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My thoughts exactly. The thing is, factory recommends a 10w-30 weight but since the engine is of an older design but is a very high revving engine, its common knowledge amongst most of the community to use at least a 40wt. I just read so much about the GC here that I thought I'd give it a try...

Hey guys.just wanted to share my GC experience with you. I have an 85 corolla GTS with a 1.6L twin cam engine. Its fully rebuilt using oem toyota internals. Anyhow I picked up some GC (after a pretty involving cross city search) in hopes that it would work well in my engine. Well, the engine...

"87 Ferrari 328 " "I'd try German Castrol 0W-30 but it's not available on my island." Do you have a mustache and a friend named higgins?

All of the above are excellent oils. Go with something you've created a devotion to, or just wait till one of em is on sale.

For a daily driven vehicle, regular dinos seem to do a good job as long as oil changes are done on a consistant basis. For me, I regularly track my car which sees 7800 rpm non stop, and is put through some hot southern california temperatures. Synthetics are a MUST in my opinion for engine...

ken, where did you find penzoil 5w-40?

we sell both the bilsteins, and KYB's at my work. (www.performancecenter.com) We can match anybody's prices on those shocks. Including tokico! let me know if you're interested and I'll foreward you to one of our sales guys (I work in marketing). My personal note, on my daily I just went with...

Use closed ended lugs, and that will solve most of your problem.

why, why would you do that? There is no logic behind that what so ever. Run the Mobil until your oil change is due.

People on here seem to like the Germcan Castrol (often refered to as "GC") in the 0w-30 weight. Should work well for you. Make sure it says "made in germany" on the back! Mobil is a good product though. When comparing synthetics, most of the are pretty decent in performance, but you don't...

wait castrol syntec is on sale for 2.08 at advance auto? I didn't see it on their instore ads...is this going on at all of them or just that location?

Shell Rotella 5w-40 synthetic would be my vote. Good synthetic that will stand up to the rigors of turbo use...especially in that engine. as for gear oil, simple valvoline hasn't done me wrong since I've used their synthetic blend.

You work at super autobacs, don't you!

Thanks to you guys, I've been hunting for the green stuff, even though it may not be the best oil for my application. In the search, I came across the belgian made 5w-40. I did a search on this forum and it seems to not get the same kind of love that the german stuff gets. Anyhow after reading...

thicker weight oils are generally for older cars with different clearances, like said above. If you are currently using the thicker stuff and your engine is runing fine, you should be OK. The reason why you would lose a few MPG would be because thicker oil makes it more difficult for the...