Oils Aint Oils <Merged Thread>

[Guest]

I use Castrol Edge Sport 10w-60.

[Tree Monkey]

10w60 what tha a little bit heavy, watch your oil pump at high rpm.... The recomended is 10w40 but go with what floats your boat, I use nulon as most on here do, would have gorn with royal purple but at twice the price I dident think it gave me even 5% more protection but will find out in a few hundred thousand kays I guess. Look it all comes down to good rep in oil, constant oil changes and a good tune in a well maintained car. The more you push it the more you service it. I do oil at every 5000k and oil/filter at 10000k cos I DRIVE it, Check it twice weekly for levels, smell and texture and anything out of place.

[Guest]

The recommended service centre is Fraud but do you listen to that?

Ran 10w60 in my last car for it's entire life with no problems & it got a hiding every time I was in the drivers seat so it does indeed float my boat

[Ralph Wiggum]

. I do oil at every 5000k and oil/filter at 10000k cos i DRIVE it, Check it twice weekly for levels, smell and texture and anything out of place.

You'd have better success doing a filter at 5000k's and oil at 10000k's rather than the other way around.

This is what the royal purple tech guys recommended. i have been using RP for 30000k's now and it was the only oil that did anything to help the cold rattle from the forged pistons.

I rate it highly.

I also run RP syncromax in the T56. Noiser rollover at idle but awesome shift quality!

[Guest]

RP Syncromax in the T56 made shift quality so much better but did make rollover noise a little more noticable!

[MaTTe]

Hey fellas, I know this is on another forum, but it should open your eyes a little..

Oil test results

I haven't personally used Royal Purple, but according to this test it is OBVIOUSLY the best.

I do however use an addative called Microglide that yeilds the same result as Royal Purple did, on a similar pressure wheel. Our pressure wheel isn't submerged in oil like that one, we just put an amount onto the bearing then apply the pressure by hand and watch the pressure gauge, rather than adding free weights.

All oils will stop the bearing and score the lifter regerdless of price and quality. (I haven't yet tested Royal Purple, but now I'm keen to)

Microglide and PROMA will both coat the lifter and bearing causing no wear and no friction. The bearing will be unstoppable at over 120ft/lbs, whereas any oil will stop the bearing at 30ft/lbs..

Running a 10w60 rather than a 10w30 will provide a thicker oil that'll take a little longer to breakdown, but this will be at the sacrifice of power and economy

Microglide with a 10w30 will protect an engine better than a 10w60 could ever hope to..

The only downside to Microglide is that it isn't commercially available to states other than WA.. WA has manufacturing rights for the product as does the US, so getting it over east would require shipping it to you, but it has proven itself more than once in our race car..

Anyway, I hope this helps

MaTTe

[MaTTe]

Hey fellas, I know this is on another forum, but it should open your eyes a little..

Oil test results

I haven't personally used Royal Purple, but according to this test it is OBVIOUSLY the best.

I do however use an addative called Microglide that yeilds the same result as Royal Purple did, on a similar pressure wheel. Our pressure wheel isn't submerged in oil like that one, we just put an amount onto the bearing then apply the pressure by hand and watch the pressure gauge, rather than adding free weights.

All oils will stop the bearing and score the lifter regerdless of price and quality. (I haven't yet tested Royal Purple, but now I'm keen to)

Microglide and PROMA will both coat the lifter and bearing causing no wear and no friction. The bearing will be unstoppable at over 120ft/lbs, whereas any oil will stop the bearing at 30ft/lbs..

Running a 10w60 rather than a 10w30 will provide a thicker oil that'll take a little longer to breakdown, but this will be at the sacrifice of power and economy

Microglide with a 10w30 will protect an engine better than a 10w60 could ever hope to..

The only downside to Microglide is that it isn't commercially available to states other than WA.. WA has manufacturing rights for the product as does the US, so getting it over east would require shipping it to you, but it has proven itself more than once in our race car..

Anyway, I hope this helps

MaTTe

[Guest]

Price on Microglide

[Tree Monkey]

what was your last car? The only reason I would steer clear of a 60 weight is the bypass in the oil pump is to small, and our pumps just keep creating higher and higher pressure the faster you spin them till the housing/alloy case splits, that is why you need to change the gears AND work the housing(from atomic). The thicker oil the higher the pressures.

that's the one I posted a few months ago , some disturbing results....... not bad for valvoline

Edited 04/11/08 08:19 AM by Tree Monkey

[rougho]

Running Castrol Edge 10w60 as recommended by Castrol in my tuned TT.

Castrol seemed to be the only ones recommending a grade of oil for the territory.

When questioning there tech line on the heavier 60wt oil they believe the extra heat under the bonnett from the top mount was why the heavier oil as compared to the T sedans.

Ford told me to use Helix Gas.

Cheers, Rougho