TitaniumTT's I hope I make it to DGRR '09 Build

[NoDOHC]

All this talk of random engine failure scares me. I want to go turbo, but I don't know that I want these reliability issues. My NA has 8,000 miles on a rebuild and pulls harder every day. My experience with NA rotaries is that they are borderline bulletproof.

I have:

Run one out of oil (added oil a few miles later at the nearest gas station, all was good)

Drained all the coolant out of one in a effort to re-seat the coolant seals and beat it around for 15 minutes (coolant seals did not reseat)

Overheated one with bad coolant seals (the temperature gauge quit climbing when it hit the peg, I kept driving)

Advanced the ignition until it sounded like a gnome beating on something under the hood (60+ degrees on 9.4:1 CR), then drove 15 miles (never hurt anything)

All I hear of turbo rotaries is engine failure with no visible cause.

Maybe I should stay NA.