its a 2.0 zvh fitted in my s1 rst.
cheers Paddy..

 

Halford finest Mineral oil.

 

PARDON MY FRENCH BUT THE CHEAPEST SHITTYEST MINERAL OIL YOU CAN FIND ,IF THE OIL IS TOO GOOD IT WILL NEVER BED IN

 

I was told to put 0/40 in my zvh 2ltr by halfords, then the guiys off here told me 10/60 castrol RS, so thats what i put in, Martin Hadland supplied it me for a good price too!

BTW this is what oil to put in once its run in, sorry ive got no idea what to put in when running in as it already was when i bought it!

 

i'm running my engine in on semi synthetic but nice cheap shite.

reason being i thought one you start running one type of oil on an engine you can't swap (ie. mineral to fully synthetic)

 

ran mine in on halfords 20w40 ..using mobile 1 15w50.now

 

well you run it on good oil and when its all set up watch it spit the big ends out cheap oil every thing needs to bed in nicely it carnt do that with good oil as it puts a good layer between that and say the mains

 

You can run in on a hydrocracked semi-synthetic as it's only a molecularly modified mineral oil anyway.

We always recommend a mineral 15w-50 then switch to a fully syn 15w-50 or 10w-50. SAE 60 is unecessarily thick and can cause long term problems.

Cheers
Guy

 

Running in has very little to do with the big-ends.

An engine will run in fine on quality oil. Depends on how it's driven too.