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View Poll Results: Which oil do you use?
5W30 Penzoil Platinum
11
5.88%
5W30 Royal Purple
24
12.83%
5W30 Mobil 1
68
36.36%
0W30 German Castrol
33
17.65%
5W30 Amsoil synthetic
3
1.60%
5W40 Mobil 1
8
4.28%
Other (post which one)
40
21.39%
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Which oil do you use?? *POLL*

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Old 09-01-2007, 12:11 PM
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Default Which oil do you use?? *POLL*

Well the thread about the "perfect oil" has been going on for a while. So i figured I would get a poll going on to see what people actually use. So which oil do you use for your LS1?
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royal purple 5w-30
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Mix of Red Line 5W-30 & 10W-40. (4qts./2 qts.)
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royal purple 5w-30
is that the XPR formula? the race formula is pretty good, the street formula isn't as good.

I use the RP XPR line.
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Valvoline R1 racing formula 20w-50.
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royal purple here
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AMSOIL 5W-40 Euro
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Mobil 1 5w30....might switch to something a little cheaper though next oil change.
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i buy the gallon jug of mobil 1 10w-30 non-synthetic (lt1s like to leak) and either a mobil 1 filter or acdelco filter, whichever i can get a hold of.
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royal purple here.
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was using M1 5w30....just put in M1 Euro Formula 0w40...we will see how that goes. My oil psi was low at when car was hot, but the oil was old and probably had a lil coolant in it (from the head swap)...the M1 Euro made the pressure jump like 20 psi hot
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i run the street royal purple ive seen dyno test and it seems to be pretty descent can really see spending 14 bucks a quart for the race royal purple, rather have the engine blow lol
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5w-30 mobil 1 synthetic
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mobile 1 5w30
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is there an oil additive i can use to quite down that slight tapping noise in the engine.......or some type of engine cleaner to add to the oil?
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Valvoline Racing Straight 30W
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boola1341-duralube best **** out there no matter what anyone says
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castrol SYNTEC 10w40. every time.
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i use royal purple myself
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