ZMONSTER!

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I, for one, have not. could you direct me somewhere I could read these bad reviews?

snake charmer

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man for $8 a bottle you would expect it to be the top dog .
how about redline or is that for hondas ?

Websy21

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Do some searching, there have been claims of pulling a motor apart or looking in the pan to see a bunch of sluge built up from using royal purple. Whether or not its true, I've heard this a few times from people claiming the first hand experience with this. Good enough for me to stay away and go with the GC. I haven't heard any had things about it but haven't used it myself either. Currently using M1 5w-30 and not most impressed but will see what happens when I make the pluge to change over this spring. Now to find out what weight to use for the GC as reccommendations seem to differ for what brand oil you are running and definetly the climate too. I live in Canada but it doesn't see any cold weather either way, April to Oct for the car season.

sroach20

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i just run vegetable oil, that way i can feel like im doing my part for some kind of environment.

Luder[PAK9]

Is it organic?

408zo6

I just run castrol 5-30 in my 408 and change it at like 2,000mi i called LME and thats what thay tolled me to run. In my truck i just get this stuff thats a $1.00 a qt and cahange it like every 10,000 mi and its fine and have had 4 new duramaxs and i put 100,000 mi on them in 4yrs, all i do is plow and tow with them then just get a new one and they run grate so i will stick with the $1.00qt oil for thr truck and the castrol for the car!

LostCauseZ06

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well i started using penzoil platinum after my GC 0w30 days as it was getting too hard to find german castrol and i had a huge oil leak... money down the drain.

well i was using it in my 408 vette, as well as my GSX eclipse. noticed a HUGE drop in oil pressure with the 5w30 penzoil platinum.. that stuff is WAYYYYYYY too thin and i also noticed horrible oil consumption on both cars. I changed the plugs in the vette this weekend and they looked like ***. penzoil plantium is far too think and im pretty sure my valve seals didnt like it at all.


switched back to german castrol, so far the plugs look leaps and bounds better, im not noticing any oil usage, valvetrain is MUCH quieter, and besides a little smelly at idle (i run breathers and no PCV) i am completely sold once again on german castrol. the stuff really works well in my vehicles.


my ball bearing 50 trim on the GSX seems to love it as well. the turbo seems to spin much more freely and spooldown when i shut it off seems to last longer (maybe its just in my head though)

408zo6

Hey nice car looks like we have the same set up! sorry

LostCauseZ06

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dang you! i had mine first though

Scammper

Im confused. People claim that one oil is thinner than another even when they are both rated at 5W-30. They should be the same. Thats the whole point of the ratings right?
Cold 5W-30 has the characteristics of 5 weight oil when its cold. Hot it has the viscosity of 30 weight oil. At least thats how I understand it.

So the car should only 'feel' the differences in 0w-30, 5w30, 10w-30 at start up once the engine comes up to temperature it should all be roughly the same. Otherwise the rating system doesnt really work does it. ?

xEzekial

dude somebody please lock this thread.

The whole thing about me saying to run ATF in your car was a JOKE.
DO NOT run straight-ATF in your car. If it was a great idea, everyone would do it.
ATF is NOT designed to lubricate engine components. You want to add some to your oil thats on you.

Hell, while you're at it, next time you're at BP or Exxon, go ahead and take your oil cap off and fill 'er up with 93 octane. that oughta make your car happy. Because we all know gasoline is the best lubricant.

xEzekial

johnnydje

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ditto

FMX05

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A thirty weight could be anywhere from 25-35, a 40 weight from 35-45 etc. M1 runs on the thinner side of a 30 weight at temp and GC runs on the heavier side at temp. The scale isn't exact.

nprather

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20w50 k thanx bye!!!!!

araber89

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So... much... bull ****.... can't stop... reading... Please its 11:22... I want to go to bed. Where is the lock? Ah... I just read almost every post on here and didn't learn one new thing.

the big d

well living in hot an humid augusta i am running 5w30 in all my vehicles, though i do run 10w30 in my 2500 for the summer months, it is all the same once the oil is heated

xEzekial

hey guys. im gonna come find your cars and pour an oil/sugar mixture into your engines while youre asleep if you don't stop posting on this thread. :-D this is pointless.

and for all of you people who posted on page 6 about what kind of oil you use. let's be serious. shame on you. that was handled like 4 pages ago. havent you noticed we've gotten on 4 or 5 off-topics since then?

baalic

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haha...Bump cause umm....this humored me!!!!



btw in my sixer i was using mobile 1 and then switched to RP and noticed a 3-4 mpg on the highway increase....not any difference in town though...

just put RP in the Z28 they were running conventional oil with a fram filter.. "previous owners" How pathetic....

Xtreme864

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think with your dipstick, jimmy!

haha no forreal tho i just use original penzoil 5w-30 with a fram filter. Not a problem yet.