@@Smeedia I think you have your resistor tapped to the wrong wire, unless you misspoke at 2:15 in the video. If the rear part of the factory harness is unchanged, the stock wiring connects the fuel sensor to ground and relies on the factory gauge cluster for the 5V sensor reference power (page Z-42 in the Mazda wiring diagram). I'm not super familiar with Haltech but for most analog measurements to work properly, that resistor should be tapping to a 5V supply wire not a sensor ground wire. Try disconnecting the resistor, and use a multimeter to measure resistance between the fuel sensor and ground. It should measure about 7 ohms when full, 31 ohms when half full, and 75 ohms when empty (page T-24 in the Mazda service highlights manual). With the 220 ohms resistor tapped to a 5V reference line, the voltage should be about 1.25V when empty, 0.6V at half tank, and about 0.15V when full. That should be enough of a spread that the ECU or dash can work with it.
I parked my 2011 sti 11 years ago to become my mothers care taker, 11 years later and I get to drive it for the first time again, IAG 900, G35-900 etc, I am beyond excited and love seeing how happy driving it made you feel!
Having built a car from the ground up and it sitting for years on end, that first drive is the most unique feeling. Congrats. Good luck getting that smile off your face for a while!
None of the issues you have had are specifically rotary issues. They are just the regular teething issues when you do such a thorough rebuild and modification. You have rebuilt every little thing and it takes time to make all the new parts play nicely together. Relax guy, its all good.
I love 90s and early 2000s cars man. I love the simplicity of the interior and raw driving experience. I will always opt to rebuild something old rather than buy something new.
Damn I looked you up to tell you to make a video about tips for working on cars by yourself, or without help. Instead, I got to see the Rx7 in all its glory. Let's go.
@@Smeedia I've been starting to do some work myself and not having a second pair of hand seems to be the biggest problem. But things like having a bench vise or extra stands to help hold things under the car. Think driveway mechanic. That would be much appreciated thats the kinda of video thats a slow burn.
Dude I'm just as excited for this; so awesome to see you driving it around! I know it's been a headache and a half, but bet you're glad you kept the rotary at the end of the day too 😉 they NEED to be redlined!
So satisfying seeing this build come together! Excited for the tune and for the 22b! So many fun things you have going on at the moment. Always a good day when a smeedia vid shows up on the feed. Keep it up Tanner!!
@@Smeedia 💯. I gotta track down those dvds or something. I used to watch that, Chapelle's Show, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Rob & Big, whatever else on my Pioneer in dash dvd back in the day. I still got some of them but several were lost to time. Just hangin out in the driveway, smokin weed n drinking brews with a couple buddies.
Crazy how loud the mustangs turbo noise is😂 hearing that clear in the video with your door closed is crazy and I was 60ft + away 😂 gotta love our shop shenanigans 💪🏽
Done is beautiful. I'm looking forward to the dyno video. The FD was a big project and it came out phenomenal. Thanks for letting me watch you build my dream car
So happy for you bro! Enjoying your channel and all you got to offer the viewers. Funny enough, i just rebuilt my FD 13BREW, similar swtup to yours, streetported and all. And im tuned by Ryan and on his basemap. First rotary rebuild, first boosted rotary, it's great. Your builds are great. Life is great lol
Appreciate the support my man! I’m so surprised at how well the base map is, we only did some tuning in the parking lot of the shop and it drives well already 🥳 How was your build?!
😂😂 I get excited just hearing you how excited you are. Mine have been in the garage for almost 2 years. I'm just waiting for a couple of parts to get her back on the road. Congratulations!!! 🔥🔥
Been watching you for a couple of months now and your content is great. I bought an 05 outback XT this summer and the knowledge you have about subarus is INSANE. Without watching one of your videos, I probably would have put a cold air intake and headers on on without a tune and would blow the engine. I hope the 22b goes well!
@ The outback is doing fine. Im facing some maintenance work with suspension since it is a 20 year old car from Minnesota but other than that its been great. The only problem is that its ej20x swapped and I didnt know to stay away from them until AFTER I bought it 😂😂😂
Awesome Tanner I was watching when you were driving and saying to myself if we could see his face there’d be a smile from ear to ear a 2 seconds later you go if you could see the smile 😊 lol
On the streets! Congrats dude. I think you will find less is more in the FD. Even 500 wheel is a complete handful. I like closer to 400 more fun with less worrying about the drivetrain.
