Walmart has a 2 cycle oil with a synthetic mix. What is your
  take on
    this? And is the mix one ounce per gallon?

    --
    Karibian

    I have used it. It seems to be OK. Yes one ounce per gallon.

    Paul Lamar

  Just an FYI...the Walmart oil is what I have been using for the
  8 years
  I've owned the RX8, and on the RX7 before that, with no major
  problem.
  In fact, I just changed my spark plugs for the first time, and
  as I
  recently mentioned to Paul, after 71,000 miles, the tips still
  look like
  new with just the expected light brownish-white deposit around
  the rim
  (not counting the rust on the faces of the external body of the
  plugs<G).

  The only thing that happens that I MAY be able to attribute to
  the extra
  oil in the gas, is that from time to time, I get an O2 sensor
  error on
  the OBD II system.  But just resetting it lasts for several
  months.  Not
  sure if it's the oil doing this, but as long as resetting it is
  cheaper
  than replacing one, I'll keep doing it.

  Harley

  Harley,
  Are you adding the 2 cycle oil to a stock engine, or has the
  onboard oiler
  been disabled ?
  Regards,
  Herb Karkheck, '05 RX8 and building rotary powered Glastar.
  Seminole, FL

Just as it came from the factory.  In addition to the factory oiler.

Harley

Harley has a stock 2004 RX8 car just like mine. I premix a 1/2 ounce
per gallon in addition to the metering pump just to be sure the
engine has enough. Mazda cut way back for draconian phony smog
reasons. I had it checked for smog here in socal and we have the
stupidest and strictest smog rules in the world.

I stopped premixing it one tank before It went through smog testing.
The technician said it was the cleanest car he had ever seen.

Paul Lamar

A friend had a 1941 Ford pickup truck with a blown flaty in it. When they
introduced a testing program in Calgary the car club went down to see how
street rods would do. Most are over cammed for street and carbs set fat
because they like the sound. Ex drag racers. The testers would suggest leaning
the idle. When the cops NEW cruisers were tested, they failed. Then they put
the sniffer in the flat head exhaust. The testers thought their equipment
failed because it read low. Tested another cop car and a rod. Then the flatty
again, with the same result. As your inspection print out stated, a well
maintained vehicle. The tortuous path the intake goes through getting into the
cylinder and then compressed does a good job of vaporizing the air/fuel mix
and mixing it to a homogeneous mixture.

Dale Davies