Not Starting, not flooded (maybe)

[Dannobre]

The oil in the air filter can be from from the oil fill..the oil can run run down the breather tube into the air filter. Looking at your pictures though it looks like it has been blowing oil out into the intake...usually that is a poor compression issue

You should clean your MAF..it is likely flooded with the oil from the intake

The front seal can leak...but another common place for the RX-8 to leak is from the oil metering pump area. Oil on top of the engine is often a leaking o-ring where the oil fill tube and the iron meet. The nuts there seem to get loose easily and leak

If they are the original coils then replace them...and the wires and plugs. They are a well known weak point on the Renesis


The easiest way to try and start it is to pull it... Check the spark with a spark tester or an inductive timing light if it won't start.




Pull the ES sensor plug to do the compression test...it is easier than anything else

Another thing to try is reset the Eccentric shaft profile...it's the key on...pump the brakes 20+ times quickly until the oil guage sweeps. The ES sensor controls the ignition and injection ...so it is always a good thing to reset if you don't know whats been done to the car

With that kind of mileage , unless you got a unicorn...it likely has low compression and needs a rebuild


Edit...sorry for the repeat for some reason I just read the first page ;(