What is Flooding?
02-05-2007, 04:20 PM
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What is Flooding?
Hey I've been lurking around this forum for a while now. And even by reading most of the "Flooding" sticky in the Issues/Problems forum, I still don't understand what flooding is and how it works. Can someone explain to me in noob speech? Thanks. Oh, btw, I am getting an RX8 pretty soon, how does 17G for a 2004 GT with 23K miles sound?
02-05-2007, 04:56 PM
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Flooding is when too much gas is in the engine and it can not start because its "Flooded with Gas" its drenched. The 2004 GT you spoke of could be a good price, but we need to know what opts,condition,and is that OTD?
02-05-2007, 05:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Targatheory
Hey I've been lurking around this forum for a while now. And even by reading most of the "Flooding" sticky in the Issues/Problems forum, I still don't understand what flooding is and how it works. Can someone explain to me in noob speech? Thanks. Oh, btw, I am getting an RX8 pretty soon, how does 17G for a 2004 GT with 23K miles sound?
This can effect both piston and rotary engines but in a piston engines the gas will drain away through the piston rings into the block and will eventually allow the car to start. In the case of the rotary the gas has no where to go so it sits at the bottom of the rotary chamber until you try and start it again at which time it spreads around the rotary again.
This problem is no where near as prevalent as it once was because of the use of a faster spinning starter, larger battery and hotter plugs. A faster spinning engine better forces the apex seals out to form a seal improving compression and therefore ignition.
A hot engine dose not suffer this problem because the hot engine keeps the fuel in a vapor form which is easily dispersed out the exhaust ports.
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02-05-2007, 07:44 PM
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Well, the flooding part has been answered.
That sounds like a pretty good price on the 8, maybe a great price depending on the options as long as the title is clean. More info . . .
Welcome - good luck w/your hunt!
That sounds like a pretty good price on the 8, maybe a great price depending on the options as long as the title is clean. More info . . .
Welcome - good luck w/your hunt!
02-06-2007, 02:16 PM
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This is from Webster :
Flood
Pronunciation: 'fl&d
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English flOd; akin to Old High German fluot flood, Old English flOwan to flow
1 a : a rising and overflowing of a body of water especially onto normally dry land; also : a condition of overflowing <rivers in flood> b capitalized : a flood described in the Bible as covering the earth in the time of Noah
2 : the flowing in of the tide
3 : an overwhelming quantity or volume; also : a state of abundant flow or volume -- often used in the phrase in full flood <a debate in full flood>
4 : FLOODLIGHT
Function: verb
transitive verb
1 : to cover with a flood : INUNDATE
2 a : to fill abundantly or excessively <flood the market> b : to supply an excess of fuel to (as an engine or its carburetor) so that engine operation is hampered
intransitive verb
1 : to pour forth, go, or come in a flood
2 : to become filled with a flood
and this is from Longman :
flood1 S3
1: cover with water [intransitive and transitive]DN to cover a place with water, or to become covered with water:
Towns and cities all over the country have been flooded.
The houses down by the river flood quite regularly.
2: river [intransitive and transitive]DN if a river floods, it is too full, and spreads water over the land around it:
There are now fears that the river could flood.
3: go/arrive in large numbers [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] to arrive or go somewhere in large numbers [= pour, flow]:
Refugees are still flooding across the border.
Donations have been flooding in since we launched the appeal.
4: flood something with something to send a very large number of things to a place or organization:
a plan to flood the country with forged banknotes
5: be flooded with something to receive so many letters, complaints, or inquiries that you cannot deal with them all easily:
We've been flooded with offers of help.
6: flood the marketBBT to produce and sell a very large number of one type of thing, so that the price goes down
flood the market with
Car manufacturers have been accused of flooding the market with cheap cars.
7: light [intransitive and transitive] if light floods a place or floods into it, it makes it very light and bright
flood into
Light flooded into the kitchen.
flood something with something
The morning sun flooded the room with a gentle light.
