Well I'm gonna take the leading plugs out and use my inspection mirror and a flashlight to see if I can tell what the problem is, I'll probably do that tonight but I have reservations for Miyabi tonight too so I'll have to make it as soon as I get off work. I'm trying to remember how to use the seafoam stuff. I'll have to look back some pages. Yeah I know I wouldn't be able to see the corner seals, but I didn't think those would be as likely a problem as the apex seals. I didn't know your engine was apart already, I thought it was sitting there still assembled. Although you did discover the problem and in order to do so you'd have to have the engine apart so...I'm a de de de. I'm not sure if we can get them re-faced at a local shop or not, and I'm not sure who to ask.

 

I was wondering if you guys still have meets on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays. Obviously we're coming up on the 5th Saturday of the month so there isn't one this weekend, but I was hoping I could start coming to the meetings on the 4th Saturday of the month if they're still happening.

...and hopefully you'd still let me come even though I'd be driving the Taurus since I just got my 7 and haven't addressed the overheating issues on it yet.

 

^Not a problem what you drive brotha. And yes we still have the meetings on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays unless something else comes up, but most of the time even then someone will be there. If something does come up, I'd say 99% of the time it's brought up in these pages, so check back here often.

 

Yay! We won't chastise you for driving something else, but out of respect you might want to park to the side.

 

Unless you drive a Miata.

 

Unless he parks between a couple FDs and you're looking at the rear of all of them, right Phil? HAHA

 

4-door FD. They look so alike... Fooled me once...NEVER AGAIN! El Oh El.

 

Hey you're the one that reminded me the Taurus and FD tail lights look alike foolio!



So, I'm trying to remember the procedure for the seafoam. Does anyone remember?

 

Turn on the rotary beacon; people will swoop into the thread. I know I reminded you they look alike. That's why I said "NEVER AGAIN." I lawled.

 

sure i can see the similarity, if i squint, and start hitting shots. actually it is kind of disgusting how close they are. i guess i will go trade mine in for a taurus.

 

it looks like you run the seafoam in the oil. seems similar to the old trick my dad showed me. if you are full on oil pull a quart out, and run a quart of diesel, at idle, in it for about an hour, then take it for a quick drive, making sure to rev it. cleans all the sludge out. works great for piston engines, and with the added bonus that the diesel has some lubricating properties.

best thread i could find on it(there are others use seafoam and search titles only)
https://www.rx7club.com/showthread.p...hlight=seafoam

apparantly you can put it in the gas as well. who knew?

with yours i might try in both. i mean if it is blown you arent going to hurt it, and if it is carbon. then you want to make sure to clean all the areas that get gunked.


sea foam= chuck norris **** for engines hahahahaahahahah!!!

 

Shut yo mouf foo! The FD has its brakes on and is turning. You know they aren't that bright unless you are on the brakes. (I honestly wasn't fooled by the Taurus, I just noted a similarity in the smoked tail light assembly.)

 

i was being serious, well the last part. it IS a shame how similar they are.

 

I. Absolutely. Win.

 

Well I removed the leading plugs and turned the car over to listen to see if it sounded like a seal was gone, and I have to say it sounded good, didn't sound like one was missing, and I looked in the plug holes with a mirror, but I'm not sure if I was actually seeing something so I still need someone to turn it over manually while looking if I'm gonna see anything. After that, I sprayed some carburetor cleaner in the two leading plug holes and put the plugs back in, and it started and ran then died out. I tried to start it again but of course it wouldn't cause the plugs were already drenched. So I took them out and swapped them with the last set I had in and had cleaned up with a wire brush and lighter. At this point I put a hose going from the UIM into a can of Seafoam and turned the car over a few times. I started the car a couple times and it ran for about a minute each time. After the last time I looked in the can and it was almost empty, and the car wouldn't start again. So tomorrow or Sunday I'm going to clean up the other set of plugs and put them back in, and *hopefully* start the car up and drive it around, getting all the Seafoam out, and *HOPEFULLY* it will be running normally. Wish me luck!

