Originally Posted by
Fritchard
actually talked to a shop tech at one of the bay area Mazda dealerships and he says they are regularly replacing the rotary motor in the RX8s, about one every couple days. He says its mostly people not "getting on the car enough" and carbon is building up and eventually they lose a lot of compression.
At least this is what I was told tonight...
From all the hype I thought they'd fixed all of the usual rotary problems. I guess the only thing they fixed was the port location that caused too many pollutants to escape the exhaust port to sell them under modern emissions regs. The RX-7s had the same issues- you had to know just how to treat them for them to run right.
I highly doubt all of the middle-aged women I see driving those cars are revving them out to 9000 rpm on a regular basis. I know I would- A. the cars are smooth as silk all the way up and B. the cars have no power below 5000 rpm.