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Old 01-22-2013, 02:48 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by Blighty View Post

So the key seems for me to be that if you want to have a happy car on and after a track day, then you either keep the temp down, or use a thicker oil.
Eloquent, simple, accurate.

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I'm sure that frequent oil changes are good too.
That's up to you. Oil analysis can help you determine that.

Check this out:
http://www.joegibbsracingoil.com/tra...h/filters.html
On my race car I used to change my oil/filter between every race weekend... talk about throwing money away. Now I go several race weekends but change filters.

On the converse:

In that other thread it will see it mentioned that this is a Direct Injected engine and some DI engines have a tendency to have some fuel get into their oil as a result. I don't know if this DI engine is susceptible to that but hence the need for oil analysis. I think changing at 3k is way overkill though, especially with how good modern oil is now including synthetics.
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