Wot Oil In a redtop??

[Spooon]

hello there,

wot oil do you guys run in your 2.016v redtop engines??

Cheers Steve

[dunova]

errr maybe the same oil you'd use in every other engine, i don't think there's any special '2lt 16v redtop' engine oil :lol:
But anyway, GT magnetec's pretty good stuff

[Stuart]

a good 15/40 semi synth

[-tucny-]

i always get some expensive stuff. not because im a bit slow, or even rich its just a good oil is worth paying money for especially if your engines done a few miles. something like mobil 1 or castrol gtx.

[Philsutton]

ive just put some semi synth nout special really

[Spooon]

Cheers guys :D

[Barn]

so are castrol GTX and Mobil 1 about the best ?

what are they fully synthetic ?

will be getting some for my Next engine probably

[_JH_]

but don't go sticking fully synth straight in an engine thats been run on mineral (no matter how many 'experts' on here say they did it and their engine is 'fine') as you run the risk of hard deposits where you want free flowing oil. ie fooked engine


castrol GTX is plenty, and on a road car changing the oil as frequent as poss will pay in the long run.

[benji]

vaux semi synth is good and is fairly cheap.

[M_U_T_A_N_T21]

15/40 castrol magnatec dont do any cheap shit

[Spooon]

cool, just went and bought sum 15/40 magnatec. it aint cheap at 17.99 but i got a free hat and a football :D result

[Aragorn]

i heard that castrol stuff has a high ash content compared to others which can cause the oil to deteriorate quicker

dunno if thats true or just pish tho

i've always just used halfords 15w40 although the xe's are supposed to run on 10w40 im sure

[dan16v]

yep magnatec is good half of what peps say bout oil etc is shite, in a day to day engine any half decent correct grade oil will do

[S_Gault]

i wouldnt use Mobil 1 in a lawnmower.

If you see what happens it when it gets hot!!

I know for a fact even when Mobil 1 where sponsering the works teams.. they didnt use it coz they lost engines on it.

the oil film totally breaks down and doesnt recover after cooling,

i use Castrol RS in all my dry sumped 280bhp engines and Millers in all the roadish ones running a wet sump.

Steven

[Kev Turbo]

10/40w from vauxhall,

there is no need to put any special stuff in put in what it runs on when it was new

why throw money away on a fancy name