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I'm coming up on my 2nd oil change on my stockish 34. I've used Royal Purple in all changes, in all cars prior. But I would like to give Gulf Western Syn X 6000 or Motul 8100 X-Cess a go. Cheapest I've found for what you are interested in are...

Royal Purple HPS: $70/5 quarts (4.73L) from performanceclub.com

Motul 8100 X-Cess: $75.99/5L from justjap.co

EDIT: Also, just stumbled across this; If you're a member of RACQ, you get 20% off prices store-wide in Repco until the end of February. So go get some stuff. Or get your mum to. lol

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For Those of you using Royal Purple, this might be of interest.

http://www.amazon.co...9782201&sr=1-33

And

http://www.amazon.co...9783234&sr=1-17

that works out @ $56.30AUD per 4.7L and you will get 4 changes from the 5 Gal.

Not bad a all.

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If you run Motul, my local Repco is clearing it out and replacing it with Gulf Western. Not sure if its the other stores too?

I've noticed no difference between the Valvoline semi synth I was using and the Motul 300v I dropped in at the last change. I have one more change worth of 300v then I'll be trying the new Gulf Western Syn X 6000, as by then I should be on e85.

that works out @ $56.30AUD per 4.7L and you will get 4 changes from the 5 Gal.

Not bad a all.

add 100 for shipping and tax... still works out cheaper though

I'm pretty sure that figure I quoted was for the 10-40W and included shipping,

Add some to you cart and begin the checkout process and see what you get.

Mike.

I'm pretty sure that figure I quoted was for the 10-40W and included shipping,

Add some to you cart and begin the checkout process and see what you get.

Mike.

thats what i did, i was one click off buying it

it says free shipping but theres no way in hell they are goin to ship 5 gallons of oil from the US to Aus for free

thats what i did, i was one click off buying it

it says free shipping but theres no way in hell they are goin to ship 5 gallons of oil from the US to Aus for free

Strange, my cart came up with $133 + $100.60 for 6-18 dat shipping?

It ticks while cold, goes away at operating temperature in a few minutes. No knocking (thank goodness). A lot of the guys here in the forums use 40w while I have been using 30w for almost all of my cars so I am wondering if I should stick with 40w. Thanks :thumbsup:

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On the topic :)

Maybe stick with the cheaper one of the two? Both are great oils and with regular oil change, there won't much difference between the two I think tbh.

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