Hello everyone I have a little bit to disclose on the Redline front. First, I did comment on how poorly I was treated by Amsoil in their Sales Tact and lack of getting info back from them on certain subjects as one reason why I chose redline over amsoil. Then it took off from there. So it does seem there is one thing we all can agree on, Amsoil sales tact Sucks. Bottom Line. Now moving on.
I did buy the Redline 5/30 per Daves Recommendation and poured it in yesterday. This morning, I did notice something already, and it may seem trivial to some, but something of note. See, in my car, I am running the largest duration cams available for this motor and super stiff Crower valve springs. Turning the motor over is a Dyno Bat, or a mini battery that provides less cold cranking amps than the OEM battery. I needed this battery to make room for upgraded intercooler plumbing. Anyway, in the Cold months the car would not start that great. Always giving me the feeling of, come on baby, come on baby, haha, but it does always start. This morning when I started her up, The car turned over much easier.
Now this may seem trivial, but to a guy that has driven this car for 4 yrs, you notice things. Some can chalk it up to saying its just the "new" oil. But I can say this much, Even after fresh past oil changes with "other" brands of oil, the car didn't turn over this easily. So that impressed me.
Now when I was driving the car, I did notice something and I am not sure if its good or bad yet. Seems spool up of the turbo has decreased at low rpm. What would happen in the morning is I would get "surges" when my car was cold. Making the throttle very touchy. Too much throttle I would get "compressor surge" to little the car would buck on me. The Evo's with the 4G63 are known to be VERY cold blooded engines. So I drive the car ver conservitive till the car gets to temp. Now, that "surge" is gone, and had no "compressor surge" at all this morning. Thats the good In my mind. The bad? Seems the turbo takes more pedal to spool then before. So its a trade off. I am not sure what may be causing this, and not sure if it is anything but it is something I am noting in my log. I will do some Data logs to check at what exact rpms this happends.
I also noticed that "off throttle" my rpm's stay consistant, vs the previous oil the rpm's would go up and down up and down then settle. Now this is a trait of the Cams, they suck away allot of vacume from the rest of the car so off throttle and hit the brakes hard or whatever and the rpms drop fast. I could not get my car to do that. So I am not sure what is going on there, but the "off throttle" rpm drop is [censored] near gone that has been with me since I got these cams. I am curous about that and how the oil could possible help. It had to be the oil since that is the only thing I have changed.
I will keep logs of my MPG's (as I always do) oil temp averages, boost response, just everyting I can get out of my data logger, dyno, and my observations. This is something that will take time. But so far, I give it a thumbs up.
Oh yeah, couple things real quick. Has anyone noticed the "smell" of redline? I mean it actually smells good to me, not sure why that is, but it has a unique smell. Also the color. It looks like a mix of M1 from yesteryear, the really light amber, then mix that M1 with ATF a little that is what it looks like. Kinda a light amber redish color. I had to double check the bottle to make sure it was the 5/30 motor oil I ordered, haha. I will keep everyone posted. I am sending out the VOA on Monday Morning.
Jeff
