New to Rotary powered car
11-01-11, 01:53 AM
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New to Rotary powered car
Hello new to this forum, and finally took a chance and bought an FD with T88 Single turbo swap. Lots of question don't even know where to ask. Can you guys let me know what I need to check for regular maintenance? which type of oil I should use? Heard something about RX-7 can't use Full synthetic oil for engine true/false? Something with oil squirter for engine that needs to be filled regularly? Mixing fuel with oil? All I know is that this car had Power FC comander and looks like it has straight turbo back exhaust as it's loud even when driven at low rpms. Found some problems with power window switches not working all the times. And extremely lack of power at red light start with 1.5k rpm have to push the throttle down quite a bit to get the car moving normal or not? Once it gets going say 2.5K rpm and up it's gains speed gradually until near 5k I can feel the some real power normal or not?? hope this is not to trouble some for you all. As I am a true rookie when comes to rotary engine. Any input would be great thanks
11-01-11, 05:40 AM
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I will let someone else cover the oil part as I am still unclear to the answer to that question. As far as the car being loud, that is normal considering they have the exhaust setup to compensate for that huge T88.
What you are experiencing is turbo lag my friend and that is completely normal with that turbo. I bet when she gets into full boost its scary lol
Not really sure what issue you are having with the power switches, but I know that the drivers side main switch tends to break on the FDs.
It is a very good ideal to premix every time you fill up fuel for the type of driving you are doing. If you are racing you have the check the premix bottle to see how much to put in. If you are just street driving with no heavy pedal action you can do less of the premix. There is a brand called idemitsu and the other i know if is Protek. I have heard of others using 2 stroke premix from walmart or autoparts.
Hope this helps :-)
What you are experiencing is turbo lag my friend and that is completely normal with that turbo. I bet when she gets into full boost its scary lol
Not really sure what issue you are having with the power switches, but I know that the drivers side main switch tends to break on the FDs.
It is a very good ideal to premix every time you fill up fuel for the type of driving you are doing. If you are racing you have the check the premix bottle to see how much to put in. If you are just street driving with no heavy pedal action you can do less of the premix. There is a brand called idemitsu and the other i know if is Protek. I have heard of others using 2 stroke premix from walmart or autoparts.
Hope this helps :-)
11-01-11, 12:24 PM
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T88 Single turbo that's a huge dude would love to see some pic ....lots of turbo lag...
i run gt35r single turbo much smaller but i still have same complaint when driving in traffic ...
that a trade people take for more WHP
as far as oil goes i use 10w40 conventional oil....and if i go racing i will premix 1:100 i use Pennzoil Marin 2cycle as it available locally and it works
people don't run syntactic oil because it wont burn in the combustion all the way might clog cat/create more carbon buildup witch destroys this motors... and then again carbon buildup is not as much of a problem on turbo rotary as on the N/A especially if you run water-injection...
if you wanna run syntactic on the safe side search RA OMP adapter read up on it..
it lets you run dedicated oil tank with premix so that syntactic oil from the oil pan is not injected in to combustion chamber
hope that helps you lil bit
i run gt35r single turbo much smaller but i still have same complaint when driving in traffic ...
that a trade people take for more WHP
as far as oil goes i use 10w40 conventional oil....and if i go racing i will premix 1:100 i use Pennzoil Marin 2cycle as it available locally and it works
people don't run syntactic oil because it wont burn in the combustion all the way might clog cat/create more carbon buildup witch destroys this motors... and then again carbon buildup is not as much of a problem on turbo rotary as on the N/A especially if you run water-injection...
if you wanna run syntactic on the safe side search RA OMP adapter read up on it..
it lets you run dedicated oil tank with premix so that syntactic oil from the oil pan is not injected in to combustion chamber
hope that helps you lil bit
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