Originally posted by hondatech
My two cents is synthetic is a waste of money, Honda doesn't recomend it. I change my oil at 3k every time. If you change it freq. it will not matter.
As far as the transmission fluid I would stick with OEM MTF. It supposely has friction modifier additives and is designed for Honda transmisssions.
Not all of the new filters are fram nein, I have never seen a fram oem filter go bad, Filtertech makes the new style as well. I would honestly go buy only filtertech oil filters because I don't trust fram but that's just me. I bought several oil filters of the old bigger style before we switched.
yea i agree with u, if u change it frequently then it doesn't matter, but i use synthetic cus i bring the car to auto x or road course, and i change oil every 2k or so. the engine ate a lot of oil after track event it's unbelieveble.
i heard about the honda special additives, they have that in the brand new engine too, the only thing about synthetic tranny fluid is that some people reported reduced grinding, altho i never tried it, it is an incentive for people to try.
the oil filter i heard from a friend, donno if it's true or what. i seriously have no idea which brand of oil filter to pick, i will either pick the Mobil 1 filter or the STP which i thought should be pretty safe. never heard of filtertech and never seen it, generally i think most oil filter shouldn't be that bad, those cracked cases are prob just a few out there, but seriously enough to scare a lot of us.