Backstory: purchased a 2013 Acura TL SH-AWD approximately 2 months ago with at the time 31k original miles - original owners are now senior citizens that rarely drove the car and it sat in the garage for weeks/months at a time. I did a crazy overkill on all maintenance that might have been neglected based on age - tbelt & tensioner, water pump, thermostat, oil seals, all fluids including transmission twice. During that initial maintenance, and thanks to reading this forum, I learned about HPL and am currently running M1 5W30 with 1qt of HPL Engine Cleaner 30. I've put about 1200 miles on the car since and plan to do an OCI in about 800 more miles and run this regiment again before doing another OCI 2000 miles after that and running HPL 5W30 oil itself for 4-5k mile intervals. This J37 V6 has a history of oil consumption with longer OCIs or poor quality oils so I'm doing everything in my power to avoid that as I absolutely love this cream puff of a car.
So I have about 2 full tanks of gas before the next OCI and know I wanted to run a fuel system cleaner of some sort in the last tank prior to the OCI but also thought about running a bottle of Redline SL-1 in 2 consecutive back to bank tanks prior to that OCI. I found a deal on Amazon to order a 2 pack of the Redline SL-1 so that what started me thinking about this. Again, I realize this is probably level 10000 overkill but that's just in my nature. The car runs great as I'm fairly certain it wasn't thrashed by the original owner and the only "neglect" it suffered was sitting dormant and only having the oil changed 3 times in 30k miles per the Maintenance Minder.
As I side note, I found a local gas station/general store in a rural area that sells 93 octane ethanol free gas. The owner is a good person and made the comment that he specifically carries it for the rural customers as well as some folks that live out here with super cars. I don't believe it is "Tier 1" but I wonder if the E0 benefits outweigh the additional additives/detergents from Tier 1 gas since I plan to run SL-1 at least once on the tank prior to an OCI.
Like many of you I assume, doing all of this is more of a "hobby" for me and for fun that trying to save a few pennies here or there.
So I have about 2 full tanks of gas before the next OCI and know I wanted to run a fuel system cleaner of some sort in the last tank prior to the OCI but also thought about running a bottle of Redline SL-1 in 2 consecutive back to bank tanks prior to that OCI. I found a deal on Amazon to order a 2 pack of the Redline SL-1 so that what started me thinking about this. Again, I realize this is probably level 10000 overkill but that's just in my nature. The car runs great as I'm fairly certain it wasn't thrashed by the original owner and the only "neglect" it suffered was sitting dormant and only having the oil changed 3 times in 30k miles per the Maintenance Minder.
As I side note, I found a local gas station/general store in a rural area that sells 93 octane ethanol free gas. The owner is a good person and made the comment that he specifically carries it for the rural customers as well as some folks that live out here with super cars. I don't believe it is "Tier 1" but I wonder if the E0 benefits outweigh the additional additives/detergents from Tier 1 gas since I plan to run SL-1 at least once on the tank prior to an OCI.
Like many of you I assume, doing all of this is more of a "hobby" for me and for fun that trying to save a few pennies here or there.