@Smeedia we tried new sensors but the standard dash filters out the noise. Where you doing 1 to 7kph it would read 700kph 2000kph then 3 etc. We tried resistors but just before going gps speedometer. Boostech performance used the abs sensor. Now is spot on
Yep, in terms of shift points and driving, you kinda wanna drive em like 2 Stroke engines. Keep em a bit higher to prevent fouled plugs and stuttering and shuttering.
If you want to be able to bleed the brakes on your own easily, pick up the Allstar Performance Bleeder Bottle w/Magnet and Check Valve (ALL11017). Make sure it's the one with the check valve. Otherwise, congrats on getting this running! There is nothing like a rotary engine. It's hard to put it into words but it just generates a certain smile...just wait until you can add boost. Kind of weird but to me from my experience, it seems like a lot of people make the jump from Subaru to rotaries naturally. I have an 05 STI and 93 FD.
I have one of those bleeder pots. But I never feel like the brakes are fully bled using them. The it could just be me but they always feel Spinney still after using them 🧐
you are having the same amount of fun with a rotary as I did. Its incredibly different and amazing. that high rpm savagery will only get more fun as you tune the car for boost brother. ENJOY IT WELL AND OFTEN. as long as you keep up the maintenance and premix regularly. Its way more fun to drive than a piston motor for daily driving.
After just some normal street driving I’m hooked on that thing! Will definitely keep up on everything needed. Want this thing to live as long as possible 🥳
@ keep up the maintenance, and keep that boost under 14psi and apparently you can smash the limiter like the vargas bros for days and not have issues until your coolant lines fail from the pressure during a 15minute long burnout at cleetus and cars burnout comp.
I will tell you, youll know when you can actually rev it out, but that high rev powerband is exactly how a V7 EJ207 powerband is its glorious -a rotary and subaru guy
you should run single wiper blade. straight lemans style race car lol also yes rotary motors do drive different. kind of hard to explain they just live in the revs. i used to shift around 5-6k normal driving when i had a 13b anything less is like super chill mode lol
I noticed you using the 'quickjack'. I've got the same one and I love it. It /looks/ like you removed your side skirts to throw it on the quickjack. Is that the case?
Dude you got a lot of irons in the fire. Glad you’re close to wrapping up the RX7. That’s gotta feel good. With the 22B rep being your “last” Subie project. What are you planning for future projects? Did you find a non project replacement for the Porsche?
This maybe a stupid question but I’m so confused about your fueling system. It’s normal to use premix fuel in rx7’s? If so why and how are you gonna switch to e85?
@@drkangel1134normally rotary engines have something called an oil metering pump that injects oil into the rotor housing to lubricate the apex seals. But if they fail they will take out your engine (if you’re not using premix). So we deleted the oil metering pump, the only way to lubricate the rotor housings now is to add premix into the fuel. So the fuel lubricated everything now
Hi. I'm Ryan, the Rotary Whisperer (Tuner). It's wonderful seeing Tanner able to enjoy this soon-to-be-monster.
Looking forward to getting into some power stuff with you! Car drives so well for the little bit of parking lot tuning we did so far 🥳
@@Smeedia I think you have your resistor tapped to the wrong wire, unless you misspoke at 2:15 in the video. If the rear part of the factory harness is unchanged, the stock wiring connects the fuel sensor to ground and relies on the factory gauge cluster for the 5V sensor reference power (page Z-42 in the Mazda wiring diagram). I'm not super familiar with Haltech but for most analog measurements to work properly, that resistor should be tapping to a 5V supply wire not a sensor ground wire. Try disconnecting the resistor, and use a multimeter to measure resistance between the fuel sensor and ground. It should measure about 7 ohms when full, 31 ohms when half full, and 75 ohms when empty (page T-24 in the Mazda service highlights manual). With the 220 ohms resistor tapped to a 5V reference line, the voltage should be about 1.25V when empty, 0.6V at half tank, and about 0.15V when full. That should be enough of a spread that the ECU or dash can work with it.
