Brad Penn,along with a couple other specialty oils have been the oil of choice in the high performance air cooled crowd for a few years,and increasingly in v8 circles too. The old motors with flat tappet cams HAVE to have zinc (ZZDP) not wipe out cams. There was a epidemic of wiped cams several years ago,eventually it was realized oil was to blame.
A freind of mine has a mid 9sec turbo street bug,every winter it gets a tear down and refresh. After switching to the Brad Penn the bearings look a lot better.
Interesting to see FP post this bulliten. I've run Brad Penn in my VW, I have been considering making the switch on my Galants. I get it locally for $50 a case,so it's comparible to Mobil 1.
apparently standard oils are being reformulated again for 2011 EPA standards,and the off the shelf oil is going to be worse. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/uhh.gif