With the initial design they used 2 oil injection nozzles per rotor and basically there was insufficient coverage due to that and the way they were angled.
After the '06 model year they went to 3 per rotor and angled third nozzle to compensate.
That's how I understand it from the reading I've done and conversations with mechanics & owners I know. I've yet to work on one of these with my own two hands. I'm strictly interested in 7s and earlier. I inspected a few 8s for potential purchase but they all had problems that I wasn't interested in dealing with.
Nono, each car I looked at had problems individually.
What I talked about earlier is the main problem for RX-8s. Beyond that they're about as reliable as other cars of the same era and classification. They do come with about as much performance as you can get out of them from the factory though. They're not that interesting as anything other than a street cruiser.
