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Some of you clowns sounds like you just need to take better care of your phones... I cringe to think what you expect your cars to live through!

Not at all normal for the stock temp gauge to give erroneous reading... short of being completely unplugged they are bulletproof. Like reaper said, I've run spikes of 120C and the stock gauge was perfectly horizontal. 3/4 is extremely hot, the last car I saw that exhibited this behavior had a...

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Thats what I used as well. Only time I ever got stuck was when the car was lifted off the ground by snow. As far as which to choose, if you go with a highly regarded tire by Tire Rack I doubt you'll be disappointed.

IIRC since MA70 was the original chassis code and they made no change to the chassis for the turbo models there are very few (if any) turbo cars that have MA71 stamped on the firewall.

I think vzw is on schedule to get "an Apple device" some time down the road in 2010. Whether thats a traditional iPhone like we all know now has yet to be seen. There is a lot of buzz around a flurry of new Android based phones coming out on all carriers, should probably hold out till mid 2010...

Is this the stock gauge saying it's above normal temp or an aftermarket?

So... newer oils maintain cleaner conditions, for longer intervals, reduce wear and produce less emissions while doing it. If you want to debate the OCI relevance in the original manuals, then you'd be on to something. Viscosity grades have not changed since the manual was written, SAE 40 was...

Over the past 4-5 years I've tried: Redline MT-90 Redline 75w-90NS Redline 75w-90 (regular) Amsoil Severe Gear 75w-90 (really didn't like that stuff) Mobil 1 75w-90 syn So yes, I can.

5w-30 has the smallest range of any temp range, and peaks at 50*F ambient IIRC. The rest is just the sort of reply I've come to expect around here... people thinking they somehow know better than the team of engineers with a nearly unlimited budget and testing capability who designed the spec.

dejacky - Like I mentioned before I think you should definitely try it for yourself. You'll always have forum goons, like Poodle here, telling you why everything will wear faster, shift worse, burn your car to the ground and kill 10,000 puppies if you don't [insert what every other lemming says...

Perhaps you should check yourself... depending on minimum temp it allows use of 5w-30 through 20w-50. From 0-100+*F ambient it allows for 10w-30, 10w-40, or 10w-50, not to mention 10-100+*F it allows for 15w and 20w rated variations of those 3 oils as well. You arent going to starve anything...

-Well, perhaps on some cars, but I have my doubts. My 89 gauge has about 3 numbers on it, 2 are completely useless @ 80 & 120 IIRC and it will be a cold day in hell if it shows more than what appears to be "just over 40psi" since the scale is about as non-linear as can be. This is at 5.5-6 bar...

I think you should try it, the risk, aside from cost, is next to nothing and you may find something you like. I went from the Redline oils to Mobil 1 syn 75-90 (yes, the one with the LSD additive in it) on a long shot and to my surprise it has definitely improved shift quality in my worn out...

Older turbo ECU's have an additional connector it seems, in addition to the N/A looking main connector area. But gofast is right, you could plug nearly all of a turbo harness into an NA ECU if both were pre-89 parts. (Attached is an older turbo ECU pinout.)

Right, the reason I ask about temp is because from what I've seen, people generally think their car is "up to temp" long before the oil temp has normalized... Saying that your car runs 38-41 psi also indicates you're referencing the stock gauges, which are barely more accurate than a cluster of...

AFAIK the cases are all the same, but the connector ports are different between N/A and turbo. I doubt you would physically be able to plug a turbo harness to an N/A ECU, even if you managed to, the AFM and ignition systems are completely different I doubt it would ever run. N/A ECU pinout...

'You measuring oil temp?

2 tone eh? Don't see many like that...

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