Best oil for Porsche 996 with 3.6 X50 Engine......

[ineedagallardo]

as above....Got new engine installed nearly ready to change the oil at 1000 miles as suggested by garge but wondered what is best oil to go for?

[9hellheaven]

Mobil 1 as recomended by Porsche..

[ineedagallardo]

Thanks.

Any imparticular Mobil 1 oil i should use?

[nick_968]

There are better oils available than Mobil 1 but for the purposes of keeping Porsche happy you had better stick to what they recommend.

[andyscoobs]

Think its the 0-40

[supermono]

There's a long list of recommended/warranted oils to chose from but the simple answer is not what you put in the old engine

SM

[thegoose]

Different car but I've been using Castrol Edge (previously RS) in my race car and after a full season plus track days the engine is putting out all the power it should and there was nothing whatsoever on the sump plug magnet. Thought I might have buzzed it at the weekend, luckily I didn't but the cylinder leakage test showed it was within the tolerance for a new engine.

I use 10-60 Edge Sport "for highly stressed and competition engines" but Castrol do various grades of their "Edge" performance oil so there should be one to suit yours. I get it from a trade only outlet but Demon Tweeks will do it mail order, as will various eBay sellers.

[paultje]

Had a talk from a guy who works for Toyota F1 team as the Oil & Fuel manager. He came to the R19 PCGB meeting at Reading on Sat. From what he said, Mobil 1, 0-40w, works well in your engine. It's the best trade-off between engine protection and efficiency ( cold starting and fuel economy...whatever that is!!). There maybe other oils available with similar specs, but none will be any better, otherwise they ( Toyota) would use them!

[ineedagallardo]

I think i am going to go for the Mobil 1 0w40 oil.

How much will i need for a complete oil change?

[thegoose]

3 x 4litre packs should be plenty. £19.95 + VAT at Costco.

[ineedagallardo]

12 Litres!!! wow never new it took that much oil.

[rimmer]

you want to be using fully synthetic oil anyway

[thegoose]

ineedagallardo said:

12 Litres!!! wow never new it took that much oil.

It won't, but it'll need more than eight. The turbo has a dry sump system so capacity is larger than the NA 996.

[sherman klump]

Whats the story with the new engine please ?