hey guys,
well, my turbo car has been smoking for a bit, and its definitely oil. i do live in Miami with 100degree temps, and i have an open wastegate dumping into my engine, so it is my belief that synthetic 10w-30 will burn up.

im thinking of running something along the weight of 20w-50, but is their any negatives, seeing as honda says to use 10w-30. it is a vtec engine (sohc).

thanks for any replies.

 

well, i live in miami too. no way i would run 10w-30w. i have before and it gets older faster than 20w-50w, which is what i run now, in both of my cars. they say if your engine has 100k miles to use regular oil and not synthetic.

 

Sarasota here. I run Max Life 10w-30, no problems.

 

my turbo car smokes when i am engine braking down a hill.. i currently have 10w30 but have been considering a heavy weight.. does it actually help?

 

i run 20/50 exclusivly mostly because i get it free from work. but nick lopez ran 20/50 in his 700+hp drasg integra

Beau

 

just think about it with the most common sense you can build up. oil get thinner when it's hot, and you have a car with a turbo, meaning extra heat. which oil is more likely to remain consistent, 10w-30w or 20w-50w?

 

im in miami also :P, 10/40 or 20/50 non synetic in my sled

 

in the summer i always run 20w30 then 10w30 the rest of the year, But in the rx7 i would run 20w30 all year cause it slowed the oil consumption

 

10 dubya 30 year round

 

I always run Mobil 1. I use 15w-50 in the summer, and usually 10w-30 in the winter. I never really burn the 15w50 but the 10w30 usually goes through a half quart or so every oil change. This is all on my boosted 110k D16z6.

Matt