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Originally Posted by Billarf
Exact fill is 5 quarts 4 ounces! (an 1/8 of a quart is 4 ounces) With a 370Z oil change you remove oil drain plug and after a few minutes you remove the old oil filter. Let vehicle sit for say 10 minutes so oil has time to drain. Re-insert oil drain plug, (with new crunch washer) replace oil filter and then pour in 5 quarts and 4 ounces of new motor oil. No reason or sense or is it correct to "kept checking and topping off" Again drain and add 5 quarts and 4 ounces period!
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Each to their own. The fill is 5 1/8th if you get every just drop out of your engine, which is never going to happen. To prevent overfill there is nothing wrong with checking as you add the last few oz. There is probably some rounding error in the original conversion from metric anyway.