After a week of waiting, the car is finally here. It came off the transporter yesterday without a scratch. It was on the second level of an enclosed transporter for one week and there wasn't a single oil drip from either the tranny or the engine on the Suburu WRX below it! No drips yet on my garage floor either. The car runs strong at my altitude -- which should make it somewhat richer. I will keep an eye on the plugs and exhaust though. There is just the slightest muffled popping in the exhaust note at about 2800 rpm, but only withOUT having my foot on the gas. There is no run-on or backfires, etc. It is a Volks Brasil engine with Kadrons. So far . . .so good. So far, the engine has not gotten hot enough that the dipstick is anything beyond MILDLY warm. The dipstick has never been so hot that I couldn't comfortably hold it in my hand.
I am going to do an engine service this weekend (timing check, valves, oil, etc.) So . . . .what flavor of Castrol should I use? Because it does NOT have a filter, I want to probably stick with NON-synthetic oil, but change it every 1500 miles.
