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    Quote Originally Posted by green91
    As far as moving parts, timing components, etc yea they are a great design and its neat how they get the power out of a smaller displacement engine doing so. But they do have their faults also. Ive been in several newer rx8 that have nearly no compression with low miles. Look at how many FD and FC have had an engine replaced by 100k.. hell even mazda has extended warranties on the renesis just to keep customers happy since the motors are failing.
    The Renesis did have a flooding problem. You have to warm them up fully when you crank them. Never start them up, then just turn them off. Once in a while, they will flood if you do that.

    The FD's suffered from only 2 issues - not enough cooling, and not enough oiling. Again, they needed to be run harder, and the cooling system (oil and coolant) was not adequate for non-wot applications.

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    Quote Originally Posted by David88vert
    The Renesis did have a flooding problem. You have to warm them up fully when you crank them. Never start them up, then just turn them off. Once in a while, they will flood if you do that.

    The FD's suffered from only 2 issues - not enough cooling, and not enough oiling. Again, they needed to be run harder, and the cooling system (oil and coolant) was not adequate for non-wot applications.
    thought that was true of all Rotary to let them warm up,before driving hard or cutting it off....i rememeber cutting my FC off to soon and it flooded

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    the rx8 motor is the renesis and it dosent have a flooding problem like the fc fd and fb
    Quote Originally Posted by David88vert
    The Renesis did have a flooding problem. You have to warm them up fully when you crank them. Never start them up, then just turn them off. Once in a while, they will flood if you do that.

    The FD's suffered from only 2 issues - not enough cooling, and not enough oiling. Again, they needed to be run harder, and the cooling system (oil and coolant) was not adequate for non-wot applications.
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    Quote Originally Posted by HypnoToad
    thought that was true of all Rotary to let them warm up,before driving hard or cutting it off....i rememeber cutting my FC off to soon and it flooded
    Yes.


    Quote Originally Posted by SammyPain
    the rx8 motor is the renesis and it dosent have a flooding problem like the fc fd and fb
    Actually, the 2004 did. All of them pretty much have that issue. Simple solution - warm them up properly.

    Quote Originally Posted by simontibbett
    Really? It ran for days, I ran my Civic at Road Atlanta with basically no oil. I ran that car for weeks dry of oil. Do it and prove me wrong
    You don't seem to understand how motors work. I know of a Civic run without oil. It was shot in a few minutes - not hours, days, or weeks. Oil lubricates and cools the motor. It is even more important than coolant to an engine. Even a Dodge 225 can't run long without oil - about 30 minutes to an hour depending on load. So no, I don't believe you for a second that you were running RA without oil.
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