First fire - what oil to use?
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Burning Brakes
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First fire - what oil to use?
I'm getting pretty close to starting my car after my heads, cam, intake, exhaust swap. My plan is to change the old oil before I start it. Then I will let it run for 25-30min and change the oil again. Because the oil will only be in there for a few mins I don't really want to fill it with synthetic. However, I don't want to risk damaging the motor. What do you guys recommend?
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I'm getting pretty close to starting my car after my heads, cam, intake, exhaust swap. My plan is to change the old oil before I start it. Then I will let it run for 25-30min and change the oil again. Because the oil will only be in there for a few mins I don't really want to fill it with synthetic. However, I don't want to risk damaging the motor. What do you guys recommend?
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Burning Brakes
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Soak your lifters in oil, lube your cam with moly or assembly lube, put synthetic in it and drive it. You're not breaking in a flat tappet cam, so just drive it and change the oil in 3k. Only time you need to worry about that in a roller cam engine is if you're breaking in the rings.
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Well then, get some cheap store brand oil and run the engine for a few minutes to get things stirred up and let it out. You're not going to hurt anything letting the engine idle for 30 minutes with some cheap oil.
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Just throw some autoparts store named brand special in there and let it idle a bit
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What oil is in there now? Did you spill coolant into the motor? If you have good oil and no coolant dump, fire it with the oil that is in there. I would't drain the system, it will take that much longer to get pressure.
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Burning Brakes
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Well, when I took the heads off, not sure what found its way down the lifter valley. I would imagine that some coolant did. I plan to fill the oil filter with oil when I change it as to have pressure sooner.
Any reason why I might not want to pull the injector fuse and crank it over for a few secs to get oil pressure that way?
Any reason why I might not want to pull the injector fuse and crank it over for a few secs to get oil pressure that way?
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From: At the beach in little Rhody
Well, when I took the heads off, not sure what found its way down the lifter valley. I would imagine that some coolant did. I plan to fill the oil filter with oil when I change it as to have pressure sooner.
Any reason why I might not want to pull the injector fuse and crank it over for a few secs to get oil pressure that way?
Any reason why I might not want to pull the injector fuse and crank it over for a few secs to get oil pressure that way?
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Burning Brakes
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Every spring before I start my car for the first time I pull the injector fuse and I haven't had a problem. I did try once pulling the ignition fuse and ended up flooding the motor...it went into limp mode fore several minutes...plus I'm sure it wasn't good for the plugs.