What experiences have you found with the oils vailable ?

Mobil 1
Royal Purple
Red Line
Others ?

 

i've heard royal purple is good stuff, but majority of the people i talk say amsoil is real good....i think i'm gonna order that in bulk from their site...

 

used Mobil 1 0W30 or 5w30 in my Audi A4 1.8T

now running Redline 10W40 in the 350Z


PeteH

 

We use Mobil 1 in the race cars and I also use it in the Z. I use cheap poopy in the truck.

 

mobil one

 

so Mobile1 is the best oil for 350z?
or mobile 1 is most often used oil for Z?

 

Of the high end oils Mobil One is the most resonable priced, the most readily available, and can go long enough, protect thouroughly enough, and in a close enough way to the real expensive oil that is seems to be the logical choice for all those but the most lubracativelly ****.

 

Mobil 1.........period
tranny
rear end
and engine
SRF brake fluid

 

Amsoil- everywhere- engine, tranny & diff!!!!!
(Yes, I have used Mobil One and Castrol- Amsoil is my choice. Join the preferred buyer club and then order up what you need and the price will be comparable to Mobil One.)

 

I also use Amsoil. I have put it in my BMW, Supras and F250. Never had a problem in any car.

 

Mobil one synthetic, it's easy to find, and I want to be sure to run the same oil from now on. If it's some hard to get oil, that would be difficult.

 

Mobil 1 Synthetic 5w-30....

$3.77 / Qt. @ Local Target Store

 

I run Castrol GTX 5w-30...only 1.79 a quart...

I originally ran Castrol GTX 5w-30 in my 97 Maxima and then switched to Mobil 1 5w-30.

I had any oil analysis done on each oil after a 5,000 mile interval and the engine showed just about exactly the same wear characteristics with both oils....and a few wear metals were even higher in the Mobil 1. I don't think synthetic is worth the extra $$ you drop on it.

Furthermore after seeing the inside of a VQ30DE motor with 171,000 miles on in and still being able to see the factory etching on the cylinder walls...I don't think it really matters what oil you use unless you plan on running your car WELL over 200,000 miles.

 

Royal Purple in the engine, tranny, diff

Get it @ Z1 Performance

http://www.z1auto.com

 

whats difference between 5w30 and 10w30???

 

about 5w's

 

Mobil 1 Synthetic 5w30

 

Aren't you just supposed to use the oil the dealership uses for the first 10k miles? I thought i saw that somewhere on the forums before. I'm still under 10k, but then I might switch to something else.

 

these are multi-viscosity oils... the 5w is not as thick at 10w when it's cold, so it has a tendency to be moved a little faster by the oil pump when you first start the car

when the oil is up to temp, it will act as a 10w (10 weight) oil

some race teams use single viscosity oils.... you might hear them talking about 30 weight, 40 weight or even 50 weight oils for their race engines... that's the same as the 10w in the multi-viscosity name... those oils are thick all the time

Hope that helps,

PeteH