No i didn't do a search. I think far too many factors might play a part for me to even think of searching this.

Anyways when I don't start my 1984 RX7 for about a week, it usually struggles to start. The battery is charged, the alternator is fine, and the starter is as well. This is a fairly recent development, it starting in this manner. It goes as follows.

Put key in ignition, turn for power, pull choke, pump gas a few times. Turn ignition to start car. As it starts, it sputters, almost as if it's the car is struggling to breathe (the only way I can think to describe it). The choke doesn't hold at this time. I hold the key and crank it, the car is about half-way started, but too cold so it dies. After doing this about 8 times, the car finally allows the choke to kick in, and then it starts to warm up, but then still sounds like it's struggling. After about thirty seconds it almost sounds as if the car metaphorically "clears its throat" and at last sounds normal, and warms up fine.

The car only acts like this if it remains idle and unstarted for longer than a week.

 

solution....MAKE YOUR RX7 YOUR DAILY DRIVER...heehee..sorry i dont have anything constructive to say

 

I been playing with two jallopies all week and been having starting issues.

I didn't think of it until today when I started up my car which has been sitting for about a month with just here and there occasional starts, but she usually starts up right away... Anyways mine gave me a tough time too. I think the cold is playing a major role...???? Just me thinking out loud.

 

Sounds like you're flooding it. Cold weather makes that a lot worse as fuel won't vaporize as readily, and possibly your fuel is getting old/waterlogged if you're not driving it much.

The proper start sequence is:

1) Key to ON. Give it a few seconds to fill the carb bowls.
2) Pull choke fully. It should stay full out if you haven't pumped the gas. If it doesn't, needs fixing.
3) Key to START. Should fire right up in only a few seconds' cranking, without pumping, andthe choke should cut to half in a few moments depending on temperature. If not, something needs work.

Pumping the gas several times (giving the acc pump a full squirt each time) and then trying to start would, seems to me, make for a guaranteed flood that you'd have to purge to start.

My car has spent a couple lengthy periods in it's 20 years with me in storage (talking years at a time.) So long as I started it routinely once every couple weeks, let it warm fully, and kept the gas fresh in it, it never failed to start properly.

I neglected it for about a year, this last time, because I needed exhaust parts I couldn't get. It's taken some work to get it right, carb rebuild, solenoid replacements, fuel pump out and purge, new filter, etc... but now, it starts like a champ, even if it's been several days since the last start.