night

i just came to post that. read the 'review' and was like.. O.o
saw amsoil ads on the left. checked the product/oil page... all amsoil.

Scott_Tucker

From what I understand - and I do not admit to having much personal experience with Amsoil - is that chemically, it is a pretty decent product. They just seem to have a sort of weird "Amway" pyramid scam distribution system which turns a lot of people off and makes it seem like a scam. I would definitely trust it in my minivan but not sure I would trust it in my race car, but then again I don't think I've ever seen it marketed as a 'race oil'.

Oh, and that's another thing. Who wants to debate what constitutes 'race oil' and should you put it in your high performance street car?

ShaunRR

Amsoil actually has a very strong reputation in racing, and seems to be involved in racing quite a bit. When I looked into it a few years ago, it was one of the favorite oils of the the guys who send their stuff into labs on bobistheoilguy.
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Scott_Tucker

Yeah, I just googled 'Amsoil racing' and came up with their blog. It looks like they are heavily involved in off-road racing and power boats.

goforbroke

Yeah highway miles are definitely more easier on the engine which me and my coworker discussed before, but given the miles of the engines we figured their would have to be some soot in the oil pan. I need to see if I can get access to the test results to fill you guys in more.

No the filters get changed every 15K, but the oil remains the same in the engine it doesn't get flushed. Usually around 800K-1 million miles the engines get rebuilt its just the it goes. It would be interesting to see how long they can actually go before they "really" needed a rebuild.

alterdcreations

I spun a rod last winter running 30 weight valvoline race oil....so no I wouldn't run race oil in a daily again. To much to matainance. You can't just start and go without heating you the oil to a certain temp, less detergents to keep the engine clean, a lot of ingrediants than get into the converter etc. Their are good oils for daily drivers that don't need the attention of race oils

FST GSR 1

No one uses Kendall?

Scott_Tucker

I used to use Kendall before I started using synthetic. Now it seems to be marketed as a 'synthetic blend'. It was good stuff back in the day.

BigBlock22

http://www.performanceoilnews.com/oi...nst_oils.shtml........ i read this article and found it to be very interesting. however though, i would of liked to seen all of the test conducted using the same viscosity(SUS) for each brand.

95skunkedgsr

link dosnt work for me

FST GSR 1

For a synthetic I like Schaffer's.