They're the words no Rx7 owner ever wants to hear: 'I think it's the water seal'. This is what happens when your water seal goes... And this week as an Rx7 owner, I heard those exact words. Which explains the constant flooded 13BT block and the acreage of sweet smelling white smoke that spews out constantly from the exhaust when I finally get it started after a couple of days of just sitting around. My mechanics words were something along the lines of 'The smoke filled the shop and then half the street...' For Mazda's Rotary Xperiment Number 7, it's pretty terminal. So it's off to the auto online classifieds to find a cheap runaround while I work out what to do with my ailing rotary - sell it, part it out or bury it, complete with moving ceremony and slideshow. There's just something I've been noticing in a lot of ads that has me scratching my head...
The various works and occasional ramblings of one man with no plan and everything that happens along the way.