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Old 10-30-2006, 06:46 PM
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I've been thinking about it for awile and thought, "what the hell, why not?" I'm talkin about synthetic oil. I've heard you'll get like 5-10 horse power out of it and it will run better. and it's only like $20 more than regular oil. All you do is drain the old oil out and just put synthetic in it, right? What kind do I get? I don't know anything about synthetic anything.
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Old 10-30-2006, 07:18 PM
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How many miles do you have??

About those HP# there a bit to high you might see a few HP but no more then 5.
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Old 10-30-2006, 07:21 PM
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i use castrol syntec in my 6er i noticed a difference
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I just swithed to mobil 1 synthetic an i have 91k an it runs excellent!!! No leaks or oil consumption. And it runs alot smoother.
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Old 10-30-2006, 09:16 PM
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thats the only oil i use, mobile 1 full synthetic.. goes in every car i change the oil in
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Old 10-30-2006, 09:38 PM
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MOBIL 1 is the only oil you should use. or well thats my opinion
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Old 10-30-2006, 09:39 PM
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mobil 1 is a great synthetic, +1 on the mobile 1
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Old 10-30-2006, 10:10 PM
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mobil 1 syn 15-50
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Old 10-30-2006, 10:10 PM
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Yeah, you can just drain the old oil and put the synthetic in. There's no harm in switching from one to the other, either way...hell, you can mix the two if you want...no harm is possible, contrary to what some say. If you develop leaks or the car starts burning too much oil, just switch back to regular. I may do the same, just to see what happens.
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Old 10-30-2006, 10:11 PM
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ORIGINAL: 91LXStang2727

I just swithed to mobil 1 synthetic an i have 91k an it runs excellent!!! No leaks or oil consumption. And it runs alot smoother.
Hey 91LX, was the car using ANY oil before you switched to synthetic? Just curious.
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