I parked my 2011 sti 11 years ago to become my mothers care taker, 11 years later and I get to drive it for the first time again, IAG 900, G35-900 etc, I am beyond excited and love seeing how happy driving it made you feel!
No windshield wipers in Washington is a dangerous game my friend lol
Dude for real 😂 I have em but the motor is meh right now
Having built a car from the ground up and it sitting for years on end, that first drive is the most unique feeling. Congrats. Good luck getting that smile off your face for a while!
Thank you 🥳 it’s so refreshing to finally get this thing back in the road after so long!
Dude i can't wait for a full rip in this beast.
Sameeeee I wanna hear it rip at full Chooch!
None of the issues you have had are specifically rotary issues. They are just the regular teething issues when you do such a thorough rebuild and modification. You have rebuilt every little thing and it takes time to make all the new parts play nicely together. Relax guy, its all good.
100% I’m not blaming the rotary by any means, it’s just old sensors and old car things 😅
@@Smeedia I just didnt want you to lose your love for rotaries. They are well worth the effort.
I love 90s and early 2000s cars man. I love the simplicity of the interior and raw driving experience. I will always opt to rebuild something old rather than buy something new.
Absolute work of art and next-level mechanical genius.
We out here learning 💪
I sucks when you know you "shouldn't" and can't be in boost.
After soo long. Very glad you're enjoying this beauty you built. Well deserved 👏 🙌!
We technically can be in boost. Just not a lot yet 😅
So rad!
🥳🥳🥳
Love those rotary sounds. A few minor issues isn't bad considering the age and how these cars were a little iffy even when they were new
Right?! Couple small things here and there but totally manageable 🥳
@@Smeedia I've ridden in a few "finished" hot rods where no heat, wipers, mirrors, and open headers were accepted with a smile
Damn I looked you up to tell you to make a video about tips for working on cars by yourself, or without help. Instead, I got to see the Rx7 in all its glory. Let's go.
Can’t complain with that 🎉 but that’s actually a good video idea! 😅
@@Smeedia I've been starting to do some work myself and not having a second pair of hand seems to be the biggest problem. But things like having a bench vise or extra stands to help hold things under the car. Think driveway mechanic. That would be much appreciated thats the kinda of video thats a slow burn.
This works, that works... let's party!!! Who needs speed readouts? I'm so happy for you, bud. Nice to see you excited and fulfilled with it. 🤘🔥💥👍
We don’t need to know how fast we’re going, we just need to know where we’re going 😂😅
Goodness gracious that mustang is beautiful… 🥹
Twin turbo goodness!
Dude I'm just as excited for this; so awesome to see you driving it around! I know it's been a headache and a half, but bet you're glad you kept the rotary at the end of the day too 😉 they NEED to be redlined!
So stoaked to have kept the 13B in this thing. I was back and forth for a little bit. But it’s so much fun to drive!
So satisfying seeing this build come together! Excited for the tune and for the 22b! So many fun things you have going on at the moment. Always a good day when a smeedia vid shows up on the feed. Keep it up Tanner!!
Thanks Jacob 🥳 super happy to finally see this thing back on the road after so many years. 💪
So glad it avoided a LS Swap. Thank you for doing your part.
"peas on my head but dont call me a pea head" man I feel bad for the people that didnt grow up with andy milonokis 😂
That song is engraved into the deep depths of all of our Brains 😂
beautiful car and great work. full rebuild is no joke!
Thank you 🥳 after everything is good to see this thing back in the road 💪
Tanner, i can't describe how it sounds hearing the pure elation in your voice bud... 😂
So much excitement 😂
@ love it bro! I'm sure everyone on here, who's a car guy, relates to wins and victories
Nice Andy Milonakis reference. I just thought about that show a couple days ago.
It's a planchet, not a planchencko.
Dude once you hear that song once, it becomes engraved into your head for life
@@Smeedia 💯. I gotta track down those dvds or something. I used to watch that, Chapelle's Show, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Rob & Big, whatever else on my Pioneer in dash dvd back in the day. I still got some of them but several were lost to time. Just hangin out in the driveway, smokin weed n drinking brews with a couple buddies.
hell yea man extremely hyped!! i know you didnt want to park it after driving it haha
Just want to keep driving it 😅💪
such a relief right? like that feeling when you know its all going to be all right because it just goes.
