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All Climate is Vlvoline EU´s bread and butter range, nothing particlarly good or bad to say, you may vind a VOA or UOAA on Oil Club.de or .ru

56.50 Here in Spain for 5L, and that's online, closee to 60 in a brick and mortar store.

So I've read several times here that Calcium can in essence inhibit Zddp in an engine oil from really working properly, effectively making the oil behave like an oil that had less Zddp than it actually has. I just randomly the other day stumbled upon a Uoa of an oil that i've used in the past...

The VR1 conventional is all you need.

Here in Europe we also have a Castrol Classic 20w50 , but it's API SE rated ( yuck ) comes in a pretty tin can and is overpriced, pure marketing for classic car owners that don't know any better, i think i even saw a Voa of it and it didn't even have much Zddp in it. The US GTX Classic looks good.

There are two versions of VR1 , the regular "street" VR1 is perfectly fine for 3-4k miles, then there is the Race VR1 that must be changed before 500 miles max.

No problem mixing VR1 10w30 and 20w50, a quart of 20w50 ontop of the 10w30 will make it more or less a 10w40 which is fine.

VR1 20W-50 would probably be unnecessarily thick but it won't hurt it, just be gentle on the throttle before it's warmed up. Mobil 1 15W-50 would also be a good choice and not as thick when cold.

Valvoline VR1 10W30 would work well in that engine

Hmmm, i guess, but from all the oils i've bought i've only noticed it in conventional, especially Group 1 oils, never with synthetics.

But Kendall was dyed green wasn't it, this oil is not.

Topspeedgermany or Marius RBE on Facebook

Why not just crank it on the starter with the plugs out until it you see oil coming out the pushrods , if you can see from the oil fill cap.

Before the mid to late 50s or so however, oils had little to no Zddp, because the valvetrain pressures were really low, so if you have say car older than that they will run merrily on modern low Zddp Mid or even low saps oils. Although that doesn't mean a good full saps oil wouldn't add some...

Oh this is a guy i follow who does silly car repair videos, he does it on purpose, and all his videos are dubbed with a chipmunk voice.