VW 1835 engine oil recommendation

[johnnyweb]

Just pulled my buddies old 5 car out of 10 year storage stent. We need to change the oil and am wondering what the hot ticket is these days. Medium built 1835 engine. 20/50 straight 40wt ??????????

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[DBMETALWORX]

castrol hd30 works really well for our dry sump 2 liter class 10... have seen oil temp high as 260, and no oil related problems.. though we don't normally run that high..

[Wendell #527]

I predict you are going to get at least 8 different recommendations. None of them will be wrong. We use Mobil 1 Synthetic 20-50.

[johnnyweb]

So far straight 30wt or 20/50wt will be good. I use Amsoil in my race/daily drivers.

[Ryan_P]

Delo 400 15W40

[DBMETALWORX]

Delo 400 15W40

this is what my buddy runs in his top fuel motor..

[prerunner1499]

I third the Delo 400 15w40. In an independent oil test in an VW related mag a few years ago that oil out performed all others including some syhthetics in many of the tests, friction, heat disipation, thermal viscosity breakdown resistance, and zinc content.
It is a dino oil designed for trucks, (big rigs) and we use it in our race motor, 2332 160ish HP 9.5:1 CR. Tested the oil a while back and it was great, we have OVER 2000 race miles on that motor without a rebuid. Its the only oil it has ever seen. We use ab 8qt dry sump system with aircooled.net dry sump. Tank is from Affco, Setrab oil cooler. and dry sump, our our NEVER sees over 250 degrees.

Oh ya,, thats also what I run in my preruner 1835cc with 9:1 cr and 110 cam. ported heads. Runs great. I have probably I dunno, 2-3000 miles on it. It was built in 2001.

[johnnyweb]

Thanks for the info guys. looks like 15-40 might be the ticket. I sold this car to him back in like 1998 or so and for the life of me could not remember what we used in it. Moved on to the truck classes and have not worked with a VW engine since. Fun little car obviously not class legal with the 1835 motor any more but the little thing rips still. It has sat for about 8 years know in back of his garage put in new battery and pumped out the old gas and put some fresh race fuel and it fired right up. Motor runs great but the brakes are no bueno!!!

[D-rek]

i fourth the 15-40 delo

[Dirtracer 619]

well keep us posted on how it runs after ten years

my thought would be run some light oil to start it up and run it for a few hours while you tune it up then switch very soon after