oil change time

tamadrumr88 · Post by **tamadrumr88** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 11:52 am

ive decided to do my own oil change for the first time and i also decided that since i wont be paying for labor, ill put that money towards buying better products (ie: redline/royal purple oil, etc). i know how the process works and ive read the neons.org faq, ive just never done it for myself

i hear alot about 20w-50 getting rid of the infamous piston slap, is this something i should look into??

should i consider synthetic @ 46k miles?

what brand filter other than an OEM/stock replacement.... fram? k&n?

thanks

SILVER-ES · Post by **SILVER-ES** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 12:35 pm

Here is a good sticky on this topic...

http://forum.2gn.org/viewtopic.php?t=2359

dawm · Post by **dawm** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 12:48 pm

theres also a topic on .org about filters

http://forums.neons.org/viewtopic.php?t=167038

i used to use fram x2 or whatever its called, but ive since switched to either the mopar filter or acdelco

tamadrumr88 · Post by **tamadrumr88** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 1:37 pm

SILVER-ES wrote:Here is a good sticky on this topic...

http://forum.2gn.org/viewtopic.php?t=2359

i totally missed that, but theres still some questions remaining that dont pertain to synthetic oils

i still need to know:

5w-30, 10w-30, or 20w-50 synthetic mobil one

ACdelco filter all the way

Frizbe · Post by **Frizbe** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 2:08 pm

5W is recomended, anything heavier sholud help with the piston slap, but you will have to change it before it gets to cold or the engine may not start because the oil is to heavy so the engine won't turn over.

tamadrumr88 · Post by **tamadrumr88** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 3:01 pm

so how about something in between the 5w-30 and 20w-50 since winter is coming up? perhaps 10w-30.... when summer/spring comes ill go to 20w-50?

WiTeOuT · Post by **WiTeOuT** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 4:47 pm

Wow...I have never heard of using anything as heavy as 20w. Well....let us know how that works out for ya. Personally I always run 5w.

half_twisted · Post by **half_twisted** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 4:58 pm

20w-50 is way out of the ball park..
i was running 5w-30 up until 60k then dealer advised to use 10w-30 and im running 90k so far and still running 10w-30
othe guys on the www.neonspeed.com are @ 120k ans still useing 5w-30. here are some links from the speed
thread touch on best oils and oil filters
http://www.neonspeed.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13323
http://www.neonspeed.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=11693
http://www.neonspeed.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10368

J-Villa · Post by **J-Villa** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 6:43 pm

i just picked up 10w - 30

tamadrumr88 · Post by **tamadrumr88** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 9:25 pm

iirc louie ran a 20w-50

Blazers04bluSXT · Post by **Blazers04bluSXT** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 8:45 am

I CANT GET THE DRAIN PLUG OFF

tamadrumr88 · Post by **tamadrumr88** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 3:17 pm

atleast you got your udp working now

dblsg · Post by **dblsg** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 11:26 pm

tamadrumr88 wrote:atleast you got your udp working now