this thing has been sitting in my room for months and I finaly just took some pics for something else. this is what happens when your seal blows. by by rotor housing!!

 

and the rotor is shot too.....

 

I think mine was worse than that on my old car. I found chunks of apex in the precat, two rotor tips were trashed, and the housing were scuffed all over the place.

edit: I guess that driving it around the neighborhood after it died didnt help much

 

Now that's a good reason for someone to invent the "nerf" rotor...Max

 

When i took my last motor apart i actually saw a piece of apex seal imbeded on the rotor!..ohhh and my rotor housing was worst than the one in the picture.

 

Hey, maybe a little ATF will help...

 

beat these, its an overheat not, not blown seals though

this are the old housings from my 13b-rew, before my rebuild

 

Poor pretty engine, once fresh and lively...*sniff sniff*

 

hehe, I still have to take pictures of mine, but they're far worse The rear rotor housings was awesomely screwed up, and all three of the apex seal grooves in the rotor are trashed. There are bits of seal in the rotor, and gouges all over the place.

That must have made an AWESOME sound when it went (i bought the car used, so i didn't have the pleasure of experiencing it...)

Manolis

 

Normally I take blown rotor housings/rotors, clean them up real good, paint the outside of the rotor housing, put the rotor inside the rotor housing, and then turn them into a clock

 

my7.rx-7.org/PJ (so it's not an FC, but it IS blowed up ) No TRACE of the blown apex seal in the engine... every piece of it gone, but the spring was still lodged in there... you can see where it got stuck between the rotor and the housing, and it actually punched a hole in the rotor face in at least one spot.

I wonder... I have an engine that still has compresson on one face of the rear rotor. Given that, one would think that the rotor housing would still be good, since the two remaining seals still build good compression. Then again, maybe not. (One of these days I'll take that engine apart to see)