After the first drive the anxiety smooths out so much 😅
You should be proud of yourself man! I can relate to the happy singing and talking when driving a fun car after so much work!
Hard work always pays off, congrats 👏
Thank you 🥳
What fun!
🥳🥳🥳
It lives!
She moves again 🎉
Crazy how loud the mustangs turbo noise is😂 hearing that clear in the video with your door closed is crazy and I was 60ft + away 😂 gotta love our shop shenanigans 💪🏽
You deserve it Tanner! 🎉🎉🎉 CONGRATULATIONS
I love this car so much. So cool to see it actually driving again, you killed it man!
Definitely been a journey with it, nice to finally see it on the road again 🥳
Can't wait for a Dyno vid!
I can’t wait to hear this thing scream at redline 😍
The moment i heard the revving i really got distracted and curious what was going on outside😂thanks for showing us the mustang and all😂
Lmao apparently Sunday nights are party nights now 😅
Thanks for the jet tag in my order and love the 22b shirt! Can’t wait to slap the built block in my rs when i win haha!
That RS better be screaming 🤭 and no problem! Appreciate the support!
This car is so sick! Glad to see you driving it after all the work you put into it.
Enjoying the spoils of your labor! Good times!
Thanks buddy 🥳🥳🥳
This is friggin awesome!!! I am very happy for you Tanner!!!! BRAP BRAP BRAP!!!!!!
Thanks Phillip! So happy to finally have this thing back on the road!
Awesome 👌 you deserve it !
Thank you 🥳🥳🥳
Man, makes me wanna go drive my car
Get out there 👀🔥
Congrats!!! I own a Rx7 Fd and I totally get it. Wait until you get into boost. Your mind will be blown even at 400rwhp
We are hyped with you!! your first RX build, such an amazing accomplishment
So happy with how it’s come out and such a good feeling to get this thing back in the road 🥳
Done is beautiful. I'm looking forward to the dyno video. The FD was a big project and it came out phenomenal. Thanks for letting me watch you build my dream car
Thank you! It’s such a good feeling to finally get this thing back in the road again 🥳
So happy for you the FD is sick 😷😷😷
I’m just glad we have a fun car to be able to drive again 😅
So happy for you bro! Enjoying your channel and all you got to offer the viewers. Funny enough, i just rebuilt my FD 13BREW, similar swtup to yours, streetported and all. And im tuned by Ryan and on his basemap. First rotary rebuild, first boosted rotary, it's great. Your builds are great. Life is great lol
Appreciate the support my man! I’m so surprised at how well the base map is, we only did some tuning in the parking lot of the shop and it drives well already 🥳
How was your build?!
😂😂 I get excited just hearing you how excited you are. Mine have been in the garage for almost 2 years. I'm just waiting for a couple of parts to get her back on the road. Congratulations!!! 🔥🔥
I am so jealous of you brother!🔥 That dream car life is real ❤️❤️
So nice to finally see this thing on the road again 🥳
@Smeedia the joy you have in the video really shows. I'm super happy for you. Gonna be me after we return mine from the metal slurry.
Every car you touch turns into a work of art!
I appreciate that 🎉 definitely learning more and more as we go 💪
So hyped for you man!! So impressive you blow my mind everyday. I look forward to your videos every week!!
Thanks buddy and appreciate the support! We out here learning like everyone else 🥳
Been watching you for a couple of months now and your content is great. I bought an 05 outback XT this summer and the knowledge you have about subarus is INSANE. Without watching one of your videos, I probably would have put a cold air intake and headers on on without a tune and would blow the engine. I hope the 22b goes well!
Glad to hear the videos have helped 🥳 how’s the outback treating ya?!
@ The outback is doing fine. Im facing some maintenance work with suspension since it is a 20 year old car from Minnesota but other than that its been great. The only problem is that its ej20x swapped and I didnt know to stay away from them until AFTER I bought it 😂😂😂
So happy for you man. You did amazing on this build. #brap
Thank you 🥳 so happy to be able to drive this thing again!
Congrats man! What a journey. Those wheels look soooooooo sick on the white, too. Incredible project!
