Didn't know the APR4 was dry sumped ! Used to check the oil in my drysumped cat 7 buy starting the engine and undoing the oil cap and seeing the oil was up to the neck of the bell housing .
Geneva 2016 plus 8' The Green Godess' 4 side exits .
I always did my last dry sumped Caterham after stopping the engine, opening the tank, looking at the level, and then dipping with a measuring stick I kept for the purpose. 6" depth was right on the last tank. Any more and it blew out into the overflow tank, and as that didn't have a very good seal, all over the place. Good incentive not to overfill!
Rob
Bavaria 46, 20% of Hunter Impala. 100% of another Hunter Impala, black 4/4 Competition
page 16: Oil: Comma Fully Synthetic SAE 5w50 or similar
page 30: First Oil Change 500 miles
I wonder what they mean by 'low speed tuition use'??
new spark plugs every 3000 miles!
max engine speed 8200rpm
My understanding: the oil change frequency depends on 2 factors:
. miles . working duration
If you use your car for small travels, town, at low speed, duration increases vs miles and becomes more critical.By this way, Cosworth says you must change the oil on "high duty cycle use" requirement.
Cars use to have a miles requirement for oil change. But for industrial motors this is an hour duration requirement, by instance for farm tractor, trains, lawn mower etc...
Cars use to have a miles requirement for oil change. But for industrial motors this is an hour duration requirement, by instance for farm tractor, trains, lawn mower etc...
... narrowboats ....
When sold to us, I was told my SABB (not SAAB) engine should have it's oil changed 'about once a year'. However, the 1960s manual tha came with it says "every 50 running hours", so every 50 running hours, the oil is changed.
I'm very keen that people follow the official guidelines and not what the last user might tell you!
