Oil and filter decision.

[Namvet68]

Decided to go with penzoil platinum plus 0w40 and k&n kilter every 3000 miles. If anyone has other suggestions, would be appreciated. Thx in advance.

 

[fubar569]

Only the most recently produced ones are still within factory warranty...so you can pretty much use whatever you want.

I typically use Mobil 1 Euro 0w40 but recently switched to Driven HP-X Euro 0w40 - all metals went down at the first interval except for aluminum but we're talking a very minute increase. Car ran 2 events, drove over 4000 miles to/from/during those and ran 16 passes or so on that OCI. So likely just from the absolute ass beating it took.

What I can say is the OEM 899 filter is spectacular. Insolubles were at a TR amount. I then switched to Fram Titanium because I got 8 filters for 3 bucks a piece on closeout. That increased to 0.2 - Once those are gone I will be going back to OEM.

 

[drag racer]

Oil choice is great, filter choice was great until K&N succumbed and outsourced the manufacturing to "Far East" suppliers - beware . I will never put an Asian filter on my cars unless it's the last choice on Earth between driving and not.

 

[jroyk]

Purolator and Wix are owned by Mann+Hummel. Their QC has been pretty bad lately. The OCD oil filter nerds that cut and post pics on BITOG are saying the best built filters these days are MicroGard Select, NAPA Gold and Mobil 1. Mobil 1 were being made by M+H and Exxon Mobil fired them.