traviss14

I have used rotella since my Honda days used it in my sr ka vq and my 302 its great in hot climates also the additives do there job do yourself a favor switch to t6 and stick with it then 4-5 oil changes it will be just as clean as a new car but your first and second will be black as night since its actually cleaning the gunk out

NoPistons!

Nobody mentioned zinc content.




Also no synthetic was good enough for the vg30 in the pathfinder daily. Lifter noise, it just sounded like shit under hood. Not knocking just noisy. Within 5 miles of using 10w30 rotella the noise went away and we've owned the thing for 2 years with 200k on the clock. It sat in a field for 2 years before that and the last owners didn't care for it too well nor did they know what they were doing when it came to simple repairs.


My vg30 in my 240 is turbocharged, baffled sump, soon to be oil cooled and i couldn't see myself running anything other than what the turbo diesel crowd trusts their engines to for long trips, pulling freight for miles and miles, etc.... When your oil gets shared between an exhaust driven turbine that gets REALLY HOT and your motor which has controlled explosions going off inside of it you want the oil designed to perform longer and harder.

I'm not telling much scientific analysis here. Just straight opinion and logic. More or less there's a method to my madness. I've ran all kinds of oil. I think the smell and all that zinc is what drove me to rotella.

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TheRealSy90

From what I could find after lots if research is Mobil1 15w50 has the highest zinc content PPI of all the store bought oils around +1600. Only thing with a higher content being the Lucas race oil that I can't remember the name of.

I remember asking the guys at M7 Japan what their zinc content was after they started promoting their stuff really hard as a "race ready oil". They basically told me to fuck off. Well guess I won't buy your stuff then

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PoorMans180SX

Everyone goes on and on about zinc content, but Moly is arguably more important.

Zinc is important, and diesel oils usually have more because they can by law (in "street" oils), zinc will kill a catalytic converter in a gas engine. Anything over 2000 ppm and it can actually start to become corrosive to more ferrous parts like cams.

Moly is an arguably better high-pressure friction reducer, with somewhat similar properties to zinc.

Anyway, can we be done with the "I run _______ oil" comments? Let's let this thread die, and end it with the summary that T6 is a good oil, but there is much more that goes into a good oil than most people think, so never judge an oil by it's internet reputation.

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