Pennzoil Platinum vs Boutique brands

[Forest]

PP over Mobil 1. Have you seen the Mobil 1 banners at NASCAR races?

Whoa a minute....There have been many threads on this. I would like to see data on this. The racers I've been with lately do not use off the shelf oils like what you get at Walmart. You know that right? Ester base oils for racing are popular from what I've seen. Some PAO as well.

 

[Hammer]

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PP over Mobil 1. Have you seen the Mobil 1 banners at NASCAR races?

Whoa a minute....There have been many threads on this. I would like to see data on this. The racers I've been with lately do not use off the shelf oils like what you get at Walmart. You know that right? Ester base oils for racing are popular from what I've seen. Some PAO as well.

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You missed the Joke...

Hammer

 

[Lonnie]

If PP had more banners at racing events it would be a better oil in the minds of consumers. Stuff like that has to work or M1 would not be spending the money on such stuff. Is PP better than boutique oils? How do you answer that question with out a definition of better. The site sponsor here things that blowing up engines on a dyno proves their synthetic oil is better than conventional oil but it appears that they don't claim to be better than other synthetic oil. I don't think that even Amsoil takes on the boutique oils in there published tests. Maybe a lot of the boutique oils are better but the big guys don't care. Boutique oils are not their competition. If we could blow up enough engines we could answer the question.

 

[Forest]

You missed the Joke...

Oh....that's what I get for scanning through threads. That was a joke?

 

[Throckmorton]

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"adaptive molecules" I think is marketing crud. But that doesn't mean that it is not a great oil which the UOAs here show it to be.

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I always thought that adaptive molecules = viscosity index improver