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Old 11-03-2018, 05:14 PM
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Is yours a 4-port 192 BHP model or 6-port 232 BHP model?

Could be that the 4-port only came with 1 oil cooler.
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old but good.

it works better if you let the car sit longer on each side.

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Originally Posted by swoope
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old but good.

it works better if you let the car sit longer on each side.

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Never knew that.

Welp, gotta do an oil change tomorrow and put winter shoes on at the same time. Let's see if this works for an S2.
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Well I didn't realise the total oil capacity was around 8L. Same for series 1 ? So if doing an engine oil flush I should work on 8L to work out the correct amount of flushing treatment to add ? The one I have is 12.5ml per litre. Cheers
Do NOT use any of that engine oil flushing crap in your car. It damages more cars than it helps.

Imagine having a skin of gunk covering most things in the oiling system. Now imagine breaking that skin up, so it can stick together and form little *****. Imagine those ***** accumulating into larger ***** and blocking various oil passages. The skin does not hurt anything, as oil is free to flow past it. Once you break it up, it can cause serious damage.
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Do NOT use any of that engine oil flushing crap in your car. It damages more cars than it helps.

Imagine having a skin of gunk covering most things in the oiling system. Now imagine breaking that skin up, so it can stick together and form little *****. Imagine those ***** accumulating into larger ***** and blocking various oil passages. The skin does not hurt anything, as oil is free to flow past it. Once you break it up, it can cause serious damage.
ah too late already did it . Drained it and added fresh oil and drained again. Have you seen or know of any damage to a RX8 engine using flush ?
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old but good.

it works better if you let the car sit longer on each side.

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Tried this today and pulled out a little under 5 qts(4.5 L).

So when you say "lift one side up", do you have to lift both front and rear of the side off the ground? Or just the front corner? I just lifted the front corner.
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Originally Posted by UnknownJinX
Tried this today and pulled out a little under 5 qts(4.5 L).

So when you say "lift one side up", do you have to lift both front and rear of the side off the ground? Or just the front corner? I just lifted the front corner.
i lifted the whole drivers side, and let it sit overnight. then pulled the plug and let it drain, while driver side still in air. dropped that side, then lifted the pass side, and let it sit overnight..

dont recall what i was trying to do or working on at the time. but it worked well. seems it got a lot of oil out of the oil coolers. just a guess.

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