hi this is rotary addiction i just bought a 84 gs with 115K i paid 500 its body is really straight interior is clean and its a 2 seater its carb'd well getting to the point i pulled it of the trailer the battery is half dead it will crank at a moderate speed i have fire/fuel and it has good compression it has sat for three years could it be old gas i have old plugs well new ones that have sat around from my old 86 gxl when i junked it. i put the 13b plugs in it no difference they just got some balck crud on themput little gas down the carb still no work all my friends are ******* it well one kid is but id hare to give a rotary a bad name Oh ps i was told the car was overheated in tucson he got that fixed that day it ran fine the next morning it wouldnt start but after it over heated it ran fine until it was parked it had autolite 2526 plugs in it dont look rotary plug to me please help me

 

That overheating doesn't sound good, but try everything in this proceedure:

https://www.rx7club.com/forum/showth...hreadid=162062

 

I am just in the midst of getting mine back on the road after sitting for three years as well and I had the same problem after I got the engine unseized that is. It turned out to be a number of things. Here is a list of things that I had to do.

1) Add gas treatement. The gas was old.

2) Add new fuel as well as treat the gas.

3) Replace the plugs. They were definately a problem.

4) Get the carb up to snuff. Adjust some of the linkages. Replace floats, needles, and seats. Still goofing with the floats a bit but she runs now.

5) After I got her turning I had to blow all the crap out of the engine by removing the plugs and just turning her over for a while. You would be amazed by the crap that gets blown out.

After doing all the above she starts up fine now. The overheating part doesn't sound good but also doesn't mean that there is necessarily anything wrong yet.

Word of warning, if you do get her to fire after all this, keep people away from the tail pipes. She'll spew a whole wack of crap out the pipes!

 

putting gas down the carb would enduce flodding... pour some mmo down the carb...

-greg

 

I found that crude 10w30 works well to, just poor it in, and she will start on just that, my first one did, altho I recomend doing it so that the tail pipe faces nothing important being what all shoots out the back, but after that we were able to get the car to run fine cleaned it all up.