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Here's a much simpler idea. Buy 2x the oil you need. Drain the old stuff and discard it. Change filter. Fill the engine with new stuff. Run it for a few minutes to mix everything up. Drain slightly dirty new stuff, but do NOT discard. Drain filter. Refill with new stuff. You can use this...

Your old Honda is very easy on the oil. 3K changer are completely unnecessary. The K&N filter is great, and can easily go 10,000 miles. As others have suggested, the Purolator Pure 1 is just as good, at half the price. How about this: Change the oil every 5,000 and replace the filter every...

A 1000cc street bike with sporty rubber will kill any 4 wheeled whale you can buy on the showroom, but once you add wings to the car... Look at Laguna: The fastest bike lap I could find was a 1:20.7 on a 240hp, ~470lb (bike + rider) Moto GP beast. Duc/Stoner/2008 The track record is held...

92 Accord wagon, 2.2 liter, 4 cylinders, 5 gears. 34~37 freeway, depending on cruising speed which is seldom much over 65. 31 ~ 34 around town, depending on the temperature and traffic encountered. I don't drive like the OCD hypermiler idiots you've seen on TeeVee, but do make a reasonable...

Originally Posted By: Skid Well, at some point, a dumb person's incompetence hinders his/her ability to realize that they are incompetent and need to defer to others. Yup! Incompetent people are, by definition, INCAPABLE of realizing their incompetence. I seem to recall someone doing a...

My current stash is limited: Leftover quart of 0W-30 GC. 5x qt M1 15W-50 for the bike. Think I've got a gallon of Delvac 15-40 out in the shed. In general, I'll buy anything that will be useful. This is generally any Syn xW-30 (I like the long OCI) for the Accord and a robust xW-50 for the GPz.

Originally Posted By: Donald Can kryptonite be far behind? There was a guy on TV promoting a new oil with kryptonite and his name was Clark K something. Did not catch the last name. I think is suppose to be famous. Indeed. You'd think (hope!) that the Marketing Monkeys will eventually run out...

Good work! I just hope you don't get blamed when the headlight burns out next week. (After all, you were the last one to touch the car!)

If you've already bought the oil, or are looking to vulture a good sale, go for it! Yea, GC is ~20% thicker than 'standard' xw-30. Not quite ideal, but absolutely no biggie. You might loose 0.5 MPG if you run around in 2nd gear all day. If your engine is reasonably clean, without massive...

Originally Posted By: dwendt44 While I'm sure M-1 does clean a dirty engine, I doubt it will do so in just one oil change. The photos look more like just dirty oil, not sludge. Yea, calling that a 'sludged' engine is 100% hooey. I do see something that looks like very light goop on the...

About 440 miles on a GPz550. (SLC area to Tonopah) I don't remember feeling particularly tired; if anything, I found the ride across Nevada relaxing and enjoyable. Did another 400+ mile ride the very next day to arrive in central Ca.

Sorry, I don't follow why you're so keen to tear everything apart. Can't you check the PCV functionality by simply detaching the PCV valve and blow into the line?

I'm seeing RL's 0w-20 HTHS at 2.7 Not a huge deal, but is IS lower than what Volvo have in mind. Yes, it's got gobs of additives and won't thin with use, but it is still a hair 'thin.' The fact that Volvo show different temp ranges for the 5 and 10W-30 oils suggest that they are worried about...

Originally Posted By: gathermewool Originally Posted By: TomYoung Go ahead buddy, "wax" your Benz with rubbing compound! He will, and simply knowing this should make you feel great! For extra enjoyment, just imagine him using an orbital sander polisher to speed up the process.

Looking at http://new.volvocars.com/ownersdocs/1996/1996_850/96850_901.htm it seems Volvo is leaning toward the thicker end of the 30w spectrum. RL's 0w-20 is no doubt a great oil, but it's a hair thin for my comfort level. A blown engine will place a lot of load on the bearings at at lower RPM...

Won't hurt a thing. Hot 10-40 has the SAME viscosity as slightly cooler xW-20. Those of you running 'thin' oil, you don't hear horribly grinding noises coming from under the hood as the engine warms up, do you? Mild Overkill, but 100% harmless!

Originally Posted By: Hounds Originally Posted By: trooper001 As I watched the video, I actually felt my IQ drop. I made it through 10 seconds. Insipid ad. Hard to imagine that anyone with any mechanical knowledge would respond positively to such a commercial, much less actually buy the...

It's got it all! A cute girl, cute critters, lots of VROOM!! noises.

Has anyone managed to DL these?

Originally Posted By: Gokhan ... (2) "Dr. Haas" article claims that thickness of the oil film has no effect on engine protection. This is the biggest fallacy of this article and has mislead many people on this forum. See the ASTM paper linked above regarding the direct relation between...