Lake speed Jr inside Valvoline R&D lab to investigate their restore and protect

[Pablo]

Do you guys really see this as anything but a thinly veiled ad?

Edit: I'm in the middle of watching it now. Valvoline R&D is claiming that they are the only PCMO company that has their own engine test lab. Do we have anybody here who can credibly dispute that? I find it mighty hard to believe that XOM or Shell doesn't have their own engine test lab too.

Simply NOT true.

 

[Pablo]

Yea, up untill recently, some called Valvoline just a blender. This is very cool actually that they've come up with a molecular entity to accomplish this. They have the money now and are ahead of many others.
Good job Valvoline

I think one advantage of all the HPL fanbois here is the whole "just a blender" nonsense went into file 13.

 

[loneryder]

My hometown. I knew they moved the HQ to Lexington but didn't know they still had facilities there. They still have a refinery there. My cousin's husband's dad was the corporate pilot. A childhood friend married a VP's daughter. He married Up.lol
It's pretty much a dead town. At one time it had 2 steel mills and the oil refinery. Everything's gone except the refinery.

 

[WobblyElvis]

Watched the video, nothing to see here folks, just empty marketing.

 

[4WD]

Watched the video, nothing to see here folks, just empty marketing.

Whatever

 

[FMC]

Does Restore & Protect trump Extended Protection ?

 

[JTK]

Very cool, although I think we would have gotten less marketing fluff if dude #3 did most of the talking.

 

[Pablo]

One Valvo dude needs to read the health posts here. Maybe we could send him links?

2-3 years, he done.

 

[4WD]

One Valvo dude needs to read the health posts here. Maybe we could send him links?

2-3 years, he done.

Think he’s had too many links

 

[DirectRejection]

So they start with a theoretical synthetic molecule, but end up using a basic base stock.

I am still a proponent of high quality synthetic base stocks, especially vs a magic, mysterious super molecule in the add pack.

That is where I hang my hat.

Consistency in the form of using one exact oil throughout, I believe has it's benefits--nothing needs to be flushed.

 

[nascarnation]

Looks like Lake is branching out into talking about different brands. He may not be a genius chemist but he does have a lot of experience in racing engines. At a minimum he's providing some interesting info.

 

[ATex7239]

One Valvo dude needs to read the health posts here. Maybe we could send him links?

2-3 years, he done.

Bro’s adrenal glands are probably red lined.

 

[BHopkins]

Do you guys really see this as anything but a thinly veiled ad?

Edit: I'm in the middle of watching it now. Valvoline R&D is claiming that they are the only PCMO company that has their own engine test lab. Do we have anybody here who can credibly dispute that? I find it mighty hard to believe that XOM or Shell doesn't have their own engine test lab too.

I thought I saw a Mobil engine test lab video too, but I think it was an Engineering Explained video.

Did anyone else think that Lake seemed genuinely surprised at their claim, at being the only oil company with their own engine test lab? He didn't call them out on it, and went with it, but initially, it seemed to throw him that the Valvoline guy was making that claim.

 

[himemsys]

One Valvo dude needs to read the health posts here. Maybe we could send him links?

2-3 years, he done.

You should've seen him BEFORE he started applying Restore and Protect to his skin.

 

[LineArrayNut]

I saw an engine at a shell refinery in Pennsylvania 25 years ago, but it was for verification of octane. Variable compression by moving the head up and down. Does that count?

 

[4WD]

https://njbia.org/exxonmobil-donates-17-test-engines-to-raritan-valley-community-college/

 

[Xeno]

I'm in, when there's a clearance or good sale.

 

[Bullet]

So basically you have to change the oil twice. A flush with the oil all the old oil it out and the second fill to start the restore.

 

[himemsys]

So basically you have to change the oil twice. A flush with the oil all the old oil it out and the second fill to start the restore.

Not necessarily. If you just switch to that oil and use it every OCI, it will do it's job (if the claims are true). In a lab setting, they are flushing the old oil out, but you don't need to do that as an end user.

 

[cptbarkey]

I'm interested but waiting for folks to post photographic anecdotes which may take 6-12 months. I saw someone recently did but seemed like a sketch claim where the oil cap kissed some metal.