1988 Rx-7 nonturbo. It had been shifting fine until the past week or two when it had been making clattering noises and shit, but I thought nothing of it. Finally it starts making a horrible sound and won't really go into gear--I let the clutch out and the car just stalls. Car also stalls in neutral. Something internally is fucked. All the clutch shit has been replaced within the past 10 miles, including throwout and pilot bearing. Unless it's something like the pivot ball.

So I'm considering my options:

1) Drop the tranny and take it somewhere to be rebuilt. I called around and it sounds like it will be over a grand if a bunch of the gears and "hard parts" are broken. Minimum of like $500-600 if it's just some bearings but my gut tells me that it's more than that, after all the horrible noise it made.

2) Try to rebuild it myself. I would need to, at the very least, acquire a press. I know I can get a cheapo harbor freight bench top press for like $200ish. But then buying all the hard parts like gears and stuff would be really expensive... I mean I could cannibalize some other old ones that my friends have but overall this is going to be hard. There is no "rebuild kit" that I can buy with everything.

3) Find a local used one. I just don't want to buy something, go through the time of putting it in, and have it grind gears and just generally be shittier than my old one, which worked fine until 2 AM last night on the way back from Chapel Hill.

4) JDM tranny. I wouldn't trust a JDM rotary engine but a tranny is a tranny, right? If it's really as low mileage as they're supposed to be it should be fine. How is Japan Direct?

Thoughts?

11/1/2006 8:23:09 PM

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"All the clutch shit has been replaced within the past 10 miles, "

that sounds like ur prob. u fuck up somethin there ?

11/1/2006 8:32:37 PM

I didn't do the clutch. My friend did it and he has done like five rx-7 clutches. It is an ACT street/strip disc/pressure plate with new throwout bearing and pilot bearing. It releases fine.

11/1/2006 9:13:41 PM

I'd try to find a used one, but i guess being an older car the transmission would be well worn in. I don't guess FD trannies mate up.

11/1/2006 9:37:42 PM

FD trannies would work on a Turbo II, but for an n/a I would need a custom driveshaft and all that junk. It's not worth the money. SUpposedly this guy has a non grinding used one for $150 shipped.

11/2/2006 7:15:56 AM

You meant to say 10k miles on the clutch, right?

11/2/2006 10:15:21 AM

shit right back on it

11/3/2006 12:57:55 AM