Urban Legend from decades ago ... synthetic oil was "too slick" for engines
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I agree in regard to 80s cars. Most of them were gutless.
However, 60s & early 70s cars had lots of torque and horsepower. They did fine using conventional oils AFAIK.
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But they sounded SOoo much better.
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There was the changeover from GROSS to NET in the early 70's which dropped all the numbers down considerably. However, then the smogger stuff was implemented and it reduced actual power production further.
We got into that a bit in this thread:
Although there is nothing in common other than the Malibu name used to travel with the Chevelle name, here is how the 2.0 Turbo did against the mighty SS 396. Here are a couple of screen shots from 0 to 60. Enjoy.
68 Chevelle SS 396 7.7 sec.
2017 Malibu 2.0 T 5.7 sec.
68 Chevelle SS 396 7.7 sec.
2017 Malibu 2.0 T 5.7 sec.
Even the L78 that Chris brought up, trapping 101mph, it was probably producing around 240HP-250HP NET (rated at 375 gross), which is only 37-38HP/L.
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Better than what? We had a pretty broad spectrum of sounds coming out of the 50's, 60's 70's and 80's, everything from the tractor-like sound of a flathead to the burble of a Ford with the 1-3-7-2-6-5-4-8 (351/302HO) firing order, and of course the blatt of the lo-po Chevy small blocks. The current HEMI's all sound pretty darn good, as do the LT engines and the Ford Coyote. My younger years were haunted by the sound of 140HP 305's blatting away into their 700R4's with cherry bombs on them
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I meant compared to a hopped up 4, or six cylinder of modern day, that do produce much more power per liter.Better than what? We had a pretty broad spectrum of sounds coming out of the 50's, 60's 70's and 80's, everything from the tractor-like sound of a flathead to the burble of a Ford with the 1-3-7-2-6-5-4-8 (351/302HO) firing order, and of course the blatt of the lo-po Chevy small blocks. The current HEMI's all sound pretty darn good, as do the LT engines and the Ford Coyote. My younger years were haunted by the sound of 140HP 305's blatting away into their 700R4's with cherry bombs on them
I prefer the sound of any V8 over those.
They told me the same thing on my Toyota tundra when I bought it new in 2004. I disregarded that. I grew up around drag racers and owners of oil drilling rigs. Run it hard off and on for the first 500-1000.miles and its broke in. Changed to synthetic afterwards. Still have the truck 280k miles, and run 15k OCI. Doesn't burn a drop in between changes. Same thing for my 01 tacoma. 396k miles, 15k oci
Boomer is around 1945-1964.
all i said is anything old is boomer to me. like telling someone born 1981 how a pc work. Boomer to me.
People born from 66 to 80 are Gen X... But go ahead and call them boomers. Gen X doesn't care, lol.
It’s a pejorative in slang. Not meant to be taken literal. For instance my oldest kid enjoys knitting and likes to go to bed before 8pm so I could say “good night boomer” when she’s heading off to bed. The connotation is she is being old.
I was born in 1981. In school we learned how to use a PC beginning around 3rd grade, maybe earlier. What are you talking about?
1985 was 40 years ago so yes, bommer tier. Boomer isn’t a year to me, just anything way to old to care about,
Yeah a pc from 1990s, not even close to what it is today. So what?
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What point is it that you think that you are making? Those of us born in the 80's grew up with computers and experienced the extremely rapid development of them; we were "along for the ride" so to speak. This is nothing like what somebody like my dad (an actual boomer) experienced, who grew up with a slide rule and got his first computer in his late 30's where this technology was completely foreign.
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I think he is just referring to anything older than what he knows about, or as he said "to old to care about."
Like the proper use of the word to.
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Just wondering how the 1981 and PC use fit into this, most people born in the 80's are very familiar with computers. It sounds like a poor attempt at a stereotype that was just plucked from the ether and isn't actually based on anything. If he had said born in the 50's, I'd think he might have a point, but as it stands, this whole "dragging on the olds" just comes off as weak.
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