Originally Posted By: donnyj08
Originally Posted By: OneEyeJack
How'd you guess?
were all 440k miles on the honda achieved running Redline?
Some was done on
RLI. And I started on Castrol 5w-30 when I purchased the car new.
I overhauled the engine at 420K because the oil rings were letting too much oil by and it would not pass California smog. The rest of the engine was fine but I had purchased an NOS rebuild kit so I did the bearing, pistons, gaskets, seals and a valve job once I had the engine apart in my driveway and garage. The valves only needed a touch up, no parts replaced. The crank and camshaft were in perfect shape and only required polishing. The cylinder walls showed signs of hone marks and no ridge or taper.
I did go up in viscosity over the years to control oil consumption but no additives other than Auto-RX a couple of times. Oil consumption was reduced but it started back up. Nothing can fix mechanical problems. It got to a point where it was burning 1 to 2 quarts every then 5K OCI down from 10K. It just barley failed the smog test but it did fail.
After the overhaul it passed blowing close to zero numbers and now it does not burn enough oil between 10K intervals to register.
I buy my Red Line products from Fallbrook Oil in Fallbrook. They carry everything at very good prices.
I have over the years received PM's that warned me that Red Line was no good for passenger cars and would ruin my engine. People that have never used Red Line were experts on how bad this oil is and how stupid I am. My only answer is that I'm going to keep using Red Line oil and if that makes me stupid in their eyes then I'm okay with that.
This car continues to be my daily driver. Everything works and basically it's a good car.