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- 2020 Honda Civic 2 Door Coupe Si / 1993 Chrysler Intrepid 3.5L
It's not necessary for a street vehicle. If the car is rated to use a specific type of oil for x-mileage, that's all you need. The engineers have already figured this out. Then, when you use an oil that is better than the minimum requirement, sending your oil for testing is a waste of time. There are only two factors you should need to consider and that is the cold-oil and hot-oil viscosity grades - or multigrades.Have you ever had any oil analysis done on your oil to see what is really going on?
The climate range on oil is usually between -30°C to 40°C and if the coldest and hottest temperatures are within that range, you should never change the weight of the oil. Most people will never experience colder than -30°C so the cold-oil grade should always be 0-weight. This is the least amount of resistance / fastest circulating / most protection in all relative temperature ranges on start-up. If you live in a climate where the temperature does not exceed 40°C, you should never need to increase the hot-oil grade - you should always use 20-weight. For the purpose of these cars that specify 0w20 oil, this what and all you need for every day driving. You read it as 0-Winter Temperature / 20-Operational Temperature.
If you live in a hot climate that exceeds 40°C (usually in the summer), that is when you increase the hot-oil grade. In the the lower US states where it gets really hot in the summer, you could use 0w30 or 0w40 for higher hot-oil temperature protection.
As for tracking or racing your Civic, there is no relevant information here. The ambient air temperature, track temperature, engine temperature, type of racing and other factors determine what type of oil you should be using and for that, no one's opinion here matters at all.
I just wanted to add that your oil has to meet the manufacture's oil change intervals as well, even though that should go without saying..
And lastly, the minimum required Castrol oil that meets Honda's requirements is EDGE, and I'm using EDGE Extended Performance to meet the 24,000km per year regulation with better protection. It's estimated I will put 12,000-16,000 on the car each oil change by the maintenance minder's tracking.
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