Redshift
12-01-2003, 04:54 PM
So, the happy news is I dropped my RX off at the body shop last week to get the damage repaired from my rear-ending by the uninsured minivan. (See my thread from last month.)
Anyay, I go in this morning to pick her up (she looks good as new. New bumper cover, exhaut valances, paint etc.) but the guys are looking a little nervous.
Turns out, on Friday when they started it up to drive it across the shop to the wash bay, the guy stalled it, and they haven't been able to get the car started since.
SOOO... roll out the flooded-start process. 5 minutes of cranking later, the shop fills up with white smoke, and I drive the car out for a little rip around the industrial park to burn off the fuel and oil.
After a couple minutes, I hit the onramp to run down the highway that circles the park. Rolled onto it in first coming up the ramp... around 6000rpm the Check Engine Light (CEL) started blinking and the car was struggling and stumbling, then around 7000rpm it did a little cough and zinged to redline. Kept on it until about 160km/h.. held that for as long as I could, then dropped back and did a few more WOT rollons to about 140 or so... on the 3rd or 4th roll-on the CEL cleared and I headed back to the shop to finish the paper work. Got back about 10 minutes after I left, and there was still a white smoking hanging in the air of this very-large and well ventelated body shop.
Cliff's Notes: Picked RX-8 up from bodyshop today, and found out they had flooded the engine. Got it started, smoked them out, and then did a high-ish speed rip down the highway to get the fuel out and clear the CEL (check engine light)
Anyay, I go in this morning to pick her up (she looks good as new. New bumper cover, exhaut valances, paint etc.) but the guys are looking a little nervous.
Turns out, on Friday when they started it up to drive it across the shop to the wash bay, the guy stalled it, and they haven't been able to get the car started since.
SOOO... roll out the flooded-start process. 5 minutes of cranking later, the shop fills up with white smoke, and I drive the car out for a little rip around the industrial park to burn off the fuel and oil.
After a couple minutes, I hit the onramp to run down the highway that circles the park. Rolled onto it in first coming up the ramp... around 6000rpm the Check Engine Light (CEL) started blinking and the car was struggling and stumbling, then around 7000rpm it did a little cough and zinged to redline. Kept on it until about 160km/h.. held that for as long as I could, then dropped back and did a few more WOT rollons to about 140 or so... on the 3rd or 4th roll-on the CEL cleared and I headed back to the shop to finish the paper work. Got back about 10 minutes after I left, and there was still a white smoking hanging in the air of this very-large and well ventelated body shop.
Cliff's Notes: Picked RX-8 up from bodyshop today, and found out they had flooded the engine. Got it started, smoked them out, and then did a high-ish speed rip down the highway to get the fuel out and clear the CEL (check engine light)