I was wondering if anyone has tried Restore engine treatment on a rotary. My friends p.o.s. 350 was dying and he used it, now it kills me. It only states 4,6,8 cylinder info, so im a little weary, but it worked so well for compression, etc. It has a chemical called licronite or something that sticks to cylider walls to help. It could work I think, but rotaries are made to burn a lil oil so, thus the above question. THANKS

 

Don't know if that stuff will leave carbon in the engine if it burns. If you don't know how carbon effects rotaries, go to http://mrmazda.members.atlantic.net/...t.html#CLOCKED

 

OH god here we go..... My advice is Virtually every additive is a major gimic designed to take your money and provide a phycological effect.

 

Seafoam is the ****. I swear by it.
My winter car is a 1989 ford Ex police crown victoria.
It has 140,000 miles with no rebuild and I beat the crap out of this thing. I drift it on snowy roads. I do huge burnouts. I have gone way past redline on many occasions and I have never had a problem.

Every time I change the oil I run a can of seafoam through the throtle body until it dies. Let it sit for a hour and start it up. It smokes out the sidepipes (pipes and headers on a ex-police crownvic- and my friends think Im nuts?) and it runs like new.

I poured a can of it in the tank of my seven when I first got it and every thing started to run better a few days later.
Seriously.

 

No offence intended but......
Crown vic's and caprises are very, very, very durable anyway. We have had two caprise station wagons that went beyond 200,000miles and they were never driven all that light. Why do you think these is a choice vehicle of police and other law enforcement... One we had from '82 and '87. They never had any special treatments added to the tank or oil or anything from purchase till we sold them. Just regular maintance and the bodies were like new when we sold them. The next owner thought they had only 150,000miles on one of them. So obviously the testimonal side of seafoam doesn't convince me it would of run good anyways.

Also driving a rotary hard once in a while is good at breaking up carbon anyways and restores compression. Nothing extra combined with hard driving is going to prove a product is what is responsible for making more power....especially on testimonal alone... Bla, bla, bla, testimonal....

 

Well here's another blah,blah testimonial.No its not a
rotary.Its a '88 Jeep Grand Wagoneer with a 360 V-8.
Has 135K and was using a quart of oil every 200-300
miles.Added a can of Restore and now uses NO oil.
Runs better and lots cheaper than a ring job.I don't
think I would use it in my rotary as I'm not sure how
it would stick to a rotor housing.But it sure works on
a V-8 and I'll keep using it on my POS's.

 

i used the 40 dollar kit from advance on my moped and got a 40hp gain. i to switch to a full face helmet.

anyway, you're in uncharted territory. most everyone will speculate but thats about it. if you want to guinea then start with the 4cylinder first. i would highly guess the quantities are really based on displacement/size and not cylinders, but how many normal people know their engine size. if anything, call them up and ask them if they ever tested it on a rotary and then see if they warranty against engine damage. if anything, it f$%#s up and hello new streetported engine courteousy of restore's manufacturer.

 

i wouldnt be to quick to speak about uncharted,

whe i bought my first rx7 in early 98 i was loosing compression fast,
the car was in rough shape when i bough it and i didnt know much abou it,

it wasnt just my first rx7 it was my first car.

i tried the 4 cylinder formula and it didnt help one bit,
as far as i know,
the compression still sucked and later it started burning coolent,

as bad as the engine got it amazed me that it still started even after flooding to the top with water "had hood offf with no air cleaner in he rain after the rear end blew out"

and that happened more then once

when i sold it the engine still fired up,
hard engines to kill

but once their gone i fear a rebuild is the only way back

 

ok, dave pioneered it and votes crap.

 

used restore in my 66 mustang, more of a psychological differences... realistically, I did not notice a difference...Ripped off?? Maybe///cjf