What Oil Weight for a Cammed LS1
09-06-2008, 06:03 PM
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What Oil Weight for a Cammed LS1 Before some of you go nuts, yes I did search and I found mostly useless information. I'm going to do an oil change soon. I have no idea what's in the car right now. The car has 85K miles on it. It has a 224/224 .581/.581 114LSA cam, with manley push rods and patriot double gold springs. The rest of the car is very modified also. I drive this car pretty hard.
I was considering going with Royal Purple. But I have no idea what weight I should use. I've read other threads and all people say are.. "5w30.." or "0w30." they just say what they're running. I wanna know why your running that, and how this oil could benefit my engine. Basically i'd like an answer from someone who has a similar enigne or decent knowledge of what to use for this application, if someone could.
Thanks!
I was considering going with Royal Purple. But I have no idea what weight I should use. I've read other threads and all people say are.. "5w30.." or "0w30." they just say what they're running. I wanna know why your running that, and how this oil could benefit my engine. Basically i'd like an answer from someone who has a similar enigne or decent knowledge of what to use for this application, if someone could.
Thanks!
09-06-2008, 06:47 PM
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I run 10w50 synthetic because of my climate.
Depends were you live and what season it is to a degree.
You don't want to run really thin sometimes or too thick either.
Depends were you live and what season it is to a degree.
You don't want to run really thin sometimes or too thick either.
09-06-2008, 08:18 PM
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I am running the German Castrol 0W-30. Two reasons, the used analysis has been excellent. Second, at 100 degrees C it has a viscosity of 12.1 Cst, near the top of the 30W range whereas Mobil-1 has a viscosity of 10.1 Cst, near the bottom of the 30W range. It also has better shear numbers.
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09-07-2008, 07:33 PM
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dam i have the same cam in mine ive always used royal purple with the car 10w40 for las vegas heat with my experience with oil it is better too have more velocity in the weight of the oil for the hotter the heat 110+ is a daily in traffic. im0 its the temp ur car will be driving in dd and its better too add some of that lucas oil additive every oil change too make are high reving engins happy 
