High Performance Lubricants PCMO Series

The Civic Type R manual recommends 0W-20 (in the US, at least). Would the Premium or Premium Plus 0W-20 be a good choice for the Type R's high performance, turbocharged, direct-injection motor? The car would see mostly daily driving but also the occasional autocross and track day (Road Atlanta, Atlanta Motorsports Park). Recommended OCI? Oil temperatures can easily exceed 250+F on track. The car unfortunately does not include an oil pressure gauge. I'd use a Fram Ultra oil filter. Thanks in advance.
 
I am a business owner with a multitude of air cooled small engines used to power everything from generators, to water pumps, trash pumps, pressure washers, etc.

I've tried an equal multitude of oils in these hard-use engines used by people that couldn't care less about their service life in some pretty demanding situations. Without question, I get longer, more reliable service life out of this area of equipment using Amsoil's 10W30 Small Engine Oil. For the record, it's the ONLY Amsoil product I buy because I have found value in this particular product.

@High Performance Lubricants Do you have plans for making oil specific to OPE, air-cooled, and the like?
 
Oil Changer said:
I am a business owner with a multitude of air cooled small engines used to power everything from generators, to water pumps, trash pumps, pressure washers, etc.

I've tried an equal multitude of oils in these hard-use engines used by people that couldn't care less about their service life in some pretty demanding situations. Without question, I get longer, more reliable service life out of this area of equipment using Amsoil's 10W30 Small Engine Oil. For the record, it's the ONLY Amsoil product I buy because I have found value in this particular product.

@High Performance Lubricants Do you have plans for making oil specific to OPE, air-cooled, and the like?
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That's impressive. What are the failure modes that Amsoil prevents? In my experience with OPE it's always stuff unrelated to lubrication, like broken exhaust valves or valve springs causing catastrophic breakage.
 
nascarnation said:
That's impressive. What are the failure modes that Amsoil prevents? In my experience with OPE it's always stuff unrelated to lubrication, like broken exhaust valves or valve springs causing catastrophic breakage.
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The short answer is, name it. Running without oil, water in oil, over-heating, over-loaded, running the engine outside it's design perimeter, no air filters... Anything you can think of that someone can possibly do, I've seen it. I've got a stack of parts Hondas and Chondas. Failures have stopped since using Amsoil 10W30 Small Engine Oil. Not a salesman, don't use any other Amsoil, not otherwise promoting Amsoil. Just my experience.
 
So by switching to AMSOIL, your motors suddenly have air filters, are not over-heated, over-loaded, water stays out of the oil, etc? That really is quite a miracle fluid.
 
nascarnation said:
That's impressive. What are the failure modes that Amsoil prevents? In my experience with OPE it's always stuff unrelated to lubrication, like broken exhaust valves or valve springs causing catastrophic breakage.
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Broken valvesprings are a lubrication issue as the only thing that keeps a valvespring cool is the oil. Without this cooling, valvesprings fail rather quickly.
 
PoorMans180SX said:
Broken valvesprings are a lubrication issue as the only thing that keeps a valvespring cool is the oil. Without this cooling, valvesprings fail rather quickly.
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No argument there, but I'm not convinced Amsoil cools any better than any other lube of similar specification.
 
Not to knock Amsoil, but you're not going to see any significant difference in cooling between oil brands. There isn't much difference in specific heat between base oils.

Valvesprings fail for reasons other than lubrication. Valvetrain harmonics can cause failures. Problems like valve float and bounce, from exceeding the spring's capabilities, can cause failures. Bottoming out the spring will cause a failure very quickly. Also, some engines just have poor designs that allows the springs to get hotter than they should leading to fatigue and failure. No oil is going to fix that sort of issue.
 
Interesting, there are a few products like break in oils that are offered. I am trying to decide between HPL Euro 0w30 and 5w30 but the product pdf now requires a password and user id,
 
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