Harley Dixon wrote:

Paul....

I am doing this in the street engine precisely to see what happens.<<

BTW...regarding that problem I had with my RX-7 where it would turn over but
not start, would spin freely, and acted like it had no compression.

I THINK it happened again two days ago...it started to turn over, with no
apparent compression, but before it even registered in my old, slow brain
that that was what was happening, it caught and fired. I realized after it
had started that it had tried not to.

I have never seen it do that before without continuing to spin for a few
seconds, then catch and blow the oil smoke...never before, only one cycle.
I have to assume that the 2 cycle oil I've been using exclusively for three
tanks of gas now (on the fourth since I started) is doing it's job.  Coupled
with blowing the water through the running engine before I switched over.

Time will tell...

Harley

 
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