Konnors7

Okay everyone i have a question and cant find it anywhere its like looking for a needle in a haystack. I am wondering with a rotary can you put those fluids in your oil like engine restore and seafoam and what not. I want to try and do my best on restoring the seals in my engine before i ever run it hard it was sitting up for four years. So thats the dilemma I am in now. My car runs I just want to get the seals better. Another question is is there anything you can put in the coolant to restore the coolant seals?

Aaron Cake

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NO. And the same goes for every engine, rotary or not. Those "fluids" are generally nothing more but a waste of money, and have very limited usefulness.

Note that most of the "gasket seal" products just swell up gaskets. A temporary fix at best, and will lead to larger leaks once the stuff is flushed away in a couple oil changes.

If your car was sitting around for 4 years, then there is a significant amount of work that will need to be done:
Removing An RX-7 From Storage, Dealing With Improper Storage

Konnors7

Ive read over this and all is well the car runs it just smokes like all hell... It runs good and strong just smokes under boost and after boost really...

RotaryEvolution

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if it was n/a i would say go for it, extra time is still extra time but on a turbo engine you may wind up destroying the turbo with that crap, of which is sounds like the turbo may be the fault anyways and those additives won't bring it back.

Konnors7

Well after countless hours of reading I have come to terms that it may be the oil seals. And the turbo itself has little to no shaft play and it spools just fine. And I have some prior knowledge of turbos that it doesn't seem like it. But I'm just gonna drive it on occasions and wait til I get the money to swap in a j-spec engine.

RotaryEvolution

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i would rebuild it versus the j-spec route. unless you need the spare parts.

R-X-R

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i used seafoam and it was so much fun blinding everyone in the parking lot for a solid 5 minutes. lol

asianguy02

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^^ this is so much fun, Ill usually seafoam the engine annually and steam clean every six months and throw a can of seafoam in the gas tank since everything up here has a stupid amount of ethanol unless you want to pay out the nose for the good stuff

beeohwhydee

Last time I seafoamed my RX8 the neighbors came over to see if my house was burning down.