How Much Power & Torque Does A Broken Rotary Engine Make? 

Man...£650 is a lot of money for a sock...but at least a car came with it

For the money it you paid, making it to the dyno and back home is an amazing accomplishment and well worth the investment.

Why does Alex have an obsession with broken red RWD Mazda's

Step 1: Buy a dirt cheap running maserati quatroporte Step 2: Insert glorious flat plane V8 into mazda rx8. Step 3: RU-vid it as a genuine mazdarati.

Love that it came with a free sock.. Why do i never get that :(

Lol didn't think you'd make the blinker fluid joke...

My FC RX7 has 223,000 miles on her and 0 rebuilds on the engine. Never skipped a beat, and still no signs of smoke coming out the exhaust. ;)

This was my first car and it's so funny seeing you guys have the same problems I did. My car ended up with a blown engine and that little rotary cost me thousands in repairs to keep it alive. Still had my fun with it though 😁😂

*DORITO POWERRRR!!!*

Never clicked so fast

I genuinely don't know why my RX8 was so reliable. Started first time, every time up to the point I sold it at 92k miles. Still running perfectly with it's new owner. Never treated it gently either. 9k was hit every time I drove it, wasn't a rev limit, it was a rev target. I still miss it.

glad I took that 10K/year lip reading program at uni, I was able to decipher 3:36 successfully - "That's ducking terrific."

Missing out on an extra 1,000 rpm there. PIN IT!

*ChrisFix has a great tutorial on Blinker Fluid Change, Check it out*

1:38 damn, Phil looked so stock, and slick, back in the Olden days!

These cars have a place now. It was a silly buy back in the day when they were new, because you had to be a proper petrol head to maintain it and as a daily driver it is so uneconomical. but when you can buy one now for £600 and rebuild it for the cost of replacing a turbo on a convetional engine it's very interesting if you want some weekend or track day fun. When you consider its main rival the 350z is still 7k for decent one, makes you realise.... I'm very interested to see the rest of this series.

I have been thinking of buying a dilapidated rx8 for a while. This was a great video for me, instant click!

My RX8 is named Mazdalena :) and her engine is being rebuilt at the moment so this series came just at the right time!

Nice to see SRR (although it's technically Hampshire Rolling Road lol) and Charlie featured. I've been there over the years and he knows his stuff.

Why do you stop the Dyno at 8000? It still has 1250 rpm, and its peak power is way up there at the red line

Can not wait to see how the inside of the engine is (looks like). Hope replacing the apex seals and resealing the engine will help. If done already, feed it some fine oil to let it feel the love! :) Keep it up, rev it well.

Didn't bring it to redline, scripted for higher power when the rebuilt one does

These weekly videos are the best, love being able to plan to watch a Car Throttle video!! But, we need much more of them.

IM SO GLAD YOU GOT A ROTARY. WELCOME TO THE FAM

These rev to 9.5k and the power is right up top and the tester only took it to 8k :/

I've owned my Rx-8 since she was brand new. Bought in 2007, she never let me down and I had a lot of fun with her. I would never regret going Wankel. (= Her name is Roxette, but friends call her RoX-8. She's green, with a black roof, black rims, orange details here and there and black and orange interiors. Pretty unique, since I made her myself. To prevent the apex seals from deteriorating too quickly, I made a modification to the oil circuit. Now I have a small additional 2 stroke oil tank and the oil metering pump draws from there, so the seals get better lubrication, better cooling and don't get stuck by the gummy waste motor oil leaves when it burns. I also like to mix a small amount of the same 2 stroke oil into my fuel tank. 100cc for every 50€ refuel should do (around 30L), twice as much for a full tank. It's one tenth of what I use for my 2 stroke moped, by the way xD You revved yours up to just 8500 rpm... the max power output should be at higher rpm than that, but I guess many people already told you this in the comments. Call her Felicia in the name of Felix Wankel ;)

Thank you for making this video, I’m about to buy rx8 but i need details guide on what to do on rx8.. i’ll wait for another episode on your rx8

Saw one of these on auto trader the other day 2200 pounds 45k miles 2006 year compression tested good to go 1 lady owner from new full spec. Was tempted

I'm happy you bought a RX8. Because I never dared to

I like how the rotor falls off in the intro😂👌

The top gear of youtube, fantastic quality and good entertainment.

I got my red rx8 with good compression and no panel damage for £800 quid. Probably wouldn’t make good RU-vid content tho! Well done. We need more rotary vids 👍🏻

That Subie wagon in the background!

above the exhaust you should put T-Series repelant

The RX8 is the Square Body Chevy of the sportscar world. Chronic sufferer of low compression, leaks, body damage and cheap as hell, but so much fun. I never thought a Chevy and a Mazda could have so much in common :U

This series is gonna be so good!

100% voted for Brad (the money pit) 😂😂😂😂

My 20b FD RX7 dyno’d at 931hp. So I don’t know what your talking about low HP 😎. 26b coming 2019...20b is for sale!

1:36 Damn Phil looked so different before. Can’t wait for the new paint job! 😊👍🏽

I finally let my 04 RX8 go this year. I bought it new (winning blue sport 6 speed) and loved that car more than any other vehicle I ever owned. But the 2nd engine was starting to show "signs" at 120k miles.. and there was a list of other issues that all-in-all was going to cost a big pile to get back to 100%. These cars - when properly sorted- are a blast to drive anywhere (and look good too). Think S2000 with more room and a back seat. Good luck with the build.

My 1984 RX-7 came with 101 from factory. I’d love to know how much it’s making, after 30 years.

