My thoughts on his video ...
1) clearly makes the disclaimer up front, but he also is advocating it's use for others, or he'd keep it to himself and not post on 'Tube. When one posts on the 'Tube, then they invite all the critiscism they may well deserve. If this were only for private consumption, he'd keep it quiet. He does not, so we don't have to keep our comments to ourselves, either.
2) he mentions that his car (a 4.6L 'Vic seen in the background) has 252k miles. So what? That's nothing to those engines. Routine maintenance will get any 4.6L to 400k+ if you take care of it with a decent scheduled program.
3) I'll mention that my 1995 Village had almost 250k miles when we sold it; we see it around town every once in a while and it has almost 260k miles on it now. The vast majority of it's life sufficed with good ol' conventional oil of 5w30 grade from both brand names and house brands. Never a drop of special stuff needed; no ATF or Stop Leak. Never a witches brew of vis. Just routine oil changes. It runs as good today as when it was new. And after experiementing with greatly extended OCIs, it still ran fine and was clean inside.
His 14w-42 is apparently the lubricant version of Goldie-Locks porridge; because 15w-50 is too thick and 5w30 is too thin ...
Heaven forbid he just grab a 15w40 HDEO and be done with it. And what's with all the additives? Is he concerned that there just aren't enough in the blue bottles?
This guy is the epitome of anecdotal experimentation and confuses correlation with causation. He takes one of the most robust chassis/engine combinations known (Panther with 4.6L) and credits his brew for it's longevity, when hundreds of thousands of those cars exist well past his mileage using bargin brand lubes and filters.
If anything, this is simply an extension of my data in the normalcy article showing the 4.6L engine really does not care what you put in it.
Maybe I missed it, but I didn't hear him mention his OCI. Probably changes it every 2,500 miles because, as good as his home-brew is, nothing is "better" than new oil.
