blowing one apex seal is one thing

but haveing both rotors lose em at the same time is odd

i looked in the exuast ports too see the damage, and both blown seals are still mostly intact, except for a missing middle chunk, and a piece of rotor torn out
the u shaped chunk is 5mm wide or so
and identicle on both rotors

hmm
wtf
this is crazy
is there any recourse since these where supposed to be "rotary plugs"
btw they were autolights, the one that napa has on file for the 12a

 

my 12a blew a side seal after i put autolites in. i used them as spares. when i counted on them, they failed me and the 7.

 

is there anything i can do about them killing my engine
i am a poor college student, and cant really afford to fix it (but im keeping it for when i can, saving ++)

 

perhaps your apex seals are chipping because of detonation. not enough spark du to crap plugs/wrong plugs, unburnt gas in the exhaust... i have heard of detonation causing some damage.

 

all the other seals are perfect and i have never heard a single ping

 

weird. maybe you sucked in something like dirt down the carb.

 

im not sure, the air cleaner didnt have any leaks
im gonna look over the plugs real good

 

are you thinking the plugs were too long and protruded into the housing too far? my autolites were odd. they almost had no electrode tip. i dunno. like i said, after i installed them, my engine took a crap.

 

mine had quite a tip
and yes i think they protruded

 

they could have chipped the apex seal. i would go back to the NGK. if you are concerned about cost, i'll mail you a set of used NGK's.

 

well i was just being cheap one time

and i wasnt that worried about cost
but i am now since this will cost me an engine

 

btw the plugs had tiny tiny dents on the electrode

 

the engine does not run at all?

 

yeah, i would suspect your plugs caused this. did you hear any chattering while the engine was runing?

 

each rotor only has one side of compression now

 

not really
with a header and a glasspack, i dont hear much when it runs

 

lol, yeah. what are you going to do about the engine?

 

send a nasty letter to autolight and hope they will lend a hand

if they bought me a decent rebiuld kit and used my plugs to desighn ones the work, id be happy

 

yeah. so, now that yu have basically no compression, are you going to rebuild or buy another used/new engine?

 

one side of each rotor gets good compression
the other 4 just dont
rebiuld, of course
one of my roomates is gonna cnc my plates for a nice bridge

 

That's sad that someone had listed the wrong plugs in there parts system,I mean if thats what caused it.Sure sounds like it though.

 

btw the model # is 2526
and its listed for fb's

 

i went to get new plugs for my se, and they tried to give me autolites. i said i needed ngk, he said they didn't have them listed for the car.

so i went home and called napa.

 

yes they are! someone needs to inform autolite that they are making somehing wrong

 

any suggestions on how to approche them and what to do to prove what the cuase of failure was