kAOs

I bought a '79 RX7 a month ago -- SWEET car... it has the usual upgrades: electronic ignition, new exhaust



I brought the car to the ONLY rotary guy in the state to grab some parts... it had been messed with in a parking lot already and I needed a side mirror and wiper blade arm. While I was there, he checked out the engine. He played with the distributor and ignition wires (tightening them) and inadvertently loosened the tach ingition wire... I didn't leave the parking lot before coming back and saying, "What did you do to my car?" He tightened that plus (again?) and joked around about sabotage. He also played with the oil-metering pump and went into a speech about how much oil rotaries burn. My car hadn't been burning much oil and I hadn't had a problem with it, but he said to make sure that OMP always moved. If it didn't, there'd be a problem.



So I left and noticed an hour later, my car was blowing more exhaust than usual, then noticed it was BLUE.

I found out the next day that it had been dropping oil the night before. It never had before....



Anyway, 2 days after that fateful visit, I'm doing 70 on the freeway and she quits, dumping all her oil on the side of the road. 20 mins. after she died, I tried starting her and she turned over, but shook violently. I didn't give her a lot of gas at the time. I was pretty emotional and was too scared to hurt her anymore than I apparently already had.



I towed her home, changed her oil (5-30) and filter, put new (standard) spark plugs in.

While running her, she didn't drop any oil, but blue exhaust was BILLOWING out the pipes.



So I'm wondering if he didn't mess with the screw that regulates how much oil is sprayed into the carb through the OMP... I haven't touched that yet. What else could make the engine burn That Much oil??



And what would cause the shaking? I had my bf spray carb cleaner into the carb while I was running her (at about 2000-2500) and it seemed to raise the RPMs (wouldn't that usually lower it?)

Could the shaking be caused by bad ignition coils? Could the oil problem have screwed up the ignition?

She sounded like a lawnmower the first time I started her, but the carb cleaner made her SOUND a lot better.



I'm very lost and very heartbroken. Any advice would be extremely appreciated.

Thanks for listening ~~ kAOs

kAOs

Oh! I'm also in the market for local rotorheads.. I'm obviously not going back to that freak.

I'm from the Twin Cities... St. Paul / Minneapolis MN

DJ Rotor

Not sure what would be causing the trouble but for rotor guys in that area, ask on www.driftunderground.com - a few rotary drivers there, that ought to know



J

wankel_dreams

you say it dumped the oil on the side of the road? from where, the oil metering pump?



check that the linkage for the OMP isn't stuck.

kAOs

The OMP still moves, so that means it's not stuck, right?

I can't find the screw that regulates the amount of oil the OMP puts in the carb...



I took the ignition coils out to get them tested, but I screwed up taking them

out and didn't note which direction pos-neg go in. DUH! This is not my year.

Anyone have a pic or can someone tell me which way they go?



I don't have a part # for these coils, either. No one at the 5 shops I went to

yesterday knew how to find them. They're part of the electronic ignition, which wasn't

stock in the car. But I think it was in '80... so can I go with those part #s?



Thanks for the feedback! I really appreciate it.

wankel_dreams

'81 thru '85 had the electronic ignitions stock, use those part numbers