What the talking heads do not care to understand about oil is that the ILSAC and API Specs have EVERYTHING to do with how an oil will perform.
Just because we have moved to another GF spec and an API Spec doesn't mean it is better. Quite the opposite.
The move to less zinc and different zinc, acidic instead of neutral phosphorous, the reduction in magnesium and the introduction of Moly and Boron doesn't make it better. It makes it cleaner to a small degree, but can't claim to protect it better. Less is NOT MORE here!
Obviously there is a continuous desire by some here to disuade people from supporting a paying forum vendor and their continual push to oil is oil and feeling better like drinking coolaid doesn't negate the facts.
Designing an oil for a specific application is like designing a cam lobe or an exhaust tube diameter or fuel flow of an injector or flow rates on a head. Specific things done with these components WILL make a difference and so will a custom designed lubricant! It is just as much an exact science as any other performance upgrade and one that few people know or understand.
Do you really think that the big manufacturers of oil actually care about you and your car? Let's face it, it's a profit making enterprise just like selling cars! Market the heck out of it, maximize your profit, and just meet the specs!
Do you think that the oil on the shelf of your local store making 40% profit on that space is thinking of you or the subwholesaler that sold it to them for 35% profit, or the wholesaler at 25% profit or the 20% profit from Mobil?
Do you think that the bean counters and the executives come to to the people who blend the oils are telling them to make the very best?
Here is the reality of corporate dictum:
$7.50 quart of oil retail x .60 (40% profit on the shelf) = $4.50 that the autoparts store paid for it.
$4.50 quart of oil from the subwholesaler that paid $2.92 from the wholesaler (4.50 x .65)
$2.92 quart of oil from the wholesaler that paid $2.19 from Mobil ($2.92 x .75)
What about Mobil that sold it for 20% profit ($2.19 x .80) = $1.752
Do you believe each chain link here added value?
Well what if you are a tribological engineer at Mobil that is told to make the very best oil you can for $1.752! Do you really think they are looking out for you? They are looking to do what they can with the $1.75 and stay within the new API and ILSAC specs and the profit mandates. You are not involved in the process.
This is why the aftermarket exists. It becomes customer driven, not corporate executive driven! Turners, cams, heads, exhausts, and yes specifically designed oils and fuel products to push the envelope really work!
It doesn't make it a feeling thing, it makes it a science thing and some people here just can't stand that there is something out there better and some people have found it and continue to use it.
The OP used our oils and then switched to conventional for a while to see the difference! He noticed gunk in the catch can that he never got with our oils. He called me to tell me about his experience and then decided to let others know what he found. That is what this forum is about. Sharing information: upgrades and mods!
It is a shame that some people can't stand that!:rolleyes2:
Regards,
Brian
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