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General => General Technical => Topic started by: Ricco_04 on August 26, 2004, 12:39:22 PM

Title: Mineral Oil
Post by: Ricco_04 on August 26, 2004, 12:39:22 PM
Hi all, Im trying to get some more oil for my FD but all i can seem to find is full and semi synthetic.  Does anyone one know where I can get some mineral oil (kidderminster, Worcs).

Also which is good to use - the car is completly standard and I dont wrag it but I dont really want to go for the Halfrauds home brew stuff (which just says for old engines, nothing about turboed or injection engines :confused:   )

Cheers, Ricco.
Title: Mineral Oil
Post by: scooby_si on August 26, 2004, 12:44:54 PM
castrol mineral oil (there are similarly labelled part synth stuff too so make sure) 10W:40 is usually available from Halfords....
Si
Title: Mineral Oil
Post by: Fish on August 26, 2004, 12:58:44 PM
Its the stuff in the white castrol bottles. ;)

Fish
Title: Mineral Oil
Post by: Ricco_04 on August 26, 2004, 01:20:22 PM
Cheers chaps, guess I was being short sighted again.  Some ones really dont seem to have it on so I asked them the once and they where trying to convince me to put some semi in!! (which I did (bout 4months ago)- could this do anything bad??)

Will get my eyes checked and go get some more! but thanks again :)
Title: Mineral Oil
Post by: Mart160plus on August 26, 2004, 04:03:05 PM
If you can\'t find that go to your local Mazda garage and buy 5 litres of the mineral oil they recommend for Renesys engines and before, £29.99 IIRC.

Mart.
Title: Mineral Oil
Post by: gsb876 on August 26, 2004, 04:09:58 PM
As Si says you can pick up mineral oil from Halfords quite a decent price too.

Dont do what my mrs did and put the same oil in a normal car like????:rollin
Title: Mineral Oil
Post by: Initial-D on August 26, 2004, 04:54:50 PM
So many different oils in Japan for rotary, what\'s the choices we have here other than 10w 40??

What\'s the benefits of using these specialist oils??

Anyone??:confused:
Title: Mineral Oil
Post by: g11ary on August 26, 2004, 05:07:27 PM
I have a range of Royal Purple fully synthetic oils in stock, its the only fully synthetic I believe tha is recommended for rotarys. In 2 weeks time I have the first batch of 5 ltr cans coming in as until now it was qtrs or 1ltrs.

http://www.hannibalrx7.co.uk/acatalog/Royal_Purple_Oils.html
Title: Mineral Oil
Post by: Initial-D on August 27, 2004, 09:08:44 AM
What\'s gonna happen when I add that to my mineral based engine? (Sorry if that\'s a dumb question)!:rolleyes:
Title: Mineral Oil
Post by: zevans on August 27, 2004, 02:55:27 PM
QuoteOriginally posted by Initial-D
What\'s gonna happen when I add that to my mineral based engine?

Possibly bad things according to some... the mineral oil builds up seals on this that and the other over time. If you change to synth it -can- dissolve those seals. More important if you have piston rings of course.

I\'d ask a different question - if it\'s happy on mineral oil and always has been, why spend extra money and introduce risk by changing to synth?
Title: Mineral Oil
Post by: Initial-D on August 27, 2004, 04:27:57 PM
Quite right! I guess if it ain\'t broke;)

(well it is but it\'s being fixed)!:rollin