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Motul Oils- Which One Is Better For My Gtr!

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glaze

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Hi Guys,

Just wondering which oil is better for my R32GTR. Motul 300v Chrono 10w40 or the 4100 turbolight. My cars only mods are exhaust and coilover suspension and will stay this way for a while and running stock boost. Any info would be appreciated. Thanks.

Kinks Grand Master

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300V is great oil but probably overkill on a street car (others would beg to differ :dry:)

4100 is only a semi-synthetic, which means it's about 15% synthetic and 85% dino juice.

I would go for the Motul 8100 5W-40 myself, either that or the 300V and do an oil analysis at 5000km to find out what it's like. You would probably find the 300V will last for extended oil change intervals if you're not being hard on it (track work).

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For what it's worth, I've read that the 4100 is better for the older motors. It was something about the detergents in the full synthetics cleaning too much of the gunk accumulated in the bores and suffering blow-by as a result.

Also:

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/in...showtopic=22458

:D

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Considering you have a stock motor, you might aswell go between the two products. The 8100 would do a good job. 300V is overkill and the 4100 is nothing out of the ordinary.

cowie165, thats an old wives tale. Its like saying you should warm your car up for 10 minutes each morning.

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i've been using the motul 4100 10w40 for a while, no complaints here. Though i'm thinking of moving to a higher weight 10w50 or something, so might give mobil1 a shot.

hard to compare 4100 to 300v chrono, because the 300v is more than double the price or something...

ish Proficient

ish

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I found this link ...Although it dosent relate totaly to motul its very interesting the differences between the ratings ...

Maybe we all should be running Diesel Synthets :)

http://motorcycleinfo.calsci.com/Oils1.html

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