I just bought an '89 FC GXL with 77,000 original miles on engine and chassis. Some dude today told me that rotary engines usually need a rebuild job at about 100,000 miles. Is this true? The car is NOT a turbo btw.

 

no i have 156777 miles on mine and it runs fine

 

This is not true. Many non turbo rx7's run well over 200,000 miles. I have 7000 miles to go until I hit 200,000 on my S5 NA. Now if the engine is ported or you don't keep up on maintenance then that could make the engine life shorter.

 

no if you know how to maintain them... dont listen to that guy, you should go up to him tomorrow and say "you dont know anything about rx7s....". lol

 

well i do agree with the others but if u DONT take good care of them they will **** out. had an 87 gxl with 132000 ish and the guy that had it b4 me took horible care of it and it **** out on me.

 

168,xxx on the 'vert, and she hasn't missed a beat. Regular maintainance (oil changes at 3k, flush coolant yearly, etc. as spelled out in FAQ's of this forum) and keep one eye on that temp gauge, and you should be just fine.

 

Covered in the FAQ for FC sticky thread found at the top of this, the 2nd gen RX-7 Technical section.

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