Hot Start Issue / Flooding

Pete_89T2 · 07-20-2011, 05:30 AM

That "running on 1/2 power" symptom sounds like you may have a sticky seal or two. First thing I'd do is a compression test. How is this car normally driven? Daily, once in a while?

RETed · 07-20-2011, 09:03 AM

Flooding is a part of life with these cars.
Even the newer RX-8's do it.
It's due to "bad programming" in the stock ECU - nothing you can do about it unless you remove / replace it.
Low(er) compression and / or low voltage problems makes this worse.

That "half power" is probably due to one set of spark plugs on one rotor being fouled so bad from flooding that it doesn't fire anymore.
Basically, it's running on one rotor, so you're right about "half" power...literally.
Once all that gasoline is burned off the fouled spark plug, the engine will run like nothing happened.

-Ted

RETed · 07-22-2011, 08:58 AM

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Originally Posted by RETed

...and / or low voltage problems makes this worse.

Oh well...

-Ted

07-20-2011, 05:30 AM	#1
Pete_89T2 Lifetime Rotorhead Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Elkton, MD Posts: 874 Rep Power: 16	That "running on 1/2 power" symptom sounds like you may have a sticky seal or two. First thing I'd do is a compression test. How is this car normally driven? Daily, once in a while?