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10-19-2021, 09:20 PM | #1 |
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lucas oil stabilizer vs. thicker oil?
pretty simple question. it seems the biggest problem with this motor is the oiling of the main bearings. lack of oiling leads to a spun main bearing, iirc, #3 or #2 because they share a single oil jet.
i'm not into tuning or modding-- my mechanicals are stock, and i've got minimal interest in changing any of it besides installing ITB's for the sound characteristics, maybe. my interest is really just engine longevity, despite the fact i love ringing it out and bouncing off the limiter. ignoring the overall costs of the options, (lucas' product is $20-some/quart), is it better to run a thicker oil like 5w-30 to make up for the lack of oem oiling? or is it better to run something like lucas' product that makes 0w-20 'sticky'? is there a better third option? or is it 'good enough' to just run 0-20 and figure it all out later?
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10-19-2021, 11:10 PM | #2 |
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Recently did a 11 000km (7500 mile) oil interval on Castrol 5w 30 C3. UOA came back perfect. Previous UOA on 5w 30 also came back good. Previous UOAs on toyota 0w 20 also were fine. The Euro spec castrol keeps my oil pressures in the 50 psi range while the 0w 20 hit the low 40s at 118 C (244 F). Car is stock with bouts of spirited back road hooliganism but not winter driven.
I would definitely NOT use an additive, no way, no how. Used Oil Analysis is cheap insurance. Oil Temp and pressure gauges are nice for piece of mind and look cool. Do a UOA on your 0w 20 and see how it's holding up, then decide. |
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(for those of you over 70, set the light 2,500 rpms before the rev limiter) Then just go with your plan B (your bolded). |
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You should be fine running a decent quality 0-20. I have been tracking my car for 6 years, mostly on 0-20. Though I haven't done a UOA for a year so maybe I should hold my opinion on that.
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2 things:
1) Wouldn't running a thicker oil be Harder on your single oil jet, so Less oil is sprayed, leading to worse lubrication? 2) My oil recommendations are: Eneos Racing Street 0W-20, Idemitsu Zepro 0W-20 (if you can still find them, they seem to be discontinued?), Toyota genuine motor oil - in that order. I want to see the technical data sheet/safety data sheet for the gazoo racing oil before I recommend. On the japanese website they seem to have circuit and endurance gazoo racing oil, but in the US there is only one gazoo racing oil .. not sure which one it is (if it is even one of them at all, who knows).
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I've tried Lucas in the past for other vehicles. From my experience, it does more damage than good. In the short run, it looks to help. But in the long run, it expands problems further. I could be wrong with that as maybe there have been many other success stories with it. I simply agree with the logic to stick with the stuff the car was designed for. |
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Not sure how you'll protect against banging off the rev limiter, that's just negligent since it's pretty rough on a stock tune and how it just bucks you hard if you run into it. If you tuned it for a soft limiter that just hangs at 7400 rpm that's different.
A "sticky" viscous oil additive would probably ruin your engine on a freezing cold start. Having an oil that can deal with temperature extremes are more important, below freezing and in overheating conditions (summer track days). If you're in Chicago, during fall and winter months you should be running 0w-20 for easy cold starts, and replacing it a couple times through the months as the oil gets diluted with fuel from cold starts / idle. During summer months in the Southeast I run 0w30 with a quart of 0w40 mixed in, and I think its good for hot days. I will be switching back to 0w20 in November when we start getting mornings below 50 degrees F. I wouldn't buy into ordering in specialty oils. I've spent a lot of time on BITOG forums and seen good results from pretty much every oil analysis on modern synthetics. Whatever has API Certification label on the shelf at walmart is good, save the money and just change your oil often. Be aware that thicker oil runs hotter, is less efficient. If you're tracking during summer and running some kind of thick race oil, get an oil cooler. Last edited by radroach; 10-21-2021 at 02:40 PM. |
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Sure oil analysis says how good your engine is being worn in (or rather the minimization of wear), but it doesn't say how smooth the engine is when actively running. I also found a slight improvement in my MPG in highway cruising due to less internal resistance.
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but what i'm seeing is that eneos has 20% additive to each quart per the MSDS. so how is it different to run 1 quart of lucas with 4.5 quarts of synthetic oil over 5.5 quarts of 80%/20% 'pre-mixed' oil?
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lucas oil stabilizer makes the oil run thicker and worse. if you've taken delved into chemistry before, you'd understand that its generally harder to increase viscosity index by adding* other chemicals into the a solution. That's what impresses me the most about this product ~
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I'm curious, what are the Eneos visc numbers at 0C and 100C?
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NASIOC oil thread
https://forums.nasioc.com/forums/sho....php?t=2714154
If Subaru recommends 0w20 for your engine, the bearings should be very happy with 7.5 cSt oil, if we put RC 5w30 into the engine, the oil temperature can rise to 240°F before the oil viscosity drops below 7.5 cSt, now we're at the upper limit of optimal oil temperature. With HD 5w30 the 7.5 cSt temperature rises to 260°F, basically the upper limit of acceptable. In other words, using a 40 grade oil implies we will be operating the engine at unacceptably high oil temperatures. And since using a heavier oil encourages higher operating temperatures, we're compounding the problem. So, if you think you need 5w40 in your car that calls for 0w20, what you really need is an oil cooler, possibly a big one. Read the thread, see the graphs, learn about the Stribeck Curve. |
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Kinematic viscosity (40°C) mm2/s D445 test 28.6 cSt (100°C) mm2/s D445 test 7.3 cSt
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If you're not tracking the car (or driving *way* too hard on the street in warmer months), just run 0w20 and don't worry. If you *are* tracking the car run HD 5w30 synthetic in the warmer months. I wouldn't bother with any additives from Lucas or anyone else...
I don't think anyone should be concerned about what the viscosity is at 40C. Also don't think 240F is high, or that 260F is the "upper limit of acceptable" for oil temp. Any decent synthetic is going to be fine up to 300F and beyond. But if you are tracking and running higher temps, you'll definitely want to be running at least 30 weight. |
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