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Oil weight always has confused me. I can't make a good recommendation on that one. It depends upon the type of weather and temperature outside. Tom has used Mobil 1 Synthetic in all his cars because he has seen the actual valves in his car turn from light brown back to 'newish' looking after running the synthetic oil for a while.

I personally don't run synthetic very often in my cars, because they have been apart so much lately, that replacing the oil so often would bankrupt me. But normally, I would recommend the synthetic.

As for the gas type, I would run only high octane fuel in the car. These cars were designed for different fuels than are available today. I could go into a long explanation of why, but this is already answered on our site:

http://www.pelicanparts.com/914/914QA/914Q_engine_fuel_octane.htm

I think that this will answer your question.

Any other opinions?

-Wayne
Old 05-20-1998, 11:17 AM
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