It's funny (great) how these threads expand
As my daily has been a HOT from new, I didn't know the difference in the oil spec recommendations and am grateful that I have continued to put fully synthetic in, even though at 325k she's consuming oil at a fair old rate. I must find time to get the head off and put some new rings in, but that's going to lead into HG, chains and who knows what else
I have compared the breather systems and the bit that I thought would be the higher temperature bit is the pipe from the breather to the sump. That seems to be the same on both, the bit that is different is from the breather box to the threaded connection on the metal cobra inlet. Does that make sense.
Here's a couple of photos of the engine bay - pre and post cleaning