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Old May 2, 2007 | 06:50 PM
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Well guys since I put the lsvtec in my car I've been changing my oil every month... Yeah every month.
for some people it might sound stupid, But it's only $20 on oil and filter bro come on... Why would people think that??? I mean don't we like fresh stuff??? I think with a fress oil the engine will run better. 'not saying power-wise'.
What do you think????/
My baby is like my girl every month she's gotta have oil change. GeGeGe
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Old May 2, 2007 | 08:11 PM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by NAlover &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">
My baby is like my girl every month she's gotta have oil change. GeGeGe </TD></TR></TABLE>


That's a bit on the disgusting side, just a little.

I change mine at the normal interval of every 3 months just because the car doesn't see 3k in 3 months but it does see very hard miles mostly on the track. There are probably 10,000 different answers coming but that's just when I do mine. Anything more would be a waste of Mobile 1.
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Old May 3, 2007 | 04:37 AM
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I change every 2000 Km...
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Old May 3, 2007 | 04:41 AM
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4000km or every 2 months if only daily street driving.


but I change it after any track day, road race or drag racing.
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Old May 3, 2007 | 06:05 AM
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I go anywhere from 2500 to 3000 miles between oil changes. It's mostly just to see what interesting pieces come out with the oil or when I cut the filter open.

There's no sense in wasting oil with the price of a barrel these days.
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Old May 3, 2007 | 07:10 AM
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5000 km with Mobil 1, + or - depending on how I have been driving it during that period.
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Old May 3, 2007 | 07:30 AM
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whenever i get bored...i get bored a lot though
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Old May 3, 2007 | 08:00 AM
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every 2 months for me... free mobil 1 synthetic!!!
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Old May 3, 2007 | 05:44 PM
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most people i know change theirs around every 3k miles
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Old May 3, 2007 | 06:23 PM
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3k for me and free honda OEM filters..all i gotta buy is oil
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Old May 3, 2007 | 08:41 PM
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my dad drive my other integra and the car see's 3000mile a year only.so how often would you change it then?I keep telling him to change it cause its a cherry black LS wiht only 38,000 miles but he says no need cause never reach 3k miles.it that true that you dont need to.does anything happen to oil over time?we live in hawaii so i guess you can take into factor the humidity
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Old May 4, 2007 | 11:30 AM
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on my ls I used to change it every 15k, just change the oil filter every 3k...never had a problem
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Old May 4, 2007 | 02:50 PM
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i change mine every 2500
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Old May 4, 2007 | 03:14 PM
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I put around 1000 miles every month and to me changing the oil every month is like paying morgage... I just got used to it and I don't see anything wrong with it..

If I had a car that only see's 3k a year WOW. I guess it will be good to changed it at least 3 times a year. just so I can spend some time with the car. GEGEGE!!!
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Old May 5, 2007 | 02:33 PM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by NAlover &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">
My baby is like my girl every month she's gotta have oil change. GeGeGe </TD></TR></TABLE>

I seriously do not get this, whats gegegege? never heard of that brand.

I use royal purple, I should probably change it, its been a while.
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Old May 5, 2007 | 03:10 PM
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Every 1500 miles. I drive pretty hard so I change it frequently. I also run itb's with no filter which is the other reason I change it so often.
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Old May 5, 2007 | 07:03 PM
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About every 3000 miles for the daily. Every 300-500 miles for the little bastard.
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Old May 5, 2007 | 08:10 PM
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every 1500 miles.

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Old May 6, 2007 | 10:01 AM
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wow im going on like 8k miles on my daily hard drivin driver.

I use royal purp tho.
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Old May 6, 2007 | 01:01 PM
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GeGeGe means JaJaJa is just the way I luagh.

Whats does running ITB's with no filter has to do with changing the oil more often.??? Does the oil gets dirty faster or something like that???

By the way what do you think about runing a velocity stack on a DD, I mean all the time???
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Old May 6, 2007 | 01:13 PM
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you lose power with a velocity stack, its proven. You lose power without a filter. Only time you gain anything is with ITB's and tuned.

Yea dust will get inside the intake, thus traveling inside the engine, hence getting mixed with your oil.
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Old May 7, 2007 | 04:32 PM
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thanks for the info. But how come velocity stacks have been dyno proven to make more power???
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Old May 7, 2007 | 05:00 PM
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ITB's have been because their tuned. Removing your filter and just using a velocity stack will lose power. if you SEARCHED! you would see that people have already dyno'ed this, and LOST power.
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Old May 7, 2007 | 06:00 PM
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Default Re: How often do you change your Oil??? (NAlover)

i change mine usualy every month or after each race normaly depends on how hard i run my car and how often... but usualy once a month like you lol
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Old May 7, 2007 | 06:15 PM
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I think a miss understood something or someone did... I'm talking about a regular 3" intake with a Velocity stack on it...
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