Cooking oil?
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Currently I am running a stock engine. However, after running on full throttle between 5k and 7k for about an hour and half or more the oil pressure tends to drop to around 15psi at idle. The pressure drops, the lifters start to tick heavily and the oil turns rather dark. Does this sound like cooking oil?
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I just ordered the FM thermostatic oil cooler. To keep the revs that high I simply drive fast in the santa cruz mountians, or the coastal range, or the trinity alps, or the siskyous, or the mountains in northern oregon/southern washington.
I find that the weaknesses of a stock(mostly) miata are brakes and a engine compression. The compression would be nice both for power and for braking. The problem is that running at 8 or 9 tenths for hours tends to overheat the brakes, the oil, and the gearbox. No worries though.
I find that the weaknesses of a stock(mostly) miata are brakes and a engine compression. The compression would be nice both for power and for braking. The problem is that running at 8 or 9 tenths for hours tends to overheat the brakes, the oil, and the gearbox. No worries though.
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No details on OP's oil. No details on water temp. No details on OP's car. Is it a 1.6 or 1.8?
It would help to know because the 1.8 has an oil cooler.
Please be much more vague next time. It makes it much easier for us to give the incorrect advice you desire.
It would help to know because the 1.8 has an oil cooler.
Please be much more vague next time. It makes it much easier for us to give the incorrect advice you desire.
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Just throwing it out there that racing oil may be better suited to his usage of the car than regular motor oil. May not be. Dunno. Also pointing out the fact that blending (let's just say) half and half 10W-40 and 20W-50 results in a 15W-45 blend. Given this fact, it may be better to simply select an oil better suited to the situation. Even though I think the situation is being highly exaggerated. Kind of like your masculinity.
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Just throwing it out there that racing oil may be better suited to his usage of the car than regular motor oil. May not be. Dunno. Also pointing out the fact that blending (let's just say) half and half 10W-40 and 20W-50 results in a 15W-45 blend. Given this fact, it may be better to simply select an oil better suited to the situation. Even though I think the situation is being highly exaggerated. Kind of like your masculinity.
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To keep the revs that high I simply drive fast in the santa cruz mountians, or the coastal range, or the trinity alps, or the siskyous, or the mountains in northern oregon/southern washington. The problem is that running at 8 or 9 tenths for hours tends to overheat the brakes, the oil, and the gearbox. No worries though.
Enjoy your fiery death at the bottom of a canyon. I just hope you don't kill some nice family in a minivan while you were at it. I hope you remember this post while your skin crisps.
And thanks for coming back to your thread and answering the questions of all the people here trying to help you. Oh wait, that's right, you didn't!
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Wasn't really making a recommendation, just tossing something out there. If you weren't constantly beating your 2" dick to a photo of Tom Cruise sitting in your mother's basement, you wouldn't be so up tight about things. BTW, Mobil One isn't the ****, I am the ****, and that's that. The person you should be questioning is gayus69, who is more full of **** than you are, claiming to run harder and longer on the street than I rail your sister.