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nuts4nissan09 · 03-03-2010, 12:02 PM

I had a SES light come up a few months back. The tech had to talk to someone at the factory because he couldn't figure out why it was a code for a misfire. My car is a manual w/ sport package and no mods (just AMSOIL). He said only one other 370 has come in with this misfire and from what we could figure it was from tagging the rev limiter. It made sense because I do stretch her out from time to time. One thing I remember was that the idle settled @1,000 rpm with the SES light on and went back to its normal 650 rpm idle after the code was cleared. I've put about 1,500 miles on the car since the code was cleared and have been trying to shift right when I see the light come on. So far so good. I don't think Royal Purple would hurt your engines' top end, but if you want a synthetic with esters AMSOIL and Redline might be worth a look. BTW I have @ 11,000 miles on my Z.

03-03-2010, 12:02 PM	#17 (permalink)
nuts4nissan09 Base Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Washington,NC Posts: 39 Drives: 09 370Z PW Sport MT Rep Power: 16	Cylinder misfire I had a SES light come up a few months back. The tech had to talk to someone at the factory because he couldn't figure out why it was a code for a misfire. My car is a manual w/ sport package and no mods (just AMSOIL). He said only one other 370 has come in with this misfire and from what we could figure it was from tagging the rev limiter. It made sense because I do stretch her out from time to time. One thing I remember was that the idle settled @1,000 rpm with the SES light on and went back to its normal 650 rpm idle after the code was cleared. I've put about 1,500 miles on the car since the code was cleared and have been trying to shift right when I see the light come on. So far so good. I don't think Royal Purple would hurt your engines' top end, but if you want a synthetic with esters AMSOIL and Redline might be worth a look. BTW I have @ 11,000 miles on my Z.