Why is my car dead? (video included)

[Carl]

That is not water seal failure.
Regards
Carl

[elford_tim]

There was smoke (white smoke) coming out of it initially, then clear up. You can\'t see it very well in the vid because of the poor quality.

That sounds pretty normal to me - when you run an engine the exhaust heats up and the heating/cooling cycle leads to a bit of condensation in the exhaust. As the exhaust warms up, the condensation evaporates. I\'m even seeing that on aircooled bikes, especially in damp conditions.

[Oedipus Rex]

wow, thats fecked. I\'ve ripped out an engine that had compression on two faces only and it hardly rocked as much as that does.



Better get your wallet out my man.

[Jim_rx7]

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extremley shakey vac gauge. Someone also suggested this could be to apex seal failure.

[Jim_rx7]

wow, thats fecked. I\'ve ripped out an engine that had compression on two faces only and it hardly rocked as much as that does.


Better get your wallet out my man.

The engine only shook that badly when iddling at 500rpm, it did settle at normal idle for s short time and the wobble stopped. Still sounded weird tho.

[Oedipus Rex]

dude, you\'ve had one of the countries leading RX7 specialists look at the video and tell you that its ****ed and you need a proper cpmpression test.

I suggest you listen to that, get it to a specialist and move on.

[Jim_rx7]

ok... point taken. lol