Goodbye 7

:(

Had the most unfortunate episode on the way in to work Tuesday.

The old girl, my '89 RX7 Series 4 is no more. Crawling thru morning peak-hour, I noticed a smell of burning rubber in the cabin. From past experience when a drive belt snapped, I thought "oh great, not again".

Pulled over to the emergency stop lane on the freeway and shut off the engine. To my dismay, I noticed smoke coming out of the engine bay and the smell got worse in the cabin. I grabbed whatever belongings I could and moved away from the car.

Got on the phone and called emergency for fire, and by the time they arrived, the engine bay was well and truly alight.

Insurance company has written off the car.

So long, Se7en. RIP.

Did you get to keep the car? You could get some money for the tail lights and whatever else is still good. I'm sure you could try and sell the parts on the parts trader or ebay or whatever.

BTW, where are you? I could use your rotating assembly.

ouch! that sux!


*do you want to sell your tail lights?*

doh! i know the culprit too: pulsation damper! Sorry to hear man.

Originally posted by Steel
doh! i know the culprit too: pulsation damper! Sorry to hear man.

Um, yeah, i don't think so... maybe the rubber fuel line traveling from the upper to lower fuel rail... they get hard, brittle and could eventually leak... causing a fire...

but all series 4 (89+) RX-7's have the sealed pulsation dampers... (you know the one w/o the little screw that loosens...)

I have never seen or heard of an 89+ ever having fire issues due to a faulty pulsation damper....

IT could also be from a bad oil pressure sensor, believe it or not I have this one particular TII that the oil sensor went bad in.. when it went it caused a spike in the yellow/red wire and melted the grounding circuit in the engine harness... I caught it in time... cut the wire... drove home with a duct-taped harness... then rebuilt the whole thing...


Either way i can still use that rotating assembly... or if any of you have core engines, not running, running whatever, e-mail or PM me with what you have...

Well, thanks for that guys.

I'm waay over down under, Perth, W.Australia to be exact. The car was a write-off and the insurance company had restricted my access to the car to only taking personal belongings that had been abandoned. Most of that was smoke damaged.

I don't think they classified tail lights, etc as "personal effects".

All in all, it was a sad experience, but we learn from these and continue on with our lives. Insurance company paid me out for an agreed value according to my policy, and I must say, I'm looking at a near new car with warranty. As to what it is, I'll let you know. The replacement car is to be my daily runner, so has to be reliable and economical, which was not the criteria in the old '7.

Anyway, thanks for the sentiments, guys. Peace. Out.

haha, misread it. Thought it was an S4 when i mentioned the PD. oh well.