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Old 03-11-2010, 02:39 PM   #76 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Zsteve View Post
I was told by the service manager that the ester oil was to help quiet things down in the engine and the only way I can see that happening is that it has to be more lubricated and I guess thats what the ester is suppose to do. But I just put in royal purple and have a couple hundred miles on it and I notice no difference in engine noise. Its loud to begin with.
That's not the engine noise they're talking about. It's not engine "loudness" that the Ester oil helps with, there is an issue with valvetrain noise (clatter) in some VQ37 engines - according to a Nissan TSB (it's posted here on the site somewhere) the Ester oil is a "cure" for that valvetrain noise. Capisce?
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