Recent content by Michael SR

hi, thanks very much for the information. i guess i need to pony up... -michael

greetings. i just purchased a vehicle with the MB 3.0L diesel. it has a particulate filter, but is the pre-bluetec version. the oil spec is 229.51. i bought a cases of schaeffer's 9000 in 5w40 about 2 years ago, for use in my racecar. the racecar has seen a lot fewer miles than anticipated, so...

previous UOA, and exposition to problem. i knew it would be a short run, so i emptied the odd oils left on my shelves. this was 4qts Exxon SuperFlo 5W20, and 3.5qts Chevron Delo 15W40. used 400 miles, with a purolator PF1218-equivalent oil filter. i'd gone through the top end a few times...

we had purchased the car literally the day before evacuating houston due to hurricane rita. we sat idling for ~10 hours. i changed the oil a few days after returning and took this sample to see how it weathered the evacuation. anything not listed above was reported as 0. blackstone's comments...

i believe 98 RON is usually equivalent to the 92-93 pump ratings (RON + MON / 2). -michael

we seem to be back to "non-relaxed" gasoline in houston. i say that because my cars run great on regular gasoline, but my subaru pings frequently on the epa special stuff. it's been pinging again since last fillup. -michael

can you still get this stuff? i haven't seen it on shelves for a long time. -michael

the box you've seen only does the same thing a speedo gear swap does. it's for cars where there's no way to change the speedo gear, it works by interrupting and reforming the waveforms from the vss. i think it's '99-up mustangs that need that box, among other brands. your problem (assuming you...

by '98 there's no fix short of reprogramming the ecu. note that if you were to put the speedo back to stock, it would then work, since the speeds relative to rpm as read by the ecu would be correct. (but the speedo would be wrong.) that is, since you "fixed" the speedo, the ecu knows it's going...

i'm in the middle of something at work right now and so can't quite wrap my head around this 100%, but i don't think this variant would work. the box can only "slow down" the signal. so, you have to start with a signal that's "too fast." -michael

hmm, good alternatives, i had not considered that before. you're certain it's a parallel circuit? -michael

thanks, i believe i will contact him. -michael

is mtfglide SF's answer to atf-z1? i looked on their site and didn't see mention of it. thanks. -michael

sort of moot since it's probably more difficult to purchase than the MTL-R, but swepco 201 has worked incredibly well in my subaru. i probably would have tried the MTL-R, had it been available, but i'm happy with the 201. i am surprised at how well swepco works even with a cold tranny, given...

i don't know what the virgin viscosity is, but this short run ended with the supersyn 10w40 being quite thin: my 800-mile UOA similarly, note the lowish flashpoint, even though blackstone isn't showing much fuel dilution. also, the zinc and phosphorous levels don't seem very high, i think it...