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07-31-2012, 10:19 AM | #1 |
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Oil Analysis - 1st oil change
I had Blackstone perform a full analysis of my first oil change on the BRZ. It ran a bit longer than I had planned on, just based on free time and how much I end up driving everyday, but I managed to get one done at 4500 miles.
I checked my oil about twice a week and never noticed the need to add some. I would say an earlier oil change may have helped since there was a good deal of metal in it. The subie oil (with stock filter) holds up well though so I'm going to push the oil change interval up to the manual's 7500 miles and see what happens. This is driving 100 miles a day on the highway with very little playtime on the car so the oil may break down in a non-DD situation. Second oil change! Still in good shape, going 7500 next. Third oil change Somebody stole my Moly! Felt alright all the way till I changed it but somewhere in the back of my mind I was thinking it was better just before 7k than approaching 8k. So I believe I'm sticking with a 7k mile change cycle. lucky number 4! Conclusions, stock oil is great. Holds up to life, gets decent gas mileage but stole all my moly. Due to a series of out of town trips and general laziness I let this change ride for awhile. Over 2k more then you're supposed to (don't tell Subaru). This is still stock oil and stock filters although the oil bottles keep changing their look so I'm sure the formulas are changing as well. ANOTHER oil change, not even a year and a half yet... Lucky Number 7!!! Partially due to laziness and mostly because "what the heck it's out of warranty anyways" I ran this oil up and over 11k miles. Still just Subie oil and filter, didn't add anything in between and sure enough it comes out fine. So maybe seeing this some of you will rethink the 3k mile oil changes using liquid gold. Posts of other UOA (username/link, car and oil, mileage on oil): aegisdrgn - FR-S initial oil change - 4,276 miles aegisdrgn - FR-S Toyota 0W20 2nd oil change - 5,693 miles Blood - BRZ Amsoil SS 4th oil change - 9,514 miles Blood - BRZ Amsoil SS 5th oil change - 10,421 miles Blorb - BRZ initial oil change - 5,577 miles Blorb - BRZ 2nd oil change Toyota0w20 - 6,458 miles Blorb - BRZ 3rd oil change Toyota0w20 - 6,880 miles Blorb - BRZ 4th oil change Toyota0w20 - 7,187 miles F1point4 - FRS Amsoil Sig 2nd oil change - 4,900 miles *bonus tranny oil analysis! finch1750 - FR-S Mobil 1 xx oil change - 7,450 miles fstlane - BRZ Mazda 0w20 4th? oil change - 5,000 miles fstlane - BRZ Mazda 0w20 - 5,000 miles fstlane - BRZ Mazda 0w20 w/ Mobil 0w40 - 5,000 miles Jeffsu350 - FRS initial oil change - 7,620 miles Jeffsu350 - FRS 2nd oil change - 7,639 miles JohnJuan - FRS @31k Toyota 0w20 change - 7,502 miles kch - BRZ @22k Motul Eco 5th change - 3,947 miles kungfujerry - BRZ initial oil change - 1,078 miles lordtakuban - FRS initial oil change - 2,095 miles lordtakuban - FRS Motul 300v 2nd oil change - 6k miles Malt - BRZ Amsoil SS 2nd oil change - 4,500 miles Malt - BRZ Amsoil SS 3rd oil change - 6,283 miles Pokeguyjai - BRZ RP 2nd oil change - 2,200 miles R2 - FRS 2nd oil change - 7,266 km (4,515 miles) Ranatsu - BRZ Pennzoil 2nd oil change - 7,065 miles Ranatsu - BRZ Motul 300V HR - 4,801 miles (half life check) rixter145 - Turbo BRZ Amsoil SS 0/20 - 7,700 miles shugg - BRZ Mobil 1 0w20 - 8 track sessions, 817 miles tbrocato - FRS intial oil change - 2,531 miles tbrocato - FRS 2nd oil change - 4,921 miles tbrocato - FRS Eneos 3rd oil change - 4,875 miles tbracato - FRS Toyota 0w20 4th oil change - 7,070 miles travisb - BRZ initial oil change - 1,823 miles travisb - BRZ Amsoil SS 2nd oil change - 3,358 miles travisb - BRZ Amsoil SS 3rd oil change - 4,905 miles whiteradam - BRZ Motul 3rd oil change - 6,913 miles Xiao Li - BRZ Castrol Edge 2nd oil change - 8,100 miles yomny - FRS Mobil 1 2nd oil change - 4,100 miles Subaru Virgin oil sample - link to BITOG showing unused Subaru by Idemitsu oil Last edited by R L Newb; 11-25-2015 at 01:07 PM. Reason: purple people eater |
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07-31-2012, 10:24 AM | #2 |
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Looks like the stock fill is quite good.
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07-31-2012, 10:31 AM | #3 |
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I've never seen that before, or been aware of it. How much does that run? I'd be interested in getting this done on mine.
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They send you the oil sampling kit for free, then you pay $25 for a standard analysis and an extra $10 for the TBN. Blackstone says a TBN should be used for evaluating the life left in the oil, so if you want to extend your oil change interval it is a good check. To send the kit back I think it cost like $2-3 shipping at the Post office.
I'll do another full analysis after 7500 miles to see what that looks like. Should only take about 10 weeks :P |
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Dont know if it really bothers you, but you may want to remove your address and phone number from the attached doc.
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lol, good call. Fixed the photo so no more stalkers!
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thank you for sharing this.
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This is very good info and a great way to make sure this engine lasts you a good amount of years. Planning on doing this after break in.
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09-17-2012, 05:43 PM | #9 |
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The car is hitting 10k miles today and very close to the next oil change interval of 6k miles. Should be doing an oil change by next weekend then I'll post the results which only take a few days.
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Would be nice to see someone put a filter mag or HD magnets on their FR-S so we can see if it makes a huge difference or not. I will be putting on HD Magnets on my filter when my FR-S arrives.
If someone can do a filter mag and compare that would be a good way to see if they work. Doing it at the same time too but I dont know if it would be good to wait that many miles as a lot of people say to do it earlier. And by your report it looks as if you should since their is metal in there. |
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It's an initial break-in oil change. There's going to be metal traces in the oil but if it was majorly harmful they'd have you change the oil sooner. I'm just used to oil being beat up after 3k and this stuff looked great at 4500.
No time to do a change during the week so I won't have a test till next week. |
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I just send my first oil change in to Blackstone this week. I installed a Power Enterprise filter that has magnets in it along with Motul 300V so When I do that oil change, I'll be able to report the differences between the two.
I had just a tiny bit above 2K miles when I did the change. The engine runs a LOT smoother now. I'm curious to see how much, if any, my gas mileage increases. It should go up a little. I won't be changing my oil again for quite some time though. So the comparison with the 2 reports won't happen for months. I do keep a blog *somewhat* regularly updated with different things I do to my car at: http://www.myhachiroku.com if anyone is interested. Not a lot of info there just yet, but I plan to add more eventually.
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