370Z oil consumption

katillidie

well as of nissan wont tell us nor do they give reasons for the oil consumtion, but. i have asked some older 30 year master techs at nissan training about it, and it supposivly has always been a problem with nissan engines with the rings not seating correctly... with either the manufacturer of the rings or the cylinder wall surface. no body really knows except for the higher ups at nissan who wont disclose any info

6MT

Cough, cough.... forgive me, but that is pure "bovine scatology". Piston rings, especially very hard ones that are in this engine, take quite a long time to seat. Break-in period is quite long. For heavens sake people.... RELAX!! How long must this insanity continue before people will just give these engines 10K miles to properly break-in?

My engine..... 9500 miles..... oil consumption..... NIL!! Yes, it did use quite a bit of oil during the first 5 or 6 thousand miles. But now..... NOTHING. A B S O L U T E L Y N O R M A L !



(WOW)

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2009 370Z Sport/Touring 6MT sold
2013 Honda Civic Si coupe D/D

import111

Your engine is still young dude. Mine didn't start drinking too much oil until about 15k miles. I am at 17,700 and going through 2 quarts every 3k miles. Just because your engine is acting normal now doesn't mean there is no problem with any other 370Z engine on the face of the earth.

cab83_750

6mt is right.....in most cases!

I will however side Import111 in cases like his and mine. My first engine did not use oil until around 6k.