FreshLettuce

if you stall your car with out your engine being warmed up, will it flood it?

TopGear8

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Well its the same as turning your car off...So yeah.

TheBurkeMan

yes it could

Ryoma-kun

Stalled my car some days ago in about 30 F. Had been running for less than 1 minute. Started without any problems.

PotatoSoup

There have been numerous accounts of people stalling RX-8's and then starting them right back up again.

Anyway, why is your RX-8 cursed??

Marklar

It's possible to flood if it happens right after starting the engine, but I don't think it's very likely. Happened to me just after I got my 8, but it started back up fine.

laythor

2004 have the most chance of issue, 2005 a little less, 2006+ have closer to zero chance due to changes from mazda.

HockeyRX-8

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it could, but I've been fortunate for the couple of times that I've done it. I was too tired to remember to take it out of gear before letting off the clutch

J wind

Well for what its worth, When I was test driving my 8, I wasn't use to the clutch. Stalled the very first try lol. She started right back up though.

alz0rz

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i stalled my car today when the coolant temp was 29f and the outside temp was 25f.

started right back up with 1 crank.

flooding IS NOT AN ISSUE.

swoope

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dont get it..

i have stalled. shut of cold.. roomate shut off cold. i really dont treat this car any different that any other car...

this is with the old not so fast starter.

somehow i have never had a flood. btw, i would love someone that has had more than one flood to come by and do it to my car..

i dont get it.. what do you do? you sit in the car a turn the key.

the car starts. are you messing with the pedal???

beers

Toly

Well, if u search, this Q has been addressed many times on this forum. You won't flood the engine if you re-start the car right away. If you wait a few mins, you might flood. If u search, you'll find out why.

Tim Tim Tim

I Agree, mine never stalls and I dont really treat it any different than any other car in that sense. I did at first untill I forgot to let it warm up a few times and it never flooded on me. Im thinking that mazda pretty much has the flooding issue fixed, or very close to it

Socket7

I think the longer you let it sit after a short move the more likely it is to flood. Something about gasoline eating away the oil film on the rotors leading to a loss of compression, I don't really remember the thread exactly so i could be wrong, but there is at least one thread were some people like Rotarygod get into what exactly happens when you flood the engine. Go find it.

I've yet to shut the car off really cold, but I've pulled just around the corner a few times and filled up on gas with no problems. Temp needle hadn't started to move yet.

I think its much less of an issue on later models.