engine number 3 goes pop
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engine number 3 goes pop
Engine number 3 went last week. It had done about 4000 miles of weekend driving , no track or racing, it was a very well set up engine maintained and tuned by Pip in the UK . He told me today that one of the spark plugs are corroded on the end so it’s had a bad connection with the lead and it has made it chip a tip.
The biggest regret I ever made was not putting a V8 in three years ago and getting rid of this F****** W*** setup.
Everything i put on the car is top quality and somthing as simple as this makes it pop, utter crap. LOL i just thought i would share the bad news with you.
The biggest regret I ever made was not putting a V8 in three years ago and getting rid of this F****** W*** setup.
Everything i put on the car is top quality and somthing as simple as this makes it pop, utter crap. LOL i just thought i would share the bad news with you.
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Just a word of advice v8 or rotary. stop having HIM tell you what happened and look into maintenance yourself.
Extra maintenance aside for a rotary, A corroded spark plug could happen on any engine.
Extra maintenance aside for a rotary, A corroded spark plug could happen on any engine.
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Plugs had done 1000 miles and the leads 2500 miles. I know its just bad luck and i do maintain the car myself but i must say i dont check the leads every time i use it.
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It seems like plug wire boots do tend to come loose on this car more than normal. One of my trailing spark plug boots was disconnected last time I checked, and I'm running NGK Power Cables.
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Exactly what I was thinking. Unless the spark plug physically broke and a part fell into the motor.
A fouled plug will not kill an engine. Yes, it will run crappy and be down on power, but it won't kill the engine. Same with a bad/corroded spark plug wire.
Sorry to hear about your bad luck!
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A fouled plug will not kill an engine. Yes, it will run crappy and be down on power, but it won't kill the engine. Same with a bad/corroded spark plug wire.
Sorry to hear about your bad luck!
Dale
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In his first post he said it chipped a tip, so I'm thinking that the tip might've actually come off into the engine? That would definitely be bad news for any engine. Davy, what's the plan now? Rebuild or are you thinking of doing something different?
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Some shops will make excuses to cover their own mistakes. I see a trend here. What killed the engine the 1st couple times? You gotta start at the beginning. If you have lingering issues, then your just gonna keep blowing engines. For all we know and injector could be clogging. Did you have them cleaned and flow tested? That's not the engines fault if it blows because something else made that happen. I'm not saying that you are but, ignorance has always been the # 1 reason people blow rotary's.
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Its only just had a single conversion with bosch 1650 inj ect, and the other engines went due to very poor rebuilds and tuning by a crap tuner , so nothing to do with this.
The reason he said its chipped a tip is due to the spark not burning the fuel due to bad contact, and when it went at 70 mph in 3rd gear the heat light came on in the cab.
Pip at WGT didnt build my engine so he has no need to cover his **** over this.
The car still starts and drives fine but its very bad on tickover so i hope not much dammage.
The reason he said its chipped a tip is due to the spark not burning the fuel due to bad contact, and when it went at 70 mph in 3rd gear the heat light came on in the cab.
Pip at WGT didnt build my engine so he has no need to cover his **** over this.
The car still starts and drives fine but its very bad on tickover so i hope not much dammage.
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Engine number 3 went last week. It had done about 4000 miles of weekend driving , no track or racing, it was a very well set up engine maintained and tuned by Pip in the UK . He told me today that one of the spark plugs are corroded on the end so it’s had a bad connection with the lead and it has made it chip a tip.
The biggest regret I ever made was not putting a V8 in three years ago and getting rid of this F****** W*** setup.
Everything i put on the car is top quality and somthing as simple as this makes it pop, utter crap. LOL i just thought i would share the bad news with you.
The biggest regret I ever made was not putting a V8 in three years ago and getting rid of this F****** W*** setup.
Everything i put on the car is top quality and somthing as simple as this makes it pop, utter crap. LOL i just thought i would share the bad news with you.
Any and I mean any rotary that is well build, setup and maintained will not blow after 4000 miles simple as that. The fact of the matter is that you were under the impression that it was so but infact it is not the case and this should be highlighted after 3 engines.
I find it particularly amusing and at the same time frustrating when people's first reaction when their engine blows is "shoulda gone with a V8" as if V8's are the most reliable engines in the world; it is a wonder the airline industry isn't littered with SBC's.
Call me stupid but when something I have breaks I don't go blaming a choice I made rather I analyze what is broke to find the cause, research and think to come up with a solution to the problem and then develop and implement a plant for this solution. Seems to me that is the proper way of getting over these types of hurdles.
And if the engine failure was cause by some freak accident like a spark plug tip breaking off well then it would have happened on any engine and you should take it in stride.
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All you V8 people, if your lead came loose would it blow your engine?.
And Dradon nothing broke off it just had a bad connection. I could understant it if the plug broke off but a bad connection causing your engine to go, thats bad.
And Dradon nothing broke off it just had a bad connection. I could understant it if the plug broke off but a bad connection causing your engine to go, thats bad.
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Agree with everyone else, a loose lead will not cause engine failure, something physically breaking off into the combustion chamber however, can cause a small problem or two. This engine is like any other, poor building/tuning can cause failure. The real difference is our engines don't handle detonation quiet as well as piston engines, however, piston engines have a lot of moving parts and more things that could potentially go wrong on a assembly and cause issues if the person inexperienced/short cutting...Like previously said, I'd try to find what exactly happened, and fix it, or find a GOOD rotary shop. Best of luck!