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Originally Posted by Garak
Helped how, though? Yes, you've explained to us countless times that you've solved the Hemi tick. That's not what I'm talking about, though. I'm talking about doing UOAs, posting UOAs, and interpreting UOAs. I'm not interested in the brand of oil used. I'm talking about how to use UOAs effectively, and one UOA, whether you're running Red Line, any other boutique, or the cheapest oil you find that meets the specification, is meaningless. A lot of times, when looking at the UOA, I don't even look at the brand, unless something specifically draws my attention to it, such as odd viscosity, weird nitration or TBN level, or the appearance of sodium, particularly without a VOA of the same batch being available.
UOAs are about trended analysis, not about comparing parts per million of iron from one brand to another from two snapshot UOAs. If one is hopping from brand to brand, there is very little to look at it in UOA, aside from viscosity, fuel dilution (and that's iffy, too, depending upon the lab), TBN, and coolant intrusion. Most else becomes massive guesswork.
We see it time and time again in the analysis section, where there's residual sodium from a different additive package, or a weird nitration number because we don't have a VOA, and other such things just causing confusion.
Incidentally, who is the one here talking about oil and not containers? There's only one container you're interested in. I have zero problem with that, but don't characterize that as a defect in others while at the same time characterizing it as a virtue in yourself.
Pimping Redline like it's the universal "solve all" has gotten a bit old. This thread has nothing to do with the 5.7L MDS HEMI, yet StevieC is being chastised for going off topic discussing container design
Espousing plumes of virtue regarding an oil's ability, with the mechanism currently unknown, to cure a tick in an unrelated application is as every bit off topic as container design.
Helped how, though? Yes, you've explained to us countless times that you've solved the Hemi tick. That's not what I'm talking about, though. I'm talking about doing UOAs, posting UOAs, and interpreting UOAs. I'm not interested in the brand of oil used. I'm talking about how to use UOAs effectively, and one UOA, whether you're running Red Line, any other boutique, or the cheapest oil you find that meets the specification, is meaningless. A lot of times, when looking at the UOA, I don't even look at the brand, unless something specifically draws my attention to it, such as odd viscosity, weird nitration or TBN level, or the appearance of sodium, particularly without a VOA of the same batch being available.
UOAs are about trended analysis, not about comparing parts per million of iron from one brand to another from two snapshot UOAs. If one is hopping from brand to brand, there is very little to look at it in UOA, aside from viscosity, fuel dilution (and that's iffy, too, depending upon the lab), TBN, and coolant intrusion. Most else becomes massive guesswork.
We see it time and time again in the analysis section, where there's residual sodium from a different additive package, or a weird nitration number because we don't have a VOA, and other such things just causing confusion.
Incidentally, who is the one here talking about oil and not containers? There's only one container you're interested in. I have zero problem with that, but don't characterize that as a defect in others while at the same time characterizing it as a virtue in yourself.
Pimping Redline like it's the universal "solve all" has gotten a bit old. This thread has nothing to do with the 5.7L MDS HEMI, yet StevieC is being chastised for going off topic discussing container design