What oil do you use for your crower cams?
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What oil do you use for your crower cams?
I got this off of crower's site
Use of Synthetic Oils
Crower does not recommend the use of synthetic motor oils in any racing applications, particularly hydraulic and flat tappet camshafts. The minimum gains in horsepower are offset by the excessive wear to cam and lifter surfaces. Crower recommends Kendall GT-1 (20W50) Petroleum based motor oil in all high performance applications. If your manual suggests running synthetic oil, then do so. We have found, however, that the benefits do not outweigh the costs.
What do you use?
Use of Synthetic Oils
Crower does not recommend the use of synthetic motor oils in any racing applications, particularly hydraulic and flat tappet camshafts. The minimum gains in horsepower are offset by the excessive wear to cam and lifter surfaces. Crower recommends Kendall GT-1 (20W50) Petroleum based motor oil in all high performance applications. If your manual suggests running synthetic oil, then do so. We have found, however, that the benefits do not outweigh the costs.
What do you use?
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Re: What oil do you use for your crower cams? (integmester)
This has been discussed many times on BITOG forums. Use a thick full synthetic and you'll be fine.
Use German Castrol 0w-30, Amsoil, M1 Euro 0w-40...
Use German Castrol 0w-30, Amsoil, M1 Euro 0w-40...
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Re: What oil do you use for your crower cams? (integmester)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by integmester »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">who carries 0w30 or 0w40? local shops?</TD></TR></TABLE>
Autozone... and if you can't find those get oil from here, http://www.amsoil.com, thats probably the best oil you're going to find.
Autozone... and if you can't find those get oil from here, http://www.amsoil.com, thats probably the best oil you're going to find.
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Re: What oil do you use for your crower cams? (LSVTEC 91 Civic)
Too many people confuse the roles of the base oil, viscosity with the additive package. It seems Crower is looking for a thicker weight and a lot of barrier anti-wear additives.
Whether the base oil is Group II, II+, III, IV, V, etc ... doesn't matter.
Whether the base oil is Group II, II+, III, IV, V, etc ... doesn't matter.
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Re: What oil do you use for your crower cams? (Bror Jace)
And if you read the instructions that come with the cam, they want you to have straight 40w oil in the head for initial startup as well as all journals and lobes lubed with their assembly lube. 
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Re: What oil do you use for your crower cams? (integmester)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by integmester »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I got this off of crower's site
Use of Synthetic Oils
Crower does not recommend the use of synthetic motor oils in any racing applications, particularly hydraulic and flat tappet camshafts. The minimum gains in horsepower are offset by the excessive wear to cam and lifter surfaces. Crower recommends Kendall GT-1 (20W50) Petroleum based motor oil in all high performance applications. If your manual suggests running synthetic oil, then do so. We have found, however, that the benefits do not outweigh the costs.
What do you use?
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This is exactly the sort of thing I would expect from a company that is probably run by a bunch of old farts (not that I'm especially young!) who grew up working on domestic cars. In their minds, overhead cams and fuel injection are probably also bad. The truth is that synthetic oil is better than conventional oil in all ways possible.
Use of Synthetic Oils
Crower does not recommend the use of synthetic motor oils in any racing applications, particularly hydraulic and flat tappet camshafts. The minimum gains in horsepower are offset by the excessive wear to cam and lifter surfaces. Crower recommends Kendall GT-1 (20W50) Petroleum based motor oil in all high performance applications. If your manual suggests running synthetic oil, then do so. We have found, however, that the benefits do not outweigh the costs.
What do you use?
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This is exactly the sort of thing I would expect from a company that is probably run by a bunch of old farts (not that I'm especially young!) who grew up working on domestic cars. In their minds, overhead cams and fuel injection are probably also bad. The truth is that synthetic oil is better than conventional oil in all ways possible.
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