Mike, maybe a naive question, but I was wondering whether or not you should upgrade your truck's lubes after installing a Superchip? Since the chip requires Supreme 91 and up gas, should you complement that with a higher grade motor oil, tranny ATF, synthetic? This maybe a touchy subject; however, any help would be appreciated.

thanks,

mf150

 

Hi mf150,

I don't think that's a touchy subject at all, actually it's a good question. The answer is no, you don't need to change anything else because of using the Superchips tuning beside just using the required premium gasoline. You don't need to change the weight of oil being used in the motor, for example, or change over to synthetics. We do prefer to see 10W-30 used in summertime at least, as opposed to the current 5W-20 factory recommendation, and then use 5W-30 in winter if you like. We've traditionally run 10W-30 Mobil 1 year-round, though we did just this year switch to 5W-30 for the winter, it's made no difference in amount of engine noise at startup or anything else, so we'll probably go back to 10W-30 year round, as I prefer a 10W base stock for better engine protection under load.

We've always been *big* fans of synthetic lubricants whether a vehicle is stock or modified, synthetic lubes are always going to do a better job. And you can start using synthetics right from Day 1, we generally change over to synthetic oil at the first oil change, which we usually do within 400 to 1000 miles of picking up a new vehicle.

One thing we don't recomend is taking a vehicle with 100K+ miles onit and converting to synthetic engine oil, as it may emphasize any existing minor oil leaks, and your oil consumption may go up a bit too, it just depends on how well the motor is still sealing.

Good luck!

 

Thanks for your responce. I've been using Redline 5w-30...If I switch to Mobile 1, do you think I will notice a sizable difference in long term engine protection? In other words, is Redline overkill for a street truck?


thanks again.

 

Hi mf150,

Redline is a *fine* synthetic oil, there's no reason to switch to say, Mobil 1, or any other different synthetic oil if you're already using Redline & you're happy with it.

Is it "overkill?" Well, maybe, but having the best possible lubricant never hurts. I'd say it's really more a matter of how much you're paying for it. You can get Mobil 1 for under $4 a quart, it's available anytime almost anywhere off the shelf, and it's an excellent synthetic engien oil, so that's why we use it as opposed to using Redline or Amsoil, etc. If you're paying significantly more for Redline, you ciould maybe save a few pennies switching to Mobil 1, but there's realy no reason you need to change to anything else, you're perfeclty fine sticking with what you've got, keep feeding her the Redline.