Warm Start Problem
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Warm Start Problem
Sometimes my stock '93 won't start when the engine is warm. It turns over but won't catch. It finally catches when I apply a little throttle, which I hate to do because I don't want to flood it. So far I haven't, but eventually my wife will. Any ideas?
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Yeah. Get the Fuel Filter changed. My FD takes a bit longer to start when it's warm too. (I did do a fuel filter...) This seems to be very common with FD's. I forget if there is a real fix or not..
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Thanks, I will check the fuel filter. I hope that is it rather than low compression, I would rather not replace the motor right now. I have been playing with RX-7s for about 10 years now but I have only had the FD for about 10 months and I am still learning about is's eccentricities. It has 110,000 miles on the odometer, but I can't find the tag with the engine I.D.# to see if it is original or not. can anyone tell me where to find this? It is easy to see on my FB and FC.
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Originally posted by Rated R1
Check your compression. Having trouble hot starting is a good indication that you have low compression and your engine is on its way out.
Check your compression. Having trouble hot starting is a good indication that you have low compression and your engine is on its way out.
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I had the same problem, and it wasn't the compression on the motor. Turned out I had a semi-bad H20 thermo-sensor. It caused my PFC to go rich, and would flood the motor on hot starts. Do you have a Power FC? Or are you running an OEM computer? If I were you, I would check the voltage on the water thermo sensor, It's the one at the back of the waterpump housing. Let us know your findings.
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I have kind of the same problem, I assumed it was just from heat soak. Only happens to me if I try to start it within like 5 mins after shutting it off when it's been run for awhile or hard. No problems starting besides that.
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Add my name to the list as having the same problem. Mine has never refused to start, but when running it has a very surging idle. Only happens on warm starts. I also thought it had something to do with heat soak and was going to look into playing with water temp correction factors on my PFC.
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What should we look for on the PFC? A specific voltage or just that the sensor is reporting at all?
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hapa,
What should we look for on the PFC? A specific voltage or just that the sensor is reporting at all?
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I actually couldn't find the problem with my power FC, the Voltage was intermittent. So, I replaced my factory ECU and the check engine light came on and showed the code for h20 thermosensor, I think it was code 11. Anyways, I changed out the sensor, put the power FC back in, and haven't had a problem since. You can check the voltage in the sensors menu, and compare to the Factory Service manual.
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