What kind of oil are you running?

[GSX_TC]

Well go and do your research on the oils people listed here and them make a decision based on a comparison of them that your comfortable with

 

Royal Purple 10-30 here too

 

[Adorsey]

Ran Moble 1 10w-30 for a long time with no complaints.

Poured about 3 1/2 qts of Rotella 15w40 in my brand new engine last night around midnight. Cant wait to start this betty an get her going.

*the lawn mower needed some erl itself, Rotella went in the their too lol

 

[GSX_TC]

how much would 4 quarts of that Rotella 1540 cost?

 

Valvoline vr1 1o-4o in summer 5-4o in winter

 

[raptorWagon]

Valvoline 10w-30.

 

[Brunoboy]

Quoting broxma:
Valvoline VR-1 20w-50.

Wanted to throw that out there to screw up the standings thus far.

/brox


this ^, or any other 20W50 i can afford lol.
-Shane

 

[Street Surgeon]

Right Now: Brad Penn 30w break-in oil

Soon: Brad Penn 20w50

 

[rdomeck]

Valvoline VR-1 in everything I own....Mini Van, both work trucks, VR4, Porsche, really old Jeep, Lawn mower, Gator......The list goes on. I do not trust Mobil one at all. I used to and it cost me three engines in three different cars...The rings were the first to go in 2 of them and the lifters and cams in the third. Upon tear down the bearings were toast in all of them. It took some investigating to be convinced, but I wouldn't run it in my go-kart.

.....and VR1 is the closest in name to the VR4!!! Whats not to love?

 

[mikus]

i think I last remember billings saying it. In order of importance...
- oil is better than no oil,
- clean oil is better than dirty oil,
- last, type of oil

I've never had reason to really, truly think one quality oil was SO much different than the other for my driving needs, I mind the first two points and have been fine. You guys sound super smart though, eh.

 

[Jesh]

Mobile 1 full synthetic 10w-30 in the summer, and 5w-30 during the winter when the temps get
down to -20F. It helps keep the oil pressure down.

 

[4thStroke]

Anyone else notice how dirty it gets under the valve cover with the Brad Penn? I keep up on my oil changes and recently had my cover off, it looked awful under there.

 

[speedyd718]

just wanted to post that i just put a 50/50 mix of mobil 1 0w40 & 5w50 into #841 with a napa platinum filter.

 

[bmxr152]

Shell rotella T6 5w-40. Runs like a champ, and the oil stays alot cleaner between changes than running mobil 1.

 

[GSX_TC]

Rotella T, 15/40 Works great for me =)

 

[Redwood]

kinda glad i saw this posting to see what all u guys run.. gives me a lot of food for thought.. now to get my car ready for this cold a snow winter in michigan...

 

Right now I'm using valvoline vr1 20/50 because I read that they haven't reduced the amount of zddp in it, among other things that are important for lubrication, like companies such as mobil1 and royal purple have. I am a firm believer that both mobil1 and royal purple are now only getting by on the name they built for themselves, but I'm no expert on oil.

If I didn't run the vr1 oil I'd run the shell rotella 5/40 or bradpenn. Many people swear by amsoil too.

A good forum to read about oil is:

Bob is the oil guy. Many guys have posted their used oil analysis and you can seed the results from various oils. Tons of oil info on that forum.

 

[raptorWagon]

^You forgot a link zberto?

 

click

Check the categories along the right under additional reading.

Here is the forum link:

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Here is a guy with an Audi using rotella t6 who had a uoa (used oil analysis) done at blackstone laboratories.

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Here is a guy on the evo forum who had blackstone lab analyze his oil (rotella t6).

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Another rotella t6 uoa

click

 

[gtluke]

for what it's worth. For most of the life of my car I ran the cheapest shittiest oils I could find, with the cheapest shittiest oil filters. Generally it was Wolf brand oil, 5-30 and Group 7 oil filters.
I bought the motor with 60k on it, and it now as 250k on it.
But now I have a real job so I run 10-40 Mobil 1 and Wix filters