San Diego BS Thread.

I hear ya on that, I have my 2 Motorcycles in the garage and work on em with the door closed. I can only work on my truck on holidays when maintenance and the office ppl are gone. I have a stealthy way of doing oil changes now, only takes 10 minutes haha.

 

my last oil change was amy first 10k interval, I used mobil1 extended performance and the matching filter. around 9-10k I started noticing a little bit of power loss and my gas mileage went down. I'm gonna stick with 7500 for my OCI.

 

I'm glad I'm not the only one...haha. My oil changes take me about 30 minutes. I have one of those quick drain valves on my truck, so no tools needed...just takes longer for the oil to actually drain. On the other cars I need to get the jack and stands out, that's always fun when trying to keep quiet.

I let my OCI go closer to 15k once when I just couldn't find time to do it and did notice the truck idle a little rougher. Since then is when I decided to do my oil changes at 10k or 1 year, whichever comes first. If you or anyone on here wants to try Amsoil out, let me know (I think I mentioned having a membership with them earlier in this thread).

 

When I worked at a motorcycle shop the Amsoil rep told me (he told me so grain of salt with it) that a car they sponsored racing ran an entire season on the same oil. After each race they would pull a sample of the oil to test and even after the last race the results showed the oil was still good. Pretty crazy if you ask me!

 

The only problem with running oil for a long time is the fact that it will get some condensation in it from heat cycling and combustion as well as hydrocarbons getting into the oil passing by the piston rings during combustion cycles. The oil itself may be fine the the hydrocarbons and water isnt the best thing ever. Just my opinion, I change every 7K with Rotella synthetic on all my cars, trucks and motorcycles.
Well I change it on the bikes every few hours actually, lol.

 

An oil change is the cheapest insurance (I think) for your engine's long life! When I used petroleum oil, I changed it between 3-4 thousand miles. I put over 100,000 miles on my first two Tacomas in less than 5 years. That was a lot of oil changes! However, I did not have one engine problem.

I switched to synthetic oil last year on my third Tacoma at 88,000 miles (7 years old) after having the regular oil changed every 3-4 thousand, as before. No problems with the engine. I went 8,000 miles on it. Castrol Edge 0w-40. The oil was darkened, but still transparent.

The replaced oil last week was Castrol Edge High Mileage 5w-30.

 

I need to correct this post... I got Castrol Edge High Mileage, not the Extended Performance. I was looking at the website for Castrol and saw the difference between the two bottles.

 

Oil catch can ftw! Spray so much water out my truck engine.

@Speed Freek you run rotella in the bikes? Works fine with wet clutches?

 

Yep I run the Rotella 15w-40 non synthetic in my bikes with wet clutches or transmissions sharing oil. And the Rotella T6 Synthetic in everything else (engine side on Honda CRFs, cars and trucks).
And yeah Catch cans get a shitload of vapor turning into water, all that crap normally goes through your motor. People dont realize how much water is present during combustion, catch can is a good way of being able to actually see it.

 

Ill be racing on Saturday, come on out if you are bored, Ill be the guy in the back trying to catch everyone, lol

 

Have a blast Jason!

 

Looks like this would be fun to go to see, already told the wifey i'd take to the date festival on Sat though.
If your not in front, i'm sure you'll be right the middle of it all. Have fun and be safe bro.

 

Im in cali this week was headed to san diego stopped at legoland and saw this 4runner looks good

 

Wait til you see one with plate bumpers, rear ladder, frame sliders, and a bunch more expo stuff.

 

After my warrenty is over i might go for a 6 inch lift
But i wonder how the drive is on streets

 

6" lift is dumb...unless it's a mall crawler

 

I dont kniw it would give more clearence for the snow i would think.
Because if it snows i have to get to work to go out plowing

 

Good luck racing Jason!

 

Ah, I'm heading out of town this weekend. Good luck!!!

 

Thanks everybody!! Plan on heading out tomorrow morning and get sign ups and sound test done so I can go play around out there a bit and get my suspension dialed for this kind of racing, normally I do D37 which is much more difficult but not as fast, so we will see how good I am at trying to race in a different district!
Should be OK, I think I can ride fast, but that will be decided once the banner drops! Talk is cheeeeep.
I plan on racing in Amateur (B) instead of Expert/Pro (A) since I havent actually been in competition of a Championship for over a year, nice thing is the Am and Exp/Pro start on the same line so Im technically still racing against the fast guys, lol.
I know, what a sandbagger.....but I want a dang 1st place trophy, .

Is what it is, just gotta keep from having a yardsale and things should be fine. Thats the only real downside to these fast courses, if you have a mishap things go sideways quicker than you can blink, so the plan is to not do that.