What is the best synthetic oil?

Chriz

looks like the new search function still dosent work

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Matt

What are your oil temps getting up to? You plan on tracking the car, or only for street use? A lot of us that never plan on hitting a track will never need an oil cooler, especially us "lucky" ones that have never seen 230+ temps.

As far as "best" synthetic oil, that'll be debateable until the end of time. Pick a brand of oil, check it reguarly and keep it topped off. Use a company like Blackstone for an oil analysis after your oil change and they'll tell you how the oil (and engine) is performing.

Nissan "recommends" its own brand Ester Oil in the manual, however that is not required.

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370Zsteve

Mattie, you've never seen 230? I've seen it but only in heavy traffic in 90+ temps. And it never got above 230, even when sitting on I-95 in the Bronx at 95F outside temp.

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VCuomo

Nissan "recommends" it for both the manual and automatic. And it's not a synthetic.

Matt

Not for the manual, "in" the manual...owner's manual.

And I was pointing out what the manual says, because the usual follow-up question is "will I void my warranty if I use xxx brand of oil and the manual says to use Nissan Ester Oil?"

@ 370zSteve: I've not seen 230 yet, and that's driving hard and fast in 106+ temps here in GA. Hell, even on the dyno day sitting in 90's and then doing 5 pulls on the dyno it didn't get up that high.

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frost

Hows your foot taste VC?

VCuomo

Since both of my feet are still firmly planted on the ground, I wouldn't know. Go back and read the original post - you can read it more than one way (that's why people need to be precise in what they write in posts on the Internet, like in this case stating "Owner's Manual" would have removed all ambiguity). On this topic, there've been some, uh, "interesting" posts, wouldn't you say - so it's entirely possible that he meant it the way I read it...

And my other point (Nissan's ester oil isn't synthetic) is also correct...

370Zsteve

Ya well turns out I'm at 220 not 230 , the needle was in front of the 2nd '2'

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