Josh, I would have run it your way but this is the way BC explained it to me already. Thanks though bro. I hope it works either way.

 

HOLY ****, I didn't know Mazda made Vodka!

 

Seafoam was once given a 30 minute comedy special on HBO. After it's first joke, nobody laughed, so Seafoam proceeded to roundhouse kick the entire audience to death while it laughed hysterically. This special will now be held biweekly, ranging from thirty seconds to an hour depending on how much sleep Seafoam got the night before.

 

Seafoam sold its soul to the devil for its rugged good looks and unparalleled cleaning ability. Shortly after the transaction was finalized, seafoam roundhouse kicked the devil in the face and took his soul back. The devil, who appreciates irony, couldn't stay mad and admitted he should have seen it coming. They now play poker every second Wednesday of the month.

FWIW i wouldnt have done the direct injection method on a car that was having idle problems. I guess that is what I get for not calling haha.

 

I probably wouldnt have either, but whats done is done. it will just be a little hard to get the car started. No worries. In any case, if there is a de-flood program in the FDs like there is on the S5 FC then use it when you try to start the engine tomorrow. I have never gotten a car to start without cranking it for a few minutes. So even if you have to pull the injector plugs to keep them from opening I would do that. If you can just step on the gas pedal to keep gas from entering the enigne then do that.


Should be hilarious seeing the amount of smoke coming out of that car when you get it started.


BC

 

Seafoam once roundhouse kicked someone so hard that his foot broke the speed of light, went back in time, and killed Amelia Earhart while she was flying over the Pacific Ocean.

 

what's up with the Chuck Norris flip flop jokes? Did I miss something? If Chuck Norris is reading this right now I got one thing to say...remember that Chuck Norris likes to knit sweaters in his spare time. And by "knit" I mean Kick. And by "sweaters" I mean rotor heads that steal his phrases!!! Y'all better be careful! lol, okay, it's late, leave me alone And Phil...that bottle ROCKS! Where did you find that? I think we should bring some to DGRR

 

I can't believe I forgot about one of the greatest running jokes ever, haha. The true facts about Chuck Norris ROCK.

Oh, and I guess it's not "worth" too much, haha. Like BC said, it's done now. And I wouldn't call it an idle problem so much as I'd call it a running problem in general. It's not just idle that it's bad, it's bad ALL the time. It still ran really rough while it was sucking in the Seafoam, hopefully it will eat away all the carbon tonight. I called you earlier tonight bro, but like always, NO ANSWER ON YOUR END, haha.

You wouldn't have either?! You're the one that told me to do it that way! HAHAHA. I'm gonna swap in new plugs, or at least cleaned ones, when I try to start it again. I'm wondering if I should just turn it over while the leading plugs are out so it just forces the Seafoam out of there instead of burning off so much. You should have seen the smoke coming out already, it was ridiculous. I stepped outside (it was dark already) and around the street light, it just looked like a dense fog moving down the street, and my garage was COMPLETELY filled too, with both a garage door and the back door open for airflow, haha. And the FDs are the same, you press the pedal down all the way and it shuts off fuel. I usually just pull the fuse though, when I want to make SURE there is no fuel going in.

 

I said if you can get the thing to run and idle I would just suck it straight in. Since you can get it to run it was probably the best way to get the engine as cleaned out as possible. I wouldnt be worried about it.

Whenyou do get it running again do an oil change. Im willing to bet your oil will be filthy.

The smoke you saw tonight is honestly nothing compared to when you go WOT the first time. It LITERALLY looks WORSE than the worst running deisel semi-truck you have ever seen. Its huge think clouds of nasty nasty black smoke.


BC

 

Holy CRAP that's awesome! I wonder if we could get them to sponsor the forum. How much is a bottle? I plan to take a trip to the ABC store today before I go home...

 

I thought I was the only one who thought this... stupid Fords...