Castrol GTX

divine` · 31 Oct 2007 at 15:40

[TW]Fox;10390447 said:
What £1.50 is lots more?

Yeah, Zip is pretty poor.

He lives in a kangaroo. (though it needs quad ester double synthetic oil)

Zip · 31 Oct 2007 at 15:41

[TW]Fox;10390447 said:
What £1.50 is lots more?

Around $4AUD

I only have $2 in the bank

carlosvr6 · 31 Oct 2007 at 17:52

How does General motors oil compare to the other oils i posted earlier?

Local motor factor is selling this at £12 for 5L

Matt82 · 31 Oct 2007 at 17:57

general motors basically sends off some specs, to say a company like Castrol, and Casrtol make it to those 'GM' specs.

VW do it and it comes back as Quantum Synta/Gold, a friggin amazing oil

Gaygle · 31 Oct 2007 at 20:03

Matt82 said:
maybe castrol priced it so high after learning how susceptible we are to marketting after the magnatec thing

LOL don't start....

Simon · 8 Nov 2007 at 14:36

Matt82 said:
VW do it and it comes back as Quantum Synta/Gold, a friggin amazing oil

Sorry to drag this one up.

How come this oil is amazing ?

Acolyte · 8 Nov 2007 at 14:51

I changed my oil for some Castrol GTX (before this thread existed though),

doesnt come reccomended from me, its made one of my lifters noisy until warm, it used to quieten down after about 5 seconds, now it takes about 10 minutes!

The old dirty oil in the engine did a better job of quietening it! Will not be using this **** again.

needmorespeed · 8 Nov 2007 at 14:51

On the bottle of magnetec 5w30 i got this morning it said it was fully synthetic

Simon · 8 Nov 2007 at 14:55

Acolyte said:
I changed my oil for some Castrol GTX (before this thread existed though),

doesnt come reccomended from me, its made one of my lifters noisy until warm, it used to quieten down after about 5 seconds, now it takes about 10 minutes!

The old dirty oil in the engine did a better job of quietening it! Will not be using this **** again.

Replacing dirty, soot thickened, oxidised, thick oil with nice fresh thin stuff does have a habit of making engines noisier. Your engine would be silent on treacle I would guess.

What engine is it out of interest?

Acolyte · 8 Nov 2007 at 15:04

Its an 1.8 Renault F7P block, bored to 2.0 with Williams crank and pistons. (Effectively making it the F7R engine). But i wouldnt expect a honda head to know that

It was built, bored e.t.c in 2002 (including new lifters

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Simon · 8 Nov 2007 at 15:17

Acolyte said:
Its an 1.8 Renault F7P block, bored to 2.0 with Williams crank and pistons. (Effectively making it the F7R engine). But i wouldnt expect a honda head to know that

It was built, bored e.t.c in 2002 (including new lifters )

I rebuilt a mates F7R in my kitchen

I'm still more of a Rover head than Honda man anyway. I've hardly done anything to mine.