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Deb the fan thing is normal. Caught me off guard the first time as well. We should expect a lot of that come summer time here in two weeks ........:D :D :D :D :D
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I'm with stupid *points up*
The fan thing is quite normal. If you don't give the car adequate cool-down time before shutting it down the fans will kick on for a while. Quite a desirable feature, especially with the hot-running rotary engine. This was the thing everyone wished the FD RX7 did, and it's something many of us 7 owners did on our own. Just ask any 3rd gen RX7 owner about the "Fan Mod". :D
As far as using the gears.....do you mean using as in "using the paddles to shift and not letting the car do it for you" or using as in "all the way to the redline". Unless you're REALLY using them you still have much to learn, my rotary apprentice.
I'll have to take you for a spin in mine when I get it back, which BTW will be thursday or friday. Anyone up for a short-notice meet this weekend? :D
The fan thing is quite normal. If you don't give the car adequate cool-down time before shutting it down the fans will kick on for a while. Quite a desirable feature, especially with the hot-running rotary engine. This was the thing everyone wished the FD RX7 did, and it's something many of us 7 owners did on our own. Just ask any 3rd gen RX7 owner about the "Fan Mod". :D
As far as using the gears.....do you mean using as in "using the paddles to shift and not letting the car do it for you" or using as in "all the way to the redline". Unless you're REALLY using them you still have much to learn, my rotary apprentice.
I'll have to take you for a spin in mine when I get it back, which BTW will be thursday or friday. Anyone up for a short-notice meet this weekend? :D
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MORE bad news. The dealership broke something else in the tranny during reassembly. Now they have to have another part overnightede before work can continue.
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Have faith, my friends. The 8 will ride again!!! Lol. After this I need some new tires, then maybe a computer and I'll be broke. *sigh* Boys and our toys.
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Wish is was Saturday again....oh, well. No, I mean using the gears and in using the gears. I use the shifter tho - not the paddles. The tried the paddles but they're very sensitive and I wasn't paying complete attention and downshifted without planning on it. I've beed redlining some too - but fear of police sirens keep me very (and I mean very) curtailed. Had to add a quart of oil - down 1 full one. Anyone else unhappy about where the dipstick is? Can't they make these things a little easier for our manicures? lol - Ok, now a question about downshifting. I use it alot - it seems natural to come from 4th to 3rd to 2nd without using the brake. Is there anything I need to know about downshifting - can you do it too much? (sorry if that sounds really lame - it's been a long time since I drove anything near manual). and how slow to do I need to be going to downshift to 1st or should I? Oh - I saw 2 Rx-8's up here in PGA for the first time end of last week - a red and a black one. Beeped both times and got no response. They looked nice tho. My son is home from college for the week. So - you got it - now RX for me this weekend ::::sigh::::
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I wouldn't recomend downshifting to first in an automatic (or manu-matic in this case) unless you're going pretty slow. It gets kinda dicey because the engine revs climb so fast in 1st, so the engine & tranny have a hard time matching revs to shift smoothly at higher speeds. It's a bit tricky to do in a manual, even trickier when you can't control the revs as is the case in an auto. I tried this once in my RX7 (yes. It was an auto), and it gave me the feeling that I probably shouldn't do it often. As an experiment, put the car in drive. Roll on the gas slowly till the car upshifts to 2nd, then floor it. Most automatics will not downshift to 1st on their own unless you're going REALLY slow, because it's easier to match the revs.
And NO. You can NEVER downshift too much. Seriously though, at these power levels there's not much you can do to break an automatic. Remember, this engine loves to rev. While normal street driving I usually don't shift until at least 6k.
And if you think the dipstick is bad, try changing your own oil. lol.
And NO. You can NEVER downshift too much. Seriously though, at these power levels there's not much you can do to break an automatic. Remember, this engine loves to rev. While normal street driving I usually don't shift until at least 6k.
And if you think the dipstick is bad, try changing your own oil. lol.
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