Redline oil overrated?

[Sumo]

I hear so many people raving about redline oil, but I drove a car the other day with redline lightweight in the g/box and it felt the same as mine... All I am running is a Mobil Fully synthetic gear oil. I thinking that the people that are putting it into their boxes are first time changes since the car has landed from Japan, and even mineral based gear oil feels 100% better then the shit in the gear box that the japs have never changed.

I would like to hear some other peoples opinions on this subject who have tried both oils. I just think its plain rude for people to be asking for $100-110 for 4 liters of oil. That said I paid $52 for 4 liters of mobil fully synth gear oil - which hurt the pocket alot.

Sumo

[Jay95R33]

Originally posted by Sumo

I just think its plain rude for people to be asking for $100-110 for 4 liters of oil.

LOL - I paid $75 for 200ml of diff additive for my 2 way

But it did the job and I'm happy...

Anyway, I haven't tried Redline yet, but I'm using VMX80 at the moment. It was OK for the first 9 months (better than the goo that was in there), but I'm still not 100% happy with it.

I'll give the redline stuff a go.

The way I look at it is I spend about $60 every 5000km on motor oil and filter, so $100 every 2 years or so for the gearbox is fine.

J

[Duncan]

sumo, I've got no particular comment on the "feel" of redline for gear changes. The reason I use it is that the synchros in my box are wearing and it was crunching with my old oil.

Put in the redline, and the crunch is gone! Can't ask for more than that!

I wouldn't suggest that the r33 box is a sweet shifting one at all, it is precise, but long throw and very tight when cold.

[rb25]

way over-rated. it was good at first, but after 10,000km the grind in 2nd and 3rd is back and its actually worse than before. im dumping it in exchange for some castrol syntrax. what a waste of money

[gtrken]

If you have a crunch now , then the Castrol will not solve it.

We use the Syntrax as a matter of course when we change the oil at 100,000km in the Sooby's. If it's crunching , it still will.

Put in redline and crunch gone. Can also get them into reverse without having to wait the recommended 3 secs.

I look at it like this

$120 every 10-15,000 km

$1500 to rebuild the box and have the same problem in 50,000 odd kms with spirited driving.

Do the maths...

Cheers

Ken

[bless_you]

i have diff, gear and motor... best $400 i ever spent.

i have castrol synth in it before and when the redline went in the whole car, the difference was amazing... never go back.

the engine runs much cooler too.

[rb25]

the problem is, is the ultra lightweight is too light. it expands when hot, i know this coz my din gauges get misty from it. once bitten......