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Hello everyone, I have been visiting this board now for some time. Just recently became a member, and must admit all this stuff on this site can get a little confusing. I am learning though and with all the oils out there, and with all the oils saying they are the best, as a consumer it just makes things that much more confusing.
See, I drive an Lancer Evo and my car came from the factory with M1 10/30. Ever since new I kept the M1 10/30EP in the crank and changed every 3K. I didn't buy the EP for the "extended drain interval" thing, I chose it because it seems to have a better PAO content than the regualar M1. SO it was worth the extra $$ to me.
So as I started to tinker on my car, with bolt ons, tuning and eventulaly a WMI kit, I needed an oil that can hold up to the Meth, so I found that RP XPR 10/40 seemed to fit the bill.
After using the MEth for a few months I decided to take the kit out and I kept the RP in. I also noticed that my valvetrain seemed to be noisy. Like a dang marble was loose in the valve cover or something.
As a suggestion from a freind, I went back to the M1 EP my last oil change. The Noise is gone, the car idels smoother and my MPG's went up on average 2-3MPG!!
I called my tuner and told him the news and he kinda scolded me for going back to the M1 10/30. Saying that it will not hold up and I argued that I will change it often and that the car seems to like it. He recommended using RP 20/50 of which I thought was absurd to use for a street car that is driven on the track once in a while and that is for Solo II events, of which I have not been able to do lately for $$ reasons.
So now I am more confues. My car seems to like the M1, but my tuner says not to use it. I would like to do a oil analysis soon, but want to when its completely one oil in the crank. I know some of the RP is sitll in there so may take a couple of oil changes to get it all out.
So what do I do?? I am kinda confused on this. I hate ordering oil and not having it on hand when I need it. I can't really afford right now to buy "cases" of oil to store, and it probably isn't a good idea to store the oil in the garage for lengths of time anyway. So I like soemthing I can just go to the sotre and buy. I am sure the oils on the shelf are good oils and should be more than suitable for my car.....Right???
So what do I do???
See, I drive an Lancer Evo and my car came from the factory with M1 10/30. Ever since new I kept the M1 10/30EP in the crank and changed every 3K. I didn't buy the EP for the "extended drain interval" thing, I chose it because it seems to have a better PAO content than the regualar M1. SO it was worth the extra $$ to me.
So as I started to tinker on my car, with bolt ons, tuning and eventulaly a WMI kit, I needed an oil that can hold up to the Meth, so I found that RP XPR 10/40 seemed to fit the bill.
After using the MEth for a few months I decided to take the kit out and I kept the RP in. I also noticed that my valvetrain seemed to be noisy. Like a dang marble was loose in the valve cover or something.
As a suggestion from a freind, I went back to the M1 EP my last oil change. The Noise is gone, the car idels smoother and my MPG's went up on average 2-3MPG!!
I called my tuner and told him the news and he kinda scolded me for going back to the M1 10/30. Saying that it will not hold up and I argued that I will change it often and that the car seems to like it. He recommended using RP 20/50 of which I thought was absurd to use for a street car that is driven on the track once in a while and that is for Solo II events, of which I have not been able to do lately for $$ reasons.
So now I am more confues. My car seems to like the M1, but my tuner says not to use it. I would like to do a oil analysis soon, but want to when its completely one oil in the crank. I know some of the RP is sitll in there so may take a couple of oil changes to get it all out.
So what do I do?? I am kinda confused on this. I hate ordering oil and not having it on hand when I need it. I can't really afford right now to buy "cases" of oil to store, and it probably isn't a good idea to store the oil in the garage for lengths of time anyway. So I like soemthing I can just go to the sotre and buy. I am sure the oils on the shelf are good oils and should be more than suitable for my car.....Right???
So what do I do???