8: feeling [intransitive always + adverb/preposition, transitive] if a feeling or memory floods over you or floods back, you feel or remember it very strongly
flood over/back
I felt happiness and relief flooding over me.
Memories of my time in Paris flooded back.
9: engine [intransitive and transitive]TTC if an engine floods or if you flood it, it has too much petrol in it, so that it will not start
be flooded out phrasal verb
to be forced to leave your home because of floods
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Flood
Pronunciation: 'fl&d
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English flOd; akin to Old High German fluot flood, Old English flOwan to flow
1 a : a rising and overflowing of a body of water especially onto normally dry land; also : a condition of overflowing <rivers in flood> b capitalized : a flood described in the Bible as covering the earth in the time of Noah
2 : the flowing in of the tide
3 : an overwhelming quantity or volume; also : a state of abundant flow or volume -- often used in the phrase in full flood <a debate in full flood>
4 : FLOODLIGHT
Function: verb
transitive verb
1 : to cover with a flood : INUNDATE
2 a : to fill abundantly or excessively <flood the market> b : to supply an excess of fuel to (as an engine or its carburetor) so that engine operation is hampered
intransitive verb
1 : to pour forth, go, or come in a flood
2 : to become filled with a flood
and this is from Longman :
flood1 S3
1: cover with water [intransitive and transitive]DN to cover a place with water, or to become covered with water:
Towns and cities all over the country have been flooded.
The houses down by the river flood quite regularly.
2: river [intransitive and transitive]DN if a river floods, it is too full, and spreads water over the land around it:
There are now fears that the river could flood.
3: go/arrive in large numbers [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] to arrive or go somewhere in large numbers [= pour, flow]:
Refugees are still flooding across the border.
Donations have been flooding in since we launched the appeal.
4: flood something with something to send a very large number of things to a place or organization:
a plan to flood the country with forged banknotes
5: be flooded with something to receive so many letters, complaints, or inquiries that you cannot deal with them all easily:
We've been flooded with offers of help.
6: flood the marketBBT to produce and sell a very large number of one type of thing, so that the price goes down
flood the market with
Car manufacturers have been accused of flooding the market with cheap cars.
7: light [intransitive and transitive] if light floods a place or floods into it, it makes it very light and bright
flood into
Light flooded into the kitchen.
flood something with something
The morning sun flooded the room with a gentle light.
8: feeling [intransitive always + adverb/preposition, transitive] if a feeling or memory floods over you or floods back, you feel or remember it very strongly
flood over/back
I felt happiness and relief flooding over me.
Memories of my time in Paris flooded back.
9: engine [intransitive and transitive]TTC if an engine floods or if you flood it, it has too much petrol in it, so that it will not start
be flooded out phrasal verb
to be forced to leave your home because of floods
Dictionary ANYONE ?!
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02-06-2007, 02:40 PM
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Originally Posted by tiggerlee
You're an idiot. 
02-06-2007, 05:52 PM
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Originally Posted by encorez
You are the ****-en idiot.
I was going to get a new battery and plugs, then when I flooded the engine, it all came free.
So eat **** and die fool.
I was going to get a new battery and plugs, then when I flooded the engine, it all came free.
So eat **** and die fool.
02-06-2007, 05:55 PM
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Originally Posted by otherside
O.K. young man, no need for obcenities. As a general rule, to tell someone to purposely flood thier car to get "freeeeeeeeeee" parts is just plain stupid. Better to follow the advise on how not to flood your engine, which you obviously ignored. Another thing, you might want to read a book called"How to make friends and influence people", because you have done neither today.
02-06-2007, 06:34 PM
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Originally Posted by otherside
Another thing, you might want to read a book called"How to make friends and influence people", because you have done niether today.
02-06-2007, 06:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Romeo
Im the Author of that book..... Books are an awsome addition to ones mind. They help us grow and learn about life while still living in the now, yet learning about the future which prepairs us for Drifting..... Lets be friends?
beers
