Redline MT90

Post by **Marsh** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 5:19 pm

BNT does it Price depends on if you know them or get trade

mr.peal · Post by **mr.peal** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 8:00 pm

AMSOIL! Baby!

http://www.performancemotoroil.com/Redline_test.html

Post by **Russki** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 8:08 pm

good old trade me perhaps:
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motor ... 108864.htm

for example. sold by racetech. $15 per quart. even with shipping would cost you less than $35...

Post by **Russki** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 8:24 pm

that's sad... i usually buy aforementioned Amsoil at trade price, buy sometimes buy redline at Road & Track, also lower hutt, little rival of racetech... at semi trade price. I thought redline was popular enough to be available only in welly...
well, good luck to find it!

Post by **Tronic** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:42 pm

Castrol Syntrax its like $28 a litre now and can be purchased from Repco if your branch stocks it. Pretty much any full synthetic manual tranny oil will do the job, there is noting special about Redline, Castrol is just as good.

Post by **Benckj** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 8:58 am

Castrol Syntrax its like $28 a litre now

I remember buying it in a 4 litre pack for about $85 a couple years back. Has it gone up that much?

Post by **Tronic** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 10:27 am

Benckj wrote:
Castrol Syntrax its like $28 a litre now
I remember buying it in a 4 litre pack for about $85 a couple years back. Has it gone up that much?

Yes the price of it has gone through the roof. You can no longer buy it in a 4litre pack, only 1 litre packs now. My advice would be to purchase 3 litres for an oil change and pour the whole lot in. The gearbox only holds slightly more than this for a change anyway before it starts coming out the filler (I found it takes 3.2litres)

mr.peal · Post by **mr.peal** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 11:08 am

Tronic wrote:Castrol Syntrax its like $28 a litre now and can be purchased from Repco if your branch stocks it. Pretty much any full synthetic manual tranny oil will do the job, there is noting special about Redline, Castrol is just as good.

I dont know how you can say that. there is a huge difference in oils! you cant just dump them into one lot

they are NOT all created equal

Post by **iOnic** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 12:15 pm

lol @ there is nothing special about redline. That made my day.

Post by **iOnic** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 1:48 pm

I only use Redline in my gearbox. Everything else I've tried (including Syntrax) has a crunchy/rough feeling during shifts and makes the LSD much louder than usual

Post by **Tronic** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 3:31 pm

I'm getting 50,000km between changes on Syntrax with no problems. The gearbox action with Syntrax is better than a brand new Corrola I took for a drive (the new model is simply horrible, thankfully it was a rental and I could give it back).

It's more about the condition of your gearbox and actually changing the oil than anything else. If you didn't get it on a synthetic early enough in its life its too late no matter what you use now. The gearbox is a well known area of weakness in the Gen 1 anyway so it needs all the help it can get.

Also I have recently added a custom made neodydium magnet to my gearbox drain plug so that should pull out all the fine metal particals but I will not know for sure how effective it is as the next change is years away.

Post by **Benckj** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 3:37 pm

I've used the Castrol but if I were to do again I'd go the extra $$ and hassle and get MT90. Have never heard a bad word about MT90 whereas the others are hit & miss depending who you talk to.

Post by **Tronic** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 7:04 pm

If you want Redline and your in Auckland I'm pretty sure I have seen it at an independant oil supplier in Hillcrest road in Glenfield opposite the big orange Ash Air building. They do the likes of Penzoil and Fuches and stuff.

IMO with a gearbox thats in good condition the difference in Syntrax and Redline will be the same as the difference between a red and a yellow MR2...its just personal taste. However I have found over the years the difference between any synthetic and a mineral oil is the same as the difference between a red MR2 and a yellow Ferrari 360.

If you have a LSD then it may be a different story, the Redline looks like it has more options to suit a LSD. Thankfully I have no LSD in my MR2.

Once you have found something that works in your car your pretty reluctant to change anyway, firstly because its a $100+ experiment and secondly you cannot get all the oil out of the box so its not going to be until the second or third change of the new oil that you can say your running solely on "one oil"

Post by **born disturbed** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 8:43 pm

Just to correct Tronic, it is Hillside Road in Glenfield

Post by **Tronic** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 10:07 am

Oh yes sorry a big typo it is Hillside, can you remember the name of the place ?