Blown Seals?
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Banzai Racing
Yes the car will still run, even if you blew out all the apex seals on one of your rotors. It will not run well and the vacuum will be really low, as well as HP. Typically you do not blow only one apex seal, usually it is a cascade effect destroying all three seals, the rotor and the housing. If you did only blow one seal you got really lucky.
If it is the coolant seals that you are referring to, they cannot be checked with a compression gauge
If it is the coolant seals that you are referring to, they cannot be checked with a compression gauge
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Originally Posted by Barban
Mostly idle. It wont wun as well at all times but it will be fairly unnoticeable above vacuum.
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Originally Posted by AWD-RWD racer
is it ok to drive it like that? is ther ne possibility that it may be something else? just being optomistic here
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That helps. Is the RX7's overheating problem ever associated with blown seals? And on the compression test, what sort of numbers are you looking to get? Out of the 8 i think it is?
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The static compression is 9.0. The dynamic compression at best will be in the 8's. Above 7 is considered acceptable.
Overheating is not usually caused by bad apex seals. It is caused by the failure of the coolant seals. It loses coolant into the combustion chamber causing the add coolant light to come on. And low coolant leads to overheating. Overheating leads to the failure of this seal. Its a vicious cycle.
Overheating is not usually caused by bad apex seals. It is caused by the failure of the coolant seals. It loses coolant into the combustion chamber causing the add coolant light to come on. And low coolant leads to overheating. Overheating leads to the failure of this seal. Its a vicious cycle.
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