Oil - Cold weather selection

[Breed-X]

anyone used the "sunoco synturo 5W50" or the "sunoco synturo racing 10W60" ?

anyone knows if this is a good oil?

it seems very hard to find a good 5w50 or 10w50 over here.

it is for my rev1 NA that is driven very hard and gets up to oil temps between 100°c on regular use and 125°C when flooring it in the twisties.

[oilman]

anyone used the "sunoco synturo 5W50" or the "sunoco synturo racing 10W60" ?

anyone knows if this is a good oil?

it seems very hard to find a good 5w50 or 10w50 over here.

it is for my rev1 NA that is driven very hard and gets up to oil temps between 100°c on regular use and 125°C when flooring it in the twisties.

Don't know anything about it, this is the best 10w-50 we know of

http://www.opieoils.co.uk/c-659-10w-50.aspx

[Breed-X]

ok thank you

by the way, i know abbey motorsport uses either motul or sunoco oils.

http://www.aaoil.co.uk/racing-Sunoco-Synturo-5W-50
synturo 5W50 spec sheet

[zupp]

Hi Oilman - thx for all the advice , I have a 1991MR2 TURBO with lots of mods:

FORGED WISECO PISTONS, FORGED RODS, 268 BILLET CAMS. FLOWED HEAD, CUSTOM T61 HYBRID TURBO, CHARGE COOLED, OIL COOLED ETC...
I now use the car as "a daily" @ 0.7 bar...I DO NOT do track and occasionally drive HARD...I generally take time to warm her up before driving. I am situated AWAY from th sea and the TEMP that we are about to experience is between 15 deg celcius and 28 deg celcius .

Out here (South Africa), we have the full range of Castrol, Shell, Mobil . What would you recommend?

Thanks in advance

[oilman]

Can you get Motul?

I would look at something like the Mobil 1 15w-50 out of that lot, dont bother with Castrol 10w-60 what ever you do, its too thick.

Cheers

Guy

[shabz]

oilman knows his stuff, running silkolene 10w50 off his recomendation

[oilman]

Arounf the max mark......?

[shabz]

ok please forget i asked that question...i've done an oil change i don't know how many times, it just lapsed me for a moment that there was a F and E mark...big big d'ohhh lol

in fact its too embarissing, i'm going to edit it

[jimGTS]

hey mr oil man...

i need a oil change soon.

weekend car, driven hard on the odd occasion...(garaged so wont get snowed on)
modded, large turbo, forged engine, 1.3bar on occasions....

it presently has silkolene pro S 5w40, but i have a good 3ltrs left of mobile 1 15w50 somewhere.
should i keep with the silkolene, or just buy a couple of ltrs of mobile 1 15w50 and use that with what i have spare?? id rather not waste £30 werth of mobile 1 if i can help it, but if pro S is better, so be it.
car would still be used all year round...

thanks

[oilman]

The 15w-50 is a bit thick for winter use, I would stick with 5w-40 and use the 15w-50 as a top up if needed.

Cheers

Guy

[jimGTS]

i only found this thread, so prob not entirely questioning winter use, but all year round use really.

so the pro S is fine to carry on with at 5w40?....even with a car run at 340hp and prob will be closer to 400 early next year?

least the mobil 1 can still get some use so thats good.

[mk2mattw]

what do poeple think of using additives like slick50 and molyslip? supposed to help reduce engine wear?

[BLOODUK]

Make, Toyota
Model, MR2 rev2
Year, 1993
Type, Turbo
MODS : Xspower Intercooler , Japspeed Exhaust , Downpipe , Boost controller at 1.1BAR , CT20B Turbo
Type of Driving, Early Start and sometimes a hard thrash during the day
Current Oil used, 10W40 Semi-Synth last 4 years

Engine Oil type required please + Cost & Amount , Thankyou \:D/


p.s It does tend to drip a bit of oil every now and then but doesn't use a great deal

[Olly.Dent]

What do you think of Mobil Super S 10w-40??