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    Oldsmobile 307 V8 10w-30?

    Thanks for all the advice. I'm thinking of switching to the AFE Ow-30 Mobil 1 since there is a good chance I'll have to start it up when its 25 below sometime this winter and thats getting awfully close to the 10w-30's pour point. I'm in a place where the record low is -45F and the record high...
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    Oldsmobile 307 V8 10w-30?

    Hi All I have a 1987 Chevy Caprice station wagon with the 307 Oldsmobile V8 (one of the best engines ever). I mainly use this car as a truck, pulling a boat and hauling around stuff that won't fit in the Focus. Right now I have it filled with 10w-30 Mobil 1. The car has 227,000 miles on it...
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    best engine/oil combo to reach 1M miles?

    Oldsmobile 307 V8 with a 10w-40 synthetic. I have my grandpa's old Caprice wagon with the 307. Use it for pulling a boat and hauling stuff that won't fit in a Focus. 230k miles on it and it doesn't burn any noticeable oil between changes, and its as clean as a whistle inside. Fantastic...
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    Synthetic motor oil in your lawnmower??

    I use Mobil 1 10w-30 in my riding mowers and my snowblower but usually use plain 30 weight valvoline in the flatheads, because I just can't spend $6.27 or whatever for a quart of lawnmower oil. If it starts in to cold, synthetic is worth it. Starting a 10hp snowblower is much easier with Mobil...
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    E-85 hurts more than it helps

    The winter reformulated fuel has more wrong with it than the Ethanol. They lower the aromatic content and reduce other components to lower evaporative emissions so much that the energy content of the gasoline drops, so you need more of it. real gasoline has something like 125,000 BTUs per...
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    E-85 hurts more than it helps

    Step 1: Ethanol Step 2: Universal Health Care Step 3: The World! In all seriousness, anytime you have congressmen deciding what your car runs on (or how it is built, ehm GM) be very wary. Lawmakers do not know more than everyone else.
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    E-85 hurts more than it helps

    Does it really surprise anyone that our government would manipulate things in an asinine such as to destroy the functions of the free market and create a torrent of unintended consequences?
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    E-85 hurts more than it helps

    Here in Minnesota, ethanol is mandated in all on-road gasoline. It is a crime to put non-oxygenated gasoline in your car if it cant have classic plates. The ONLY reason for this, and the MANDATED increase to 20% ethanol, is to please the corn industry. It is political, it is not about the...
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    Racing fuel for small engines?

    I just bought about 20 gallons of 100LL here in Minnesota for to use for [REDACTED]. $3.80 a gallon, self-service. 100LL is great stuff, but you'll usually need to richen the mixture 1 or 2% as it is a bit less dense than normal non-alcohol unleaded. It might work just as well if you don't...
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