whats the best type/brand of oil to use? also how many qts do our cars hold? Thanks.

 

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Heh heh heh cant wait till the others respond to this

 

this should help provide all the info that you need.

https://www.rx8club.com/series-i-do-yourself-forum-73/diy-how-use-search-function-rx8club-com-forum-73846/

 

Geeze...what kind of sarcastic, unhelpful SOBs do you think we are? No problem answering the guy's questions.

Peanut oil or olive oil. Keep away from oils with transfats - those are even illegal in some places, like New York City. People are embracing canola oil as a substitute, but that actually has toxins of its own.

As a Japanese car, peanut oil is probably preferable over olive oil, but that's an ongoing debate. Depends whether you're stir-fry or salad oriented.

Depends how you load it. If you've got 12 quart cartons, you can get two in the trunk, possibly three or four if you don't mind crushing the boxes. Maybe five if you have a big friend help. A lot more if you throw the bottles in loose. If you seal the drain holes and just pour the oil into the trunk, it will hold 58.3 gallons - 233.4 quarts.

Ken

 

thanks for the help

 

Wrong.

 

If you want trolls just say the word oil - Castrol is the recommended because it burns easily (opposite what you want in a piston engine) and if your car uses lots of oil, its cheaper, and beside it was the one used in the development of the engine - the type is important look it up in your owner manual- check out threads by Rotary God for notes, good and bad, on synthetics - just find one of his posts and click on his logo and it will get you into a menu of all of his postings - or just go through every thread that says oil because it is sort of the first question anyone asks.

Peanut, olive, and other renewable oils are not recommended except for the same people who put sugar in their gas tanks to feed the horse power! I did however enjoy the estimate of how much liquid an 8 will hold - you can probably get the most in if you have a moon roof and use that to fill it to the top!

 

You're welcome.

Actually, neither of your questions has a firm answer. Look for the ongoing threads about synthetic oil for overwhelming discussion about synthetic or conventional oil. Also mixed into the oil discussions are debates about using 5w20 (official Mazda US and Canada recommendation) or 5w30 (most of the rest of the world). IMHO, using what the owner's manual says (and is written on the oil fill cap) is not a bad way to go.

Check the DIY section for oil change procedures, and how much you really need. The car holds over six quarts. (MT, with two oil coolers, holds more than AT with just one.) If you change oil and filter on level ground, you'd need to refill with a bit under four. Tip the car while draining (as described in at least one DIY) and it can be more.

For my own part, I use Castrol GTX 5w20, and fill on level ground. I honestly cannot tell you why I use that brand, other than that 40 years ago something about their advertising and the appearance of the cans gave me a warm fuzzy feeling. Been using it ever since, never had an oil related prolem in all those years.

Don't know what the dealer uses, but they overfilled it on the change they did.

Ken

 

My comments exactly, esp the last two comments LMAO

 

Well my neighbor used Crisco oil in his BMW.

It finally failed after 6 months. It turned to syrup and blocked the lubrication ports.

The car already had 200k on it but what the heck some people just use what they want.

 

Gotta be careful with substitute fluids. Sometimes they almost work.

I grew up in New York City. I remember an incident where a man was hurt on Delancy Street. He lost a lot of blood, but in those days ambulance service was terrible, so no medical help came and they did the best they could. They went into a delicatessin and got some borscht. It's red, and they figured that would be as close as they could get.

So they transfused the borscht into him, and he really seemed to be doing well.

Until his heart missed a beet.

Ken

 

I use Urine.

 

For what? (then again, maybe its better not to know!)

p.s. I liked that awful missing a beet joke!

 

We have far too many threads on oil already.