Best Synthetic for best price.
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Patman
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Rick, I've seen a few oil analysis results with dino oils, including GTX, where the owner drag races their car and pushes it to the redline on a daily basis, and even at 3k the oil still looks great.
I ran a 3300 mile interval on Maxlife in my 95 Firebird for instance, putting quite a few quarter mile runs on it plus full throttle redline blasts 4-5 times per day, and after that the oil analysis still showed the oil could've gone longer, 5-6k perhaps.
I ran a 3300 mile interval on Maxlife in my 95 Firebird for instance, putting quite a few quarter mile runs on it plus full throttle redline blasts 4-5 times per day, and after that the oil analysis still showed the oil could've gone longer, 5-6k perhaps.
Patman
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If you're changing it that often the oil will probably takes years and years before the engine got dirty. If you're worried though, you might want to buy a bottle of Auto-rx and run a 3oz maintenance dose with each oil change to keep things clean for sure. So a 12oz bottle of the stuff would last you for 4 oil changes.
Patman
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Yes, that sounds good. Depending on the car you might even want 10w40 in the summer. I've seen good oil analysis results with GTX 10w40 in an LS1 Firebird.
Patman
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I'm not quite confident in that Rislone stuff to recommend it actually. I'm not saying it's bad, just that it's unproven on here.
Patman
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Yep, I snapped up two of those GTX jugs for my sister's car! One was $5.96 then they marked it down to $5.00! But the sale is over.
Believe it or not, they recommend 10W30quote:
Originally posted by buster:
In S2000Driver's case I'd use Amsoil 0w-30 or M1 5w-30.
Patman
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I've been trying to get this across to people for a while now, if you're gonna do 3k changes all the time, synthetics are of very little benefit to you (except in extreme cold)
Patman
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If your mileage is higher, chances are good that this engine will like the 10w40 better in the summer than 10w30.
Speaking of Sunbirds, my neighbor has a V6 sunbird (not sure if it's the 2.8 or 3.1) that is approaching 400,000km now! (250k)
[ February 03, 2003, 05:24 AM: Message edited by: Patman ]
Rick. You can run a few ounces of Schaeffer’s (Commentary: pricks) Neutra through the crankcase every few changes. Will only cost you about a buck. People on this board have determined that it is effective.
10W30 is surprising in a Honda. I figured it would be 5W30. -Joequote:
Originally posted by S2000driver:
Believe it or not, they recommend 10W30quote:
Originally posted by buster:
In S2000Driver's case I'd use Amsoil 0w-30 or M1 5w-30.
for the S2000. That's OK with me, I drive something else below freezing anyway.
I have the feeling they did it to maintain high viscosity over time... since 10W30 in theory has better hot viscosity stability than 5W30.
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Originally posted by joee12:
10W30 is surprising in a Honda. I figured it would be 5W30. -Joequote:
Originally posted by S2000driver:
Believe it or not, they recommend 10W30quote:
Originally posted by buster:
In S2000Driver's case I'd use Amsoil 0w-30 or M1 5w-30.
for the S2000. That's OK with me, I drive something else below freezing anyway.
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