R.I.P Hentai Haven

Charlie! The man, the legend. Nails the diagnosis with a direct eloquence, as always. 👍

Loving this series.

Missing the Altezza build. This should be good as well, though.

do a giveaway for the free soccc

Veen waiting for this video all week. I'm so excited for this series

Got some car throttle goodies for Christmas!

*Fix da Apex seals.*

Mad Mike has a badbull rx-8. You my friend have a deadbull haha

I have waited sooo long for this

Great Video....Like :)...I live in Switzerland an own the Maxda Rx-8 year 2004. Great and fun car , juppie....

A few more runs, and it would make about 60 hp?

Really appreciate this series... I've been super tempted to buy one of these as a daily but I know it's a terrible idea 😣 So much car for the money and I love them but running costs are horrific and the lack of reliability would stress me

The reason the RX-8s are notorious for low compression is because Mazda used an electronic OMP and made the OMP put less oil into the combustion chamber to have cleaner emissions, but the effect of that is less lubrication for the center of the apex seal. You can actually go to an aftermarket ECU such as the Apexi PowerFC, which allows you to control the amount of oil put out by the OMP yourself. However, this 13B is obviously too far gone already to be saved. Good luck!

Hopefully it's just seals and basic stuff to fix that compression issue. If it's truly dickered, swap a straight 6 into it (if it will fit).

Does it use standard or synthetic blinker fluid?

Rebuild it. It's cheap and easy. Then drive it another 70k miles

3:35 "Wow...thats fucking terrible"😂😂

This is gonna be one hell of a project car

Love ur vids

What blinker fluid brands you guys recommend? I need to change mine.

This jacket is just perfect for christmas gift!!

You should see those dips in the power curve. That is correct operation of the variable intake runners and auxiliary ports opening up. Three dips. Always, any dyno that doesn't have this has the resolution turned down.

I know that this engine has oil injectors, but how about adding a little of oil to the gas as well? Just to help with lubricanting the center of the seal, but not too much to screw up the mixture?

rotary engines have more seals than just the apex seals. just saying.

My father used to own an '04 Rx-8 and we switched the engine 4-5 times the eight years we had it and it was sitting about six of those years. Fun experience, right...

Oh my god..next week....>< Can't wait for that!

You want your rx8 reliable ? Change oil, check oil at the right time, and also change spark plugs and coils, a bad ignition can lead to engine problems .. premix if you have a series 1, a series 2 already has 3 oil injectors. I am a rx8 r3 owner, it has 145.340km and the only i thing i had to do beasides regular maintenance was the cat ! If you do it right, you may not get problems, but if you dont respect the maintenace of the car and dont do it properly, and you drive like a pig without the engine being warm, its probably is going to fail ! This is my personal experience 👌🏻

Buy a classic car e.g. ford cortina or escort

A fast starter helps immensely with the hot starting issue. This helps to the point where it will die while idling before you get to a point of not being able to start on the first place. It can be helpful to run thicker oil to help seal compression a little better. However, at some point you just need to rebuild.

My 8 goes to Rotaryrevs every year, they are top lads.

Hey Alex if you are reading this then I hope that the rx8 works out and you can show the world that rx8 are reliable cars. By doing a LS swap

It's running low on blinker fluid🤣🤣

Pretty cool series. Hope the next vid will come also this year.

3:35 “Wow. That is fucking terrible”. No subtitles needed 😂

There is a reason you can get these for £650 🙈

Oh my god I sold my old RX8 for £350 and it was much better condition then yours Shit, I sold it way too cheap 😕

I bought my RX8 for £100 last year. Hot start issues as expected. After a good de-carb and a bit of a WD40 spray to the A seals it turns out the A seals were just stuck and was good as new... Still had it rebuilt with Rotary Revs. (If you get it rebuilt 100% get it ported at the same time)

I so wish you would buy a broken down 90's JDM legend and rebuild it! I feel each video would get a minimum of 500k views to well over 1million! Please make it so.

You realize this car makes peak power at 8500 rpm and you were never reaching that right? Try again, I bet you'll see about 170-175

Don’t say blinker fluid we are in the UK

Missed that Bang Bang of the Rotary boys!😂👍

0:59 oh god that was a familiar sound (I rather stunningly bought my RX-8 even after it stalled due to trashed apex seals THREE TIMES during my test drive of it)

Has to be oiliver 😂😂

A turbo would fix that compression right up.... just saying

Great series!

Gotta love the honesty of the dyno Guy 😂😂 “Its fucked”

He didn't even rev it all the way out though. Not even close

Hey random person scrolling down the comments.. Happy Holidays :)

YOOOO sick legacy wagon on the hoist in the back!

keep this up as i am looking at one of these , always liked em, looking at one a bit more mint than that one tho

Dude, he didn't go to 9000-9500 rpm. You don't stop at 8k. Go look at actual rotary dynos. Very disappointed at this guy you hired. What a smeghead. Seriously, go Dyno the thing properly before teardown, then Dyno it properly after a proper rebuild. I don't expect it to get much power with low compression, but if you are going to do things, do them right. Go look at Rob dahm's channel and even ask him for some advice before you make the series not worth watching.

Call the car TIM it's short for Timothy.

Charlie is so cool and funny while extremely good at his job.

You get my like for the subaru wagon on the lift.

Thanks for all the votes guy let’s hope this rx8 gets called Felix

Never been pregnant so fast

Paid £1800 knowing that mine would need a rebuild. 2 weeks later, engine blown (Apex seals apparently). Booked for a rebuild for £2,800! Very excited.

Hi! You sayed that compression is bad, but you don't specify the compession level in numbers. I also own rx8 in nearly this condition & it will be interesting to compare.