excessive Oil Use?

[Dave]

I have a 2001 6 speed coupe with 15,200 miles on it. I checked the oil level today and found that in the last 1600 miles I'm down a quart. I routinely will run up through the gears to about 3000RPMs but never exceed 4500. I also know that the 1997-2001 LS1's use a low tension oil ring.

I guess my question is: Is 1 quart in 16500 miles excessive?

Thanks!

p.s. Don't forget this Friday is take your Corvette to work day!!

 

[Dave]

Correction:Excessive oil use

I mis-typed. That was 1 quart in 1600 miles!!

Sorry,
Dave

 

[Frankie D]

oil use

I also have a 2001 6-speed.Had to put a quart in at 3000 miles.Is this excessive?It depends who you talk to.Had a 1991 ford F-150 truck that I bought new.It used a quart every 1500 miles.Ford said it was not excessive until it used a quart every 800 miles and they showed me this in writing.Put 130,000 miles on the truck never used much more oil than stated.If you want a good read on the vette oil ring thing,go to the home page of this site and read C6 naked and exposed article.I thing it's about half way through the story.Oh by the way my daughter and friend both have newer bimmers that use oil too? Oil is cheap and easy to add.Don't forget this is a high performance engine.I not worried about using some oil after beating my brains out and raising my blood pressure when I owned that truck for 10 years.

 

[Dave]

Thanks for the reassurance! I have ben keeping an eye on the oil level and it doesn't seem to be any worse. As you say, oil is cheap.

 

[Bounty Hunter]

Me too, no problems though

I also have the MN6 and use more oil than my friends with automatic transmissions. But after a few days of autocrossing, drag racing, or spirited rides thru the country, thier oil consumption increases also. So far it hasn't had any detrimental effect on the engine in a little over 55k miles. I just keep an extra quart of Mobile 1 in a storage compartment for topping off when it needs it.

Steve

 

[MsSchroder]

1 quart every 1600-2000 miles or so- that's pretty typical for my 02 z06 under moderately sedate (or moderately spirited, depending on how you look at it) conditions. Tammy

 

[MsSchroder]

Check out this thread.

http://www.corvetteactioncenter.com/forums/showthread.php?t=64512

In post #4, Bluecoupe offered some very informative links.

Tammy