Okay let me start this off with

"I just bought another Turbo 2 RX-7" (Huge grin)

Yeah okay, and now the bad news. The man who

sold it to me Jeff, told me that it would spit up coolant

out of the radiator resevoir bottle if I rode it to hard,

well I didn't. Anyway, on the way home the car died

twice (once a officer even had to push me to pop the clutch).

The resevoir bottle lid blew off shortly after that and I had to

make my third stop, yeah by now my wife was wondering

just a little why I bought such a horrible car, even though

I kept reassuring her that they are one of the best in the

business. Anywho, I remember that the seller told me

pretty faintly that it had something to do with compression,

he had taken it to the shop twice, only to have them barely

figure it out the second time. Well needless to say he hadn't

a clue what his mechanic was talking about and shortly forgot

anything important except the brief interlude to "compression".



My point in full is, has anybody heard of a problem similar to this?

The car drastically overheated on me today, and we all know how

friendly high heat is to rotors (yeah, um, not). Any suggestions would

help, all the mechanical work I can easily (or not so easily) do myself

if it comes to that. Thank you all for your time.

 

Maybe just a defective radiator cap, let's hope the damage isn't done!



Have you inspected and tested the cap?

 

Yeah, caps holding pressure, it's the fact that it's holding ALL the pressure

and it pushes it all back into my resevoir tank, which in turn gets entirely to

much pressure and either blows off (as it did about an hour ago) or it

spews out all the fluid that's in my radiator at the time. What could it be?



I know it's something simple, or atleast I hope it is....

 

this sounds very bad. i hope you didn't pay alot.........

 

I payed enough for it to hurt me financially....

 

Coolant seal.

 

Okay that sounds about right, but why would my

engine heat sky rocket so fast? rotors burn hot,

but god knows not THAT hot unless there was

something influencing it.

 

Hey by the way welcome aboard.. I didn't notice you were another washington member!

 

Oh! Well thank you! Yeah one of my friends from Atkin's Rotory (not sure if you heard of it, it's up in Puyallup near Jeff's Racing Rotory blah) suggested me here.



Side Question, do you think that this might end up being more trouble

than it's worth?

 

No definetely not more trouble then it's worth. What kind of shape is the car in? Glad to hear they recommended you, we think very highly of atkins as well. isamu bought his rebuild kit and had his porting don there.



I wouldn't think unless the car is a total wreck that it is more trouble than it's worth. you may be inline for a rebuild, but hey then you have an excuse to get some porting done and have some fun.



isamu has done the rebuild and used the atkins video, that is a slightly less expnesive alternative.