Does Magnatec do what all oils do?

[SR5]

AND... dare I say it.. I'd try a 50/50 RL/Magnatec? Or is that a bad idea (do Group Vs mix?)

They should definitely be miscible, whether or not they work in synergy is another question. All bets are off with respect to specs.

Basically many here wouldn’t, but mostly because it’s wiser to keep with the tested and verified products. However the chances of anything going wrong is minor and most concerns seem to be about winter starting rating, it may slip a grade. Eg behave like a 10W30 rather than a 5W30.

I live in a hot climate and I don’t fear the mix in my older cars which have already paid their way. Right now in the beater I’m running a FrankenBrew of Penrite Vantage 10W40 semi-syn, Valvoline SynPower 0W40 full syn, Castrol Magnatec 10W30 semi-syn, Castrol Edge 10W30 full syn and Valvoline DuraBlend 10W40 semi-syn.

If your car is for science, then go for it. Thought pure RL and pure Magnatec would be my first two runs, before I did a mix. I would get the two end data points first.

 

[SR5]

Listen, I'm all for experiments with expensive boutique products if they are in the budget. When I had that beater ...

OP, yes what overkill says, it’s just playing, don’t blow your budget on it.

Penrite make a great 10-Tenths Racing oil which also carry ACEA specs. It’s a 100% PAO and Ester, great oil but too expensive for my simple commuting duties. Hence I go the Magnatec, good oil but not wasting money when I have a wife and kid at home and so better things to spend the extra cash on.

 

[JT20]

You are doing it again... Getting distracted by all the wild and wonderful wizardry and losing track of the fact that you have far more pressing issues to attend to and limited means with which to do so. Did you manage to source the new air intake tract plumbing per your PM to me about what you had being held together by lipstick and bubble gum?

Listen, I'm all for experiments with expensive boutique products if they are in the budget. When I had that beater Focus I ran Redline 5w30 in it because I bought all of it when Canadian tire was blowing it out and we wanted to see if it would have any impact on the heavy varnish that engine had. I made a thread on here about it. But that's oil I already had on-hand, I didn't go out and buy $100 worth of oil to put in a $500 car.

Focus man, FOCUS!

For the air intake, (there is some tape on it lol) I was actually able to move it around a little and "eliminate the vacuum leak", I have to look to see if maybe there is a complete unit, Subaru has very odd "double clips" .. I do think maybe some simple "putting duct tape over the hole then putting the piece over the tape on the outside of the hole" could also fix the problem. Screws are missing, so the whole piece moves slightly. I'll have to look at it again but the car isn't having a vacuum leak like it did when yeah there was a slight panic like NOT AGAIN!!!!!!

As to Oil Experiments 🛢 I mean, I think Redline is in a unique position to this discussion about Magnatec because of its Group V. I know I can get Magnatec for less than like 20 bucks . Honestly, I can get the $14 Supertech oil (which I don't think there is anything wrong with, either) and use that. I think, maybe, with oil so cheap, maybe frequent changes are good.. I'm trying to not go full on to fuel dilution suspecting (someone suggested maybe that's why the guy left the intake loose! Not this thread please) and dipstick reading (oil seems same color as the dipstick. There's another car the dipstick was.. let's just say, extremely difficult to read and said something different every time you looked at it, including checking it first thing in the morning couldn't, Not this thread please) - but I did decide on a Fumoto valve... not only to not make a mess in the garage but because that seems almost ideal for changing oil anyway.

Then we have that the Subaru "is a beater"... It is growing on me the more I use it. I'm start to like the car. It IS slow...somehow, that could be a good thing for me. And it can still speed on the highway, much the same way people would joke about a Toyota Prius getting a speeding ticket.

I think Magnatec may be going in soon; maybe not "$100" worth of Redline is some sort of a fair compromise.. maybe "2" quarts for "$25." If there is some sort of button dyno to report. Still feeling out what's going on, going to ask guy about the ECU soon, SR5 had some GREAT info about Magnatec and I have come to discover that I should EMBRACE my tinkering nature, just as long as I'm not destroying a car.

I'll never be the one making YouTube videos putting:
- WD-40
- Starbucks Coffee
- Maple syrup
- Flex Seal
- Surely I missed some
- in the engine and running it...

I would also submit to you that this basically is no longer a $500 car, though I kind of see what you mean. Its a daily now.

Going to Post Reply now but.. maybe this could even be some kind of "Get a UOA" oil.. though I have been told THAT is a waste of money.

"Focus, man" - Okay so maybe not 12 quarts of Redline oil? Though I think I'm hearing.. that this cannot be afforded. I kind of get what you're saying but I don't think that is.. quite the situation, how should I say.

Good morning everyone.

 

[JT20]

OP, yes what overkill says, it’s just playing, don’t blow your budget on it.

Penrite make a great 10-Tenths Racing oil which also carry ACEA specs. It’s a 100% PAO and Ester, great oil but too expensive for my simple commuting duties. Hence I go the Magnatec, good oil but not wasting money when I have a wife and kid at home and so better things to spend the extra cash on.

