Pretty sure it was SM. 10w30 with 3.5-4oz of VSOT used. Oil change is 3.5 qts, no makeup oil added. Mostly highway driving, I’m pretty easy on it, but am not afraid to redline it. PP is 10.37@100 and using 74.6 for VSOT, the blend should be ~11.1 cst, so it held viscosity. With a small sump and cheap synthetic oil stashed up; I like nice round numbers around 5k OCI. When I went 6k+ before the HLAs started getting noisy – they like clean new oil it seems. Oh, and I’m using a K&N clone air filter on a home-made intake.
Oil Guard analysis
Sample Date 7.16.06
Mileage 195,123
Miles on Oil 5,229
“ALL ENGINE WEAR RATES NORMAL.
SAMPLE APPEARS FREE OF EXTERNAL CONTAMINATION.
ANALYSIS INDICATES PROPER PERFORMANCE OF THE LUBRICANT AND UNIT.”
Viscosity
100C 11
H2O 0
Soot 1
Fuel 0
Glycol 0
Nit 2.1
Oxi 7.8
TBN 6.9
PP10w30 / M1 10w30 (4526) / Blackstone average
FE 4/6/8
CR 0/1/2
PB 1/1/1
CU 4/8/5
SN 1/0/1
AL 0/3/3
NI 0/1/0
MN 0/0/0
SI 5/5/10
B 0/151/72
NA 3/8/6
MG 0/16/28
CA 0/3026/2519
BA 0/0/0
P 0/734/767
ZN 0/835/887
MO 114/86/48
TI 0/0/0
K 2/0/0
They only test Moly in the add pack??? I’ll have to try calling them to see what’s up. Previous analysis at 149k was by Blackstone.
Oil Guard analysis
Sample Date 7.16.06
Mileage 195,123
Miles on Oil 5,229
“ALL ENGINE WEAR RATES NORMAL.
SAMPLE APPEARS FREE OF EXTERNAL CONTAMINATION.
ANALYSIS INDICATES PROPER PERFORMANCE OF THE LUBRICANT AND UNIT.”
Viscosity
100C 11
H2O 0
Soot 1
Fuel 0
Glycol 0
Nit 2.1
Oxi 7.8
TBN 6.9
PP10w30 / M1 10w30 (4526) / Blackstone average
FE 4/6/8
CR 0/1/2
PB 1/1/1
CU 4/8/5
SN 1/0/1
AL 0/3/3
NI 0/1/0
MN 0/0/0
SI 5/5/10
B 0/151/72
NA 3/8/6
MG 0/16/28
CA 0/3026/2519
BA 0/0/0
P 0/734/767
ZN 0/835/887
MO 114/86/48
TI 0/0/0
K 2/0/0
They only test Moly in the add pack??? I’ll have to try calling them to see what’s up. Previous analysis at 149k was by Blackstone.
