Best Oil for Given Engine
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Best I know of with a 5W-20 is 150,000 mi of Police Work followed by 600,000 mi in Taxi Work. I doubt 0W-16 will shorten that enough to really matter.
The post about that car are here somewhere from a fleet manager. It's been awhile. Best I can do.
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Maybe for old school V-8’s. Chevy LS engines since 2014 have been running 70 psi under acceleration. Even my 2008 LS runs 40 psi at 1800 rpm all day long.
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That was just the minimum spec for the SBC.
Hmmm, when I was putting engines together 30yrs ago the rule was high volume std pressure (HVSP). Chevy builds were running HVSP Mellings, Pontiacs using HP pumps. Not sure if my BOP engines outlasted the Chevy's or not.
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I mean more load on the turbochargers internals. Running more boost puts more speed and thrust load into the shaft.
Per RDY4WAR VOA on HPL HDEO 5W20,
I presume my oil has ~1180 ppm of phosphorus.
My first smog check will be in a few years,
with several hundred thousand miles acrued.
Hopefully the cat will not be poisoned.
How hard are these boosted engines actually working? The 3.3TT in Kia Stinger is able to climb hills spinning at 1000rpm.
It's always in the 1000-1500rpm range.
The manual recommends ACEA A5 oil or "higher" although that doesn't make any sense really?
Yet the recommended viscosity range is 5w30 all the way to 20w50.
Talk about ambiguity
It's always in the 1000-1500rpm range.
The manual recommends ACEA A5 oil or "higher" although that doesn't make any sense really?
Yet the recommended viscosity range is 5w30 all the way to 20w50.
Talk about ambiguity
Not sure if relevant - but not long ago I poured about 100ml of Toyota 0w20 & 100ml of a 5w30 oil in separate plastic water bottles.
After spinning and shaking the bottles the toyota 0w20 flowed much faster, but it would slightly leak around the bottle cap. Which led me to believe that low viscosity oils may not be compatible with engines not designed for them.
After spinning and shaking the bottles the toyota 0w20 flowed much faster, but it would slightly leak around the bottle cap. Which led me to believe that low viscosity oils may not be compatible with engines not designed for them.
If the bottle attracts me that’s what I go with. Hence the reason I go with amsoil.
Reading all your posts there is nothing wrong with your "counsel" ideas as far as I am concerned. Nothing at all wrong, choosing an approved oil class (API) required by the engine maker and narrowing it down based on ideas and thoughts.
I have found sadly, that for some reason, if you bring up these thoughts on choosing an oil this way, its turns into an endless argumentative thread of which I was recently a part of and the one called "argumentative" for bringing in new ideas. (one was even labelled that about be by "monitor" in here)
Anyway, there are many sources of unconventional "tests" and thoughts which is pretty much for the individual who looks to choose based on what they say. After all, its what makes you feel good about choosing an oil in that API class, we all have our reasons for choosing, be it price, be it the company, be it the color of the oil bottle or the marketing on it.
I think, we do not see a lot of "old" school thoughts anymore it because API standards has become so advanced and refining oil so standardized that I think only a handful of companies make the additive packages that are sold to the oil companies to begin with. More or less they all work, in the old days, they didnt, including the API standards at the time.
Just like TV's electronics, gasoline that you choose, its all pretty much standard now, again, of products in the same class, in this case API.
(anyway, just my thoughts)
What rule of thumb was that? That was B.S. from AE Hass oil 101.
Frequent oil changes with with an oil that meets or exceeds the required specs will allow the engine to last and last
So every ~100mi with whatever the manual says for oil type? How frequent are you suggesting? Do UOA's give any info on too soon or not soon enough?
It's year 2021 soon, why don't vehicles come with a oil cleaning system (not just a dismal filter) and then end-user can just add what's needed to replenish the add paks? Heck, NASA made a CO2 cleaning system out of scrap/spare materials (socks, bungee cord, etc) from the command module.
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