Track oil consumption

[Rossjude1983]

Interested to see how much oil people use after a track day, mine does at least 1l on 5-40w

 

[Daniel]

My van does 1L per track day but my car doesn’t use any at all. (Both 182 engines)

 

[JamesBryan]

About 500ml last time i checked i think.

That's assuming it's 1 litre between min and max on the dipstick.

 

[henry____rs]

I run shell helix hx7 in my 172, burns about 250-500ml/1000km (depending on how your driving) but mine also does 1000km a week (should probably go and buy stocks in oil!!)

However on track it goes through 600ml I've found over about 60km of being mostly above 5.5k rpm. However getting to said track is a 400km round trip so it kiiind of evens out 😅

Since hx7 is semi synthetic, I'm going to switch to Valvoline 5w40 full synthetic next change and see if it increases or decreases!

 

[charltjr]

Semi vs full synth isn't likely to make a difference unless you're changing the weight of the oil too - if it's getting through that much oil then it's either leaking it out or burning it in the cylinders and that's not down to whether it's synthetic oil or not.

 

[henry____rs]

Semi vs full synth isn't likely to make a difference unless you're changing the weight of the oil too - if it's getting through that much oil then it's either leaking it out or burning it in the cylinders and that's not down to whether it's synthetic oil or not.

Oh yea it's spewing it out the exhaust at 7k+, will eventually get it rebuilt. In the meantime, what's the odds of it scoring the cylinder walls you reckon? Don't think the rings are completely broken, just cracked