Mazda Rx-8 What to look for when buying ??

Kenai said:
Sounds logical enough to me
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You can pull start any flooded rotary engine and get it to run. If it can't be done with a simple push start and popping the clutch, pull it behind another car. It will start. Depending on the severity of the flooding, it might take a few feet, it might take a few blocks but it will start. Do not take your car to a dealership to fix it. It is easy and you don't need a tow truck.
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Remember someone in this thread saying they or they friend payed mazda £300 twice to start there flooded RX-8 engine

Guess couples guys from the mazda garage came out and towed it 50ft and then said that be £300 please :D
 
[TW]Fox;19971381 said:
Its hardly the end of the world, just remove plugs, foot to the floor on the accerlerator and crank for 10 seconds, wait 20s and repeat, do it 3 or 4 times, next stick some 2 stroke in the plug hole for both chambers and crank again, add more 2 stroke, now refit the plugs. Chances are the car will now start if not repeat
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:D

Sorry but the whole flood-prone thing, assuming it is true, is just an inconcievably massive flaw on a modern mass produced car. It's a joke.
 
No surprise that not only does the handling require only the best of drivers to fully realise its true potential, but also its engine maintenance requires a knowledgeable car enthusiast.
 
hilly said:
Push it? Are you for real?! So you have blocked another car in, or you need to move it from the garage, onto the drive to wash it.

Your answer is to push the car out of the way?

Why not go the whole hog, stamp a couple of foot holes into the floor and 'flinstone' it out of the way. Screaming Yabba Dabba Doooo in a grizzly voice?

Once you aware of it, you won't turn it off cold, sure. However, it's no less of a pain for this to happen.
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I'm not suggesting you actually push it, but there are circumstances where it is easier. I do it when I wash my car - I push the car to the end of the drive where there is more space, and that's on a car that has no flooding issues.

It's easy to avoid blocking people in - I honestly can't think of a single situation I've been in over the last year where an RX8's flooding issue would have caused me a problem.

If you were that fussed about it, you could always fit a turbo timer.
 
hilly said:
Push it? Are you for real?! So you have blocked another car in, or you need to move it from the garage, onto the drive to wash it.

Your answer is to push the car out of the way?

Why not go the whole hog, stamp a couple of foot holes into the floor and 'flinstone' it out of the way. Screaming Yabba Dabba Doooo in a grizzly voice?

Once you aware of it, you won't turn it off cold, sure. However, it's no less of a pain for this to happen.
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I must be missing something here, I push my car down the drive when I wash it. Would rather not stop/start it for 5 seconds when I can just push it myself :confused:.
 
Jez said:
Ditto my driveway. Just lol @ not being able to start and then stop the engine :D
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Perfectly acceptable for a race car! :mad:

...shame the RX8 is not a race car. Quite frankly not being able to start/stop the engine is pretty damn close to being 'unfit for purpose' for a road vehicle.
 
I have never flooded a rotary, and i have switched it off cold, the cold shut of proceedure is hold the revs at 5000rpm for 10 seconds and as you turn the ignition off press the pedal to the floor, this keeps the rotors spinning while switching the fuel off and exhausts any that is already in there.

I still prefer to let it warm up though.

Quite frankly not being able to rev to 9000rpm is pretty annoying in a piston engine as is the need to change cam belts, look after headgaskets, so on and so on.
Totally different engine stop being stupid and expecting to treat it exactly the same.
People dont moan that 2 strokes dont have low torque they have them for the high revs, so why moan at the rotary for the same reason.
 
Meh, there is nothing to add to this lot really. My diary of ownership is in my sig (but missing the latest updates), although my latest issue is the worst case scenario and after having a hot compression test the compression is just below Mazda tolerances on 1 rotor and just above on the other. It is on 55,500 miles of which I have done over half of, flooded once due to a flat battery. Apart from that it has never had any issues which have left me stranded, still runs OK now, just down on power especially on a motorway run and struggles to start when warm even with a good battery and uprated starter motor.
 
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