I put mine away after 200+ miles for the first winter I had her. After she came out to play in april or so I took her right in for the first oil change. Every three months during the spring/summer or whenever she comes out of the garage for storage on mine, so anywhere from around 150miles to 1500 miles on the way out.

 

That's another reason to change the oil early...that darn factory filter is put on without any oil on the gasket...makes it even harder to remove (the first time)...I had to use the persuader (oil change pliers with teeth)...now it's a piece of cake. The longer that oil filter sits in there, the harder it will be to remove if you wait until 3K miles...just my opinion. But I'm sticking with that semi-syn Motorcraft 5w-20...good stuff.

 

Thats cool, but I'd rather have my particles trapped in the filter ten trapped between the filter and block.

 

I'm just going to wait until the 5000 mi mark like I did my 02 Mustang. She ran strong with no problem.

 

I don't think there is a hard and fast rule on the first oil change.

 

Here is the program I'm following. I think it's fairly common.

500 miles - 1st oil change - same as factory
1,000 miles - 2nd oil change - same as factory
3,000 miles - Mobil 1 plus Ford racing filter

3,000 mile intervals after that.

I'm at 1,900 now and I would like to get Mobil 1 in it as soon as I can.

 

I plan on changing the oil in mine at about 1500 miles, but that's only because it's been almost five months since I bought the car... Otherwise I would have waited til 3000.

 

http://neptune.spacebears.com/cars/stories/mobil1.html

Based on the results we've got here, we'd recommend 8,000 miles between oil changes on an engine that uses no oil at all, perhaps 10,000 miles on an engine that uses some oil, and 15,000 miles or beyond with a filter change every 5,000 miles. This, of course, isn't any kind of guarantee, and you must evaluate for yourself what your engine requires. One thing we're pretty sure about though: 3,000-mile intervals is a huge waste of resources.

 

Drive it like you stole it!
If I do 3000 mile intervals on the Stang, I can change the oil once every 2 years!!

 

In my case, once a month!

 

Anyone running this product? http://www.steeda.com/products/magnetic_drain_plugs.php

Are they worth it/or work? or just stick w/ my k&N?

 

I disagree totally. I noticed a 2 mpg jump in milage between 7000 and 9000 miles.. I believe a 500 mile oil change is good.
For my sely I changed a 500 ,2500. 5xxx, and at 8000. When I reach 10000 miles I will switch to synthetic.