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Old Oct 29, 2007 | 02:57 PM
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should i get new springs or bend my old ones.?
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Old Oct 29, 2007 | 03:26 PM
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Originally Posted by 2Lucky2tha7
rx7vadim, I have 36,000+ miles on my original RA seals from 3 years ago and I have the same compression now as I did after the seals were first broken in and beating on them pretty hard.
Did you use stock springs or RA?
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Old Oct 29, 2007 | 08:35 PM
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Originally Posted by rx7vadim
should i get new springs or bend my old ones.?

You can re-arch the stock springs without any problems. That's what I did.
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Old Oct 29, 2007 | 10:53 PM
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Oh, I definitely used the Mazda apex seal springs. I bought a new set of springs from Mazdatrix a few years back for my rebuild. My RA springs are sitting in a bucket somewhere in my garage with a bunch of other junk stuff
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Old Nov 3, 2007 | 11:34 AM
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Originally Posted by t-von
You can re-arch the stock springs without any problems. That's what I did.
re-arch --1st time i see that word, bend? or bend, heat, and drop in the water?
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Old Nov 3, 2007 | 02:43 PM
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Read this entire thread.

https://www.rx7club.com/rotary-car-performance-77/nrs-rotorsports-ceramic-seal-test-results-182522/
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Old Nov 4, 2007 | 01:24 PM
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yup, I've got RA seals in my 6 port high compression turbo motor. I'd say the motors aproaching 8k right now and the last time we check the motor was around 115 on all faces. Mazda springs BTW.
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Old Nov 5, 2007 | 10:03 AM
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Originally Posted by philiptompkins
yup, I've got RA seals in my 6 port high compression turbo motor. I'd say the motors aproaching 8k right now and the last time we check the motor was around 115 on all faces. Mazda springs BTW.
Yea. But did you warm up the engine to operating temp.?
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Old Nov 6, 2007 | 12:25 AM
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Originally Posted by rx7vadim
re-arch --1st time i see that word, bend? or bend, heat, and drop in the water?


Water? Just bend them with your hands back to with-in factory specs. Your not working with some thick metals so heating isn't necessary.
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Old Nov 7, 2007 | 01:21 AM
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Originally Posted by t-von
Water? Just bend them with your hands back to with-in factory specs. Your not working with some thick metals so heating isn't necessary.
does that mean i wont need to buy new apex seal springs ever again?
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Old Nov 7, 2007 | 10:36 AM
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Originally Posted by rx7vadim
Yea. But did you warm up the engine to operating temp.?
no, as a matter of fact I didn't. Does it really make that big of a differance?
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Old Nov 8, 2007 | 12:11 AM
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Originally Posted by philiptompkins
no, as a matter of fact I didn't. Does it really make that big of a differance?
could be a 20 psi difference
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