mzdoggmann

Looking for suggestions on city and stop & go driving habits with a Rotary engine...
Most of my driving, 90 percent now, is short distance commutes in heavy traffic. I also have access to a company car, so my RX-8 sees a lot of time sometimes several days, just sitting.
Is carbon build up and eventual lock up issues with the Renesis?? I know it was a problem with the previous generations. I was told that my type of driving, where long distance is almost nonexistent, is the worst you can do in the long term for this engine. Please provide any insight or suggestions.

Glyphon

not knowing your job type, let's just assume, you work M-F, and during those days you either drive your car the short distance to the office then drive the co. car, or you take the co. car home and drive it straight from there. (now we have short commutes and/or sitting for days defined).

fine. whatever. saturday or sunday (see original assumption), take it for a good drive. definately long enough for the engine to get up to temperature. then after it gets up to temperature, open it up (obeying all traffic laws of course ). you don't necessarily have to floor it to do this (although thats the most fun)...just shift later. let it go all the way up to red line or just below if this bothers you.

point being, drive it hard everyonce in a while to "flush" the engine.

And if i'm wrong on this, someone will correct me, but i've pretty much gathered that high revs is a good thing for a rotary, at least on occasion.

QBallz

I've always been told that High rev's occasionally on any engine is good.

Vertigo-1

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So you don't have to step on it to blast out that carbon? I try to do a redline run myself after spending time in traffic, but I am hesitant to do it because of the ricer image it creates to other cars on the road around you. It's enough to just simply let the engine wind up to redline with just partial throttle?

zoomzoom_8

Basically I usually shift around 5000 rpm and at least once a day get on her a little bit, maybe redline and some days not redline, just drive her a little hard. That should take care of any carbon build up right?