Lucas 0W-40 Motorcycle oil

[micros]

This is a virgin oil sample of Lucas synthetic 0W-40 motorcycle oil. Please leave comments, what do you think of it.


MI/HR on Oil 0
MI/HR on Unit UNIT LOCATION
Sample Date 03/14/12


N ALUMINUM 0
LI CHROMIUM 0
L IRON 0
COPPER 0
ER LEAD 0
P TIN 0
TS MOLYBDENUM 1
R NICKEL 0
PA MANGANESE 0
N SILVER 0
TITANIUM 0
TS POTASSIUM 0
EN BORON 1
EM SILICON 6
L SODIUM 2
E CALCIUM 1628
MAGNESIUM 5
PHOSPHORUS 697
ZINC 843
BARIUM 0

SUS Viscosity @ 210°F 70.3
cSt Viscosity @ 100°C 13.02
Flashpoint in °F 410
Fuel % -
Antifreeze % -
Water % 0.0
Insolubles % 0.0
TBN 7.3
TAN
ISO Code

 

[Rand]

not knowing everything from a voa... I'd still have to say it looks like regular car oil.. nothing special to see here.

 

[addyguy]

For an MC oil, it's carp, considering it is probably pretty expensive.

 

[04SE]

Pretty weak for the price when you compare it against an HDEO.

 

[ccdhowell]

Glad you posted this, I see a lot of advertising from Lucas on TV and in magazines and have been tempted to give it a trial run, but not after seeing your VOA. This oil has a very weak add pack for a motorcycle specific oil, it looks like an SM passenger car oil.

Wouldn't put it in my quads after seeing this.

 

[micros]

What oil would you recommend? Think it is hard to beat Red Line racing oil. It is to be used in a modified Yamaha r6 in a race car, turning very high rpm's 15,500-16,000 The oil is changed after every two races, running on methanol. Believe it or not, I have been using this Lucas oil for 3 seasons now and the engine always looks good at the end of the season when freshened. Thanks for any replies.

 

[ccdhowell]

I have been running Amsoil Motorcycle 10w40 in several racing quads for the last year and a half with excellent results.

The following UOA is from a Polaris Outlaw 450 (they have a KTM engine BTW) with 12 hours on the oil. The quad suffered an overheating problem during a cross country race and finished the race with much of the water cooked out of the radiator. The Amsoil Motorcycle 10w40 basically protected the engine from seizure and protected quite well. The engine does have an oil cooler and it looks like it did it's job and shed some copper in the process. Personally, I like to see an oil with a much higher content of phosphorus and zinc than the Lucas shows. If you are having good luck with the Lucas, then there is something in the oil that is getting the job done, but not showing up on analysis.

 

[REDDOG]

If your engines have been holding up well in the presence of methanol for several years and the Lucas product works for you that speaks volumes more than a VOA ever could. I honestly wouldn't be in a big hurry to change unless there were financial or availability concerns. I wouldn't let public opinion on a VOA sway me much at all.

IMO VOAs should be for comparison to the same oil in a used oil analysis so you know what additive levels and physical properties are supposed to look like. There are a lot of oil components that don't show up in a spectro, especially the last few years.

 

[micros]

I agree, I am very happy with how the oil has been doing in our racing engines, they are ran VERY hard. Oil price is not a concern, these engines are expensive, I want the best oil I can get. Other oils I have seen that are not designed for wet clutches will have black clutch material in the used oil. I do not see this with this oil. But I do not see a "friction modifier" in the VOA, what is the friction modifier?. When we start racing I will have another test preformed and see how it holds up. I change the oil after two races, only about 1 to 1-1/2 hour of actual run time, 5-10 min at idle, the remainder running as hard as possible.

 

[CATERHAM]

Yes the Lucas bike oil looks like PCMO.

Amsoil is good.
Red Line 10W-40 oil is good but very heavy; really a 50wt oil.
On balance my fav' bike oil is Motul 300V 10W-40.

 

[ARCOgraphite]

Originally Posted By: addyguy
For an MC oil, it's carp, considering it is probably pretty expensive.
You mean, like, fish oil?