I topped off my tank with some 89 octane (about 7 gallons). After I filled I took off to grab some groceries and such at another store. When I went to go restart the car at the grocery store it was slow to start.

The next day I drive to work and I could hear a missfire or something buggery at idle. I first thought "oh damn that apex seal is stuck in that rear rotor"; as I used sub-par parts to assymble this engine. So when I got to work I let the car idle and pulled the plug wires for #2 rotor; the motor humed down but didn't shut off immediatly. I did the same for the #1 rotor and she droped idle and died. I felt like I knew that that bad rotor had eaten or completly stuck its apex seal.

So I did what any good RX7 owner does. I drove it home and reved the **** out of it.

When I got home I did a compression test first thing. Good numbers 70 ish on both rotors and strong pulses. I dicked with the timing a little; no change still skipping and not sounding happy. I cleaned the spark plugs and checked the bowels, all good.


Then I took a bit of the gasoline from the tank and dumped it in my bike. My bike started chugging. Clearly bad gasoline.

I got all worked up and it was that silly off the beaten path gas station I visited. Just goes to show you always vist the same gas station. Random gas stations might have bad fuel.

 

What brand of gas was this? I had the same experience with Chevron, in El Segundo Ca, which was right by the chevron oil refinery. Your "off the beaten path gas station" sounds more likely. As a chemical engineering student, I had several plant visits when job hunting. Exxon, Mobile (way before they were merged), and Philips had very nice clean orderred plants. Shell, Conoco, and Chevron refineries were under maintained death traps.

 

Speedway. IDK who they are owned by.

No worries though, my truck will gobble it up.