Afternoon, Paul ...and all you other RX8 owners...

Not sure why I'm sending this note, as you'll probably all be getting it
if you haven't already, just a heads up, I guess.

Mazda just sent me a notice that they have increased the engine warranty
to 100,000 miles or 96 months (core). Now that's confidence in those
three moving parts!

They also included an 11 minute DVD on driving and maintaining the
car...and for those of you who have never experienced the engine
flood/no start condition, they have a lovely video of it...I know that
sound well!

But they have some good animations of the cutaway operation of the
rotary, including the seal oiling and the flooding/dechoking process.
They also mention that accelerating the engine to 3k rpm before shutting
it down if you haven't run it up to operating temperature can be helpful
in preventing the flooding.

If you want, and we're not violating any copyrights, I could extract
some of those animations for the Rotary Engine Newsletter archives,
Paul. These will be easy.

Look for it in your mail....

Harley

Wow! 8 years.
Go for it Harley. It is good PR for Mazda. I'll upload it to youtube unless
you want to do it.