Caterham Blend, 5,433 miles, 2007 Toyota Sienna

[smithph]

2007 Toyota Sienna 3.5L V6

Caterham Blend
- 4.0 qt TGMO 0w-20 SN (58.7%)
- 2.5 qt M1 0w-40 SN (36.7%)
+ 10 oz MOS2 (4.6%)

No Makeup Oil

5,433 miles on the oil
99,599 miles on the engine

The table below is the Blackstone report including a UOA of straight M1 0w-40 SM I had done when the vehicle only had 25K on the engine. The previous fill was a Valvoline product which Blackstone indicated by be the source of the sodium. The oil filter used was a Fram Ultra cartridge, it looked perfect except for the used oil so I passed on taking a picture.

Code:


Chatham Blend (2014) M1 0w-40 SM (2010) universal avg.

ALUMINUM 2 2 3

CHROMIUM 0 2 0

IRON 7 6 10

COPPER 1 5 13

LEAD 0 0 3

TIN 3 0 0

MOLYBDENUM 279 84 77

NICKEL 0 0 0

MANGANESE 0 0 0

SILVER 0 0 0

TITANIUM 0 0 0

POTASSIUM 2 5 2

BORON 57 145 48

SILICON 10 7 19

SODIUM 89 5 37

CALCIUM 2212 2634 2264

MAGNESIUM 11 124 42

PHOSPHORUS 692 895 646

ZINC 813 1119 784

BARIUM 0 0 0



SUS Viscosity @ 210°F 55.4 68.4

cSt Viscosity @ 100°C 8.88 12.53

Flashpoint 425 370

Fuel %
Antifreeze % 0.18 0

Water % 0.0 0

Insolubles % 0.2 0.1

TBN 3.4


I replaced this fill with the same brew and used a Toyota TRD oil filter. Will run this fill out to 10K now that the extended warranty is over and report back.

 

[Turk]

Nice. I love to blend.

 

[jrustles]

"Chatham" blend is working great! Still solidly a SAE 20. Expected more moly on the report with the additive

 

[901Memphis]

Good TBN too.

 

[bepperb]

A 17% increase in iron plus the tin wear is skyrocketing. If you're going to keep running that I'd cut down to a 2500 mile OCI. It's obviously too thin, maybe go back to the 40 weight or even a 50 weight.


Kidding of course.

 

[MobilinHyundia]

http://www.bobistheoilguy.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/3020792/1

I did a few runs on Caterham blend....very impressed!

 

[novadude]

I don't see where it offers anything over the evil, too-thick 0W-40?

 

[smithph]

Originally Posted By: novadude
the evil, too-thick 0W-40?


The average MPG over the prior 94K miles was 21.2. I will report back on the average MPG after a couple of runs on this mix, anything else would be statistical fraud. Kind of like someone changing their oil from 5w-30 to 5w-20 and reporting after one tank of gas they found a 5 MPG improvement in mileage.

I purchased a case of TGMO 0w-20, thus I have enough to run this mix out to about 120K (plus the run reported here).

 

[MobilinHyundia]

It will easy go 15 000miles on this blend.