I am not quite sure how to express that I am honored the mains here want to see me "spend my money wisely," I suppose we should say.

What I think is maybe being missed is that which I have not shared!

1. The level of income is going up. lol. (I'm not into Internet Bragging, either now or anymore. Your pic lol. Just saying. New chapters.)

2. "To thine own self be true." This is actually rather fun. No, I'm not going to change oil every single day. Nope! But for those that noticed that I change the mileage every day in my signature.. since my work is of a technical nature, this is odd congruent.

It Would be awesome if we made oil where I work. We don't. Well, we don't make oil but.... heh. I could go to QA or be a mechanic, though I like what I'm doing so much... I don't have a job I hate or dislike. Its almost like it isn't even work. Can't share too much but.. Good things ahead. Good things ahead.

What I AM wasting money on is Burger King.. so I submit that "It's all relative." Probably spent enough on Burger King the last two weeks that Redline isn't a waste, if I'm going this route. Which does seem fun.

I could buy the $14 Walmart oil 🛢 and running every 1-3 months (monitoring it) and be fine but.. think I could really leave it alone that long??!!!!........... (no....)

 

[dlundblad]

It’s full synthetic that can be had for around $17-19 a jug on sale, plus it’s good for Ford Ecoboosts. No other reason to go out of your way for it IMO.

 

[JT20]

OP, yes what overkill says, it’s just playing, don’t blow your budget on it.

Penrite make a great 10-Tenths Racing oil which also carry ACEA specs. It’s a 100% PAO and Ester, great oil but too expensive for my simple commuting duties. Hence I go the Magnatec, good oil but not wasting money when I have a wife and kid at home and so better things to spend the extra cash on.

I am not quite sure how to express that I am honored the mains here want to see me "spend my money wisely," I suppose we should say.

What I think is maybe being missed is that which I have not shared!

1. The level of income is going up. lol. (I'm not into Internet Bragging, either now or anymore. Your pic lol. Just saying. New chapters.)

2. "To thine own self be true." This is actually rather fun. No, I'm not going to change oil every single day. Nope! But for those that noticed that I change the mileage every day in my signature.. since my work is of a technical nature, this is odd congruent.

It Would be awesome if we made oil where I work. Heh.. I could go to QA or be a mechanic, though I like what I'm doing so much... Good things ahead. Good things ahead.

Making a Subaru thread right now.

The more I find out about Magnatec the more I like it.. I could make the case for getting it or not getting it, it's like debate class. You argue both sides so you can see both sides.. (We debated "cigarettes, don't smokers have rights too?" Had to argue for and against. I don't smoke.)

 

[JT20]

It’s full synthetic that can be had for around $17-19 a jug on sale, plus it’s good for Ford Ecoboosts. No other reason to go out of your way for it IMO.

Yeah that's Walmart everyday price plus I get 10% off lol.

It's when I actually stopped and LOOKED at the oils the other day and saw Magnatec was actually closer to the Suertech in price than the Mobil (I thought for sure it would be more than $20 a jug.. PP, M1, Castrol Edge territory) that I was like... wait.

Then, as mentioned, you have the blue Supertechs sitting in the corner at a solid $14 for Full Synthetic, sits on the shelf, $13 for conventional, 5w30 is unobtanium, though I look anyways...

And any one of these $13, $14, %17, %17, $21.97, $24.97, even up to that $33.88 pretty looking Royal Purple waste of an oil on the shelf will work.. (that one supposed to make it easy to actually see the oil on the dipstick. Now THAT oil costs a lot.)

Making a Subaru thread over in "Vehicles" for the update there.

 

[SR5]

JT20, no worries, it’s your life and you have to live it your way. I hope I didn’t over step the mark. Sounds like things are working out for you, which is great. Yep and I too should probably cut back on my junk food spending.

Getting back to oil, yes I would be interested in hearing your view on the difference between RL and Magnatec in the same car. You were talking about SuperTech before, a run on this as a control would also be interesting.

 

[JT20]

JT20, no worries, it’s your life and you have to live it your way. I hope I didn’t over step the mark. Sounds like things are working out for you, which is great. Yep and I too should probably cut back on my junk food spending.

Getting back to oil, yes I would be interested in hearing your view on the difference between RL and Magnatec in the same car. You were talking about SuperTech before, a run on this as a control would also be interesting.

SR5 you are good lol. You didn't over-step anything! I am really happy about your knowledge on Magnatec, (sounds like it needs to be in my engine! I started a thread on it) https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/threads/jt20s-subaru.336810/ and I find myself most alert, all synapses fiting having just woke up. When my headphones come, I am resuming jogging in the cold.

OVERKILL, You are good as well! Same as SR5, you didn't over-step anything and I am not taking offense! I am most on the same page as SR5.. it is "my life" and I'm actually NOT the guy banging my fist on the table and SCREAMING at the computer and going "This guy OVERKILL what does he know, filth flarn filth, he says i'm doing this and doing that, AAAHHHH!! YOUU!!!!!". .. I'm not that guy. I actually really enjoy reading and conversing and now I'm all happy and excited that maybe I can report Butt Dyno differences, in a car I may have to be changing oil more than I thought anyways. Maybe I would give each run at least a month because .. well as I alluded to, I need to get my spending etc under control in other areas first where the things I mention aren't as "detrimental" as they at first may seem. Maybe another thread for that, as speculated.

