Not a Happy Bunny!!! :(

[m4drx]

My second rebuild is running as smooth as a shaven f****.
Maybe i\'m lucky, but any performance car, whether ****ed-on or Wankelled, has a life expectancy.

but surely its not 6 months. it drinks your money when it works then....

[rx7veilside]

mine has had 2 rebuilds and only covered about 4000 miles in 3 years..if this bucket of **** ever goes again then i will wait and have a ls1 v8...looks wise the rx7 is a killer but these engines are made of tissue paper..never known a car that could blow so many engines for so many people

[Martiny]

Lets see now, people dick around with fuel pumps,change the ecu, put in single turbo, change the exhaust, etc....

and then when it breaks, its the Rotary engine thats cr4p, eh?

[rx7veilside]

well in my case i didnt dick around with anything all work was undertaken by and under advice from a known rotary tuner
my point is there is an alarming amount of remedial work done on these cars and most people just want a car they can turn the key and drive instead of turn the key and pray
you have to admit if u were to do a survey of total cars in uk and then how many have been trouble free i think everyone wld be gasping
i had a p1 for 2 years and it was modded to 350bhp and it never missed a beat started bang on/low emmissions/good fuel consumption/went like stink

[oldone]

well in my case i didnt dick around with anything all work was undertaken by and under advice from a known rotary tuner
my point is there is an alarming amount of remedial work done on these cars and most people just want a car they can turn the key and drive instead of turn the key and pray
you have to admit if u were to do a survey of total cars in uk and then how many have been trouble free i think everyone wld be gasping
i had a p1 for 2 years and it was modded to 350bhp and it never missed a beat started bang on/low emmissions/good fuel consumption/went like stink

Been used as a daily driver for 18 months now,never had to top up the water,200ml of oil,fix exhaust,nearly as much horses as you are running,AND the water seals are not one piece !!!!!!!!:Thumbs-up  ROTARIES RULE !Have only had ROTARY powered cars as daily drivers for the last 12 years....:wiggle

[t2rew]

i bet you only use it for 2 miles a week to go and pick up you colostamy bag and heart tablets from the chemist :yes

[oldone]

i bet you only use it for 2 miles a week to go and pick up you colostamy bag and heart tablets from the chemist :yes

The ambulance comes to pick me up every Monday morn.........:Thumbs-up

[t2rew]

haha i bet thats not rotary powered

[oldone]

haha i bet thats not rotary powered

Its a stonking great V8.......:guinness  and they do not exceed 30mph as Im a nervous passenger........:rolleyes:  how kind of the driver ?

[hotstepper1973]

hi chris you have my sympathy but having now experienced my first engine failure after owning 1st,2nd and 3rd generation rx7\'s which have been used in both formats being daily driver and as a 2nd car at which i think over the past 6-7 years have been extremely happy with the rotary engine it has been fine until now and if anyone would like to know i have lived on the isle of man in which everytime i took the rex out it was never a case of pottering around it was driven as it should be aswell as many trouble free trackdays and now a couple of trips to the ring so my point is i think the rotary is superb and would definitely say despite my 1st engine failure i am not going to say they are unreliable.

just my 2p worth

And yes i am missing my car already hehe:)

[t2rew]

you could go on every car forum and see that they all have there fare share of probs. the more power the more probs, fair enough. but the rotary only takes the smallest thing to go wrong and youll end up taking the engine out for a rebuild.

ive resorted to putting luck stickers on my car and hanging a talasmen from the mirror to ward off evil spirits. :2Rolleyes

mazda must sell millions of engine parts world wide but they still charge silly money for the bits.

im too far in now but if i could turn back the clock, a rotor motor would not be in my garage

[efiniste]

And yes i am missing my car already hehe:)

What happened Jon?

Steve

[hotstepper1973]

well in a nutshell pip suspects either a chipped or fractured apex seal so im in the process of trying to strip the bits off car so then get the engine out to rebuild it but i have a snag where my knowledge ends but hey see what happens.

Fancy shedding some light on this here process as you have done this before?

chris sorry for slight hijack.

[efiniste]

No problem mate, pm\'ed you.

[FEED Rocket]

Lets see now, people dick around with fuel pumps,change the ecu, put in single turbo, change the exhaust, etc....
 
and then when it breaks, its the Rotary engine thats cr4p, eh?

Fair point. I supposed any engine that has had a fair amount of tuning involved will die eventually. Im currently looking at ways to improve reliablity on my rex rather than trying to get the best quarter mile time.