smokin rx-7

ok, this guy has a 2nd gen 7 its an 87 turboII badass lil car. he's sellin it to me for 1500.00 i was wondering if it is worth it, heres the problem. as soon as he started it, it started smokin, like bad. then after it ran for about ooo 30seconds to a min, the smoke died down and was barely visable. no funny sounds from engine bay or nuthin, engine sounds great,he said it also runs hot.. any suggestions? and should i buy, i know its a rare car espeacially here in ohio..thanks.

the smoke at at startup is normal if its a turbo car.

do the cooling mods (water pump, radiator, coolant flush, fix the clutch fan). 1500 for a tII is cheap, hows the body and mileage

I'd inquire as to the overheating problem. I've hear that if a rotary engine has ever overheated, it's doomed...

you can overheat once or twice...

Dunno, man...heat is REAAAAAAAAAAALLY bad for rotories...

Dunno, man...heat is REAAAAAAAAAAALLY bad for rotories...

I KNOW...

from experience...

lol...then why do you say it's ok for them to over heat once or twice?

eh drftkid, ive heard ur pretty damn smart bout ur cars speacialy rotaries. its got 110,000 miles on it, body is great shape juss needs paint. a friend of mine jake, (tubjub) looked at it with me he said id be stupid not to get it... n e suggestions

i say get it, and if its a blown coolant seal, use some CRC block weld untill you save up for a rebuilt engine. CRC block weld held up good on my old engine. untill i changed the water pump and forgot to install 2 washers, and i killed the engine, but now i got another engine with less that 20K miles.

smoke is not normal for a turbo... my apex seals went and it never smoked even then... I don't know why someone would think smoke was normal from a turbo

lol...then why do you say it's ok for them to over heat once or twice? if the engine overheats once or twice its okay, but i know that heat is bad for a rotary engine because my stock engine had been overheating since maybe february and i never bothered to fix it, and it just started to run on one rotor maybe a week ago. and i drove it hard as shit too. im acutally surprised it held up that well.

eh drftkid, ive heard ur pretty damn smart bout ur cars speacialy rotaries. its got 110,000 miles on it, body is great shape juss needs paint. a friend of mine jake, (tubjub) looked at it with me he said id be stupid not to get it... n e suggestions

Get it. and do a tune up.

smoke is not normal for a turbo... my apex seals went and it never smoked even then... I don't know why someone would think smoke was normal from a turbo

i made an assumption 1)the car is still stock;it has the OMP still installed and 2) it had been sitting for a while. there should be a little smoking out the tailpipe since there is a bunch of oil injected right at startup. sometimes there is a little oil left over in the turbo after it is shut off, that can cause smoke too. when i first got my car, it had been sitting and it smoked for a good 40 seconds then it went away.

just make sure the smoke is blue and not white.