Originally Posted by Silverado12
Originally Posted by Mad_Hatter
Originally Posted by HyundaiAbuser
For me I take a lot of summer trips so my 5 speed tiburon gets its share of hours sitting at about 3.5-4k rpm so I step to a Xw40 for peace of mind. I can imagine that a thinner 0w20 or 0w16 would be beneficial for long idling and low rpm applications.
3~4k rpm on the highway is gonna be what, somewhere in the 80's mph?..I can't go that fast for too long here in WA before Trooper Joe tags me. And tickets get real expensive here once you're over 70.. trust me, I know.
Anywho...
I use a 5w30 or 10w even though the OM says to run a Xw20, but it's (5w30/10w30) working for me. I do have 10qts of Valvoline ML 10w40 I scored on the cheap that I plan to run this summer.
Yeah, that's a lot of rpms. As a comparison, my Mustang is a little over 2K at 70 mph.
The speed limit on the turn pikes are 75 along with the major highways so I have to sit there just to keep up in the slow lane. Either way its just how the car is geared, I sit around 3k to go 65 whereas most autos I've driven are 4 speeds and around 2200.