Mobil 1
Applicable to: '99-'05 1.8 liter
Oil Mobil1 5-30 & 10-30 Syn Oil, engine And 75-90w & 75-140w Syn Trans & Diff oil.
04 MSM Turbo Miata. 20+ Drag Races @Houston Raceway 15.9 fastest. 100+ AutoX runs in Ca, Nm, Tx, La, Mi, Al, Fl. AND I burn every day, 5 to 50feet of rubber, 1 to 10x a day. 84,000 miles in 21 months of driving. 6th set of tires waiting to be mounted. Car runs super fine! Excellent miles per gallon 25-34. Wild burn outs from smooth black lines to bouncy 6000 rpm pops=bouncing around! Most fun and tough car I ever owned in the last 34 years! From $100k Mercedes to Porsches to trucks to dirt bikes to quads to off short Scarabs to 180hp jet skis, this Turbo miata is the best fun vehicle of them all!
Glad I use Syn oil in the engine, diff & trans.
Not an installed item
Applicable to: 1.6 liter 1.8 liter
Mobil 1 synthetic 10W30
decided to try this b/c of all the praise. did my homework on synthetic oil and decided that my Miata deserved this.
bad on wallet but good for Miata! *smile*
Not an installed item
Pure synthetic motor oil, $4 a quart, worth every penny
I just had a religious experience involving motor oil. In addition to my Miata, I have a second, older car; an '88 Honda Accord. It has 158,000 miles on it and I decided to do a valve job on it last week to improve compression. Expecting to find nothing but wreckage below the cylinder head, I was amazed by the condition of the engine. There was virtually no cylinder bore wear - the ridge at the top of the cylinders was almost nonexistent and honing marks were still present all the way around the cylinder bores. I measured the cam lobes and they were within 0.005 of a new cam - amazing. Honda parts are incredibly expensive, but the valve guides and valve stems, according to the machine shop I deal with, were within factory spec. They simply ground the valves and put the head back togther. Cost me $68, cheapest I ever left that place. I use Mobil 1 10W-30 in my Miata as well as Mobil 1 75W-90 gear lube in the transmission and rear end. I change the xmission and diff lube every 10K, the oil every 3K. I think it's worth the expense since I don't have to ask to know that a new LSD in a Miata is more than a Kings ransom. Since I plan to keep my Miata until it's dead, I believe this is the best way to preserve the car. It was just mind boggling for me to take a car apart that I've owned since it was new and see what looked like no more than 10,000 miles of wear when I knew better. And that Honda has never leaked a drop of oil. I think all this business about synthetic oil being incompatable with engine seals is a lot of hot air. Whether refined normally or synthetically derived, oil is still oil.
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