Fuel Starvation & performance
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Fuel Starvation & performance
This is a "repost" of a thread / inquiry started under another section, but to which so far there've been limited replies.
"...Ok, so I've run a forum "search" and found very limited results, eg https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.p...ighlight=starve
I've been track the Rx8 fairly frequently since I acquired it last July. As I've moved from stock to stickier tires etc., and my lap times improve, I've now gone from where this was an issue when the gas gauge reach the 1/4tr tank level, to 1/3rd+ and now approaching 1/2 tank.
On long, sustained high speed turns, turns to the right seem to be particularly susceptible, but then that may just be a consequence of most of the tracks I have been to with the car seem to be running in a clockwise mode, I will loose power and stall when the fuel level in the tank drops below, now approaching the half tank mark.
Needless to say, this is exceptionally annoying, and in some cases down right dangerous.
Anyone else experiencing this; talked to their dealer or MazdaSpeed about it; or most importantly GOT A FIX for it? BTW, FWIW these cars do very, very well for themselves at the track. But it is somewhat embarassing, and even a bit to be passing up a lot of other vehicles, only to have your superior cornering ability kill the motor in the middle of a turn because you've just dropped below the half, or one-third etc. fuel mark.
Thanks
mike, denver
"...Ok, so I've run a forum "search" and found very limited results, eg https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.p...ighlight=starve
I've been track the Rx8 fairly frequently since I acquired it last July. As I've moved from stock to stickier tires etc., and my lap times improve, I've now gone from where this was an issue when the gas gauge reach the 1/4tr tank level, to 1/3rd+ and now approaching 1/2 tank.
On long, sustained high speed turns, turns to the right seem to be particularly susceptible, but then that may just be a consequence of most of the tracks I have been to with the car seem to be running in a clockwise mode, I will loose power and stall when the fuel level in the tank drops below, now approaching the half tank mark.
Needless to say, this is exceptionally annoying, and in some cases down right dangerous.
Anyone else experiencing this; talked to their dealer or MazdaSpeed about it; or most importantly GOT A FIX for it? BTW, FWIW these cars do very, very well for themselves at the track. But it is somewhat embarassing, and even a bit to be passing up a lot of other vehicles, only to have your superior cornering ability kill the motor in the middle of a turn because you've just dropped below the half, or one-third etc. fuel mark.
Thanks
mike, denver
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