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Jan 16, 2005 | 05:21 PM

Country Boy

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Thickest oil for turbo?

Whats the thickest oil for a turbo you can run. Reason being is I run Redline 20w50 now because my bearing clearences are a on the loose side of the scale.

Jan 16, 2005 | 05:30 PM

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Whats the thickest oil for a turbo you can run. Reason being is I run Redline 20w50 now because my bearing clearences are a on the loose side of the scale.

20w50 Will be fine!

Jan 16, 2005 | 06:44 PM

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Whats the thickest oil for a turbo you can run. Reason being is I run Redline 20w50 now because my bearing clearences are a on the loose side of the scale.

Have you got something going on that Tampa does not know about?

Jan 16, 2005 | 07:45 PM

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Have you got something going on that Tampa does not know about?

and its going to stay that way, right

Jan 16, 2005 | 09:06 PM

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I run 15W50 Mobil 1 Synthetic in my Turbo Trans Am. Runs excellent always high oil pressure. Best i've seen yet compared to the other weights i've used. I get around 65 - 70 psi on startup and hot it dips down to around 40.