hey guys, im about ready to get my car going here within the next week or so and I've been curious to what everyones opinion is on what fluids they run in built evos, i usually use oem tranny oil and the rest redline.

what would you guys use if you built a car with everything NEW
coolant
trans
diff
tcase
motor, what weight at what compression
power-steering (if still using)

cheers

 

Straight 30 weight conventional, new paper filter. 30min/50 mile, light load 0-3k rpm. Drain while warm, new filter, refill w new 30 weight or 10w30 if street break in. filter and oil change by 1500 miles, check dry and wet compression for good ring seal. If good, go to your usual oil and filter (syn/syn)

 

http://www.amsoil.com/shop/by-produc...-oil-(sae-30)/
there ya go

 

any body else want to chime in??

redline fluids?

 

Brad Penn 20W-50 Simi Syn Oil

Amsoil Full Syn Tranny fulid

OEM T-Case / Rear Diff fulid

I beat the living hell out of my car no problems at all ever.

 

^Absolutely NO to the Semi-Syn.

For the initial start-up and next 1k, use only conventional oil or the Amsoil break-in fluid ONLY. Use good filters. Any conventional works, but go in favor of ones with high zddp contents. I used Castrol GTX (was on sale) for me first 20 minutes. Changed oil and filter again with Castrol GTX and drove car for 1k. In between that 1k, I changed the filter onces more and topped of with conventional. Once I hit the 1k mark, I change again. At this point, you can run Synthetic. I choose my third change on semi-syn, an full synthetic after that.

The AMSOIL is very good for the initial 1k mile break-in. I bought it and didn't use it cause I needed 20w50 for my build. If you're interest, shoot me a PM.

Also, keep an eye on oil pressures!!!

 

I now do Valvoline VR1 conventional 20w50 for my motor (can't find Penn locally)

Redline MT90 for the trans

Mitsu Diaqueen for transfer case and rear diff

Power steering OEM mitsu

Coolant I do mostly distilled water and a little bit of prestone longlife concentrated coolant.

 

Yea for the initial break-in use regular conv oil

 

10/40 convetional oil for initial run for 15-30 minutes cut filter check for any material then going to 20-50w brad penn semi synthetic
Trans I'm using redline sae 75w140 with gl5
Transfer case and rearend redline heavy shockproof

Keep in mind all components for me are fully built buschur motor shep trans and transfer case and 100% bone stock rear end(until it breaks no point replacing.. going on 115k)

 

Ive considered doing shockproof in my shep tcase, but I dunno I never had any concerns with just diaqueen in it.

 

I use to run mix of shockproof heavy and light.
The redline with gl5 the shifts are smoother imo ss well as another friend using the same

 

any other suggestions

 

Never use any synthetic oil for break in. Have to use mineral oil first 50-100miles drive easy. I changed my filter and oil to semi synthetic after 100miles, then fully synthetic 5w/40 and filter after 1k. After that regular service. After 8k miles later done a leak down test. All cylinders tested no imbalance, cold or when warm.


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15w40 mineral start quick check for leaks of any sort , then 20 mins no less than 2k rom , change oil and filter using mineral again , change again 250 miles /550 miles and 850mls , then at 1k use fully synth