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Old 11-02-2006, 06:28 AM
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what is the weight of oil suggeted to be running high rpms,,
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are you serious?

Try reading your owners manual, do a search.

10W30 is good enough.

damn noobs, and young ones at that (18yr old OP)

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what kinda RMPs are you talking about here? it won't make a diff. as far as oil (unless you change your tolerances internally...) i was just curious what your plans were
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5W-30
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for normal racers we use 10w-30 for people who are Racer X they use 5w-58
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i always run some 5w30.. unless it has some small leaks then i will step up to like a 10w30
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