What type of oil do you use in your 914?

I do have the owner's manual but I am VERY curious to what most 914 owners use?

does anyone use mobile 1 or synthetic? what kind?

BTW: I did do a search and does not seem anyone else has asked this. if so I am sorry.

teener luva

Brad Penn 20W50...

Oh and the topic has been covered quite a lot.

Tons of oil threads.
most people will use 20w-50 in the summer. Brad Penn or Joe Gibbs.

If you drive in the cold move to a 40wt oil in the frozen months.

Just make sure it has ZDDP.

Zach

4 or 6?

In the 4, when I had one, I use 20w/50 Castrol GTX on the 90+ summer months. Rest of the time it's 10w-40.

In the 6, I'd use either Mobil1 or Syntec 5w-30 or 40

My thought on synthetic, it's a wonderful oil, keeps oil temps 10 degrees or so cooler, but if you have small leaks, they will become bigger leaks. If you have a leak free motor, synthetic is fine.

Valvoline VR1 20w-50.

Valvoline VR1 20W50

PO of my car (in CA) was using BP 10w40. I switched to BP 20w50 when I did the first oil change after getting the car home. It seemed much happier and sounded much better with the 20w50.

Brad Penn 20w50 in my 2.0L four and Valvoline VR1 20W50 in my 2.4L six
(Brad Penn leaks like crazy in my six)

Chevron Delo 400 Multigrade SAE 15W-40 , cheap and it's what Supertec uses/recomends in their high end /6 builds.

Search is your best friend

I ran Rotella 15w40 for years (until they went to service spec CJ-4 and took out the ZDDP), then went to VR-1 20w50. My question is what's the latest recommendation(s) for the transaxle (I'm assuming it's still dino-oil) . . . .

Steve A-

Delo 400 is about the same as old RotellaT

Trany oil just get cheap dino and spend the coin saved (over expensive oils) on changing it every couple of years.

After a complete engine rebuild in 2013 Translog GT used Brad Penn for Break in Oil and after 500 Miles put SWEPCO 306 15W40 in mine. I've continued using the SWEPCO 306 with no issues at all.

Current race tranny is
Redline light weight shock proof.

Significantly better already at racing/high temps of 235
More tranny life already

You should see how sticky this stuff is.... And it's synthetic

Mobil 1 15W50. Ceramic lifters.

Changed the oil in Dad's car. I forgot how green Brad Penn comes out.

Brad Penn 20/50w summer 15/40w winter (NJ)

Mobil One V-Twin 20-50. Made for air cooled engines. Lots of the good stuff blended in.

So, no one else is running canola oil?

Liqui-Moly MoS2 Leichtlauf 20W-50 in the 3.2 and Swepco 201 in the 915.

Another vote for the Brad Penn 20w-50.

My Dad runs this in his Harley air cooled and has for 30K+ trouble free miles. We have both wondered if it would be ideal for the 914's as well. Out of both our engineering camps, so need an oil expert to examine the contents of this oil and add some info.

OOPs. I intended this to go with the Mobil1 20-50 V-Twin air cooled oil posting.

I work in the farm diesel industry and was taught that Delo 400 and Rotella T were engineered for over-the-road diesel trucks. Those oils are loaded with sulfated ash to offset the sulfer in diesel fuel.
When used in gas powered tractors, we found a lot of torched valves.
I'm not sure how they perform under high RPM's.

Just an observation.
CHAZT

Brad Penn as well

Don't think you have it quite right, sulfated ash was a diesel combustion by-product that could plug exhaust gas particulate filters.
Our engines don't have particulate filters and the oil additive packages have long changed.

Valvoline VR1 Racing 20-50 high Zinc formula for older cars. Easy to get at the FLAPS.

I used to run Brad Penn, but read a test where the Valvoline out performed it. Why spend more? And, I can't get it as easy.

VR-1 20w-50

Not sure if it comes in a 15/40 weight but I'd give that a shot for the cooler months.

... the kind that drips on the headers ... hence the "James Bond" smoke screen.

Valvoline vr 20-50, run it in all air cooled. easy to get at local flaps and never had a problem. run it in my nortons, indian , Harleys and porsches.