Originally Posted by Triple_Se7en
Originally Posted by Mainia
Originally Posted by Triple_Se7en
I regret not buying MPIs for both new purchases. Glad to hear you found ESP 5W30 that works with your Kona 1.6 consumption issue.
I'll lean that same way, if our Koreans start consuming someday.
No it is the Redline Euro 5w-30 that for some weird reason is not gaining oil through fuel.
OK - Thanks.
Walmart only sells the quart bottle @ (gasp) $23. Gonna' pass on any Bookmarking / Favorites Folder for it.
You might want to check-out Schaeffer 9000. There's either a recent UOA or VOA of it. That one is ballpark $10 per quart and that's my $$limit.
Amsoil Signature Series is another to try. Both are non-Euro (front labeled) and lowered Calcium, but built like a ton of bricks.
Our newest sponsor here is High Performance Lubricants (HPL). No idea on product pricing. But that oil looks real promising also and probably not near $20 qt.
I bought my Redline Euro 5w-30 at Jegs on sale for $9.28 a qt. It is now the normal price of $12.49. If this oil works for my motor, I will be keeping an eye of this oil at Jeg's for sale. To early to tell if this oil is for me. I bought 15qts. I learned from previous testing, you can not go by the first run oil change. I still have Mobil1 ESP in this first try mix.
I am a Schaeffer's grease fan and buy cases and cases at work, but I am not a Scheaffer's oil fan. I almost took out a $15,000 rotory screw air compressor when I believed Scheaffers BS on their crap rotary compressor oil. They were touting to me it was a group 4 when clearly I gelled it up in 70 or 100 hours if I remember right, so it was a group 3. Thank God I pulled a UOA at that time of I would of smoked it. It is still damaged to this day with a 1/4+gel filled/plugged heat exchanger that now can only be ran at 75% with still chances of over heating if we use it in the air cond summer. Granted the Atlas Copco OEM group 4 can't even be up to the task on their own units, we have 3 of them that all killed OEM group 4 oil. They varnish up the oil in testing, and have a HUGE particulate counts of fine varnish particulate through the mid to lower particulate spectrum, IE varnish. It takes a Summit Industrial Product's group 5 to keep the oil from making varnish on their units. Scheaffer's failed right from day one.
I was going back and forth with Atlas Copco engineer dept and they called me nuts, I built testing data with varnish testing and particulate testing and the minute I ran a group 5, all my problems ceased to exist. Mic drop at the Atlas Copco engineers who HAD to lie for the corporation.
