No.That looks great! Did you notice any difference in appearance after running the Valvoline Blue?
No.That looks great! Did you notice any difference in appearance after running the Valvoline Blue?
Well your almost 200K ahead of me, haha!Looks great, my Element K24 with 250k has a similar gold tint inside.
I doubt it. The areas you're concerned about do not see very much oil flow.Hopefully I will see a noticeable improvement.
Yeah, if the area of concern is the ring lands, it's going to take quite a while.I doubt it. The areas you're concerned about do not see very much oil flow.
You should probably ask Dave, but my guess is that you will need to run it a lot longer than that to have any impact. Like I previously said, that area of the valvetrain doesn't receive much oil flow anyway so I don't think you will see much of an improvement.HPL EC went in this morning. I plan on running it 2000 miles before changing.
The cleaning time for HPL EC seems to be a moving target, before I ordered the cleaner the consensus was 2000 miles max and change the filter once in between. Now it seems 2000 miles is not enoughYou should probably ask Dave, but my guess is that you will need to run it a lot longer than that to have any impact. Like I previously said, that area of the valvetrain doesn't receive much oil flow anyway so I don't think you will see much of an improvement.
I think the official position has always been (and continues to be) 2K? But others have ran it longer and have found "good" results, so there seems to be a natural consensus to run the product longer.The cleaning time for HPL EC seems to be a moving target, before I ordered the cleaner the consensus was 2000 miles max and change the filter once in between. Now it seems 2000 miles is not enough
As I posted before, I am not sure if it is really designed for complete varnish removal. It may be more of a sludge removal tool.?
I am curious what tests were run by HPL for the EC to recommend 2000 miles initially?
For the remaining vehicles, I have HPL EC in I am in a forget it mode and it will stay in for the full OCI.
I will be changing oil in a toyota 1ARFE later today that has close to 5K miles on HPL EC at 1:5 ratio, filter will be easy to examine as it is the paper element.
I have. He recommended 2000 miles.You should probably ask Dave, but my guess is that you will need to run it a lot longer than that to have any impact. Like I previously said, that area of the valvetrain doesn't receive much oil flow anyway so I don't think you will see much of an improvement.
Looks great!
I see a very slight improvement in this picture, but that is it.Less than 90 miles with HPL EC. A noticeable improvement on the cam lobes!
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Well it has only been 90 miles. You can see how far the varnish has receded from the cam lobes.I see a very slight improvement in this picture, but that is it.
If it keeps you up at night you can hand the car over to me as I am a huge Honda nut. Thanks for sharing the picturesSome updated images. This is post 3000 mile run of M1 EP 0w20 with 2000 of those miles including 1 quart of HPL EC 30. Currently about 150 miles into a run with M1 FS 0w40. In my estimation it appears to be a tad cleaner.
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