Which oil to use

[mattvaughan180]

Hi all going to be getting the s14 out of the garage soon and since buying back in September last year and only covering 130 miles since(most of that was the drive home from purchasing lol) I’m going to be changing the oil and filter but which oil would you recommend?
Many thanks Matt

[arry]

I wouldn't sweat it too much mate. Any decent fully synthetic 5-40, 5-50 or even 10-50 will be fine. Find the best deal on anything around that range.

[sx rider]

I went with this for my last change https://www.opieoils.co.uk/p-114466-...ngine-oil.aspx

Had this before but it's overkill for just a road based car I've been told, hence the change to the one above
https://www.opieoils.co.uk/p-60122-g...ngine-oil.aspx

[green_rs13]

I wouldn't sweat it too much mate. Any decent fully synthetic 5-40, 5-50 or even 10-50 will be fine. Find the best deal on anything around that range.

this is basically my chain of thoughts. although its funny how some people are mega anal about these sort of things.

[danjvandyke]

I do a couple of trackdays a year and have always used 5w 40 millers nanodrive technology. Not bad price from opieoils.

[mattvaughan180]

Thanks for the advice just been looking through the invoices for the car and it’s currently got millers cfs completion oil in it which looking on Opie oils is for competition vehicles track use/hill climbs etc,I’m only going to be using the car for the odd track day and road use, does anyone know any discount codes for Opie oils I watch monkey London on you tube I’m pretty sure he has a discount code

[autosri]

I use whichever decent 5w40 Halfords or euro car parts have on sale I just bought some petronas 5w40 fully synthetic from euros for 17 quid just make sure you get a decent filter like oem or Bosch ect

[Gazwould]

Which actual Petronas ?

[autosri]

E3000 or 3000e or something like that

[Gazwould]

It's OK but there's always better for similar bucks.

If not going to an ester racing marketed oil ( only ever 10-20% group 5 ester content ) I'd go for a 5W40 VW 505.01 spec .

Fuchs took over from Castrol to produce the Quantum oils in doing so reformulated so a tiny bit thicker etc ( a grade has around a 4 unit range ).

[autosri]

I’m sure there is better but it fine for a weekend toy car that does like 2k a year and seems to get changed twice a year

[sxstu]

Only ever run fuchs titan race 10w50. Previous owner ran it, so stuck with. Bit costly but buy when opie have offers on :-) done nearly 80k over 6 1/2 years of owner ship, daily hdev stage 2a, no vvt rattle, still sounds quite and smooth, the only tappy noise is the nismo 555's

[oilman]

Hi all going to be getting the s14 out of the garage soon and since buying back in September last year and only covering 130 miles since(most of that was the drive home from purchasing lol) I’m going to be changing the oil and filter but which oil would you recommend?
Many thanks Matt

Hi Matt,

Is the S14 Standard? If its standard than I would use a 5w-40 synthetic and you will find those through the link below.

http://www.opieoils.co.uk/c-656-5w-40.aspx

Out of those, the best ones are the Fuchs/Silkolene Pro S, Millers CFS/CFS NT+, Motul Sport/300V, Red Line and Gulf Competition. The Motul 8100 X-Cess, Millers XF Longlife, Castrol Edge/Magnatec, Fuchs GT1 XTL/Supersyn, Shell Helix and Mobil Super 3000 are good, cheaper alternatives

If its modified heavily for example running 350Bhp+ than a good 10w50 would be the more suitable choice.

As for the filter, ive added it below.

https://www.opieoils.co.uk/p-74028-g...il-filter.aspx

If you use the code SXOC, you qualify for 10% off at the checkout.

Regards

Jack

[mattvaughan180]

Hi Matt,

Is the S14 Standard? If its standard than I would use a 5w-40 synthetic and you will find those through the link below.

http://www.opieoils.co.uk/c-656-5w-40.aspx

Out of those, the best ones are the Fuchs/Silkolene Pro S, Millers CFS/CFS NT+, Motul Sport/300V, Red Line and Gulf Competition. The Motul 8100 X-Cess, Millers XF Longlife, Castrol Edge/Magnatec, Fuchs GT1 XTL/Supersyn, Shell Helix and Mobil Super 3000 are good, cheaper alternatives

If its modified heavily for example running 350Bhp+ than a good 10w50 would be the more suitable choice.

As for the filter, ive added it below.

https://www.opieoils.co.uk/p-74028-g...il-filter.aspx

If you use the code SXOC, you qualify for 10% off at the checkout.

Regards

Jack

Thanks jack

Car is currently stage 1a tuned but in April it’s getting a custom map and supporting mods so say 350bhp, you reckon 10w 40w then??

[oilman]

Thanks jack

Car is currently stage 1a tuned but in April it’s getting a custom map and supporting mods so say 350bhp, you reckon 10w 40w then??

Hi Matt,

In that case, a 10w50 would be the better choice.

http://www.opieoils.co.uk/c-659-10w-50.aspx

They are all really good oils to pick from and any of them will be fine for it.

Regards

Jack