So after getting completely frusterated with my fuel pump controlled with the microtech, we finally figured it out. After flooding the motor out a few times trying to start, i figured, hell lets do a compression test. It was the make or break point being this was my first rotary i built.

Front rotor - 95,95,95
Rear - 97,97,97


I'm very happy considering this is a motor that hasn't been broken in yet.

This was built on Jspec housings (low loow mileage, almost look new).

These were taken before i got it to run, and it finally runs now!

Later

 

Glad to hear that. I'm at ~90 for the front and ~85 for the rear. I don't want to believe that it's rebuild time because this is my DD.

 

IF the engine had not yet ran, then those numbers are probably not accurate. There would be assembly lube/oil in the engine chambers from the rebuild, and also would be oil or something that you used to do the unflood procedure. Any extra oil, atf. etc. will fill in seal gaps that exist and will artificially raise compression. This is why the unflood trick works to begin with...if there is not enough compression to start, the oil raises compression way high until the engine gets going, and then it burns the oil off and compression returns to normal. It's also how some of these jspec importers show 130+psi on their engines...just dump some oil in the holes and test. In my experience, oil in the chambers can raise numbers 20-40psi versus what they would be during a normal test, hot/dry.

 

bah, Kevin beat me to it. assembly lube will skew compression numbers but that is plenty to get it running so you just need to find and fix the main problem. i would, however expect to see those numbers drop and then rise again slowly after the motor has been run.