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From: Staunton
Hmmm. That does sound a tad ominous. You might have someone knowledgeable about rotary engines do a compression check on the engine. That would let you know what kind of shape it was in. How many miles on the engine?
http://www.asashop.o...98/techtips.htm
http://www.asashop.o...98/techtips.htm
Their is on 101,000 on the car. The cat is still on their, but they did say I would have to replace it within the next year. The cat isn't running hot or anything.
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RX7's run rich. But with good working cats, you shouldnt smell it. Without cats, even a well tuned one will smell like gas, just a rotary thing.
I doubt the mechanic could tell it was running hot from driving behind you. You would probably know if your engine was running hot, or of the temp wasnt normal.
As for the stalling, double check that all your sensors are connected, and vacuum lines are in their proper places. Its probably something that got taken off when the headers were being done, or got knocked loose when the headers were being done, and not put back.
I doubt the mechanic could tell it was running hot from driving behind you. You would probably know if your engine was running hot, or of the temp wasnt normal.
As for the stalling, double check that all your sensors are connected, and vacuum lines are in their proper places. Its probably something that got taken off when the headers were being done, or got knocked loose when the headers were being done, and not put back.
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RX7's run rich. But with good working cats, you shouldnt smell it. Without cats, even a well tuned one will smell like gas, just a rotary thing.
I doubt the mechanic could tell it was running hot from driving behind you. You would probably know if your engine was running hot, or of the temp wasnt normal.
As for the stalling, double check that all your sensors are connected, and vacuum lines are in their proper places. Its probably something that got taken off when the headers were being done, or got knocked loose when the headers were being done, and not put back.
I doubt the mechanic could tell it was running hot from driving behind you. You would probably know if your engine was running hot, or of the temp wasnt normal.
As for the stalling, double check that all your sensors are connected, and vacuum lines are in their proper places. Its probably something that got taken off when the headers were being done, or got knocked loose when the headers were being done, and not put back.
Their was a vaccuum line that was unplugged, but I am not sure if that one little line would cause all of the problems I was having.
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RX7's run rich. But with good working cats, you shouldnt smell it. Without cats, even a well tuned one will smell like gas, just a rotary thing.
I doubt the mechanic could tell it was running hot from driving behind you. You would probably know if your engine was running hot, or of the temp wasnt normal.
As for the stalling, double check that all your sensors are connected, and vacuum lines are in their proper places. Its probably something that got taken off when the headers were being done, or got knocked loose when the headers were being done, and not put back.
I doubt the mechanic could tell it was running hot from driving behind you. You would probably know if your engine was running hot, or of the temp wasnt normal.
As for the stalling, double check that all your sensors are connected, and vacuum lines are in their proper places. Its probably something that got taken off when the headers were being done, or got knocked loose when the headers were being done, and not put back.
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It doesnt really feel like surging...the only thing that I am feeling when I drove the car was that everytime I came to a stop it would stall (it is an automatic) if my foot wasn't on the pedal giving it gas and revving it, and it didnt seem to want to shift...I don't know how to really explain it. When I had half the header done (it was clamped to the cat and the O2 sensor was just placed on the bung) I pulled it out of the garaged and just slammed the gas, it drove fine then, had a lot of power and such...maybe that blew the line off...but I dont see what would cause all the driving and stalling problems.