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Anyone cooking " Old School " with cast iron ? About a year ago I decided to replace my worn out " non stick " and S/S stuff..... did a bunch of research and decided to go with new cast iron...... I remember my mother and grandmother always talking about how much better cast iron was than the...

KimChi ! If ever there was a food that seems to totally devide people .... it's KimChi. I have never really seen someone have a neutral position on this one... they either like it or hate it. I was 1st exposed to KimChi circa 1974 when I was working at a Tae Kwon Do studio.The owners and...

Sometime this year I'm looking to replace my ageing PC.... My is getting tired and beginning to have issues... I went down to a local Apple Store last weekend and checked out some of their offerings..... I had never used one in any way before... So this was all new to me... They seemed abit...

Just abit curious what some of you guys might think about this...In many classes of racing roller tappets are not allowed or are otherwise not desirable...so with that leaving flat tappets left...typical cast iron cams with hardenable iron solid lifters with the typical valve springs ranging...

For some reason your topic on the Kendall 20W-50 VOA is locked....I was curious if you happened to know how old that sample was ? Do you know if it was SH or SJ rated or some other rating ?

Well I finially got enough miles on her to at least try my 1st UOA... I purchased my Impala LS in Feb 2003 with 20 miles on the car.It is now Feb 2004 and I just turned an even 3000 miles on the car when I took this sample. The car is driven daily but in hard conditions.I live 2 miles from...

I was just changing my oil today and I found a bottle of GM Engine Oil Supplement part # 1052367. GM has been selling this stuff for decades and I bought this for a cam change I did on another car last winter.So I looked at it and it listed it's contents but not any PPM's.As listed on the lable...

From Blackstone Labs ... Report date 7-1-2003 Chevron Delo 400 15W-40 SJ and a zillion C ratings. This is a year old oil that I found that had a date on the case of 5-03-2002... Iron = 1 Silicon = 3 Sodium = 1 Calcium = 3056 Magnesium = 6 Phosphorus = 1136 Zinc = 1355 Water = 0 Insol = 0...

From Blackstone Labs... Report date 7-1-2003 Kendall GT1 SAE 30WT SL Alum = 1 Iron = 1 MOLY = 50 Silicon = 3 Sodium = 1 Calcium = 1780 Magnesium = 11 Phosphorus = 888 Zinc = 976 Water = 0 Insolubles = 0 SUS @ 210 F = 67.1 Flashpoint = 495 TBN = 7.2

From Blackstone Labs .. Report date 7/1/2003 Kendall GT1 10W-30 SL GF-3 Alum = 1 Iron = 1 Moly = 46 Silicon = 2 Sodium = 1 Calcium = 1716 Magnesium = 11 Phosphorus = 849 Zinc = 947 Water = 0 Insolubles = 0 TBN = 6.7 SUS @ 210 F = 61.0 Flash Point = 430

From Blackstone Labs..Report date 7/1/2003 Chevron Supreme 10W-30 SL GF-3 Alum = 1 Iron = 1 Moly = 65 Boron = 133 Silicon= 3 Sodium = 1 Calcium= 1814 Magnesum= 4 Phosprus= 732 Zinc = 879 Sus @ 210 F = 63.1 Water = 0 Insolubles = 0 Flash Point = 365 F ( ??? ) TBN = 8.0

I had a question about Schaeffer # 703 so I E Mailed their tech dept off their website late one night.The next day I had two replies from them.Further E mails back and forth and I must say I am quite pleased with thier professionalism , courtesy and helpfullness.I will follow thier advice and I...

As I look through the VOA I see many that have varing amounts of Sodium content.I have read that it is sometimes used as an additive but I have not found any reference as to what function the sodium performs in the oil.Anyone happen to know ? Thank you.

I found these numbers at a oil manufactures web site.They seem to be fairly simular in many regards but some numbers appear to be quite abit different. Is this enough info to make an educated guess as to one being more aplicable to a very high dusty environment? Would the Fleet's oil high...

My neighbors son (16) just bought himself his 1st car.... A 1978 Z28.Decient looking car 350 4V TH350 and probably 3.08 gears.He proudly showed me his new ride.He open the hood and I took a look. The engine appears origional and the origional owner said it has turned over twice so around 217,000...

Just curious about this.There seems to be several terms that are used interchangably.Just to make sure I have to ask... Do these terms all mean the same thing or is there a difference ? Multi Viscosity. Multi Weight. Multi Grade. Sorry to ask such a dumb question but as I have read here some...

I just purchased a new (2003) Chevy Impala LS.It has the 200HP 3.8V6 .The oil filler cap and the owners manual both say to use 10W-30 oil.They do not specify or say to use Dino or Synthetic. In my other cars ( late 60's BBC Chevelle and a late 70's Olds 305 V8).... I have been useing Kendall...

Hi I'm new to this forum and I hope I'm not bringing up something that has been discussed alot in the past. One of our deliverly trucks has a 454 /TH400 with 3.73 gears.This truck is forced to see alot of low speed ( low RPM ) stop and go use.Often times barely getting up to 180 deg water temp...