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Old 04-05-2012, 05:50 PM   #284
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Originally Posted by tachi1247 View Post
That is a crazy amount of oil for a 2 L engine. I've seen V8 engines that use that much. Never seen a 2L engine that takes over 4 qts.
My Exige [with its 1.8L engine] harbors about 9.2 quarts of oil. 5.5 quarts for the normal sump and an extra 3.7 quarts through the dual oil coolers.

<6 quarts is fine with me. It's not like you change it often either, perhaps 5k miles for the first change and then every 7,500 to 10k miles depending on how the UOA's come back.
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