All Owners Vote Here-engine Failure

rmagictastic · September 06, 2005, 12:58:52 PM

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

iaint · September 06, 2005, 02:04:56 PM

Are o-rings and water seals the same thing?

rmagictastic · September 06, 2005, 02:08:30 PM

not too sure ian, can you modify and put another option as water seal??

tar

N

Martiny · September 06, 2005, 02:19:51 PM

Yes, they are. There are also o-rings on the Rotor, but these seldom fail, and therefore seldom talked about.

BlitzBoy · September 06, 2005, 03:08:19 PM

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

MikeLMR · September 06, 2005, 05:56:08 PM

My last engine died because of head gasket failure

gonzoninja · September 06, 2005, 06:28:39 PM

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)

rmagictastic · September 07, 2005, 10:14:50 AM

bump.

keep the votes coming!!!!!!!!!!!!

we want everyone to vote.

:cheers

nick

Fish · September 07, 2005, 11:20:21 AM

Rebuilt before it needed it. On the plus side I had a little bit of extra metal removed at the same time.

Fish

sadgoth · September 07, 2005, 11:55:17 AM

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!

rmagictastic · September 07, 2005, 12:20:52 PM

bump,

Keep it coming

there are more than 35 of you aot there!!

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andrewrx7 · September 07, 2005, 12:23:16 PM

Voted.

No rebuild, but then with just over 6k on the clock, I\'d hope not!

peterch · September 07, 2005, 05:08:53 PM

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 Â£5,000+.
And yes, was very stupid of me, won\'t do it again though.

memski · September 07, 2005, 06:32:00 PM

Previous owner had engine rebuilt (don\'t know reason why), then I bought it

Col · September 07, 2005, 08:14:57 PM

My water seals failed, lost all coolant into the engine, nice!!!!

All Owners Vote Here-engine Failure

Engine rebuilds???

peterch

Col