My name is Gary C. and I restore old cars and motorcycles for a gentleman's personal collection here in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. This week the gentleman I work for purchased a 2005 Mazda RX8. This car isn't for his collection, he just likes the RX8 and wanted one to run around town with. When I do a restoration project I usually join a forum based on that particular car or motorcycle. It has always been a priceless help obtaining info from those who know their stuff, in this case the RX8.
The RX8 we bought this week has a bad engine. The rear chamber has no compression. When I pulled the trailing spark plug on the rear set I also discovered bits of thin hard metal that I assume is part of one of the apex seals. It has to come apart.
So if any of you engine experts ever read any of the Newbe threads I will be asking a few questions during this build and would appreciate your input. As far as my abilities, I was a motorcycle technician for over 30 years and have been doing this restoration gig for the last 5 years. I have never worked on a rotary except for one time I did a quick make run job on a Suzuki RE5. I cleaned the carb. slapped it on the butt and away it went.
The car I am posting about is a 2005 RX8 with a normally aspirated 4 port engine with an automatic transmission. It is showing 145,000.0 miles.
I see that this site limits me to 30 days before I can go on to the regular forum. In 30 days I will be done with this project and will be surfing some other forum for info. Thanks in advance for any input.
The RX8 we bought this week has a bad engine. The rear chamber has no compression. When I pulled the trailing spark plug on the rear set I also discovered bits of thin hard metal that I assume is part of one of the apex seals. It has to come apart.
So if any of you engine experts ever read any of the Newbe threads I will be asking a few questions during this build and would appreciate your input. As far as my abilities, I was a motorcycle technician for over 30 years and have been doing this restoration gig for the last 5 years. I have never worked on a rotary except for one time I did a quick make run job on a Suzuki RE5. I cleaned the carb. slapped it on the butt and away it went.
The car I am posting about is a 2005 RX8 with a normally aspirated 4 port engine with an automatic transmission. It is showing 145,000.0 miles.
I see that this site limits me to 30 days before I can go on to the regular forum. In 30 days I will be done with this project and will be surfing some other forum for info. Thanks in advance for any input.
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