Dispelling Myths: Using RX-8 internals in a 13B-REW

[sbrian2]

I'll add another point to this thread. We had a small oil leak on Dan's car toward the end of the year. When we pulled the engine this winter we found that the o-ring on the rear stationary gear was not sealing properly and that was the source of the leak. Upon disassembly, we found that the o-ring had pretty much self destructed on the rough casting of the rear iron and we chose to re-assemble without the o-ring and just use RTV instead. With that being said, the additional machining that I had done to the rear gear is probably unnecessary so long as you use RTV instead of the o-ring.