Awesome. Thats all I have to say is awesome. Well, that and your neighbor must be a real tool to do that. Either that or he's having trouble re-living his youth.

 

 

His neighbor is 19 with a camaro....he's still living his youth.

 

haha, I just like rolling down my driveway in first listening to all the poping before I cut the engine. The neighbors noted this too...

 

Just saw hemi's post. Yes, maybe my post wasn't clear but the culprit was my neighbor's 19-year old son, not the dad.

If you could see his Dad, you'd know just how funny that image in my head right now truly is.

 

You don't need to do it on a modern auto or motorcycle, but it was a common practice in the past with our two stroke autos and motorcycles. It was done to remove oil (mixed with gasoline) that accumulated on the plugs. If you didn't do this on highly tuned two stroke race engines, it would be difficult to start them up later.

 

Ive seen so many different reasons why people use to rev the engine before they turn the motor off. Now im gonna have to go read up on it lol

 

I'm just going to hope thats a joke, and I'm not talking about the rice.


Needing to rev a rotary before shutdown is to prevent flooding. Supposedly, the engine runs too rich at idle and reving it before shutoff will burn off the excess gas/toss it out the exhaust. This is common to do on older (especially early 2nd gens, 86-88 models) RX-7s, but it is disputed if this is actually necessary. I never once had a flooding issue.

As for it being in the manual, those instructions are not present in the manual for my early '04.

As for the oil burning comments, the cars burn oil by design. Its not leaking, the car is equipped with oil injectors as well. The oil metering pump were not injecting enough oil, causing engines to not get enough lubrication and fail. Hence the engine-replacement recall by Mazda. The OMP issue was found too late to save many engines.