Starting & turning off the 8 moter.

[Notamomcar]

Ok my car is an 04 rx8. This is what I was told when I bought it.... When starting, turn key and wait three or four "dings" or bells then start, rev to 4 while shutting off, add Lukas gas treatment to every fill up of only premium gas, and last but not least get up to 7000 rpm atleast once a day to keep carbon from building up. I am doing all this but no idea if I need to lol I have no idea if everything is factory or if anything is upgraded. I did see on the inside of the driver door there is a sticker that says the motor was replaced in 08. Like I said, never even heard of a rotary until a month ago!

[rotar bones]

Originally Posted by Notamomcar

Ok my car is an 04 rx8. This is what I was told when I bought it.... When starting, turn key and wait three or four "dings" or bells then start, rev to 4 while shutting off, add Lukas gas treatment to every fill up of only premium gas, and last but not least get up to 7000 rpm atleast once a day to keep carbon from building up. I am doing all this but no idea if I need to lol I have no idea if everything is factory or if anything is upgraded. I did see on the inside of the driver door there is a sticker that says the motor was replaced in 08. Like I said, never even heard of a rotary until a month ago!

I have been doing what you describe on my 2004 8 for over 81,000 miles with no ill effect and I might add I have never had a flooding of my engine and I also pre-mix.

[reddozen]

Originally Posted by Notamomcar

Ok my car is an 04 rx8. This is what I was told when I bought it.... When starting, turn key and wait three or four "dings" or bells then start, rev to 4 while shutting off, add Lukas gas treatment to every fill up of only premium gas, and last but not least get up to 7000 rpm atleast once a day to keep carbon from building up. I am doing all this but no idea if I need to lol I have no idea if everything is factory or if anything is upgraded. I did see on the inside of the driver door there is a sticker that says the motor was replaced in 08. Like I said, never even heard of a rotary until a month ago!

Premix is a good thing. That will lubricate better, and help minimize carbon build up.

Also good that the motor has already been replaced. 04~06 are bad about compression loss.

If you come out to a meet sometime, it'll be easy to tell you if you have factory coils, or the 1.4kw starter starter.