Originally Posted by Char Baby
Originally Posted by researcher
Originally Posted by Char Baby
Good report as far as metal content PPM. However it seem as thought the oil had sheared quite a bit. Am I wrong?
I did a VOA on this 5w30 Magnatec D1G2 (I think I posted it in the VOA section) and according to Blackstone, new viscosity is 10.25. So it sheared 1.12 cSt.
Ahh, I see.
IDK where the oil started at in a VOA and, I am not implying that the report is not good, it's very good in fact. Nice!
I guess that what I am looking at in the report is the range that Blackstone published in the top 3 areas:
SUS Visc, cST Visc & Flashpoint are at/near the low end of Blackstone's range, which lead me to think that the oil had sheared. The TBN is still great!
You're right, you make a good point. That's why I like everyone's perspective on it, different angle of looking at things than I was. All those were on the low end of the scale! I've already changed the oil with 5w30 Magnatec, going to run that for a bit and use my oil extractor to send that in for a UOA see how it's doing in maybe 2k miles. That's why I do these UOA's to see what the engine "likes". If I find that it's shearing at 2k miles I'll be looking at Castrol Edge to try. What's funny is that the civic is known to be easy on oil. So that's why I'm wondering if all the short trips is what affected it.
Oh and this oil started at 10.25 cSt, I made sure to do a VOA before starting that why I'd know how much did it fall. The flashpoint was 425 when new, fell to 370.