I can tell you that, within a month, a debt relief law firm is going to bat on my behalf to go slay some sleeping giants. But let's touch and go.. I'm sure JT20's financials aren't really relative to the polar magnetic particles in Magnatec that seems to have the perfect dose of Group V to make it.. maybe the most attractive oil on the shelf, honestly. Bang for your buck was mentioned.

I am one of those that would buy a 20,000 miles oil and then go change it a few weeks later just because the car went high speed on a highway for some hours that week and you would just have to know what effect that had on the oil. I don't have scientific testing equipment in my garage but I DO have a LARGE amount of product available to me where I'm not hurting as financially as maybe recently.. I can't go out buying any 1984 Rolls Royces like in the Grey Poupon commercial and I'll never be like that idiot named Hoovie (I stopped watching that channel as well) but... Yeah, maybe this could actually be a thing.

 

[radiometer]

My question about Magnetic: I see it as a 5w30, C3; DEXOS 2. Why wouldn't DEXOS 2 work well in a gasoline engine?

 

[OVERKILL]

For the air intake, (there is some tape on it lol) I was actually able to move it around a little and "eliminate the vacuum leak", I have to look to see if maybe there is a complete unit, Subaru has very odd "double clips" .. I do think maybe some simple "putting duct tape over the hole then putting the piece over the tape on the outside of the hole" could also fix the problem. Screws are missing, so the whole piece moves slightly. I'll have to look at it again but the car isn't having a vacuum leak like it did when yeah there was a slight panic like NOT AGAIN!!!!!!

As I said to you in reply to your PM, you did NOT have a vacuum leak. An air intake tract leak BEFORE the throttle body is NOT under manifold vacuum, so it has no impact on engine operation. This is doubly true because you lack a mass air meter, so you didn't even have an unmetered air problem. You had air that wasn't going through the air filter, that's the entire scope.

 

[JT20]

As I said to you in reply to your PM, you did NOT have a vacuum leak. An air intake tract leak BEFORE the throttle body is NOT under manifold vacuum, so it has no impact on engine operation. This is doubly true because you lack a mass air meter, so you didn't even have an unmetered air problem. You had air that wasn't going through the air filter, that's the entire scope.

I see.

I thought I did.. the "tubing" was loose but you're right, that was before the air filter not after.

I just got to the car so let me see if I can see an oil level and a dash gauges check.

 

[ZeeOSix]

I'll never be the one making YouTube videos putting:
- WD-40
- Starbucks Coffee
- Maple syrup
- Flex Seal
- Surely I missed some
- in the engine and running it...

But you'd be making a lot of click-bait cash if you did.

 

[JT20]

But you'd be making a lot of click-bait cash if you did.

I thought YouTubers no longer made money.

 

[ZeeOSix]

I thought I did.. the "tubing" was loose but you're right, that was before the air filter not after.

Before the filter, or bettween the filter and the throttle body. You don't want the latter either.

 

[ZeeOSix]

I thought YouTubers no longer made money.

LoL ... I guess the guys who give away $150,000 cars they buy from their channel aren't doing so well.

 

[JT20]

LoL ... I guess the guys who give away $150,000 cars they buy from their channel aren't doing so well.

I mean... they got those cars for like $10,000 (if that) and their dad bought it, so... or independent wealthy..

The ads make YOUTUBE money not the content creator.

I have seriously thought about being a content creator, but the common consensus is that.. if you do so, it is out of a labor of love. I was not aware YouTube still paid CVS.

At least WatchJRGo actually flips cars, not sure what his deal is on putting like $4000 into a BMW X5 (which now runs perfectly) and selling it for $1...

 

[ZeeOSix]

I mean... they got those cars for like $10,000 (if that) and their dad bought it, so... or independent wealthy..

The ads make YOUTUBE money not the content creator.

Guess you've never watched some of the YT videos where the guy tells how and how much they make. Streetspeed 717 was making ~$45K per month when he only had around 400K subscribers - now he has over 1M. He doesn't pay $10K for a $150K car. He buys cars for the channel to make content to get clicks and subscribers, and gives away most of his cars all the time. YT pays the the big time channels quite well - maybe not as good as before, but still a lot. The guys that make big money on YT are the ones that make it their sole business.

 

[JT20]

Guess you've never watched some of the YT videos where the guy tells how and how much they make. Streetspeed 717 was making ~$45K per month when he only had around 400K subscribers - now he has over 1M. He doesn't pay $10K for a $150K car. He buys cars for the channel to make content to get clicks and subscribers, and gives away most of his cars all the time. YT pays the the big time channels quite well - maybe not as good as before, but still a lot.

I personally stopped watching StreetSpeed717 but do they really make that much money? People say a lot.

 

[ZeeOSix]

I personally stopped watching StreetSpeed717 but do they really make that much money? People say a lot.

How do you think he is able to give away $100+K cars away. Of course it's also a business write-off.