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  • 2 weeks later...

Just abit of my finding for anyone interested during the cold this winter, car basically spent two months in the garage with being started once a week up to operating temp and when I went to drop the oil today before the next track day this is what I found.

Oil had completly absored the e85 wasnt even oily anymore ended up like water. This is motul 4100 power, it was fine for 3 months in summer but winter guess its not up to the task for being stationary.

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Oh shit...my car's been sitting around for months and hasn't been started weekly...now I have water as engine oil...great..........

Running E-flex + Motul 8100...

Edited by ironpaw

Oh shit...my car's been sitting around for months and hasn't been started weekly...now I have water as engine oil...great..........

Running E-flex + Motul 8100...

I actually think that mine ended up how it was due to starting it every week and since I have an oil cooler the oil did not get up to operating temp to burn off the moisture it kept getting worse. I rekon if it sits there not being started it will probably absorb less moisture, well this is what Im trying this time.

Oh shit...my car's been sitting around for months and hasn't been started weekly...now I have water as engine oil...great..........

Running E-flex + Motul 8100...

You are thinking into it too much, just get in , warm the car up and take it for a hard drive through the hills for as long as possible. The majority of the water/ethanol will evaporate especially as you don't have an oil cooler.

As it has been sitting so long you could just drop the oil, not a hard job buddy. Go the Synx6000 this time, let me know what it's like.

You are thinking into it too much, just get in , warm the car up and take it for a hard drive through the hills for as long as possible. The majority of the water/ethanol will evaporate especially as you don't have an oil cooler.

As it has been sitting so long you could just drop the oil, not a hard job buddy. Go the Synx6000 this time, let me know what it's like.

Might do that tomorrow night...fancy a visit from me? LOL

I've still got 6L of Motul 300v to use...maybe I should flog that off and use some Synx6k instead?

Oh shit...my car's been sitting around for months and hasn't been started weekly...now I have water as engine oil...great..........

Running E-flex + Motul 8100...

I'm not sure if you're reading his comment correctly. I'm pretty sure he said it got started and run to op temp weekly.

You are thinking into it too much, just get in , warm the car up and take it for a hard drive through the hills for as long as possible. The majority of the water/ethanol will evaporate especially as you don't have an oil cooler.

As it has been sitting so long you could just drop the oil, not a hard job buddy. Go the Synx6000 this time, let me know what it's like.

agreed, i have water literally spewing out of my breathers

Might do that tomorrow night...fancy a visit from me? LOL

I've still got 6L of Motul 300v to use...maybe I should flog that off and use some Synx6k instead?

Motul told me the 8100 was ok with E85, but 300v would only work if you did frequent changes.

See if you can flog it off on someone and switch to the Syn X?

I've been using Castrol Edge 10w60 with Ethanol for over a year now, oil comes out fine every time it's dumped with no issues. My motor probably gets leant on a lot harder than most :)

How long between changes? that is probably more the issue if people are leaving it 6-8 months etc.

  • 2 months later...

Yep, you won't have a problem. The water/ethanol evaporates fairly quickly once it's up to operating temp.

Summer won't be bad but short drives in winter may cause issues with catch cans filling quickly, and oil going milky, depending on your oil temps.

Something that could possibly be thought about is running higher temperature coolant thermostats like the R34 GTts use . From memory they are 82 instead of 76 and that could have an effect on oil temp and warm up times .

I certainly would not be using lower temp ones eg Nismos in a street car let alone an E70-E85 fueled one .

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