So satisfying. I think I'll definitely be picking up some of that merch 👀
Eyyyy always appreciate the support my friend 🥳
Awesome Tanner I was watching when you were driving and saying to myself if we could see his face there’d be a smile from ear to ear a 2 seconds later you go if you could see the smile 😊 lol
congrats on enjoying the FD!
Thank you 🥳
On the streets! Congrats dude. I think you will find less is more in the FD. Even 500 wheel is a complete handful. I like closer to 400 more fun with less worrying about the drivetrain.
Happy for you, man! This is what it's all about!
Thank you 🥳 so rewarding to finally be driving this after everything that’s gone into it!
Love the sound of the rotary! Is acceleration quicker than a piston car?. Always wanted to drive one
It feels like it picks up quicker, but until I can really hammer on it I’m not sure yet 😅
That TT 'Stang sounds INSANE
Nice job as always!
Thanks buddy 🥳🥳
For the speed we tested a few places and settled using the abs rear sensor. Spot on for speed compared to gps
You’re not using the transmission speed sensor? 🧐
@Smeedia we tried new sensors but the standard dash filters out the noise. Where you doing 1 to 7kph it would read 700kph 2000kph then 3 etc. We tried resistors but just before going gps speedometer. Boostech performance used the abs sensor. Now is spot on
@@jdmcarcollection7263I’ll swap mine to an ABS Sensor then, I don’t have ABS Anymore anyway so should be an easy swap
Yep, in terms of shift points and driving, you kinda wanna drive em like 2 Stroke engines. Keep em a bit higher to prevent fouled plugs and stuttering and shuttering.
Noticed that driving it, it definitely prefers the higher RPM. Even cruising it seems to like around 4K ish
Be proud of yourself man👌
And thats on point 🚗💥💨🔥 it pop!
So good to finally have this thing back in the road 🥳
@@Smeedia and most importantly, you did it by yourself almost from scratch🔥
COMMENT OF SUPPORT
🫶🫶🫶
If you want to be able to bleed the brakes on your own easily, pick up the Allstar Performance Bleeder Bottle w/Magnet and Check Valve (ALL11017). Make sure it's the one with the check valve.
Otherwise, congrats on getting this running! There is nothing like a rotary engine. It's hard to put it into words but it just generates a certain smile...just wait until you can add boost.
Kind of weird but to me from my experience, it seems like a lot of people make the jump from Subaru to rotaries naturally. I have an 05 STI and 93 FD.
I have one of those bleeder pots. But I never feel like the brakes are fully bled using them. The it could just be me but they always feel Spinney still after using them 🧐
Blue’s looking good tanner. Been seeing some stuff here and there👀
It’s definitely coming along 😈
you are having the same amount of fun with a rotary as I did. Its incredibly different and amazing. that high rpm savagery will only get more fun as you tune the car for boost brother. ENJOY IT WELL AND OFTEN. as long as you keep up the maintenance and premix regularly. Its way more fun to drive than a piston motor for daily driving.
After just some normal street driving I’m hooked on that thing! Will definitely keep up on everything needed. Want this thing to live as long as possible 🥳
@ keep up the maintenance, and keep that boost under 14psi and apparently you can smash the limiter like the vargas bros for days and not have issues until your coolant lines fail from the pressure during a 15minute long burnout at cleetus and cars burnout comp.
I will tell you, youll know when you can actually rev it out, but that high rev powerband
is exactly how a V7 EJ207 powerband is
its glorious
-a rotary and subaru guy
It’s so much fun to just wind it out in the ROMs, I do have a 207 sitting around 😅
@Smeedia just make sure that 207 isn't a v6
Look for RHS20V and LHS20V on the heads, the big port is the key, they have a deeper knife edge too
Tshirt idea... 1st start with an image of your FD then qoute.
Fawk I wish I had windshield wipers!
you should run single wiper blade. straight lemans style race car lol also yes rotary motors do drive different. kind of hard to explain they just live in the revs. i used to shift around 5-6k normal driving when i had a 13b anything less is like super chill mode lol
I noticed, thing wants to shift high 😅
Single wiper blade would be kinda funny to do 😂
oooooo that FD is HOT
🥵🥵🥵
Sounds soo good
This is why you never give up, love you Tanner, now make a modify all dailys hoodie in purple!
