i have a question. i want to know if it would be better to run syntec oil with a turbo kit. I am gonna buy the kit as soon as i return to the states. i would buy it now, but my little brother will not leave me alone about driving the car, because he only has a dodge dakota(poor kid) anyway i am just wondering if this would benefit at all. also i am wondering about an oil cooler? what does it do? and is there any advantage to having one other than cooler oil.

 

it would be good to run ur car with synthetic oil. especially with the turbo kit. but using it doesn't mean u should abuse the oil. make sure that u change the oil @ the required intervals or a few miles after it. But regular oil should do u just fine in many cases.

as for an oil cooler, an oil cooler just does what it name says, cools the oil. it kinda acts like an intercooler but instead of flowing air, it flows oil through it. see the thing is, the oil in your motor not only acts as a lubricant but also a coolant for the motor. and remember in many cases heat=hp loss. but then there is a optimum level of oil temperature. because remember as oil cools, it becomes thicker than it is when it is warm. and yea the lubrication proberties of the oil might not be as good if it is too cold. just something to think about...

 

Now by syntec do you actually mean of the Castrol variety or do you mean synthetic of the Motul, Valvoline, Mobil variety?


http://www.fernblatt.com/longhurst/engineoil_bible.html

Great link.

 

Try Royal Purple.. I was thinking of going with this.. I saw a demo on speedvision one morning.. replacing the oil, trans and other lubs with this stuff gave the test car an extra 10 horses!!
I think thier site is..
http://www.royalpurple.com/

 

Fernblatt needs to update his site, we're up to SL for Petro and CI-4 for Diesel oils.

He simply pulled that 5k thing out of the air albeit with a plethora of subjective analysis. Modern Group IV synthetics are capable of up to 10k change intervals depending on sump capacity. Changing out Amsoil Series 2000, Redline, Motul, or LubroMoly in a stock 4G94 at 5k is simply throwing money down the drain. All these products can safely meet the most severe driver's demands for the 7.5k interval in our owner's manual.

I'm disappointed that he doesn't mention the only reliable tool which lets one know how often to change their oil based on their own driving patterns, style, oil choice, etc - and that's OIL ANALYSIS.

If you're going to spend $$$ on a turbo and use synthetic oil, select a true synth products out there. RP and Castrol are among the synth shirttail products out there meaning they're not synthetics in the original sense of the word. However, they're priced nearly as agressively as the true Group IV (or better) synthetic oils.

Go out on the internet and search for when Castrol was sued by Mobil, you'll know what I mean.