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Old 28 May 2004, 07:23 PM
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Default Castrol RS in a Non-Turbo - 0W40 or 10W60?

What flavour RS should I be putting in my Impreza GL? It gets to do a fair few long journeys, but often journeys of only a few miles too. Also it's going to see some track work in a couple of weeks time.
Where's cheapest for a filter too?
Thanks in advance.
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Old 28 May 2004, 09:05 PM
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not really sure about the non-turbo, but 0w40 is too thin for the turbo imprezas. not that that info answers your question, so bttt
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0/40 version would be fine in the normally aspirated Scoob. As RRH says the 0/40 is not favoured for the turbo version where there is more stress and hot bits! I would be tempted to go for the 10/60 for the track day however.
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Old 29 May 2004, 04:45 PM
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Cheers RRH.

Thanks for the reply John. The 10/60 is cheaper so my preference anyway .
Will it be ok for the short journeys though? Am I right in thinking it will take longer to warm up and give full protection?

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Why not use 10/60 in the summer (when you will be giving it some stick on track?) and 0/40 in the winter? I actually mix 50/50 for winter use in my STi
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