Can you recommend the best oil for original matching numbers 1958, are sythetics ok?

[Sara W.]

Hi I have a 1958 matching original, is it ok to use sythetics and if so which is best?

[Ralph E.]

Re: Can you recommend the best oil for original matching numbers 1958, are sythetics

Hi I have a 1958 matching original, is it ok to use sythetics and if so which is best?

Sara, How smart of you to ask this question.
Do NOT use synthetic oil.
Suggest you do a search on this site for recommended oils to use and why.

[George W.]

Re: Can you recommend the best oil for original matching numbers 1958, are sythetics

Sara,
Use a good 30W oil, like Valvoline; that is what I use in my 283 engine; change the oil filter when you change the oil.
Go have fun with it.

[Sara W.]

Re: Can you recommend the best oil for original matching numbers 1958, are sythetics

Thank you Dr George

[Sara W.]

Re: Can you recommend the best oil for original matching numbers 1958, are sythetics

Thank you Ralph

[Michael W.]

Re: Can you recommend the best oil for original matching numbers 1958, are sythetics

Sara-

There's a lot more to choosing a suitable oil than type, brand name and viscosity. Virtually none of today's commonly seen on the shelf are suitable.

Read this:

Duke William oil treatise starting on page three.

[Sara W.]

Re: Can you recommend the best oil for original matching numbers 1958, are sythetics

Awesome thank you so much

[Michael J.]

[Leif A.]

Re: Can you recommend the best oil for original matching numbers 1958, are sythetics

Yes, Duke is the go-to guy for oils, and I have been following his advice for many years and saving money too. Few subjects are as passionate on this board as oils, maybe tires…...

How 'bout Nitrogen

[Michael J.]

Re: Can you recommend the best oil for original matching numbers 1958, are sythetics

How 'bout Nitrogen

[Frank D.]

Re: Can you recommend the best oil for original matching numbers 1958, are sythetics

Yes, Duke is the go-to guy for oils, and I have been following his advice for many years and saving money too. Few subjects are as passionate on this board as oils, maybe tires…...

Go over to the Corvette Forum and talk about Pertronix conversions...the villagers will be at your castle door with torches and pitchforks...

[Duke W.]

Re: Can you recommend the best oil for original matching numbers 1958, are sythetics

How 'bout camshafts?

Duke

[Michael J.]

Re: Can you recommend the best oil for original matching numbers 1958, are sythetics

How 'bout camshafts?

Duke

[Mike E.]

Re: Can you recommend the best oil for original matching numbers 1958, are sythetics

Cosworth Vega* too.... One of the neatest non-Corvettes that Chevrolet made.


* Mike Eby was a former owner of a 1975 model...Don't recall the dash plaque number though.


Mike

[Duke W.]

Re: Can you recommend the best oil for original matching numbers 1958, are sythetics

I embarrassed a lot of name brand sports cars at Riverside and Willow Springs with my Cosworth Vega from the early eighties to the late-nineties. Of course, it was "Tuned by Duke" - remapped spark and fuel maps, reindexed camshafts, Monza brakes, bigger anti-roll bars, Spax shocks, DOT legal racing tires, and under the rocker open exhaust blasting in their ear as I blipped the throttle on a downshift passing them braking into a corner.

They never knew what hit 'em.

http://www.hemmings.com/mus/stories/2007/11/01/hmn_feature17.html

Duke