RE: New blood
 

forgot about the oil filter. I never have to replace mine. i sprung for the scotts reusable stainless steel oil filter. just clean it with every oil change.

RE: New blood
 

of course, I replace the filter too at every change.

So it looks like a majority uses Full synthetic...I'm not surprised, the difference is so awesome. Repsol shifts as smooth as silk, even a semi-syn doesn't do it for me!

RE: New blood
 

Change it after storting it after while. Water gets in to the oil some times freeses and clogs ports. So your engin runs dry with ports glogged with ice. I'm talking months of storage.
Fattkaw

RE: New blood
 

Hi!

Just wanted to ask you what kind of exhaust you have on your bike. I have the same one and had the stock exhaust switched out for a Muzzi and the freakin things melting my lower ferring.

Thanks,
Cherie

RE: New blood
 

I stuck with an oil change after every race weekend. Filter every two. Never tried the synthetics yet.

RE: New blood
 

About the same here. Every 2000 miles. Oil and filter with 15-50 full syn.. Extremely dry, dusty, hot conditions here tho'. Seems to work pretty well...

RE: New blood
 

you know everyone runs these fancy super expensive oils, and i know alot of it is to be better safe than sorry...but i run shell formula rotella T synth (less than 15 bucks for 4 quarters) in my zx6rr...i use to run the regular stuff (the rotella T 15w40 7 bucks for 4 quarts) in my cbr f2, f3, f4, 900rr, 600rr, gsxr750, r6, zx7r, duc 900ss, combined there's probably over 100,000 miles on that oil without any problems, even the oil cooled ducati, my budy has a bmw r80 and he uses the normal rotella also and he's got about 150k miles on that bike alone....the f3, r6, and zx7r were all track bikes i'd say they have about 10k miles each with all those miles spent above 10k rpms and often with ambient track temperatures over 100 degrees i've never ever had a problem with it, i change oil about every 2500 miles with filter

they say you shouldn't use car oil, but this is formulated for diesel trucks and those engines live hard high load lives with very high temperatures (the hotter a diesel the more power you make out of it) and it doesn't have any lubricating additives so there's no problems with the wet clutch slipping...but i feel this topic is still under hot debate, but it's been working for me, so i don't have a problem with it :D

RE: New blood
 

hhhmmm pretty interresting....

RE: New blood
 

I don't see why it would not work. 15w40 rotella is the same oil I run in my Big truck. 16 gallons per oil change. I've got 507,000 miles on her so far....