1993 FD engine problems
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1993 FD engine problems
Hey everyone. I am sort of new to the FD world, been a member for about 3 years but haven't really been a forum surfer for too long. i currently have a 1993 MB FD and i bought it stock with high miles from an old lady back in 2007. after i purchased it i had no problems whatsoever. i came from a highly modded WRX and thought to do the same with this car but failed. I put on the car RX7STORE.net stage 2 package and really liked it. After a few weeks the car started acting funny. honestly I put full synthetic mobil1 and i know now that was a bad idea.some of the problems were that it would overheat and i would have to fill the coolant up almost everyday. cold the car would start right up but if i turned the car off and tried to start it half hour or even 5 min later it wouldn't. the car at high rpms would shoot out a cloud of white smoke and smelled of coolant. I still don't know what the problem fully is( water seal?), my mechanic said with a jerry rigged compression test that the front was 65 and rear was 80 so he wants me to buy a new engine and put it in but I'm skeptical about it. could someone point me in the right direction. i wouldn't mind doing a rebuild. all i really want is for the engine to produce enough power to be reliable and last 20 miles a day for a couple years to come. thanks
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What would that entail to be fixed? Where I'm located there are no rotary mechanics for 100+ miles and I don't trust the local dealership one bit. There price estimate was 12k
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12K for a rebuild? trollolololol.
Either do it yourself, nice workshop manuals and books + videos out there available, or send it to a rotary mech. plenty of em here on the forum.
To give you a reference of the top of my head:
http://www.colemanprecisionrotaries.com/
Either do it yourself, nice workshop manuals and books + videos out there available, or send it to a rotary mech. plenty of em here on the forum.
To give you a reference of the top of my head:
http://www.colemanprecisionrotaries.com/
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Depends on the actual failure, if it is the coolant seal and you have not overheated the engine repeatedly then it should be a straight rebuild. However if the coolant seal retaining wall(s) collapsed, then there are additional costs. Regardless it will not cost $12K, even if you shipped the entire car out to us, it would not cost half of that. If you are able to pull your engine and re-install it, you can have it rebuilt by any number of places.
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