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Originally Posted By: Capa With synthetic oil, Mobil easily outsells Sopus. With conventional oil, Sopus easily outsells Mobil. I'm not sure this is true anymore. PP has been on sale very often around here for the past few years, and as such is what moves. M1 hasn't seen any sales in our area...

Can an oil filter affect the colour of the oil? They're really designed to filter solids like iron, lead, copper particles. I can't imagine dissolved carbon, or oxidized oil being affected by straining. Champion Labs does make an excellent filter though.

Originally Posted By: cancov Originally Posted By: L_Sludger What's the steady-state MPG at 50-55mph, a/c off, with the tires inflated to sidewall maximum? It would probably be something like 50mpg! My Corolla is inflated to 40psi from the recommended 30. When the car was delivered, it had...

Originally Posted By: SteveSRT8 Nothing new here. It's a Miller cycle engine just like the one they offered in the Millenia years ago. It has great potential mileage but it seems to get lost in real world driving. That's the thing though. Everything new. It's a totally new take on IC engines...

Originally Posted By: Topo Originally Posted By: OceanDoctor This is a great site. The real people that participate are great. Everyone has an opinion, and everyone should be entitled to an opinion of their choice. The problems really start when some guy comes in with really old, unfounded wives...

The people have spoken!

The 305 only has a smaller bore/valves than the 350, same r/s ratio, so same piston acceleration characteristic. If he wants better FE should have stopped there. As mentioned, the cam will drop his effective cylinder pressure, the lower static compression will drop his torque more than it needs...

Rod knock does not go away when they engine warms up. You may be hearing a dull knocking sound, but I would put money on it NOT being a rod bearing clearance issue. timing chain? hydraulic chain tensioner? VCT actuator?

This is a great site. The real people that participate are great. Everyone has an opinion, and everyone should be entitled to an opinion of their choice. The problems really start when some guy comes in with really old, unfounded wives tales like Pennzoil is wax; causes sludge or that M1 is PAO...

Originally Posted By: Topo Originally Posted By: OceanDoctor Originally Posted By: Topo Not loaded, it's a FACT!) OK. Prove it. Be a lawyer and do the research for yourself. I already spent hours on researching this myself. I'm playing with my 2 year old boy right now. When I get some time...

Originally Posted By: LeakySeals Originally Posted By: OceanDoctor Originally Posted By: LeakySeals What is the reason you rush to get 0w blend in? Do you have an OP gauge, or or just going by feel and sound to determine engine health? Trying to understand thanks. Yes of course I have an OP...

Originally Posted By: Topo Not loaded, it's a FACT!) OK. Prove it.

Originally Posted By: Topo I already know that Castral Edge is Super Hydrocracked oil and mobil is PAO.. Do you? Reading it quickly has a rather suggestive power to the reader, but pointed out on it's own, that's a pretty loaded claim.

Originally Posted By: LeakySeals What is the reason you rush to get 0w blend in? Do you have an OP gauge, or or just going by feel and sound to determine engine health? Trying to understand thanks. Yes of course I have an OP gauge! The rush was to get the 0w in there before the deep freeze...

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Originally Posted By: exranger06 Originally Posted By: SuperDave456 Sorry if this has been covered. But how does it reduce smog if ethanol isn't as efficient as gasoline? It reduces the MPG's, not increases them. I must be missing something. Just because cars get less mileage on it, doesn't...

With low torque engines, the driver can do one of two things: a) accept how slow it is and press the pedal normally, b) floor it everywhere to manage regular acceleration and keep up with traffic. Older people; women tend to fall into group A, everyone else, group B. Now Honda includes an "Eco"...

I'm using 0w20/0w30 blend in the high mileage Camry. Runs as great as it ever has, very quiet also. It sees rather hard driving, most days it'll see pedal to the ground and 170km/h(110mph). I see zero need for thick oil, in fact I changed out QS 5w30 early to get the 0w blend in there. I should...

Originally Posted By: Indydriver M1 just gained 60% share in my garage at Pennzoil's expense. You think that's not happening a thousand fold across the country? Absolutely not.

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