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No the starter has nothing to do with your battery not staying charged. Take your battery into the local Napa and have it tested. If it is good then take your Alternator in and have it tested.

i have done this when i swapped an SE engine into a 12A car (i have the thread documenting this here: http://www.rx7club.com/showthread.php?t=822222 ). the dash will need to be removed if you intend to replace the entire harness as the harness snakes behind the dash and over to the ecu...not to mention to the heater controls steering coulmn etc.. this is no easy task for the meek and requires no less than a day to perform. i would pull the...

I would say yes its possible, but its not plausible. Automakers don't design things to be half ass. When you think about how far Mazda brought the rotary engine from its original form to being reliable and usable, there's probably a reason for the way they shaped the rotors. Considering the cost this would have among other things like time, I'd say leave this alone. There's better ways to gain 10hp than messing with such a...

Quote: Originally Posted by snivley whiplash ...don't chafe my ass bucause you thing you are greater than thou Not even babelfish could translate that for me. Look, you're free to do what you want with your property. It's a free country. But if you come on an enthusiast website and start making proud noises about pointlessly and destructively abusing the very cars we here are all interested in keeping running, expect to hear...

ahhh, thank you very much.

I'm with these guys Rob, I'm betting on the hoses to the bee hive. Even if you recently replaced them, there might be a loose connection somewhere. If you haven't done this already, I'd recommend a good degreasing (engine degreaser, autozone) and hot detergent wash (dish detergent, followed by a good hosing) of the entire area (do the whole engine bay while you are at it, clean bays are totally cool). This will make the...

If you pull that rubber plug, nothing should come out. If a bunch of coolant poors out, then the problem is at the back of the engine (freeze plug for example). Hopefully it is just a leaky hose and the coolant is running down there and it is just looking like it is leaking from there. Leaks can be tricky that way.

I looked it up and it says that you can swap directly, but it's recommended that you machine to accept 2nd Gen apex seals, as the RENESIS uses thinner seals because there is less of a chance of apex seal failure without the seal passing over a peripheral exhaust port. So when you install them in an engine with the peripheral port, they are less durable. The side seals are also a little different, but will work.

Quote: Originally Posted by food7373 hmm, i didnt think of that, do u think something couldve of fallen into the transmission and got lodged in there? could something have fallen in from around the slave cylinder ?. and what do you mean by the exhaust spinning? actually if you didn't use the right length bolts in the slave cylinder they can hit the flywheel. basically if the car is stopped, then the transmission isnt moving, and if its...

Must mean the alternator is bad. I'll yank it off and have my parts guys check it. Maybe they can figure out the operation of the WB wire. It definitely grounds when the alt is charging. I fired it up without the WB wire. Used a test light and it turns on connected to 12v.