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| posted on December 3rd, 2010 at 10:13 PM |
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What OIL SAE do you run in your Suby NA
I was wondering which is the best oil for our NA suby engines...
Synthetic / semi synthetic?
Tell us your thoughts.
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 helbus
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| posted on December 3rd, 2010 at 10:43 PM |
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For a NA 90's Suby engine semi synthetic 10W-40 is very suitable.
You can go for a fully synthetic if you want, but it has been proved that they can do 300,000 k's easy on common oil
I do an oil change every 10,000 with 10W-40
Penrite oil website has a lot of interesting info to read.
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pete wood
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| posted on December 10th, 2010 at 02:26 PM |
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I've got 10w-40 in mine too.
DO NOT use 20w-50 = noisy lifters... don't ask me how I know this... 
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Bugaru03
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| posted on December 10th, 2010 at 08:51 PM |
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I have used 15w-50 but i was having noisy lifters as pete said, and now i have change it with castrol 10w40 magnatec semisynthetic.
The engine is running more quite than before and the noisy lifters gone away!
Thanks for sharing!
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| posted on December 10th, 2010 at 09:14 PM |
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I tried 10/40 Pennzoil in mine on the last oil change, it was happier on GTX3 15/40w
Ran slightly higher pressure and lower oil temps
I change mine every 5000k, oil is cheap
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pete wood
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| posted on December 14th, 2010 at 09:09 PM |
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so are EJ22s 
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helbus
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| posted on December 14th, 2010 at 10:19 PM |
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EJ22's in Melbourne are $550 no guarantee, or
$990 with new cambelt and waterpump and a 3 month guarantee
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Joel
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| posted on December 15th, 2010 at 08:28 PM |
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Geez and for only about $400 you can buy a whole car and test drive your new engine home, not take the wreckers word its good
then pay for most of it selling the gearbox and wheels
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General_Failure
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| posted on January 4th, 2011 at 10:27 PM |
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Um... I think it's running the real classy stuff. Black and gold 20W50. Or it could be Castrol GTX. probably the former though.
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