OK, Newbie with asbestos underwear installed!
2nd RX8 ever in the family, this one bought for less than peanuts as a project. I could break it and get more than I paid, but it is in good nick and they'll be sought after in a decade.
04 Series 1, 60k miles, minimal history, series of MOTs confirm mileage. Likely original engine. Engine starts promptly and I was able to drive it on and off the trailer and into the garage. Keeps wanting to stall and pathetic power, but will give a low lumpy idle for a wee while, with intermittent enormous backfires - it blew 3 beer bottles off the lower shelf in the garage 1m behind it. Impressive! Code says rotor 2 misfire. Coils/plugs/leads look new (the old coils are in the boot). Front rotor plugs a bit sooty, rear ones both pristine shiny metal as if straight out the box.
So I went for the DIY compression check (without the schraeder valve; with a video camera) just to see what ball park we were in; I am viewing it as a project and will rebuild the engine if it is required. Engine had to be cold as I'm feart to let it warm up in case it blows the new windows out of the garage. Front rotor is about 80-80-80 psi; rear is 0-0-0, not a flicker on the needle, not a whiff past a finger on the spark-plug hole. Is my assumption that complete and universal failure of all rear rotor seals the only explanation correct? I'm new to rotaries, but having done some research, there's no other way to get zero compression is there? Not like a bent valve etc.
thank you for reading!
2nd RX8 ever in the family, this one bought for less than peanuts as a project. I could break it and get more than I paid, but it is in good nick and they'll be sought after in a decade.
04 Series 1, 60k miles, minimal history, series of MOTs confirm mileage. Likely original engine. Engine starts promptly and I was able to drive it on and off the trailer and into the garage. Keeps wanting to stall and pathetic power, but will give a low lumpy idle for a wee while, with intermittent enormous backfires - it blew 3 beer bottles off the lower shelf in the garage 1m behind it. Impressive! Code says rotor 2 misfire. Coils/plugs/leads look new (the old coils are in the boot). Front rotor plugs a bit sooty, rear ones both pristine shiny metal as if straight out the box.
So I went for the DIY compression check (without the schraeder valve; with a video camera) just to see what ball park we were in; I am viewing it as a project and will rebuild the engine if it is required. Engine had to be cold as I'm feart to let it warm up in case it blows the new windows out of the garage. Front rotor is about 80-80-80 psi; rear is 0-0-0, not a flicker on the needle, not a whiff past a finger on the spark-plug hole. Is my assumption that complete and universal failure of all rear rotor seals the only explanation correct? I'm new to rotaries, but having done some research, there's no other way to get zero compression is there? Not like a bent valve etc.
thank you for reading!
Zero compression? Really?
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