engine oil recommendations (2000 zx9r)

[maraach]

Hey guys,

Hoping to change my oil tomorrow on my 2000 model zx9r and 2001 zx6r. Both are only about 3,500 km's from their last service but due to a lot of travelling and work over the past 18 months they havent been ridden much..

Was wondering if anyone had any specific recommendations on what to use? Generally i use full synthetics on most of my vehicles but the last time i had the 9 serviced the mechanic went into great lengths to recommend half synthetic oils over full ones.. Just wondering if anyone had any knowledge in this area?

[MadKaw]

You should have asked last week as supercheap had a 20% of sale and you could have picked up Castrol power 1 race full synthetic, Castrol GPS semi synthetic or Silkolene semi synthestic for about $48 for 4 litres.....

BTW
I use the Power 1 race... But have used the others.. There all good..

[mick_dundee]

" Most" people here I think pretty much swear by Motul 5100. Pretty sure this topic has been discussed in great length many a time here so might well pay to do a search.

[maraach]

good point. sorry mick, should have just searched.

[Phil]

Used Motul 5100 in my nine for 130K and it was still going strong - need anymore of recomendation than that

[hoffy]

I go to supercheap and grab the silkoline full synth stuff, it has a z1000 on the front of the bottle, from memory it's about $50 odd bucks, but is the nectar of the gods, as are all good motorcycle oils that cost you more than a pineapple.

[Mikey84]

Motul 5100 is what i run and always have, never had a problem, my 9 has done 95k and still going strong as ever

[swearbear9r]

yer i use Motul 5100. have used the shell stuff once that they put in it wen they servised it but i dont think she liked it as much as Motul ....

[maraach]

sorry to be a pain again, but a bit of searching the boards has stumbled me across discussions on the different wattages... this is somewhat confused me a bit.. i guess my bike would now be considered an older bike, but its just about to click over to 14,000km's so it wouldnt really be considered a 'lots of km's bike'...

with this in mind can anyone help me interpret the following advice (copied from another thread)... or should i just stick with what the manual tells me?

"Newer bike with low km's 10-40/50
older bike lots of km's start going towards the 15/20w (tolerances are larger) "

[Wattie]

mate, use any of the above mentioned oils, until you start getting missed gears, blowing smoke, i wouldnt bother going thicker.

[MadKaw]

Wattages.???
I think you mean viscosity..

Heres some light reading.
http://www.upmpg.com/tech_articles/motoroil_viscosity/

and with only 14000ks a 10W / 40 will be fine...

[swearbear9r]

Wattages.....+....... viscosity we talking oil lamps now hehe

Soz im in a good mood this morning haha