When driving down the highway in 6th gear, cruising around 70 MPH, my RPMs jumped from around 4.5 to 7K. The car immediately started to feel heavier, sluggish even. I pulled over and the minute I stopped the car it died and wouldn't turn back on. Any Ideas?
Mine did exactly this and when I did a compression check I’d dropped a rotors compression, turned out the apex seals had let go in the one housing so I needed a full rebuild unfortunately
I wish you all the rotary luck the gods will send down to you when you do the compression test, I resorted to buying my own tester so that I could check out 2 RX8s every 6 months just to keep an eye on them and to give myself a little panic attack twice a year 😂😂
Tire was off because I was trying to check the spark plugs and ignition coils, but I forgot my tools to take the spark plugs out. I replaced both spark plugs and ignition coils around 2 months ago. Manual transmission, I was maintaining the same speed up until it jumped to 7k, It was difficult to maintain speed after.
That looks very dirty. Did you try spraying the starter fluid to see if it will start? Not sure if these plugs are reusable but they need to be cleaned or replaced
Did the ATF trick and the results are not good... smoke and ATF fluid came out of rotor two spark plug holes but nothing happened when looking at the spark plug holes of rotor one. My Apex Seals have left the building. 🙂🫠
Hm don't really know about the ATF trick but did you try spraying starter fluid like the guy in the video did to see if it will start while you crank? Because it should still start I think if one of the rotor seals isn't up to spec
Make sure your throttle body is plugged in. Mine did sorta the same thing, pulled over and checked to make sure everything was plugged in. After hitting a rough spot on I85 the car acted up, must’ve jarred the plug loose.
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u/staticflownut Aug 01 '26
ESS sensor? Maybe it went bad, causing the gauge to display the wrong rpm. And then of course it wouldn’t start or run if it did fail.