Originally Posted By: racin4ds
I know a lot of you are thin oil advocates but I just can't make myself use "water" in my engines no matter what the duty... (0W20 or even 5W20)
You've already declared "thin oil" to be "water", and have proclaimed that, no matter the recommendation made by the folks who designed and manufactured the engine, you're going to use what you want to use.
Originally Posted By: racin4ds
Your thoughts?
I'm scratching my head trying to discern the point of this thread. It doesn't seem to me that you posted what you did with genuine curiosity. And I'm not sure you're really interested in our thoughts.
If you were (really interested), I'd point out that the lowest mileage of my two V-6 engines is 101k miles, and that they've both been run on mostly 5W-20 conventional oil their whole lives. One of them spent its entire life until now in the desert southwest, and the other one spent about a third of its life there (with the rest of it being in southern North Carolina). I could tell you about how well they run, but I'm not sure you'd believe it.
I'd also say that I'm planning to move up to your area this summer (probably more like Front Royal or Warrenton or somewhere in between), and I'd pull your leg and say that due to the colder climate, I'll switching both of my vehicles to 0W-16 to better cope with the colder temperatures, because I wouldn't dare to crank either of them with a 5W- or 10W-30 oil that's more akin to grease than oil at those temperatures.
But then that'd be silly, wouldn't it?