BoostedRotors

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

Agent_D

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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

bloo

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

Amur_

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_