i was having a debate w/ one of my friends, his dad has a 94 3.6 911 turbo porche and he used regular oil in his car,for turbo hondas, what kind of oil shoud be used???synthetic or regular and when running a turbo for the first time should you use regular oil for the first 500 miles or run synthetic from the beginning???

thanks

 

ok???

 

I've heard regular oil tends to cake up in the turbo a lot easier. So set turbo timer longer? I guess. and change oil more often.

Synthetic holds its properties better under heat and all that stuff it goes through.

You can use regular oil, but synethtic is prefered.

Put it this way, If I missed an oil change for a good lenght of time, I'd be a lot more worried if I didn't have synthetic.

I'd run synthetic from the beginning too. Unless your engine was rebuilt, and because of the rebuilt engne not the turbo.


[Modified by gtcali, 7:11 PM 12/4/2001]


[Modified by gtcali, 7:13 PM 12/4/2001]

 

ok, so synthetic from the beginning,


thanks

 

The only time NOT to use synthetic is when you're breaking in a new engine.

Synthetic lubricants are superior to natural for turbo use because they WILL NOT coke up in the bearings of a turbo under high temperatures since the compounds that cause coking are natural and are not present in a true synthetic oil.

One other note: Mobil 1 is the ONLY true synthetic oil from a major manufacturer available - other "synthetics" are laboratory-modified dino-oil but Mobil 1 is a truly synthesized product.