My beloved rex sat for three days and didn't want to start. Acted like a lack of compression and my relatively new plugs showed a little carbon coating. To get it running I had to resort to the ATF trick for the second time in three or four months. I go out of town often on the weekends and don't take the RX. This means that the car sits for two or three days at a time every couple of weeks.

Does this sound like I need to rebuild this engine soon, or is there some other simple problem that I don't know about. My mods and removals are in my sig. Please give me some input on this issue. If I need to rebuild this engine, then I need to step up efforts on my Supra project and make room for the rex. I'd just like as much warning as possible. Thanks.

 

get a compression test, do a tune up, check for leaks vaccum hoses, unflooded it....do some tests.....

dont think your engine can get screwed just by sitting for 2-3 days....

 

I don't think it got screwed in 2-3 days, I think it may be too worn and/or too coated in carbon to continue running trouble free for long. As for the tune up, it was done about 1500 miles ago... and no, I didn't use that set of plugs with the ATF. I keep an old set just in case. I'm also running Accell 8.8 wires and 93 or 94 octane gas. Unless both times were caused by sub-par gasoline not burning clean, I'm trying to figure if I need to work a rebuild into my budget.

 

use lower octane gas Rotaries run better on the cheap stuff

 

Really you need to just check you compression. If you have done it, post it here so we can see it.

 

might just be flooding too. Al you need to do to solve that is get the injectors cleaned.