silkoline

[mart 63]

anybody used 5w 40.Any banter will help .It must be the the north wales thing.

[S-X-S]

Opeilman recommended the Silkolene stuff to me for my engine when its finished.
But my tech guys recommend something called PlusR???? Personally never heard of it, but it aint cheap that I know for sure.

[mart 63]

expence do'nt matter just want to go with the flow

[S-X-S]

mart 63 said:

expence do'nt matter just want to go with the flow

Sorry didnt mention, the PlusR is specifically designed for dry-sumped high vacuum tight ring sealed configs, 600bp+ setups mostly. It would not do a wetsump setup any good. Silkoline is superb in that area, I'd recommend 15-50w.

[laurieb]

mart 63 said:

anybody used 5w 40.Any banter will help .It must be the the north wales thing.

Yep using it in my modified Jag S-type R . Used to run Jag's recomended oil Mobil FE Special but that was degrading v quickly. Slightly smoky exhaust and about 1000 miles per litre consumed at the latter end of the service interval. Silkolene 5w 40 seems just the right thing - no apparent degredation at 3.5k miles and nil consumption. I'll change it at 5k miles though cos I'm picky ....

Cheers

[Cyclone1]

I use Silkolenes Pro S 10W-50 in my Cerb, and used it in my two previous cars. Highly recommend it.

[Steve_T]

Nice to hear that Cyclone, I ordered the same to go in my Cerb. The Mobil 1 had to go!

Steve.

[Cyclone1]

The Silkolene synthetic is "ester" based so it is superior to Mobil 1 in that it doesn't degrade as quickly. I spend a lot of money with Mobil/Exxon (through work) and even their Rep agrees that the Silkolene is superior, however, that doesn't mean that the Mobil isn't a good quality oil.

[mart 63]

Cyclone 1 what was the car using before the change,if it was different did you do an oil flush first.