What Motor Oil & Oil Filter are you guy's using?
06-05-2008, 06:16 PM
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i like M1 but it just drinks too much oil up 5w30, i put it in and i had to refill half way thru the oil change cycle and i originally put 6 quarts in, its really thin, i left my car parked for 2 weeks and i had an oil leak in the car, took it out and put german castrol and had no problems, but maybe its just me, oh and i was on a kn filter
06-05-2008, 07:38 PM
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I had a high consumption with Royal Purple 
But since I've switched to the German Castrol it has sloooowed way down and the Wix filters catch more "dirt". Try cutting a Fram filter open vs a Wix filter, yep! no more Fram!!
But since I've switched to the German Castrol it has sloooowed way down and the Wix filters catch more "dirt". Try cutting a Fram filter open vs a Wix filter, yep! no more Fram!! 
06-05-2008, 07:48 PM
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pennzoil platinum 5w30 or 10w30..with either a purolator oil filter or AC delco oil filter..130K miles and no problems..(knock on wood)..i have used mobil 1 and GC a while ago, but for the most part its been pennzoil platinum..when i did my cam swap everything was spotless inside the motor and the old cam with 125K miles on it looked pretty much like new
09-13-2008, 10:14 PM
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Bringing this post back from the dead...
I've always used Mobil 1 5W-30 but after some research, I just purchased Pennzoil Platinum 5W-30 with an AC Delco filter to see if it will help to alleviate the cold start valvetrain clatter I get. I've used M1 in my 87, 94, 99 and my current 02 Z28 so this is a bit of a change... hopefully for the better based on the comments/research I've seen here.
I've always used Mobil 1 5W-30 but after some research, I just purchased Pennzoil Platinum 5W-30 with an AC Delco filter to see if it will help to alleviate the cold start valvetrain clatter I get. I've used M1 in my 87, 94, 99 and my current 02 Z28 so this is a bit of a change... hopefully for the better based on the comments/research I've seen here.
10-02-2008, 11:01 PM
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I have used royal purple for 80000 miles and had lifter problems... talked to a guy who works at a machine shop and he says royal purple is bad news for lifters..... And let me point out my lifters failed twice. Im going to replace them again and use mobil 1 extended performance. I hope to god mobil is as good as they say. As for oil filters i have tried fram, mobil 1, k&n, and purolator pure one. I found that the k&n didnt really filter all that much. The fram was a joke when it came to oil pressure. It came down to the pure one and the mobil one. Since they both seemed to do the same job i stuck with the pure one simply because its half the price. Lol.
11-17-2008, 05:00 PM
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GC 0W-30 with a A/C Delco PF46 filter. Had no problems yet with it and my oil pressure was up a little from my old 2 year old combo of Kendall 10w-30 and NAPA Gold Filter. Mild oil consumption going on, about 1 quart every month, don't drive much.
Thinking about trying out Amsoil 5W-30 with a KN #2006.
Thinking about trying out Amsoil 5W-30 with a KN #2006.
11-18-2008, 08:38 AM
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Wow iv noticed that no one on here uses castrol. I bought my car with 92000 on it and the guy ran Castrol GTX 10W-40. I use the fram oil filter with grip and works great. Should i switch to synthetic with this many miles??