Poll
Question:
Engine rebuilds???
Option 1: int been rebuilt s\'far as i know
votes: 17
Option 2: ekon it might ave ad a rebuild in japan
votes: 13
Option 3: ot i re-built coz i fancied it / for mods
votes: 6
Option 4: ot it re-built coz compession went (tip wear)
votes: 11
Option 5: ot it re-built coz it over heated
votes: 9
Option 6: ot it re-built coz i thew a tip doing 12000rpm
votes: 4
Option 7: ot it re-built coz o-rings went
votes: 10
Ok,
ive been looking on the interweb and found the resuls of a survey of why engines failed, thought it would be interesting to do a poll and have a compare.
the web results from the americain site are at: http://www.scuderiaciriani.com/rx7/o-ring_failure.html
So if you would please have a vote.
if you think there should be more options post up and well get it sorted
Tar
nick
Are o-rings and water seals the same thing?
not too sure ian, can you modify and put another option as water seal??
tar
N
Yes, they are. There are also o-rings on the Rotor, but these seldom fail, and therefore seldom talked about.
My water seals went last year , hence a rebuild, I have chosen the O-Ring option.
Had it rebuilt with new apex seals,New Housings,and the port job of course :D
My last engine died because of head gasket failure ;)
I was told that my car had been servely over-heated by whoever had it before me. So it had a rebuild a month after I go it.
Apparently it was so bad the the primary turbo wasn\'t spinning up! I didn\'t notice that though, it still felt a very fast (although I had just moved up from a 1.2 Corsa)
bump.
keep the votes coming!!!!!!!!!!!!
we want everyone to vote.
:cheers
nick
Rebuilt before it needed it. On the plus side I had a little bit of extra metal removed at the same time.
Fish
Well I threw a tip (not at 12000rpm though!) in the FC and also in an FB + the other FB has suffered from leaking oil control rings!
bump,
Keep it coming
there are more than 35 of you aot there!!
N
Voted.
No rebuild, but then with just over 6k on the clock, I\'d hope not! ;)
My engine destroted itself due to overheating. Mind you did forget to put the radiator cap on, and then in my blind panic tipped loads of cold water in to cool it down. The cracking noise was not pleasant. Ended up costing me £5,000+.
And yes, was very stupid of me, won\'t do it again though.
Previous owner had engine rebuilt (don\'t know reason why), then I bought it :D
My water seals failed, lost all coolant into the engine, nice!!!! :)
bump keep them coming -
MODS = sorry to keep bumping it, but i think that the results will be interesting.
let me know if you want me to stop.
cheers
Nick
From what i can gather by talking to a few importers, my car was up for auction in Japan with a failed engine, howver did not sell as they were asking for too much due to the setup.
So car ws unsold went away had a rebuild came back a few months later fully run in and sold for still quite a high price, thus from what i can work out the actual engine should have no more than 15000 miles on it :D
Now watch it fail after i said all this :rollin :rollin :rollin :spank
BUMP
i know theres more than 55 of us out here.
Nick