RX-8 Reliability - Engine Data Survey
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Thank you. It's first 120,000 miles were all highway miles. Lately, my daily drives have only been in the city. I would drive it on the freeway -wide open throttle- at least once a week on my way home from work. I've never tracked the car but have grip-driven it in the winding roads of Mulholland Drive. I haven't changed the rate of OMP injection, started using Valvoline 5W30 and premix with Pennzoil 10-15ml/gallon of TC-W3 2 cycle oil when the car passed 139,000 miles last November. I looked through the receipts the original owner provided and I don't see any records of re-flashes done ![Sad](https://www.rx8club.com/images/smilies/sad.gif)
Everything in the car are still its original 2004 parts. Besides those that require routine maintenance; the previous owner replaced the right engine mount, and Cat-Converter. I've only fixed the sun visors, replaced the radiator, the clutch bracket, clutch, pressure plate, and the throw-out bearing of the car. I haven't used any engine cleaner to decarbonize it, neither have the previous owner. No records of accident, I'm the second owner and I've had the car since June of 2009.
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Everything in the car are still its original 2004 parts. Besides those that require routine maintenance; the previous owner replaced the right engine mount, and Cat-Converter. I've only fixed the sun visors, replaced the radiator, the clutch bracket, clutch, pressure plate, and the throw-out bearing of the car. I haven't used any engine cleaner to decarbonize it, neither have the previous owner. No records of accident, I'm the second owner and I've had the car since June of 2009.
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Here is a link to the data as it sits now if anyone wants to look at it or copy it off for their own spinning.
Only 2 columns deleted, 8club ID and email address. There are some confusing responses in there, as well as some clean up with Miles vs KM to get everything standardized.
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?...thkey=CIKRnsoL
Only 2 columns deleted, 8club ID and email address. There are some confusing responses in there, as well as some clean up with Miles vs KM to get everything standardized.
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?...thkey=CIKRnsoL
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Just eyeballed the spreadsheet and it looks like about 5% required a new engine. Had I known this before buying my 2009, I would have probably saved some and gone for a 2005. The horror stories relating to S1 engines put me off going for a pre-2009 car.
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I have all the data still, but never got enough responses for it to be more than "interesting". (Several people predicted this result
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Yours was the 104th response.
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