OK< so my 88 tll is STILL running all wrong and bnot leaving the driveway. so i plan on pulling everyhting apart AGAIN, and replacing all my hoses and my upper intake man. gasket (i think i have a vacuum leak, but cant fibnd it for the life of me.) also its smoking now when it is running. at any rate, i was wondering what all i should do while im diong this, for example...i want to change plugs, wires, fluids, etc. i was wondering if anyone had any suggestions as to what to get. (what kind of plugs fluids etc.) also, when it comes to oil, ive heard a lot of diff opinions, i want a final answer on running synthetic in my tll...good idea or bad idea and why? thanks for your help

 

okie dokie

plugs: i would say just to run the stock plugs for the car, BUR7EQ leading and BUR9EQ trailing, NGK spark plugs, or you can get some performance HKS plus for 30$ each lol

oil: i would say use that royal purple oil that Racing Beat advertises and adding some Microlon to that for extra good, www.microlon.com , i dont know if zMax is as good as microlon but either should work well in cleaning out the inside of your engine on my n/a i run Havoline, i read a write up that says it works as good as all the other non synthetic oils and has a certain ingredient that cleans out the engine also

rad fluid: if it gets below freezing run the recommended 50/50 mix of coolant/water, in summer weather run with pure water and redline water wetter or some other type of "extra cooling" additive

gear/diff oil: royal purple again at racing beat, or the microlon stuff

plug wires: magnecor 8.5 or 10mm wires, either work fine and are the same firing the 10mm just have a higher heat resistance, and the 8.5mm are 5 bucks less lol

 

u gotta run 50/50 all the time, or ur aluminum housings' water jackets will start to corrode and pit and all that good stuff

 

Check out the following sites for info on oil additives. Personally, I refuse to put any in my 13B. I give her straight mineral oil, and I change it as soon as it starts to darken.
Also, Mazda officially discourages using synthetics in rotaries.


http://skepdic.com/slick50.html

http://www.vtr.org/maintain/oil-additives.html - this one is probably the 'big daddy' of additive reviews...

http://www.civilrights.com/prod_fuel.html

http://www.ftc.gov/opa/1999/9909/prolong.htm

Hope that helps.
Amur_