Originally Posted by Win
Originally Posted by atikovi
Originally Posted by Win
your pic of the idle oil pressure looks completely normal to me; you should see 1 to 1.5 bar at idle increasing to 3 to 3.5 bar at normal operating RPM.
That's how it looks right after it's warmed up. After coming off the highway it will have 1 bar. If there is lots of stop and go traffic like the last traffic jam, it shows no bars. Will try the 5-40 just to see what it does.
This sounds completely normal to me, other than the drop below 1 bar, which just means the pressure is between 0 and 15 PSI, so I wouldn't worry about it.
This variant of the HF V6 has full control of the timing of both the intake and the exhaust cams, and the car utilizes this variability for everything, right down to exhaust gas recirculation. Thicker oils probably would not damage the engine, but anything that affects the cam controls will have an adverse effect on the engine performance.
If you post a picture of your engine, I might be able to tell you if you have a Fishermans Bend engine, or a U.S. sourced engine. I do not believe any Suzuki built HF V6's made it into these cars.
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...This is the "high feature" v6, right? The camchain eater? ...
Most, but not all, of these V6 cars got Australian engines from the Fishermans bend plant. The Oshawa assembled Torrent GXP I bought for my wife has a Suzuki built HF V6 installed. I am not aware of any of the Australian or Japanese manufactured HF V6 engines having had bad cam chains installed.
Hopefully OP was not duped into changing the chains.
It was throwing codes for cam timing so the chains needed to be changed. I won't worry about the oil pressure but I'll bet anything that when I put it up for sale in a few weeks and list it here in the Items For Sale section, somebody is going ask if "I fixed the low pressure" even if there is nothing to be fixed and is normal for this car.