heres the deal....i bought a brand new triumph thunderbird 1600 cruiser. It's a parallel twin that just came out. I love it and want to keep it for many years, so oil is a big concern. My dealer gave me a service package that includes free oil and filter every 6k for 90k miles. Thats about grand worth of oil. But the oil is Torco semi 20/50, and i cannot find a lot of info about it online at all.
The shop owner has been racing and building triumphs since the 60's and is in his 60's. So he does have a lot of mechanical experience, tho i'm not sure that's enough to be assured that his choice of Torco is the best.
anyways, my dilemma is that i don't know whether to use the free torco of buy amsoil. I want the best for this engine and if amsoil is better by any notable degree i would consider that even tho it would cost me about $60 every 6000 miles instead of free torco. the only data i could find on torco was in that oil test you've all certainly seen where amsoil wins in every category, but it's an amsoil commissioned test so how can i trust that? tho it DOES show torco equals amsoil in all categories except one, but it's a very important one.
So i was hoping there might be people here who can enlighten me to some degree and hopefully allow me to come to a decision. thanks
The shop owner has been racing and building triumphs since the 60's and is in his 60's. So he does have a lot of mechanical experience, tho i'm not sure that's enough to be assured that his choice of Torco is the best.
anyways, my dilemma is that i don't know whether to use the free torco of buy amsoil. I want the best for this engine and if amsoil is better by any notable degree i would consider that even tho it would cost me about $60 every 6000 miles instead of free torco. the only data i could find on torco was in that oil test you've all certainly seen where amsoil wins in every category, but it's an amsoil commissioned test so how can i trust that? tho it DOES show torco equals amsoil in all categories except one, but it's a very important one.
So i was hoping there might be people here who can enlighten me to some degree and hopefully allow me to come to a decision. thanks