Happy birthday Alex. Your evo misses you.

 

^^ my evo misses me to.... lol

 

^more like you miss your evo buddy!
how has stuff been bro?

 

I miss my EVO too! Anyways, happy birthday Alex. Now you can legally get in those clubs. ***!

 

what brand and grade of motor oil are you guys running??? whats the best?? need to do my oil change soon....

 

I've just been doing the mobil 5-20w forever but when I've got some extra $$ I want to give a test with AMSOIL like Dan

 

amsoil 10/30 the racing series dominator. It cost a little more but you won't have to change your oil for up to 15k miles, thats worth it imo. I'm going to pick some more up today actually... and some trans/transfer case oil.

 

cool ill do that as soon as i have a min i appreciate the help

 

Let me ask your guys' opinions. I've always heard it's good to change your oil every 3,000 miles. When I lived in Washington the dealers I went to suggested following the owners manual and changing the oil every 5k miles. Yet once I moved, I got my oil changed once in California and once here in Vegas and they've left the little sticker on the windshiled saying every 3k miles. Which should I go with? 15k miles with the amsoil sounds crazy good.

 

hi

 

I would say 3k on conventional synthetic oil. If you go 5k that is for light duty driving short distance, but for Evo's that are usually on boost I wouldn't go the 5k miles without changing.

Here is Amsoil's change interval guide http://www.amsoil.com/lit/g1490.pdf the Dominator is their signature series and could go up to 17.5k miles on severe duty. You have to use the EA series Oil filter in order to go with that mileage... If you are unsure about how long to go on the oil change, you can send in a sample of your oil to have it tested, more info here http://www.amsoil.com/storefront/oai.aspx

 

Ive done lots of oil analysis's with Mobil 1 and the mitsu oil filter. Normal evo driving... lots of boost(26psi on stock turbo w/E85), toss in several rally-x and auto-x events and a couple additional dry lake bed beatings. Mobil 1 was fine at 5k miles according to the analysises that i did. (was doing analysis every 1k miles). That being said, would i run it to 5k again? probably not, but if i did have to run it up to 5k i wouldnt be to worried. If your running amsoil you could probably feel pretty dang comfy at 5k miles.

Im currently running Motul 300V because its free, and its a decent oil. Amsoil is good stuff too.

 

Motul 300v are the best oil if you can afford it or way better if it free. lol
GC 0W30 and Shell 5W40 is good stuff too and you can get it from a local autozone.
And change your oil more offten its not gonna hurt anyhting except you wallet.

 

Hey guys! I'm a first time poster on the Las Vegas Evo's thread! I was wondering if there is any recommendation for me to bring my Evo to get its 30,000 miles maintenance.

 

just do it yourself. its easy