Hello
I was talking to this kid at school with RX-8, and he just told me I shouldn't fill any synthetic engine oil in my FD. I just recently purchased FD, and previous owner told me to fill in with synthetic. I changed engine oil last week with 10W30 synthetic..
Is this a problem? I'm worried...

 

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sorry guys this is the only way to post .. for some reason my whole thread doesn't go through unless I make a thread and edit it.

 

I've read "never user synthetic and I've read that synthetic is OK once the engine is broken in. Royal Purple seems to be the synthetic of choice.

 

to your intended question, a good synthetic is in now way bad for your FD. Do a search there are tons of arguemen..... discussions about oil.

 

Don't even need search. Read the FAQ. It's in the sticky thread at the top of the forum. If that doesn't answer your questions about synthetic, then do a search. Whatever you do, it's not worth another thread. EVERYTHING regarding this topic is a beaten, dead horse.

Dave

 

Talking to kids at school is always the best way to gain useful information

 

hahaha yea I remember this one high school kid told me my car wasn't turbocharged because he couldn't see the front mount intercooler.

 

I've been told by a few rotar shops that you should use regular 20w50 oil

 

I had a kid at shcool argue with me because he truly thought tey were going 160 mph and outran a helicopter with the mustang in "Gone in 60 seconds"

He tried to give me a whole rundown on how they had a specially trained driver that could handle the car at those speeds and outrun the heli.

Um yeah, school is DEFINATELY the way to go for pertinent and useful information.

 

Tri-Point Engineering recommends Mobile 1 Synthetic in all of their rebuilds. That right there was enough for me to make the switch. Maybe in yesterdays synthetics that didn't burn well and left a lot of deposits, it was bad for rotaries. But in today's synthetics that issue is no longer found.


When I was selling my FD, I had numerous phone calls and emails from idiots that told me that I should take out in the ad that I used synthetic and it was so bad for my car.

 

My temps went down after I switched to synthetic. My temp gauge says it all.

 

use synthetic, I plan to once I break in my new motor.

-Rob

 

search! this topic has been discussed so many times it makes me cry. but synthetic all the way.

 

ive been breaking in my motor with synthetic blend so in the next few oil changed...mobil 1 full syn here i come
ive searche a lot on this topic before..in no way synthic is bad fot the engine.
and this is probably the 100th post on the same topic too

 

go to the castrol web site and look at the specs for GTX and the specs for syntec the flash point is very close. Long story short I use Synthetics!!!!! after break in 10'000 km