I am not going to vote one way or another. I will say, with the new news of GC being made in the USA, If GC is choosen it should be the new USA GC that is engineered for exteneded drains.
I change my mind, I now put in a vote for GC as well!quote:
Originally posted by 59 Vetteman:
Why not GC? Red Line is to expensive to use for the average person like myself that normally only sees 4K a year on our car. Also we have seen enough data on Red Line to note that only Terry can interpet their results accurately.
I vote for GC, lets put this to the test. In fact I will donate the first Oil Analysis if you use GC. We haven't seen over 5K on this oil and no real historical data. Plus I don't know of anyone who has 150 bottles of Red Line in their shrine. But we have over 5 on this board that have that many and more of GC. Lets find out if the hoarding of GC is a brilliant move, or a so so item.
I agree with this. The German variety looks like it's obsolete. Why not use the current made in USA product...quote:
Originally posted by medic:
I am not going to vote one way or another. I will say, with the new news of GC being made in the USA, If GC is choosen it should be the new USA GC that is engineered for exteneded drains.
I would really like to see you bring back M1 just to see if it was tainted by the break in metals.quote:
2) Take a 6-month hiatus, bring back Mobil 1 for a 5,000-mile run to get an idea for how much its performance was tainted by break-in issues.
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Delay the Redline for a year. Put in Mobil-1 for six months. If the Mobil-1 is still producing interesting results at that time you could extend for a total of 12 months. If the Mobil-1 is not interesting at that time (e.g. the data looks exactly like the first run of Mobil-1) then change to whatever seems like an interesting non-synth API SM oil in May and run it for six months.
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While delaying the Redline test for a year, this approach will validate/disprove the assumption that your engine had high wear numbers from breaking in, and that Mobil-1 was as good as or better than Amsoil.
That is what I would like to see. This would clear up some issues and give GC a shot. I seriously think that GC is going to become a mainstream product.quote:
Originally posted by buster:
My vote would be, a 5,000 mile run with M1 just to see if the break-in was that much of a factor, then put in Redline. I think GC would beat all these oils in wear and viscosity.
That would work. Run that maybe for 3-5k miles, compare then move to GC. With RL I think we know what we would see.quote:
Well, FWIW, I'm still leaning toward settling the Mobil 1 break-in questions