S2K to BRZ as daily driver, looking for advice from anyone that has made the switch

[krayzie]

I ran my car revving it to the 4000rpm cap during break-in, driving it at various acceleration rates and engine speeds on highway runs every night. The car did not burn a drop of the stock fill, changed it to Eneos Sustina 0W-20 @ 4800km and again @ 9600km and the engine has not burned a drop of oil still. I drive it all the way to redline a couple of times on a weekly basis, and rev match downshifts to engine brake it hard coming out of the highway to give it some exercise.

The engine got noticeably smoother on hard acceleration after the 9600km oil change. Also changed the tranny oil and diff oil to Subaru Extra-S (rebranded Eneos Gear Oil 75W-90 GL-5 according to Eneos) @ 9600km, the gearbox shifts and the diff locks up so much smoother now. Currently at 12,000km.

[Poodles]

Originally Posted by Darnold

I get that the original fluids are there to assist in handling any flaws in production and assist in the break in period, the reason I want to be persistent with changing fluids is it's not uncommon to acquire shavings or other pieces of debris in the filter/oil within the first couple hundred/thousand miles. I'll see if I can make it to 2K miles but I won't drive the car very hard with whatever it came with.

Filter is before the rest of the motor and unless you had MAJOR wear the filter isn't going to go into bypass from restriction. If you have wear bad enough to clog the filter, your engine is toast already.

[Darnold]

Originally Posted by krayzie

I ran my car revving it to the 4000rpm cap during break-in, driving it at various acceleration rates and engine speeds on highway runs every night. The car did not burn a drop of the stock fill, changed it to Eneos Sustina 0W-20 @ 4800km and again @ 9600km and the engine has not burned a drop of oil still. I drive it all the way to redline a couple of times on a weekly basis, and rev match downshifts to engine brake it hard coming out of the highway to give it some exercise.

The engine got noticeably smoother on hard acceleration after the 9600km oil change. Also changed the tranny oil and diff oil to Subaru Extra-S (rebranded Eneos Gear Oil 75W-90 GL-5 according to Eneos) @ 9600km, the gearbox shifts and the diff locks up so much smoother now. Currently at 12,000km.

Glad to hear it! The car is certainly tightening up nicely at 300miles it's already a joy to drive more so than on day 1. Filter will get changed this weekend regardless of needed or not (ill order a couple dozen filters for maintenance). I'm a bit of a natzi on maintenance for all of my cars... My ap2 gets the valves checked/adjusted every spring after 3-4k miles of driving oO

[Timmy_Jones]

Great looking BRZ, where in NH are you?

I work in Portsmouth (Pease).

[Darnold]

Originally Posted by Timmy_Jones

Great looking BRZ, where in NH are you?



I work in Portsmouth (Pease).

Haha I used to work right across the street from Pease at new market inc. I live/work in. Nashua now. Do you have the WRB one at pease Air Force base? I convinced yan to get his black limited

[Timmy_Jones]

Originally Posted by Darnold

Haha I used to work right across the street from Pease at new market inc. I live/work in. Nashua now. Do you have the WRB one at pease Air Force base? I convinced yan to get his black limited

Excellent.

I have a Red FR-S; Sharkfin, black wheels, tint and an aftermarket exhaust.