newbie here with a bloody mental RX7

[MINTER]

ok mate on the ball..

[MINTER]

well wouldnt you know my luck..week and a half of ownership and the car has shat itself... thoughy it might have been a short on the fuel injection,so was working at the car and managed to flood it....... (started and turned it off too soon)
 
anyway got her unflooded eventually and tryied to susu to see if it was the fuel injection(dissed it and still running like crap)
 
car is struggling to hold on idle and is blowing blue and white smoke every were...had checked the garge for any signs of leaks etc and there was nothing...moved the car out the drive and startd her up with difficuklty..managed to kick and i held her just around 1.5k revs..the car is really blowing smoke everywere now and notice smoke coming from the engine bay just under th turbo were it seems theres an oil leak of some sort and this was burning off causing the smoke...
so now the car is struggling to hold the idle and theres heaps of blueish smoke along with this oil leak around the tubbie area.. and i aint got a boost guage to see whats happening there... this is not good..and i only have her 2 weeks
 
anyone have any ideas as to whats going on from those symptoms......
 

[Kevin]

What where you doing prior to this?  I mean did you push it hard or something happend while you were out on your last drive?

Blueish smoke and oil leak could indicate failure of the turbo seals?  How many miles is on the turbo?

I cant really see it making it struggle to idle though?  That sounds more like a vacuum leak.  Again would help knowing what you did the last time you drove it and wether everything was ok?

How many miles is on the engine just as a matter of interest?  Have you taken it for a decent run since?

These cars are great when they work but suck balls when they dont (which is more often than not!)

[Lum]

Rubbish mate, hope it\'s nothing to serious. I\'m not sure what it could be from those symptoms??
Engine has done approx 8K & Turbo even less (6k).
Probably no concelation but the diff has destroyed itself in the GTR :rolleyes:

[nikp]

Trouble holding the idle and rough running could be the vacuum pipe has popped off the map sensor - thats quite common.

As to the oil, thats probably the oil drain underneath the turbo: check that out.

[Johnerz]

shame to hear that mate as there isnt that many of us about bangor/north down (assumin that was you i saw out a few sundays ago)

if you do get really stuck there is a guy in portadown from New Zealand who is a rotary specialist and really knows his sh!t.  i can get you his number incase you arent to sure how/what to do.

he is in portadown

[gmogle]

Trouble holding the idle and rough running could be the vacuum pipe has popped off the map sensor - thats quite common.

Where is the map sensor ?

[memski]

Map sensor is near the abs system, rear right of the engine bay if looking in. Vac hose leads to the upper inlet manifold.

[uk-kent-rx7]

Trouble holding the idle and rough running could be the vacuum pipe has popped off the map sensor - thats quite common.
 
As to the oil, thats probably the oil drain underneath the turbo: check that out.

Got the car up on a ramp the other day and was told one of my turbos is leaking... whats the oil drain underneath the turbo then could that be whats leaking? sorry very basic knowledge:o

[nikp]

Oil is fed to the turbos to provide lubrication, cooling and a bearing for the turbo sharft. This oil needs  to be returned, via gravity back to the sump. Hence, an oil drain. It\'s a pipe (or pipes with the twin turbo) that goes from the bottom of the turbo to just about the sump in the engine block. It\'s possible it could be leaking from the join.

[davehg]

take the plugs out, if there is oil going through the system yhis will foul the plugs. what were you doing when it went?

[MINTER]

well i had left the house and drove a few miles easy to warm the car..went into the barbers for 20 mins then came out..started the car and checked to see that engine temps etc were fine...so give her some wellie out the road and she was really barking.lol...notice then that she was spluttering thern under acceleration but smoothed out further up the revs.. thinking here maybe broke a tip....?
when i changed the plugs during the flooding they were quite wet with oily residue on them..cleaned them up and put them back in....
ive the car booked in with Glen on monday but trying to prepare myself for the worse as normally its bad news from experience :

[davehg]

how much fuel was in the tank and what type?

[MINTER]

97 ron(best we have here in ireland ..and there was slightly over half a tank in it........

[davehg]

97 ron wouldnt of helped if it was mapped for 99