What brand of oil is best?
#14
Just another opinion...The serious gear heads at my performance shop run Castrol or Penzoil 10W30... They are of the opinion that Synthetic is a huge waste of money... They reason that regular oil changes (and they mean - REGULAR!!!) are more than enough, and that if you do decide to go Synthetic there is no added benefit, a greater expenditure, and a full flush is required... Don't know, but these guys build and run some seroius machines including one seriously mean 4th gen Monte...
Last edited by Crusader SS; 04-21-2011 at 10:23 PM.
#16
Just another opinion...The serious gear heads at my performance shop run Castrol or Penzoil 10W30... They are of the opinion that Synthetic is a huge waste of money... They reason that regular oil changes (and they mean - REGULAR!!!) are more than enough, and that if you do decide to go Synthetic there is no added benefit and a greater expenditure, and a full flush is required... Don't know, but these guys build and run some seroius machines including one seriously mean 4th gen Monte...
I've also seen too many 200 or 300,000 mile engines that lived on conventional oil all their lives to believe the hype that your engine won't last unless you run synthetic.
Bottom line, I'm also a believer in regular oil changes.
#17
I agree with you KJRich. Just look at Shawn Mayes from Clubgp. 385whp Grand Prix GT and the oil that he used was the cheapest Wal-mart brand whatever was on sale oil, and his stock block held up for 264k miles before it snapped a rod.
Honestly, I just make sure that I keep up with my oil changes. If synthetic is on sale, I buy it. If not, I buy conventional.
Honestly, I just make sure that I keep up with my oil changes. If synthetic is on sale, I buy it. If not, I buy conventional.
#20
Well, this is kinda a touchy subject because every has their own opinion about different kinds of oil. I go with Pennzoil because it has active cleaning agents. Call me a sucker for "false advertising" or what have you, I believe it works and I'm always up for a better cleaned engine. (my English teacher would shoot me lol)