In purple?! I’ll see if I can find a good purple for it 😅
@ I have the mint, black, and the orange, need something fun, silly and new 🤣
I noticed you using the 'quickjack'. I've got the same one and I love it. It /looks/ like you removed your side skirts to throw it on the quickjack. Is that the case?
Who is the company that reproduces the fuel lever sending unit you are ordering?
A.I One design 🫡
Thanks feller @Smeedia
My FD hasn't been on the road since ~04-05, hoping to get it done before 2030 lol.
Watch jimmy Oakes story on the 13b cracking before pushing yours to far
We only staying around the 4-500whp mark. I don’t think it really needs anything more than
A vacuum bleeder is cheap and makes solo bleeding brakes super easy.
17:30 you and the rx7 were enjoying a laugh together 😂
Dude this things a riot to drive 😂😅
I swear the turbos were glowing red on the mustang 😂
They just pink 😂
@@Smeedia” it’s Cherry Blossom Red” …. And someone wants to have a Subaru 😂
Wouldn't toe out be the fronts of the tyres facing out? You have toe in?
That’s correct, and the rear wheels had a good chunk of toe out so we needed to bring em back in
*Tim Allen manly grunt noises*
Hell yea,more rotary content. And i felt that as putting a car into timeout as well
Sometimes they gotta go in timeout and you gotta take a Break from them 😂
Dude you got a lot of irons in the fire.
Glad you’re close to wrapping up the RX7. That’s gotta feel good.
With the 22B rep being your “last” Subie project.
What are you planning for future projects?
Did you find a non project replacement for the Porsche?
The 22B won’t be the last Subaru project, just the last EJ powered car 🫡 we have some Fa24 stuff in the future, the rear engine EG33 as well coming up
the most random andy milonakis musing lmfao
You hear it once and it stays with you for life 😂
👍💪
🥳🥳🥳🥳
Random electronics not working after sitting for over ten years is to be expected. It will be nice for you to have a perfect running project.
Doesn’t surprise me, I’ve had to replace almost every sensor at this point. Thankfully it’s nothing that hinders the car from driving anymore 🥳
@ The excitement was real when you got that thing going 😂😂
5:38 just get Matt...im sure he'll be happy to help
He at work 😢
What head cam do you use?
Insta360go 🫡
What computer are you using?
Elite 2500 👍
@ I meant laptop
@@MannyRodriguez555oh! Microsoft surface pro, cheap and good tuning laptop 🫡
I haven't been this early in a while 🔥🙌
Swinging in quick 💪
@Smeedia i have to 🙌 I wore my teal smeedia hoodie today 🔥 the color gets a ton of attention. We need another like that
@@TP16DiecastI ruined one of mine with oil 😢 might do another run of fun colored hoodies 💪
Get a bike tanner!
Highly want a grom 😂
OMFG!! i need one haha omfg 😭 🤣
Join me 😈
where is the wagon you had before doing youtube full time ?
Which wagon?👀
@@SmeediaThe one that was in the background when you told us the story of you quitting your job i think 🙂↕️
Is there a reason you don’t have a power bleeder?
This maybe a stupid question but I’m so confused about your fueling system. It’s normal to use premix fuel in rx7’s? If so why and how are you gonna switch to e85?
E85 burns cooler so you can get more aggressive with tuner safer. IE you can make more power
@ yeah I know that. But why are you on pre mix? Is that normal for rotaries? I know nothing about them
@@drkangel1134normally rotary engines have something called an oil metering pump that injects oil into the rotor housing to lubricate the apex seals. But if they fail they will take out your engine (if you’re not using premix). So we deleted the oil metering pump, the only way to lubricate the rotor housings now is to add premix into the fuel. So the fuel lubricated everything now
@@Smeedia does that affect your injectors?
How do I get a rx7 t shirt?
Link in the description 🫡
smeedia.shop/
What do you use to record while your driving?
Indta360 go with a hat clip 🤌
Are you pre mixing your fuel rx7 work like 2strokes
Yes 1oz per gallon
Brap brap
Braps and fireballs 😈
Sooooo. No SEMA?
😎👍🏻👍🏻