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Sep 11, 2002 | 01:28 AM

dlbrown

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If your oil seals go bad or start to go bad...will your car performance decrease? I have a 1988 RX7...NONE turbo

Sep 11, 2002 | 02:08 AM

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oil seals? Do you mean apex seals?

Sep 11, 2002 | 02:20 AM

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Oil seals

Do you mean the Rotor oil seals? I gather you're using oil and have a nice white puff of smoke when you start the engine.

If so, aside from the excess oil consumption and that it isn't excessive, some will argue this is a good thing. As I understand it, only real issue is possible pre-mature fouling of spark plugs

But, I'm not a engine rebuilding guy. So, more comments needed from the gallery.

Sep 11, 2002 | 02:25 AM

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Re: Oil seals

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Originally posted by HOZZMANRX7
Do you mean the Rotor oil seals? I gather you're using oil and have a nice white puff of smoke when you start the engine.

White smoke = buring coolant. Blue smoke = burning oil. Black smoke= rich fuel mixture. Burning too much oil will foul plugs. Obviously requires a teardown to replace oil rings on rotors.