Hey ThatWouldBeGreat.....
Which RL oil are you using?
Just curious.
DEWFPO
Which RL oil are you using?
Just curious.
DEWFPO
As I mentioned in the other thread, one day of racing at the dragstrip will not kill an oil like Redline by any means. I go drag racing about once per month, and often make 7 or 8 passes in one day. Then I'll still run my oil to it's full interval. Even with 3 or 4 different visits to the track within my oil change interval, my results still look good and still show lots of life left in my oil.quote:
Originally posted by mf150:
I have been using Red Line 5W30 in my 03 Mustang GT that I use for drag racing. It's the only oil I'll put in the car. I change it out at 5,000 mile intervals or every 1 race day.
I think the Track is where RL might be worth it. Although, there are people that run Mobil 1 5w-30 and race their cars that end up with zero problems for thousands of miles as well. I don't really think you can tell if an oil shears unless it's tested can you?quote:
I have been using Red Line 5W30 in my 03 Mustang GT that I use for drag racing. It's the only oil I'll put in the car. I change it out at 5,000 mile intervals or every 1 race day.
The engine runs smoother, quieter, and more efficiently (street times).
The engine doesn't shear down as fast as other oils, plus I have *NO* consumption issues.
Yeah but when you consider that you can easily go a 10-15k mile OCI with Redline vs. maybe a 5k OCI with Mobil 1, before it shears down beyond belief, your trade off doesn't hold much water...I mean oil.quote:
Originally posted by Jeff in Western WA:
Autozone has M1 w/ their over the counter coupons for $3.99, so that's TWO oil changes vs. one for redline, $9 bucks, maybe in a $60K+~ car but "no way", like Amzoil, it is too "dern" overpricedso that's my cheap .02 for what it's (not) worth....geez $9, thats about the price of milk or gasoline!
We've seen no evidence on here of Mobil 1 5w30 or 10w30 shearing down though, both of them are very stable. Their 0w40 might thin out, but then again so would Redline if they made it in a 0w40. I wonder if Redline would ever attempt to make a 0w oil at all though.quote:
Originally posted by biodiesel:
Yeah but when you consider that you can easily go a 10-15k mile OCI with Redline vs. maybe a 5k OCI with Mobil 1, before it shears down beyond belief, your trade off doesn't hold much water...I mean oil.quote:
Originally posted by Jeff in Western WA:
Autozone has M1 w/ their over the counter coupons for $3.99, so that's TWO oil changes vs. one for redline, $9 bucks, maybe in a $60K+~ car but "no way", like Amzoil, it is too "dern" overpricedso that's my cheap .02 for what it's (not) worth....geez $9, thats about the price of milk or gasoline!
Right now 5w-30 .. 5w-40 ... 10w-30 ..10w-40quote:
Originally posted by DEWFPO:
Hey ThatWouldBeGreat.....
Which RL oil are you using?
Just curious.
DEWFPO
Are you positive? I know I've seen UOA's that clearly show shearing with their 10W30 and I'm pretty sure most of the one's I saw were on this site; but, I'm not 100% positive on that so I'll take your word on it.quote:
Originally posted by Patman:
We've seen no evidence on here of Mobil 1 5w30 or 10w30 shearing down though, both of them are very stable. Their 0w40 might thin out, but then again so would Redline if they made it in a 0w40. I wonder if Redline would ever attempt to make a 0w oil at all though.
I've run nothing but the recommended Dex in my Saturn for all of its 200,000 miles. Added Water Wetter at 125,000 miles, sludge showed up. Drained and refilled with plain 50/50 Dex and water, no sludge since. I'm not saying the sludge would have done any harm, but I do know Red Line themselves have acknowledged this "muck" with Water Wetter, so I wouldn't be so quick to blame the DexCool.quote:
Originally posted by Santo Fontana:
It was just the dexcool.