Brad Clayton Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 Pretty neat series of videos that end with the one that Don (exmod) put over in the gas section. One Tough Little Engine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabfoes87 Posted December 26, 2010 Share Posted December 26, 2010 I cant wait to see the teardown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam_Dodson Posted December 26, 2010 Share Posted December 26, 2010 I'm willing to bet that engine never saw a drop of 5w20... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Saunoras Posted December 27, 2010 Share Posted December 27, 2010 they ran straight rev-x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Warman Posted December 27, 2010 Share Posted December 27, 2010 they ran straight rev-x At $33 bucks for 4 ounces.... still, a little more than anecdotal info would be appreciated. Back in my youth, there was the often repeated story that STP oil treatment was developed from German WW2 technolgy... Synthetic oils and synthetic fuels are mentioned quite often in technical publications dealing with that era. Since then, petrochemical technology has made advances...more in add pack than anything else. The Rev-X page doesn't seem to differ from the pages offered by so many other "snake oil" suppliers. Nothing beats regular oil changes... oil changes that happen before any add pack components are consumed.. that happen before any appreciable molecular shear alters the hydrodynamic properties of the oil.... FWIW, Smokey Yunick had a rule of thumb regarding oil pressure... 10 PSI for every 1000 rpm. A critical consideration in a competition engine would be the size of the oil pump. Too small and the engine could starve... too big and all you do is heat up the oil.... http://media.ford.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=33736 - this should be interesting. On edit. This sort of "testing" has little to do with the real world. An Edmonton taxi-cab could expect hundreds of thousands of miles out of an engine. Why? Cold starts.... it rarely has them. Keep an engine in it's intended temperature range and your engine will serve you well. Allow thermocycling to change those internal clearances - even for just a few minutes and the equation gains variables... Going out on a limb... I'll opine that thermocycling induced "dry starts" are a major cause of premature or abnormal engine wear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Clayton Posted December 28, 2010 Author Share Posted December 28, 2010 I was refering to the fact that they got an F-150 pulling and hopefully stopping a tri-axle trailer with 2 cars on it. Not a Super-Duty with a V-8, an F-150 with a V-6. Yikes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary_P Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 thats pretty good videos there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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