Oil viscosity and weight

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11-13-2005, 08:18 AM

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nonvtec

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Re: Oil viscosity and weight

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Originally Posted by jeef

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Originally Posted by nonvtec

Since boosted, 20-50 winter, 10-30 summer

You do realize you have that completly backwards right? In the winter you should be running a lighter weight, due to the fact that as oil gets colder it gets thicker.

Whoops, yeah, I meant it the other way around.

11-13-2005, 10:07 AM

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fastcrx

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Re: Oil viscosity and weight

I use hav5w30 all the time. motor has abou 187,000 boosted d16a6 with 14b

11-13-2005, 10:17 AM

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samson

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Re: Oil viscosity and weight

It's time to change my oil (been over 3,000) for the first time in the boosted d16. It's about 1/2 a quart low using 10w-30. I was planning on using 10w-30 for winter, too. Any problem with that? And only losing 1/2 a quart in the summer on 10w-30 why switch to 20w-50?

JP

11-13-2005, 10:36 AM

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con

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Re: Oil viscosity and weight

There is 100% man made *best
there is 100% syntetic that is just refined dino oil *good
there is synthetic blend that is dyno and refined dino oil *ok

I use amsoil and it is one of the top rated man made ----, I dont know what else is man made but there has been many articals on the interweb about it. They do not have to advertize if its man made or dino oil which is a big contraversy because its way cheaper to make it from dino but they can still charge the same price according to the goverment.