Rusty,
I must qualify my statements with the fact
that I bought this engine from a previous member of this group who bought it
from RX-7 Specialties. What I was told during the sales transition was that
RX-7 Specialties had exchanged the rotors for higher compression and did a “mild
street porting” on it. Post the sale I had conversations with Adam at
Rx-7 and what I was told seemed to be true. Therefore, I would think that the
assembled engine left Canada
free of water. The combustion chambers had and still have a generous helping of
ATF and no signs of corrosion in that area.
What is interesting is that I have left
the drain plug out and have watched it for quite a while to see if after
hot/cold weather changes there was any drip. None to date!
Just another mystery….
Dean
From: Rotary motors in
aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On
Behalf Of Russell Duffy
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005
12:04 AM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Atkins
engine
About last spring I found water in my
“new” engine that was bought from RX7 Specialties. It has been
sitting several years. I can only attribute the water to condensation as I
don’t think the shop ran these engines after they were mod’ed.
I can't recall, was your engine actually
modified, or did you just purchase it as-is? I got mine from
RX-7 Specialties as-is, and they said they thought Mazda ran them and left the
water in. I just find it hard to believe that there is that much condensation
collecting in these engines, but it's perhaps a more reasonable explanation
than believing Atkins, and Mazda left water in them.
Rusty (ordered a master rebuild kit, EC-2,
EM-2, and RD-1C today)