100%. So many on BITOG are just driving run-of-the-mill older cars where this stuff really doesn't matter as much as they make it out that it does. You and I are a minority here. I can afford ~$250 worth of oil/year for my Sportwagen with 5K changes to have it last as long as I can...but I could also just run LM/M1/whatever for the same interval and it would be the same TBH but I like the HPL.
I'm also in the minority here. My car, that some have seen including @wwillson and others feel is the subject of fabled lore (where I said my picture is probably hanging in Wayne's office somewhere.... Good times. Ok) - That vehicle has been rebuilt about 4 or 5 times (we are at the stage of "I forget what we did, I just know that virtually everything on it you can name is new") and I sometimes get into the conversation or topic of "Why, why, WHY!" (About choosing to use HPL motor oil.)
I have no idea what you are talking about or refering to. I can discern that you like HPL oil - cool, I do too.I'm also in the minority here. My car, that some have seen including @wwillson and others feel is the subject of fabled lore (where I said my picture is probably hanging in Wayne's office somewhere.... Good times. Ok) - That vehicle has been rebuilt about 4 or 5 times (we are at the stage of "I forget what we did, I just know that virtually everything on it you can name is new") and I sometimes get into the conversation or topic of "Why, why, WHY!" (About choosing to use HPL motor oil.)
For me, the answer is pretty simple.. after having a Million Dollar ******, (that again most people would have kicked to the curb, much less bought two of. One a 6 and one a 4 cylinder in essentially matching color..) it seems a no-brainer to use the best. Present proper and non-JDM engine (been through some tough times, folks. Things are starting to look up...) of unknown origin had a Six Star head gasket on it when changed before going in... now has OE MLS.. why not use the best oil? Eliminating that variable. My days of xW-20 experimentation are basically over as well since those are things that are not the oil/engine's fault.
And I believe it has paid off. Not only is David Ward an excellent man (so is David Stoiber.. so is everyone at HPL and BITOG, yeah I said it,) but the oil has made my engine QUIET! No snippy quips by elite members about oils not being able to do that, I notice difference so do many. So this oil is where it's at.
I check the level and it may help stop the oil burning, should be pretty easy to measure.. but this oil is some phenomenal stuff and I'm doing an extended OCI just by default of the amount of driving I do.. @TiGeo I'll race ya and you having the faster car and all, I'd come up behind you after a distance because that's just one of those things we do on long highway drives with whoever wants to enjoy the spirited long distance highway drives in between the Staties. Will not do so in Virginia
Thanks. Good info.
Nope. Has to be $80,001. Sorry.
are they better that the Premium Plus PCMO series? Will that series go away?
$80K these days doesn't even get you a fully loaded Suburban, so...
I'm in for $20, but a McDouble is pushing it a bit too far.
wasting 80K on a Chevy Suburban is like buying 12 ply toilet paper
,still only lasts a short time, eventually turns to 
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A Nissan from that era will probably only get killed by rust without good underbody maintenance but at least the motor and transmission were better than they are now. Congratulations on over 400,000 miles. Nice to see people keeping vehicles maintained and running plus I'm sure by now it's paid off and the taxes are next to nothing I would hope. Any pictures???
The difference probably is, you live in the south where you don’t get a side of salt with your helping of asphalt, so you actually have to roll down the windows to get a breeze.
I run Redline 5w-50 in my wife's Mustang 2.3 High Performance Package per the manual and run it the full 10,000 mile oil change interval with zero problems. The 2.3 HPP engines are from the discontinued Focus RS, it was modified to fit the rear wheel drive configuration and uses the RS heavy duty block and head design which are different than the standard 2.3 engine in the Mustang.The sad thing is that some BITOGers are going to use these fantastic new products, and yet still OCI every 5k miles .... because it's "cheap insurance".
If you’ve got a daily driver, the PCEO is plenty good enough and offers benefits only maybe 2 other shelf stock oils do.
Vehicle, driving conditions, climate ??
