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As BB says, horses for courses. I am more regularly at 120-130 degrees towards the end of a session whereas he is more around the 105-115 I'm guessing.

spot on. On track I'm up around the 115 mark at max, but oil pressure is still a steady 6 bar at anything above 3,000rpm (which is all the time).

I wouldn't worry too much about winter oil/summer oil your car pretty much runs the same temps summer or winter, maybe water temp get's up a bit in summer traffic. but even startup temps would only be 10degrees difference at most.

maybe try the 10W40 one trackday and see what the oil pressure is like?

Sorry I meant 15w50. It's the 300v Competition. I have been thinking about using the Chrono for winter but my car has always run fairly hot so I appreciate the extra thickness at high temp. I probably should use a better quality oil cooler but the one I have works ok and the 15w50 gives me the protection I need.

I do notice quite high oil pressure when cold and am particularly careful when warming up the car because when using a thicker oil like this I think the turbo is more suseptible to damage due to lack of oil flow. I never boost at all before the water is up to temp and would be lucky to hit 0.3bar before the oil temp has risen.

As BB says, horses for courses. I am more regularly at 120-130 degrees towards the end of a session whereas he is more around the 105-115 I'm guessing.

Thanks for the explaination.

I do use the 15w50 300v Competion oil, for my R32 GTR. Just Jap use it for thier GTR's that run in Targa and seems to be good.

I spoke the guy at Green Goanna and he said that he does not stock the Motul brand oil. But he suggested to use Shell Helix Ultra 15w50 for $205 incl GST for 20L. The Shell oil is used in alot of the rally cars.

Has anyone used this oil?

Cheers

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Nope Tafe is being a pain in the ass with financial year end coming up as well as new rules.. they are trying to work a way around it atm... I will post in this thread after dad goes back to work .. think school hols start next week.... or the week after... can never remember!

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Guys try Harold at performancelub.com.... Royal purple is 10.90$ for a quart (946ml)... this guy imports his stuff form America.

he is located in Melbourne, but even with postage he is cheaper then most places.

Cheers.

I picked up some Mobil 1 0w40 for 54$ (i picked it up though).

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