63K to many miles to switch to full synthetic ??

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05-05-2011, 02:03 PM

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LOOK at this article I just found ..Very interesting

http://www.animegame.com/cars/Oil%20Tests.pdf

Very interesting!! for sure now many of you will change the opinions of some oils

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05-05-2011, 02:11 PM

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Originally Posted by umakemekissu

I buy the on-sale oil packages in Autozone, usually $39.99 for a 5lts. bottle of full synthetic (Valvoline, Mobile, etc.) and 1 K&N filter... I don't think filter is such a big deal if it's changed out every 3-4k miles!
But I do spend extra $ on a bottle of Lucas oil stabalizer for about $11.. worth it? idk.. there're mix feelings on it!

Don't use the lucas crap. There's no need for it and its a big blob of VIIs which gum everything up. This stuff is for an engine that's about to die and you don't care about the long run. This stuff is obsolete with today's oils.

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05-05-2011, 02:18 PM

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Originally Posted by MattB07TL

LOOK at this article I just found ..Very interesting

http://www.animegame.com/cars/Oil%20Tests.pdf

That article has been around for a while. Ball bearing / load tests aren't a true measure for wear protection.

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05-05-2011, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by MattB07TL

LOOK at this article I just found ..Very interesting

http://www.animegame.com/cars/Oil%20Tests.pdf

1/ very informative
2/ but kinda outdated...
I think that article was from 2004 and companies could change a lot in 7 years!!
Red line and Mobil are worse than Valvoline and Purple Royal??

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05-05-2011, 02:28 PM

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switching over earlier is better than later.

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05-05-2011, 03:44 PM

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That article has been around for a while. Ball bearing / load tests aren't a true measure for wear protection.

My phone is super low downloading that pdf but it sounds like the Amsoil bearing load test. No relevance to engine oil, I think it was used to test grease years ago. In one test they showed that bleach did better in that test than any oil. Gonna read it in a few.

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05-05-2011, 04:41 PM

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I usually use Mobil 1 with whatever filter it's on sale with at Advance Auto. Usually it's KN or Mobil 1. They are both the same but painted different colors.

They are made exactly the same, except the KN has usually $1 markup over the Mobil1. Probably because the KN has the nut welded on the base of the filter hahaha!

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05-05-2011, 04:59 PM

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I usually use Mobil 1 with whatever filter it's on sale with at Advance Auto. Usually it's KN or Mobil 1. They are both the same but painted different colors.

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They are made exactly the same, except the KN has usually $1 markup over the Mobil1. Probably because the KN has the nut welded on the base of the filter hahaha!

Missed this. They are both mfg by Champ Labs (so is RP) but the KN filter media is cellulose and the M1 filter is a synthetic blend. The synthetic blend media filters finer particulates so it's definitely the better filter of the two, even though they have the same construction. Anyone who says they're the same because the canister is exactly the same and has the same stamping on the cap is wrong.

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