Difference between revisions of "Talk:What Motor Oil Should You Use?"

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:Interesting.  I'll have to research that more later. --[[User:Pi3832|Pi3832]] 09:04, 13 March 2007 (CDT)
:Interesting.  I'll have to research that more later. --[[User:Pi3832|Pi3832]] 09:04, 13 March 2007 (CDT)
::If you get a chance to eye-ball some Kawachem motor oil, can you check what API grade and/or JASO grade it is?  I'm curious if their own oil meets those specs.  Yamalube doesn't appear to be JASO certified. --[[User:Pi3832|Pi3832]] 11:57, 13 March 2007 (CDT)

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Definitely a good course of action to say use the manual as a starting point. I'm not sure enough of this to add it to the article but I believe that the friction additives the article mentions aren't necessarily an issue with lower grade oils. I think it is possible they weren't added until the SJ specification? Quite a few Japanese motorcycles will say in the OEM service manual that anything above SE is okay, but will read "SJ with JASO MA". That's what leads me to believe the friction additive wasn't added until SJ. --Budlight 08:44, 13 March 2007 (CDT)


Example of said specifications from a 2004 Kawasaki ZX1000-C2 Manual Excerpt


--Budlight 08:51, 13 March 2007 (CDT)


Interesting. I'll have to research that more later. --Pi3832 09:04, 13 March 2007 (CDT)
If you get a chance to eye-ball some Kawachem motor oil, can you check what API grade and/or JASO grade it is? I'm curious if their own oil meets those specs. Yamalube doesn't appear to be JASO certified. --Pi3832 11:57, 13 March 2007 (CDT)