Z Owners, check your oil, post mileage and how far "down" it is...

zZSportZz

It dawned on me at work that I've been reading a lot of posts about the oil issues and I've seen statements such as "it took 2 quarts of oil to get me back to full" and "my car was 2 quarts lower than H".

Please make sure that you are not adding oil until it hits the H then come post here how you've burned oil. Per than manual, the H line (hole) is the never to exceed line. This isn't your FULL line. DO NOT FILL TO THE H.

5 1/8ths quarts of oil will get you right to the center of the 2 holes as per my oil change. So if you are going above that....your car never had that much oil in it to begin with. Wouldn't be surprised if a ton of people are running out over filling their cars. They now have 7 quarts of oil in it and claim they burned 2

So the real question is...how much oil have you burned from where u are at now to the center of the 2 holes?

Make sure you follow this....

I'm sure most of you know this already but I thought I would post it because you NEVER KNOW...on this board

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chris410

Good post! On the drive home I was thinking about posting up a note about not over filling! That will do as much if not more damage as running it a little low.

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wstar

Just to throw my data in here: I never experienced any oil burning (at least not enough for me to notice) on my factory fill, the first batch of oil I put in (also Nissan Ester), the first batch of Motul I put in, or this most recent batch of Motul (when I added the cooler and pan spacer).

I was a *little* bit low this time around when I changed my oil today. We're talking, it moved from just under the H dot to about perfectly in the middle over the course of 2,150 miles (this was from 7K to 9150). However, I already spotted the likely cause of most of that. I have a very tiny leak at the oil pan gasket (the one I recently replaced myself, so that's not unusual for me) that was seeping out barely enough to make a small stain on the undercover. I'm just going to live with it for now and fix it at the next change.

In summary, no noticeable oil consumption from my engine so far.

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SDWayne

When I first got the car I checked the level every 200 or so miles to get a read on the oil consumption. There was none. Changed oil at 1000 miles to synthetic. Just checked it after reading this thread and at 2300 miles into this oil change, (3340 miles total) there has been no noticed usage.

I did adhere to mfg, recommended break in procedures. Only violated 4000 rpm a couple of times, my fault.

I hardly ever redline the motor, trying to make it last I guess.

However it is a high performance engine and I would expect more usage then a lower compression engine.

Eh, so what if it uses a little, not a show stopper for me.

Wayne