Recent content by S12

Originally Posted By: SteveSRT8 I remember a street car engine in my youth that had exactly this issue. Torqued carefully to spec it would quickly munch that rod bearing. A piece of plasti-gage measuring stuff showed that the clearance was severely reduced there. I don't recall the explanation...

Originally Posted By: Artem Hmmm... I'm a little hesitant to spend the extra money on Premium fuel these days, when the price different between grades isn't the usual $0.10 its now over $0.20 cents between 87 and 89 & 93 octane, here in Florida, so the cost of running the higher octant fuel in...

GTX is a great every day oil. My dad used it in every car he owned and probably still does. My dad would change the oil in all of our vehicles every 3K or 4K. Growing up we had a Toyota 4-runner with the good old 22re 4 cylinder in it. He bought that SUV with 200K on it and it got sold with...

My problem with the cloudiness of the oils being moisture is that I bought all of the oils new and unopened with the exception of the GC 0W-30, AMSOIL 10W-40 and the PP 5W-20. I can't see virgin oil having significant water in it and besides that the AMSOIL and GC were opened a year ago and did...

So I left nine different oils out side over night when the temps got down to -15 Fahrenheit and something surprising happened. Nine different oils: Valvoline straight 30, Valvoline conventional 10W-40, PYB 10W-30, PYB 5W-20, PP 5W-20, PP 10W-30, CG 0W-30, Mobil Super 5W-30, AMSOIL 10W-40. So...

Originally Posted By: KenO 'Factory' fluid is BMW MTF-LT2. Are you sure about that? My Bottle of Pentosin states on the bottle that it is transmission gear oil for ZF manual transmissions manufactured during and after 1997. There is nothing that says BMW on the bottle. I believe there was a...

Originally Posted By: d00df00d Despite appearances, I'm not trying fluids for the sake of it. I used Red Line D4 because it was the thing to do; I switched to Motul because it was free; and I tried RLI because I like the company. I'm happy to try something else but only if I stand to gain...

Originally Posted By: Quattro Pete Originally Posted By: jrustles Where are people getting the indication that this should not have happened and that the GC is too thick? I think he would have gotten equally good results as well as better fuel economy with something less thick than GC. I...

Originally Posted By: MrWideTires it doesnt need that oil, QR25 has very tight clearances. My SpecV has the same motor, but mine is used for rally and road racing, I used 0w20 for years without even burning oil. I chose a 0w-30 oil becuase a thirty weight is what Nissan specified for the...

Originally Posted By: OVERKILL Originally Posted By: volk06 Originally Posted By: OVERKILL Originally Posted By: Jocephus I never said fuel level in a turbo DI engine was related. I said the Ecoboost has had a ton of problems and it has scared me away from Ford. How is a possible/probable...

Originally Posted By: JHZR2 Originally Posted By: Ram01 That's why everybody getting the 5.0 V8 in the F150 a lot of problems with the ecoboost A lot of problems? Specify and cite the basis or dont derail the thread. maybe Ram01 is siting this lawsuit against Ford...

Originally Posted By: aquariuscsm I'd run a 10W30 in it,do a 3000 mile oci,and get another uoa and compare wear metals. Well I have 8,000 miles on the current fill of GC 0w-30. I could take another sample at 12,500 to see if wear is the same. I'm tempted to run the oil to 15,000 miles though.

Originally Posted By: cptbarkey too long of an OCI imo. are you doing that just because, or are you piling those miles on in a short timeframe? Why too long? The oil was in the car 7 months.

Originally Posted By: dnewton3 Overall, not a bad showing. Could be extended safely; get a TAN next time also. Originally Posted By: S12 This oil sample is from my daily driver nissan Altima. It sees 90% highway and 5% city driving. I presume the last 5% is off-road activities; probably...

Originally Posted By: vinu_neuro Originally Posted By: S12 Originally Posted By: vinu_neuro Originally Posted By: dparm Just curious why you opted for something so thick? That motor would do fine with a much thinner oil. +1 So why do you use a 40 weight oil in your Prelude? -It's spec'd...