Thread: Oil choices question?? the Edge

royal purple......lol its purple,

Valvoline SynPower Full Synthetic 10W30 on my B11 , and Valvoline Durablend 10W30 on the 200sx

Nissan OEM filters subbed out to FRAM, with all the same issues as those pieces of ****. Cut one open if you doubt it.

Cardboard end caps (which sometimes separate in FRAM-built filters), crappy element, these are not "Nissan" any more, so if you're flying your OEM loyalty flag, don't bother - buy Purolater Pure One, Mobil, K&N, NAPA Gold(WIX), not the Nissan OEM unless you want to pay 2X for a FRAM filter that may fall apart and definitely does not work as well keeping your oil free of particulates...note these are mostly VQ35 spec oil filters but the Nissan OEM is no different internally for SR20's:







Check out BobIsTheOilGuy for some better info. Get Used Oil Analysis done at Blackstone or other labs, find out what's really working or not for your oil choice. While I've switched from Mobil One to Rotella Syn for my G Coupe (if you're really curious why, check here), I'd still use it in my SR20, and if you can score the Castrol Syn with the German Spec, that's good, too. Amsoil, also good.

^^^ nissan oil filters ftl.

just put in 0w30 castrol (german made) and the new royal purple oil filter (made by champ labs same people that make the m1 and k&n, but the rp has all synthetic material inside).

+1^ RP also good choice, another reason to hate the newer OEM filters, paper only filters about 50 micron particles vs. 20-30 for good synthetic media. The 0W30 German Castrol has a big following in the FI Subie Crowd, too. There's no downside to running the 0W30 vs. 10W30, I use 5W40 in my G's VQ, 0W30 in my B13.

Just converted to German Castrol Syntec 0w30 after the appropriate break-in with dino oil on my high compression NA highport (using Nissan OEM filters. Hopefully the highport version is still made by Nissan). Must say, I love it so far. I'll see how it fares in a couple of weeks at my first track day.

Darrin

I also recommend Pure One filters because of the higher quality bypass valve for better starts.

Good info about those Nissan filters, I would have just kept using those forever. Now I know

This man knows his stuff and i agree 10000%

food for thought, read the whole thread fellas Which oil is best. Analysis Pros and Cons - G20.net - Forums

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