Recent content by KEVINK0000

I know less than nothing about this engine, but the results and the marine use lead me to believe corrosion rather than wear is the cause of your numbers. Which in my opinion somewhat mitigates the results.

Here's the previous with M1 0w-40, #2 and #3. #1 was QS Euro 5w-40. All runs had a non-UOA run in between when changing oils, btw.

New report, #5 on this sheet. 6100 miles, no oil added, still with QS 5w-30 SP ILSAC. The Al and Fe settled down to the levels I was used to seeing. I haven't gone into the engine yet but I bought the parts for the Vanos bolts. Must be a new talisman, buy the parts and get the benefit without...

I don’t agree, with 4v heads cam loading is not an issue in my opinion. A 2V, I would agree but would run something like VR1 in that. Long drains, yes-Euro all the way. I don’t like long drains and don’t do them. Now, ILSAC is not as far apart from current Euro as it once was. In some ways I...

Your valve train looks a lot cleaner than mine. I’m sure mine was a lease car, with 15 or 16k dealer changes. I always get carbon in the filter pleats each change, and have for the 150k we have owned it. This is my wife’s car, she has a lead foot, and it gets run a couple times a week 60 miles...

Thank you for posting these FF UOA. These give evidence that the Factory Fill is not the First Fill in my opinion. I still marvel that 0w8 is a thing.

It’s funny you revived this thread, I just got a new report to post that is, uh, interesting. Will do so soon. Did not notice any difference between the original 0w40 Castrol and the 5w40 QS. The M1 0w40 did get consumed slightly more. The 5w30 consumption is higher. A 5k run will put the level...

Default “safe” position is shown time and time again on BITOG that moderate OCI is best in more cases than any other scheme. Extendo-drain works great sometimes for some engines under some conditions. Not all. Not even close to all. If you want to have margin and not think too much, keep...

This does not look like a successful rebuild. The builder should be involved in diagnosing. At least you can reuse parts when it’s opened up again.

Take another sample at 1000 miles to see if this was an anomaly. If results are similar, sell it if you are not in love with it. Looks like the engine that went back in had original style tc parts. Could be something else, like the gent a few months ago that had similar iron and it looked to be...

Amazing. Thanks for posting. Incredible how many bottom end issues in the last decade on new designs across so many makes.

I like that you used the word opprobrium.

Well, these were two Bmw engines, low compression, (us spec in other words) with rudimentary fuel injection and no knock sensors. One was an M20 and one was an M30. They both exhibited the same behavior, pinging under load where they had never done that before. Neither engine did that with...

I wonder about how we have been told that certain oils with cleaning properties present fairly lackluster wear metal reports, due to, we are told, “cleaning “ and yet here is an oil that is known to liberate enough junk to load filters halfway through an OCI, and the wear metal numbers are very...

Redline injector cleaner caused a couple of my NA engines to ping pretty badly ( no knock sensors) . Be careful using it in your application.RL makes great stuff generally, but I stopped using Water Wetter and the cleaner because they weren’t great.