Originally Posted by StevieC
I edited it because I hadn't spelled it out. My point was that it was series. And IMO it's because of improper engineering to handle the 20wt oil so it should be back peddled as a band-aid solution. There will always be these cases but it's not the majority of the engines out there that this is happening to. Or we wouldn't now see 16wt's.
That stretch of logic just plain doesn't work.
I linked the Honda paper where they explained their philosophy and it certainly wan't based on that sort of flawed logivcal stretch.
Originally Posted by StevieC
As for the Mustang that's a performance application.
quoted mid edit, so not sure what that means.
I edited it because I hadn't spelled it out. My point was that it was series. And IMO it's because of improper engineering to handle the 20wt oil so it should be back peddled as a band-aid solution. There will always be these cases but it's not the majority of the engines out there that this is happening to. Or we wouldn't now see 16wt's.
That stretch of logic just plain doesn't work.
I linked the Honda paper where they explained their philosophy and it certainly wan't based on that sort of flawed logivcal stretch.
Originally Posted by StevieC
As for the Mustang that's a performance application.
quoted mid edit, so not sure what that means.