if an FD is flipped is the engine gone?
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Tis not true, I guess if you turned it upside down and tried to run the engine for awhile it may starve of oil and cause some damage, but it should be ok if the car was crashed/flipped upside down...unless the guy tried to continue driving while upside down.
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Like zero said - it is trash and I would also want it. I love getting bad motors just cause they were upside down :-) hehe
Na but jokes aside. It is just like any other engine. A piston engine can suffer from the same thing a rotary can if ran while upside down.
The only thing I heard is that if/when the car is flipped back around you have to wait for the fluid to settle.
Na but jokes aside. It is just like any other engine. A piston engine can suffer from the same thing a rotary can if ran while upside down.
The only thing I heard is that if/when the car is flipped back around you have to wait for the fluid to settle.
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I bought a wrecked FD, it flipped end over end 3 times and then barrel rolled 250 feet.....I pulled the engine and installed it in another body and it lasted 1 week...all the apex seals on the front rotor were gone. It had 3,000 miles on the engine. Bad luck for me....
If the engine is flipped while it's running, it'll starve itself of oil. The original oil pan is not baffled & the oiling system is not a dry sump so you have to be really lucky.
oil starvation in these engines damages parts very rapidly. if you don't shut the engine off within about 5 seconds of the engine being upside down and not getting any oil then the motor is in fact done.
oil starvation issues result in almost no reusable parts also, i wouldn't even pay you for shipping for the core motor.
oil starvation issues result in almost no reusable parts also, i wouldn't even pay you for shipping for the core motor.
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