Redlining your FD
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Re: Re: Redlining your FD
Originally posted by GoodfellaFD3S
Wow....are you serious?
Ok, don't want to come off as a jerk; this is all helpful advice
Why do you feel like your engine will blow? Is there a reason? What kind of oil are you using? Are you running an appropriate boost level with your given fuel/ignition setup?
The number one way to keep your FD running well is KNOWLEDGE. I've blown a motor due to poor tuning. Live and learn. Some of these guys are blowing motors due to uneducation. Single turbo and stock ecu? No. Midpipe and stock wastegate? No. 14 psi on stock twins and stock fuel system? No. I can go on and on and on...
My FD runs like a champ. Puts down good power (check my sig) and I drive the **** out of it on the street. Ask anyone who's seen me drive--pluto, ninjak, wonder1and, many others. Hell, I saw 165 mph the other week whupping a C5 Vette. I see redline all the time--90% of the time I merge on the highway, I rev out first, second, and third gear. I've been doing this for the last 3 and a half years.
Have fun with the car, man--it's only fragile if there is operator error involved. It's a rotary, now go out and have some fun
Wow....are you serious?
Ok, don't want to come off as a jerk; this is all helpful advice
Why do you feel like your engine will blow? Is there a reason? What kind of oil are you using? Are you running an appropriate boost level with your given fuel/ignition setup?
The number one way to keep your FD running well is KNOWLEDGE. I've blown a motor due to poor tuning. Live and learn. Some of these guys are blowing motors due to uneducation. Single turbo and stock ecu? No. Midpipe and stock wastegate? No. 14 psi on stock twins and stock fuel system? No. I can go on and on and on...
My FD runs like a champ. Puts down good power (check my sig) and I drive the **** out of it on the street. Ask anyone who's seen me drive--pluto, ninjak, wonder1and, many others. Hell, I saw 165 mph the other week whupping a C5 Vette. I see redline all the time--90% of the time I merge on the highway, I rev out first, second, and third gear. I've been doing this for the last 3 and a half years.
Have fun with the car, man--it's only fragile if there is operator error involved. It's a rotary, now go out and have some fun
HE is right man I am telling you guys if your car is sound drive the **** out of it I drive my 7 like it the last time I may drive it again so take all you can get out of her
Man I drive in the redline all the time at the track doing burnout's I let it bounce of the rev limiter all the time it is fine as long as you have fuel she is happy-Rikki
ps I am not using peroids ever again
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Redlining your FD
Originally posted by Immanuelrx
I see in your sig. you have a HKS cat-back. depending on which one u have Hks cat-back are loud. Maybe change it to a PFS or racing beat one.
just my $0.02
I see in your sig. you have a HKS cat-back. depending on which one u have Hks cat-back are loud. Maybe change it to a PFS or racing beat one.
just my $0.02
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Re: Redlining your FD
Originally posted by ZeroBanger
I don't know why, the car is rather loud now that I have alot of mods to it, but I feel like I am going to blow my engine up.
I don't know why, the car is rather loud now that I have alot of mods to it, but I feel like I am going to blow my engine up.
Bump the redline once in a while, the rotary likes it!
Mine is at 55K with a lot of redline beeps...
Compression:
8.5, 8.4, 8.6 (front)
8.5, 8.5, 8.5 (rear)
Shaft play on both stock turbos imperceptable in all directions.
Oil: Motul synthetic.
Catback: M2 (quieter than many)
Why mod the car if you aren't going to drive it hard? Most of the power gains come from above 4500rpm. Adding tons of mods just looks cool on your mod list?
I am disappointed if I take my car out and don't get to redline it (traffic, etc). During normal acceleration I usually shift around 4K rpms, sprited acceleration I shift around 5.5-6K rpms. Full WOT runs I shift at 7500 rpm, not really much power past that so I don't really run it right to redline much at all. Cruising I keep it in the tallest gear I can without it bogging. I feel it is pretty happy puttering along at anything over 2000 rpm.
I am disappointed if I take my car out and don't get to redline it (traffic, etc). During normal acceleration I usually shift around 4K rpms, sprited acceleration I shift around 5.5-6K rpms. Full WOT runs I shift at 7500 rpm, not really much power past that so I don't really run it right to redline much at all. Cruising I keep it in the tallest gear I can without it bogging. I feel it is pretty happy puttering along at anything over 2000 rpm.
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DUDE the red zone is for optimal power. There is absolutely no harm in taking your car to redline, NONE, (unless you are running lean) I ma not an engineer so I apologize if I am not using the correct terminology but AFAIK...
Rotaries were design to go in a circle, not up and down like a piston engine and therefore rotarys do not have counterforce, like a piston does when it hit the top of the cycle. a good example is comparing a rotary engine to a turbo impellar and think how fast they spin.
Theoretically the redline for a rotary is around 25 THOUSAND RPMS, taking it to 7.5 or 8 ain't gonna do a thing!
Rotaries were design to go in a circle, not up and down like a piston engine and therefore rotarys do not have counterforce, like a piston does when it hit the top of the cycle. a good example is comparing a rotary engine to a turbo impellar and think how fast they spin.
Theoretically the redline for a rotary is around 25 THOUSAND RPMS, taking it to 7.5 or 8 ain't gonna do a thing!
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Originally posted by ZeroBanger
ok, I will redline first and 2nd today! You convinced me.
ok, I will redline first and 2nd today! You convinced me.
Tom
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Originally posted by OneKrazyGuy
Thanks.....
The funny thing is, I would never think twice about redlining my 99 miata when I had it.
Thanks.....
The funny thing is, I would never think twice about redlining my 99 miata when I had it.
WTF
I drive my bros miata hard as **** that is a bullet proof motor you cant brak a miata motor(unless you are putting some crazy boost / NOS set up and run like 20psi and spray
just like these donkeys with civic's everyone that I talk to that owns one of these crucial(haha)rides all way think NOS is the only way to get there cars to go fast GOD DAM RIKKI'S
there cars will never be fast...-Rikki
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this is a little off the subject....but still on a similar direction (i think...)
we all know that rotaries run hot...now on hot days i try not to run it hard at all, i don't even try to turn the air conditioner unless i'm really drenched in sweat...
am i just paranoid? cause i know there are tons of florida and texas rx7 owners out there that don't really have too much problems with overheating...
we all know that rotaries run hot...now on hot days i try not to run it hard at all, i don't even try to turn the air conditioner unless i'm really drenched in sweat...
am i just paranoid? cause i know there are tons of florida and texas rx7 owners out there that don't really have too much problems with overheating...
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Getting on a car isn't a bad thing, as long as its done in moderation. Its good to burn out the carbon, but bad for it if you beat the **** out of it everyday. Get on it once in a while, then you'll know if its really alive.
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