How much oil does your stang use?

[MadMatt5oh]

I havent driven my car much and wont have the ability to do so until the salt is gone. One thing worries me. Oil consumption! She's real tight and all stock with no leaks (at all) but I still no nothing about how much oil these engines burn. You guys can knock Chevys all you want but my Beretta at 191k does burn a drop in 3000 miles.

Can I expect the same thing with my baby as she is with 61k or 161k easy loved miles?

What can I expect after I do the inevidible HCI or tmoss ported intake with Thumper heads ( all new valves of course ) ?


Lets here em' fellas! How much oil? HOW MUCH DAMMIT

 

[HO93LX302]

Couldn't tell ya exactally how much it can burn that all depends on the eingine and valve seats... Mine leaks oil from rear main seal again, so its down maybe 1/2-1 quart when i go to change it.. But it is normal for any car to be 1/2 a quart low every 3-5k for the oil change either from burning or leaking..

 

[HISSIN50]

also depends upon what viscosity of oil and type (dino, syn, etc) used.

 

[IndyBlk5.0]

i dont know if the stock lowers have the same problem, but the pcv vavle is known for sucking oil into the runners, loosing oil through that is common with cobra/gt40 setups

 

[trbkrb]

My car usually uses a quart every 3,000 miles or so and always has. But it now has a bad leak in the rear (but I changed the rear main seal at the last clutch job ?!?!) so it uses a quart every 600-700 miles now. But it is almost all leaking... I can't leave it in the driveway for more than a few minutes, or it drips.

 

[Idwitheld-1`]

1 quart per 1000 miles is considred acceptable by Ford.

I use about half that (at 100,000 on the ticker).
God I love my V8!

 

[5.0 Nostalgia]

I use about a quart every 1,000 miles. I have the GT-40 intake and it is known to suck it up into the pcv.

 

[Black 93 Fox]

I dont use any.

 

[NotoriousGT350]

I hate to say this, but mine uses 1 qt. a week. Before I bought car in Aug. last year, it had a Powerdyne S/C on a rebuilt motor. I bought the car w/o the S/C and I'm going to have a compression test done soon to find out what's wrong. But it does use up a LOT of oil.

 

[1BAD89GT]

My cars also uses about a quart or a little less between oil changes,but i pulled my intake a few days ago and found oil in the intake appeared to be a bad pcv valve but i see you guys are saying Gt-40 and cobra intakes are bad about sucking oil through PCV valve is there a way to fix that??

 

[Maryland Stang]

Mine has 170,000 miles and it doesn't use a drop. Penzoil 10w30.

 

[NKau]

It's generally accepted that it is normal for these engines to "use" 1 qt. every 3,000. If you have leaky gaskets or a bad rear main seal, it will obviously be a bit more.

 

[larrendeuce]

Mine doesn't use any. 159,000 miles and I use Castrol GTX 10W-30

 

[5spd GT]

I dont use any.

Same here...or atleast I think I don't

David

 

[sirr0bin]

mine uses about a quart every 4000km or so

castrol 10w30 synthetic

 

[MadMatt5oh]

Thanks guys, well I guess it just depends on the condition of the engines in our cars. Ok! Well, as far a I can see (and the more I think about it) Mine doesnt leak she's probably not going to consume much either. It was -4 below and I started it with never blue out the tails. Even at 3-4g revs. - Im a wuss, Im not sure I'll ever be able to drive this car fast or be rough on it

 

[ashford]

about a half a quart oil consumtion every 3000 mile is considered good, if an engine doesn't use any oil that means the rings arn't getting lubed.

 

[Highbredcloud]

I use about a quart every 1,000 miles. I have the GT-40 intake and it is known to suck it up into the pcv.

Me too and I concur...

 

[TheGTkid]

my car burned about 3/4 of a quart a week and i had nothing but a tfs intake and wxhaust for real engine modds and it didn't leak a drop it had proly about 130k miles and it blew a head gasket yes a head gasket on a stock motor with stock heads no power adders so this winter i rebuilt the engine with all new!

 

[HISSIN50]

about a half a quart oil consumtion every 3000 mile is considered good, if an engine doesn't use any oil that means the rings arn't getting lubed.

thats a new one on me. please elaborate. if this is so, half of the new honda/acuras, lexus/toyotas, etc out there have rings hurting for oil.
(Im not trying to start a BS war, just never heard that; hence my asking for elaboration). thank you.