What kind of oil for a turbo
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I guess adding to this thread is as good as any. So is there a census on the best oil Rotella T6 syn or dino? Lets say it's for a 140,000mile, turbo'd for 3years by a retard, now a new'ish owner. Car is DD and hopes of track time. I've always gone for the synthetic stuff in the past. Also no oil cooler other than the stock '99 thing.
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Rotella T6... its cheap, and as good or better than most 'race' oil out there. There are plenty of threads about it. Its also pretty cheap, not really more than other synthetic oils.
Yes, its for diesels, that just means it can carry more crap around without breaking down... There's a ton of us that run it.... Makes HLA noise go away most of the time.
Yes, its for diesels, that just means it can carry more crap around without breaking down... There's a ton of us that run it.... Makes HLA noise go away most of the time.
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Rotella T6... its cheap, and as good or better than most 'race' oil out there. There are plenty of threads about it. Its also pretty cheap, not really more than other synthetic oils.
Yes, its for diesels, that just means it can carry more crap around without breaking down... There's a ton of us that run it.... Makes HLA noise go away most of the time.
Yes, its for diesels, that just means it can carry more crap around without breaking down... There's a ton of us that run it.... Makes HLA noise go away most of the time.
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Guess since we've resurrected the thread I can finally comment on this:
Interesting. I'd never heard of Brad Penn oil, so I went and checked out their website.
I don't claim to be an oil guru, but I always ran M1 0w40 in the turbo car. I realize it's not the highest performer on every test, but it's relatively inexpensive, you can buy it anywhere (no need to mail order), my non water-cooled turbo didn't seem to mind it, and it did a good job of quieting the noisy HLAs.
In the non-turbo car, I run whatever happens to be cheapest.
"Penn Grade 1 High Performance Oils contain high zinc and phosphorous additive concentrations which can be detrimental to cars and trucks with catalytic converters. "
I wonder if that's important.In the non-turbo car, I run whatever happens to be cheapest.
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If this were for a turbo street car, I'd run Rotella in the white bottle and never look back on 5k OCIs.
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Wow. Stupid phone auto posted at the wrong moment. Anyways used to be hard on cars when I was younger. Not so much anymore. Age slows ya down and not being a teenager helps. But is the synthetic any better for a primarily street car? I keep seeing posts for lifter noise on synthetic but I believe the 99 and up is solid lifter
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Guess since we've resurrected the thread I can finally comment on this:
Interesting. I'd never heard of Brad Penn oil, so I went and checked out their website.
Interesting. I'd never heard of Brad Penn oil, so I went and checked out their website.
"Penn Grade 1 High Performance Oils contain high zinc and phosphorous additive concentrations which can be detrimental to cars and trucks with catalytic converters. "
I wonder if that's important.I'll be going back to Rotella next change since it's a shitload cheaper and "wears" well. I ran that in the Talon prior to the switch to BP.
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