Castrol edge 0w30

[touge rolla]

castrol edge 0w30 in mr2, is it a go or a no??

[Santa'sBoostinSleigh]

may help to state which model MR2

[Lloyd]

And no anyway

[Dell'Orto]

Far too thin, unless its a fresh motor with uber tight clearances. I think factory spec is a 10w30/40.

[gleem]

i got told the same thing on my gtt and it's 5w-30 btw, i think your better going off for 0w-40 if you want to use castrol edge.

[matt dunn]

Just went thru all this last week.

There are 3 or 4 types of Castrol Edge.

2 cars, 2 symptoms.

Car 1 was severly overheating, up to 120 on the gauge,
but oil temps were only in the 70's.
The car had always run the oil temp and water temps within a few degree's, and on a normal car after a decent run the oil should be hotter then the water.

Car 2 shat a new Turbo in testing and was determined to be excessive heat on the shaft that caused it. ( been thru that before too)
Was the first time it was run on edge too.

Final result, something we found a few years back,
synthetic oils do not absorb heat from things.

Egde is synthetic and therfore doesn't absorb heat.

Awesome advantage in a non turbo car,
but really bad for turbo's
and makes your oil cooler just there for the ride.

Car 1 changed back to magnatec and the oil temp's once again matched the water temps and a bit more, and helped to solve the heating problem.
( cant say for sure that is was the only thing that helped though)

car 2 also went back to non-synthetic.

Ask a turbo expert about turbo's and synthetic oils.
they do go together.

On a non-turbo car though Edge may just give you the edge.

[fivebob]

That's odd, because Mobil-1 definitely does absorb heat. On the Caldina, the oil temp is usually a 5-6°C above the water temp, and when the motor is pushed, the oil temp goes up first, and by a lot more than the water temp .

[matt dunn]

That's odd, because Mobil-1 definitely does absorb heat. On the Caldina, the oil temp is usually a 5-6°C above the water temp, and when the motor is pushed, the oil temp goes up first, and by a lot more than the water temp .

Yeah was weird but definatly what we found.
Had us puzzled as we could nopt understand how the water could be so hot and the oil so cold, especially as the car still had the oil cooler that used the engine water to cool it.
We have been told for years buy our turbo suppliers not to us synthetic oil's on the turbo race cars due to not taking the heat away from the shaft.

[touge rolla]

thanks will keep away from it