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Originally Posted by N Camarolina
The fluid is usually dirty after the break in period. Supposedly the gears are have some sort of black coating that comes off with use. If you're going to beat on the car on back roads (high rpm) for prolonged periods at a time (high amounts of heat put into the fluid), probably better safe than sorry and get the fluid changed now - it's not expensive, especially if you change it out yourself.
Note the change interval for track driving is 15 hours of use (possibly 24hrs depending on which year of the high performance manual you read). So if you like to flog it a lot on roads, keep track of your driving hours under those conditions and change fluid accordingly.
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I can confirm this to be 100% true. I bought mine new, waited till it had about 4k miles on it, then did it. I wish I did it sooner. It came out grey and funky. I dont track mine or even beat on her all that much. Since then, I do it with every oil change. its cheap and easy to do, easier then changing your oil.