I took the car into the shop to tighten the oil pressure hose and install a boost gauge and what not.. I tanked up full (93 octane) and turned the car off in about 1 minute of doing so. The car was not fully warmed up. It now won't turn over at all. When cranking the engine you can smell the fuel and the engine bay begins to smoke a tiny bit. Is this normal on a flooded engine??? The smoke comes out near the intake manifold. I tried connecting a hose to one of the nipples on the intake manifold and connect a pressure hose and blew some air into it, that didn't help. The car almost turned over and the rpms started rising slowly but it just couldn't fully ingage. My only concern is that smoke, it does smell like fuel.

 

Have you tried the deflooding prodcedure?

When mine flooded it didn't smoke, it just wouldnt start.

 

hey... quick question... when i usually fill up on gas with my audi.. i turn off the car.. and then fill er up... but with the rx8.. whats the best way to fill it up.. cus of flooding and all

 

the car should really be warmed up already while you're going to the gas station. unless u live like right next to it.

 

the smoke is normal after deflood. If it starts to happen alot take it to the dealership.

 

No different than any other car. Unless like Ngo said and you gotta gas pump next door.

 

well.. then i might not get flooding... isnt the whole point.. that if i have driven for a long time.. that i shouldnt turn on my car right away right after i just turned it off....im confuzzled now..heh.

 

no... the point is, don't turn your car off cold.

 

The only reason I turned mine off cold is because we didn't want the car to get hot since we were working on it, BIG MISTAKE!

 

makes sense to me... but, unfortunate that u flooded!

 

This engine was flooded to the max, I don't think it could have been any worse. Here's what I did to get it to run. The battery was dead so I had my friend Adrian (use to be known as Xdrian on this board, he had a 2004 lightning yellow but just bought a Subaru WRX) come down and try to jump start my car, it just wouldn't turn over. We than took out both the leading plugs, and cranked it to get some of the fuel out.. put the plugs back in, nothing. I than ran to the nearest store and grabbed a bottle of 5w30 and some brake cleaner since they didn't have any carb cleaner. We got all 4 plugs out, cleaned them and started cranking to get the fuel out of all 4 holes. Cleaned the plugs, put them back in and it started up after a few tries. Had to experience the infamous white smoke for about a few minutes and I took the sucker right home. I was pushing 5.2-5.5 psi the entire time but stalled out everytime I let the car into nuetral. If I let the engine slow down in gear, and let it reach 1k it would idle but if I put it in nuetral from a roll it stalls. Perhaps I'm in need of a blow off valve? Probably. Anyways, I'm taking the car to a local performance shop (1320 in Linden, NJ). I was quoted $150 for a new oil feed line including labor, and $40 for a complete inspection including all vacuum lines etc. Thanks for all your help guys, I'll report in with videos and such when I get the car completely tuned up.