[wannafbody]

Well, in my quest for a fun, relatively inexpensive car I crossed to the dark side. It's not quite a Ford, so it's beyond the dark side, it's a Mazda Miata. The car is solid with a new clutch, muffler and tires and a relatively low mileage engine. After inquiring about the car I realized the owner was a friend of one of my friend's dad(saw the car at church this morning). After I settled on the deal he says...oh and I got an extra head I'll throw in and the hard top too. Not a bad day.

This post has been edited by wannafbody: Jul 6 2009, 12:45 AM

[sgarnett]

Of the people who don't stick with 10W-30, there are two camps. One camp seems to have the goal of seeing just how thin they can go with modern oils (0W-20, for instance). I think the justification is somewhere between mpg and cold startup wear. Then there's the old school, thick camp for track use. Many seem to like the 0W-40 synthetics, for whatever little that's worth. I use 5W-40 Redline in my oil-fired Camaro because it seems reduce consumption compared to 10W-40 Redline.

I think the manifolds did change over time. I'm fairly sure that mine has the variable intake geometry manifold, which is probably more bulky than the conventional manifold. Regardless, there's no way I could get to my oil filter from the top.