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[BlueAdept]

Originally posted by jason turner
first off,this is the first forum i have ever seen but thanks zoom for poiting out that you can follow on. i think i found out how to do it now..

        im getting a vibe that you and your mate blue think i am against the 13 b. i would like to clear this up. i really do love the little engine but my situation is that i bought the first turbo two no more than about 3 months ago and the last owner told me how well he looked after his baby,oil changed every 3000 miles. the oil on the dip stick was clean so i have no doubt this is true.i got it home and changed the oil and then changed it again after 2500 miles. i drive hard but most of the time i am in traffic.

        i bought the other one as a car with problems with the idea of keeping it for spares athough i now changed the turbo and am driving it coz the other car having covered 3000 miles in my care has gone bang. the first car done 60 000 miles before a company that i wont name but are in my opinion good rebuilt it, it has done 40 000. the other car had its engine done at 80 000 , it still works but i drive very slowly in it now. i will do the rebuild myself and will make sure it is done properly but i dont expect any more than 40 000 miles as i will be tuning it a bit. there must be more people out there who have had engines go on them coz all the ones for sale all say" resent rebuild "  i can only imagen that you have done no more than 5000 miles and you havent had anything go wrong which is why you are trying to make me sound like the only one in the world to experiance problems.

apologies... I didn\'t mean to be a bit too defensive, I\'ve only really had any experience with NA rotaries... the 3rd gen does seem to have more than it\'s fair share of problems, although heat has always been the enemy of the rotary engine and being the first production car to have sequential twin turbo\'s couldn\'t have helped.