sale.  The title just came in the mail today.  I plan to start working on getting the car running now since I now have the title.

Doing some more looking through the car and it came with the owner’s manual, FSM (factory service manual), haynes manual and Chiltons manual.  The car also has early aftermarket floor mats and still has the sunroof bag.  The alternator is a new bosch replacement.  The previous owner told me car would not run no mater what he tried, he thought the problem was electrical but didn’t know beyond that.  He said he put new tires on the car 2 years ago right before he parked it. He also included a new oil cooler line from mazda with the car.

I’m starting on the troubleshooting for the no start. Here is the Troubleshooting for no start out of the FSM:

My new car

I picked up a 1984 RX-7 GSL-SE over the weekend. The odometer reads 189,500 but the car looks to very well maintained for most of its life.  The car does seem like it’s been neglected for the past 6 years or so. The interior need a real good cleaning but is otherwise very good shape. The carpet on the driver’s side looks like a quart of oil was dumped all over it and is saturated. The exterior has the original paint with the original pinstriping still intact.  The front bumper, header panel, hood and cawl appear to have been repainted at some point in the past. The left front fender is pushed in and torn where it meets the door and will need to be replaced. The front bumper cover will need to be replaced. The car has a dent in the rear above the left tail light that looks to be fairly easy to fix. The motor doesn’t run but it turns over and looks to be in great shape just very dirty. I haven’t spent much time diagnosing the car. My guess is the car isn’t getting fuel. It could be the ECU though.  The car looks like it has sat for a number of years, there is an oil change sticker on the car from ’06 and the oil looks that bad.

The front fender damage is visible in this picture.

You can see the bumper damage here.