So here is some limited results of a 5k mile run of EC30 on my Element. The main reason I ran the EC30 was due to sticking rings w oil consumption. The K24 had been using oil since I bought it ~192k miles on it then and 215k now. I did a piston soak and had ran Rislone and Gumout Multi-System Tune Up in the oil before. Mobil 1 HM and Maxlife oils used previously as well as QS. These had helped w oil consumption but not resolved it. Now I have about 800 miles on the new oil and so far it is staying full as I check it weekly. The valve cover off pic is at 1/2 way, 2500 miles of EC30, when the valves got adjusted. It is the same set of lobes as the second and third pictures. The second pic is thru the oil filler hole sorry not so great pic, I got a new phone and it doesn't like taking pics thru there. The second pic was taken when the oil and EC30 got changed and had 5k miles on it. The last picture was taken the day the EC30 was added back in May 2022. Looks like one side of the lobes cleaned up the varnish pretty well but not both sides. Oil that was used for the run was QSFS 5w30 and PP Euro 0w40 went back in. I do have one last bottle of EC30 I was saving in case it uses oil still but thinking of running Rislone w the next few oil changes to work on some more varnish. Hopefully Santa brings me a borescope camera for Xmas and I can get better pics.
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