Does anyone else seem to have this happen?
My oil turns brown/black after only about 500 miles of use.

Valvoline non-synthetic 10W-30

 

run mobil 1 syhthetic man!

 

I will, engine still has under 2000 miles on it..so Im just waiting a little bit.

 

I use castrol gt-x and it stays pretty clean. It's amber/brown/honey (whatever?) after about 3000 and brown/black after 4000-5000.

Yes, I like to **** money down the drain too! 40+ thou miles here on a HARD driven car with virtualy no oil burning/lose at all. 10s of hours on road courses, 2 hours probably autox (a bit of time when you think about it). Really probably over 50 hours on road courses easy.

 

i noticed that tha harder you beat on the car the faster the oil get's dirty...........synthetic or not.........

 

2000 miles? on a 97 car (from your sig.)? damn... you are doing good!

 

notice he said engine, and not car.

 

Yea but you don't have a R. You know all R's will roll your GSR. What are you doing in this forum anyways

 

I just hooked up my oil pressure gauge yesterday and the oil flowing through the clear nylon tubing is black as! Only 5000km since last oil change. But i read somewhere that you cannot determine the amount of oil breakdown by it's colour.

 

ONLY 5000km??

how often do you expect to change you oil?

 

i plan to change it every 5000km or so. it's due for a oil change now, but i haven't had any free time.