As you correctly point out, using AMSOIL synthetic motor oils and AMSOIL Ea oil filters saves a lot of money vs other oils. However, many people are reluctant to accept change, even if it is a massive improvement, are still stuck with the oil drain intervals of 50 years ago and the 3,000 mile drain pain, even though it is causing damage to their expensive engines.

People are coming around though, just like they did with bias-ply tires vs those new-fangled radial tires.

 

You're engine has to be in good working order before it can last that long. Amsoil might have an addititive package that can withstand that length but only if the engine is in good enough working order. If the engine allows too much blow by or other contaminates into the engine, the oil won't last.

But I'm curious. Exactly how is this statement true?

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but when your car sits overnight and cools down, all the oil drips down into the oil pan. Therefore, when you start your car everyday it will be dry for a while until the oil starts to flow. How is that any different than changing your oil?

 

^^ I had the same thought. Assuming an empty filter maybe? Even so, I wonder if the oil goes through the engine from the oilpan first, then through the filter.

 

Exactly. In fact, if one wants to ahere to that logic, an overnight wait would do more damage than an oil change. As most warm up their oil or drain it a few hours after a drive. There's oil in the filter if you put oil in the filter prior to reinstallation of the filter.

And since Amsoil recommends a periodic oil filter changes on their extended life oil programs, everyone is sitting in the same "oil starvation" problem upon startup.

Nice catch Canadian.

 

It's all so subjective. Each person has different driving habits that dictate different oil change intervals. I used to have a GMC Sonoma pu with the 4.3L V6 (runnin' SOB), it was a company truck and I changed the oil religiously every 3K. ALL my driving was highway. I put 5K a month on it. The oil change guys would say, "why you changin' it dog, this stuff looks new". I could have run that dino oil for 10K easy. That's because I get the motor hot and run it for at least 2 hrs everyday. Someone that gets in and goes 1/4 mile for a beer run, then 1/2 mile to the wing place the next day and does this all week, only puts 50 miles a month on it, is just asking for trouble if you don't change it every 3 months or less. Because acids and sludge build up in a cold motor. EVERYONE needs to take their car out and run it on the high way at least 30 minutes EVERY WEEK.

 

Hey all, I have used Royal Purple products for over 15 years. I have many testimonies from numerous people about its positive atributes.
This past summer a friend of mine with an '07 Vett did a heads up dyno run test on his car at OCCorvette in Lake Forest, Ca. (which is now out of business ). the test was using the factory fill, Mobil 1, against Royal Purple products. Three dyno runs for each phase to get an avereage. After the base line runs, changed the engine oil only with 5/30 wt RP oil. Average gain on rear wheels was 7-8 HP. Changed the trans and rear end for total gain of 17-18 HP !
That's cheap horsepower and that's not over conventional oil, it's bettering Mobil 1.
The shop used Royal Purple in their full race cars and very modified street cars. Royal Purple makes "Racing oils" , but they used the street oils in the race cars...said it lowered the race oil temps by 50 degrees, held pressure and they had all the horse power gains and no wear problems. They did not find a need to spend more on the full race oils...the street oil beat all the other options. That was against Elf, Mobil 1, Red Line.

I've got real people and dyno reports, not opinions and gossip. RP works and is well worth the money. It's only a few bucks more than Mobil 1, are you kidding me with the value of the Nissan engines?

 

I'd rather see an a test of the oil after been driven for 3000+ miles than a dyno.

 

seeing the user rating and first post makes it very difficult to give any amount of credence to a pro review (of any product)... it's too clear that there is an agenda from the post and that is to sell RP.

I'd be interested to see what other posts are made and in what threads - if none, it’s shady (IMO).

We all know the advertizing campaigns for all the oil companies… forums like this one is for community enthusiast to share their real world experience from using different mods/products. I always get miffed when I see a single post or 2 relating to one product only. Pulse Plugs did it, R2 intakes did it, now RP is doing it.

 

There's alot more to oil than dyno figures.

 

I don't quite think that's fair. Did you even look yourself before you posted this?

https://g35driver.com/forums/search....archid=6489216

Sure, he hasn't been here that long, but I don't think he has an agenda. Heck the way RP is lauded on here you would think that it's God's gift to the motoring world.

 

I don’t know what you tried to link - but it didn’t go anywhere... as far as being fair = the guy joined this month (probably the day of post), posted once at it was about RP... it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize there's an agenda there.

The last sentence of your post confirms what I am saying... I'm referencing the guy a few posts up that is pitching RP.

 

Are we talking about the same person? 4drmadness? He has 511 posts

 

LOL lack of quoting FTW. OCG35 take yourself off of invisible mode. I can tell you're around.

 

Damn Jeff, I thought I was a post *****, we joind about the same time but you have twice as many as me.