Oil Question

[gabkwong]

This time I put in the Mobil 1 0W30 and it run more willing at cold start. I have always use Mobil 1 10w30, change every 5K miles and OEM filter. It always feel like something is holding it back until I am about 1/2 a mile down the road. I bought the 0W30 by mistake. Instead taking it back to the store. I am surprise I kind of like it. I definitely will not do this in the summer.

[trickyrix]

I run M1 0W-40 and my lifters still make racket sometimes. I've tried a few different things - 5W-30, 10W-40, dino, M1, Royal Purple, Marvel, ATF, sawdust, peanut shells, you name it - but the racket comes and goes as it pleases. I will say that the 0W does better on startup than anything else I've tried. Usually my lifters get real cranky when the oil gets hot (hard driving, hot day, stuck in traffic, etc). When things cool down, the noise goes away. If the car sits for a few days, then they tick a little on startup. Some days, it's perfectly quiet, but some days it still sounds like someone poured a bucket of small nuts down the oil filler neck. I just turn the radio up so I can't hear it.

That's why there's a '99 head sitting in my effing garage.

[Titus]

That's why there's a '99 head sitting in my effing garage.

Quit your bitching and install it already!

[larryd]

Coming up on my first oil change for this '97 so I'm here for some info. I've used Castrol syntec and Fram filter for all my cars and get have good luck. I was thinking of using 5W30 Syntec. Can anyone tell me what advantages the OEM filter has over aftermarkets (Fram, Wix etc)?

[Nails]

Rogue told me he uses oem or napa gold filters. He says many filters are lower quality and he's seen them fail before. I don't know about Frams.

[sammm]

Fram's typically have a bad reputation. I used them for years in the past without issue. Having said that, I now use OEM on the Miata and Wix on my truck.

[gabkwong]

Coming up on my first oil change for this '97 so I'm here for some info. I've used Castrol syntec and Fram filter for all my cars and get have good luck. I was thinking of using 5W30 Syntec. Can anyone tell me what advantages the OEM filter has over aftermarkets (Fram, Wix etc)?

Correct me if I am wrong. I think the OEM and NAPA have "a thing" in them to prevent back flow, i.e. the filter always fill with oil so that on your cold start you don't have to wait for it to fill up before start getting oil into the engine. Thus reduce wear and tear on cold start.

[CarCar]

Wix and NAPA gold are same filter. Wix is a much better design and build than anything FRAM offers.
Wix better glass fiber filter material inside able to capture and hold smaller particles, front safety by-pass valve, front silicone anti drainback valve, coil steel spring holds everything together rather than a thin leaf spring, base plate is full metal not a weaker cropped design.
FRAM toughguard and xtraguard are the only ones that have a drainback valve otherwise cheap construction, all are paper filter media with small amount of synthetic fibers.

You can use the taller Millenia filter on the Miata and get another inch of filter. Little tighter squeeze on the hands but it will fit fine.
I use exclusively the Wix Mellenia size #51356 with M1 0w30 all year and change the oil @ 7k. 160k miles on odometer.

[icepenguin66]

I`ve heard so many things about the lifters! I`ll tell ya that my car will tick pretty good at start up if I put 10w30 in it instead of 5w30. Its for the same reasons most new cars use 5w20/5w30, they have tight tollerences & the 10w is too thick on start up. A lot of the Spec guys run 0w30 as do I in my SM. 0w30 will not protect as well for a daily cruiser in the long term but isn`t bad either. 5w30 in whatever flavour if its a street car is the way to go IMHO.