Mobil 1 to Royal purple
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When is somebody going to start an antifreeze thread so we can argue about which antifreeze is better. Just think if they had synthetic antifreeze.....Is it really synthetic or are they cheating and just making it from regular antifreeze?
Four pages about purple oil....dunno
Four pages about purple oil....dunno
Where are you guys building your faiths on certain products from? How many have conducted actual scientific testing the oil after heavy usage? Also, how many of you are driving your cars to such limits that it warrants switching to a "better" oil? Probably not that many. Mobil 1 is factory filled and recommended by Mitsubishi therefore it's obviously not a "bad oil". OEM support says a lot for a product IMO.
I used royal purple for about 10k miles after my first two oil changes and am back to mobil 1 there is little to no diffrence between the two.. The mobil 1 for me actually used to burn up a lil bit faster in my evo but now my car doesnt burn up hardly any oil so i dk... just stick with the factory fluids unless you are really looking for some heavy duty stuff for racing purposes. Royal purple costs more and really doesnt make a diffrence.
i don't know, i've used mobil 1 in my past cars and the evo and had nothing but good experience with it so why change? and with 3K mile changes, i've never had to add a drop due to it burning, even with 38K miles.
I'd love to see real test results...
Of course, if you just want maximum HP, pretty much any 0W20 will outperform any 5W30. What works for a racing oil doesn't necessarily translate to a good daily-driver oil. Or do you rebuild your DD engine yearly?
You dyno'd which RP/M1/Lucas oils? What line/viscosity? And in what vehicle? Evo? VIII? IX? And how much difference did you see? 1%? 5%?
I'd love to see real test results...
Of course, if you just want maximum HP, pretty much any 0W20 will outperform any 5W30. What works for a racing oil doesn't necessarily translate to a good daily-driver oil. Or do you rebuild your DD engine yearly?
I'd love to see real test results...
Of course, if you just want maximum HP, pretty much any 0W20 will outperform any 5W30. What works for a racing oil doesn't necessarily translate to a good daily-driver oil. Or do you rebuild your DD engine yearly?
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enough bickering..i did some testing(nothing serious) and this is what turned out. 2 of my friends both have RSX's and they both nearly have the same mileage.about 62k miles. oddly enough 1 of them has been running mobil 1 10w-30 and the other has been running royal purple 10w-30 for the entire life of there cars. my friend running the royal purple has been the one telling me to switch so he was willing to do a little test. we did a compression test on both engines just to see if it effected compression at all in the long run. mobil 1's compression was about 87% over all 4 cylinders. shocking enough the rsx running royal purple had a SOLID 99% over all 4 cylinders. seemed to convince me. sooo time for a little switchaaarroo
Royal Purple is a tru synthetic, moble 1 is hydrocracked oil, meaning it can be classified as a synthetic by the government because it has some of the same properties
AMSOIL Supersyn
NOACK Volatility: 4.90% 9.17%
Flash Point: 446 deg. F. 435 deg. F.
Fire Point: 471 deg. F. 455 deg. F.
Pour Point: - 60 deg. F -54 deg. F
4-Ball Wear Test: 0.40 mm 0.60 mm
TBN (Total Base No.): 12.35 8.45
here is a graph showing AMSOIL vs MOBLE 1
ROYAL PURPLE and AMSOIL are tru synthetics.
due to the graph being retarted, i just made all the AMSOIL red.
AMSOIL Supersyn
NOACK Volatility: 4.90% 9.17%
Flash Point: 446 deg. F. 435 deg. F.
Fire Point: 471 deg. F. 455 deg. F.
Pour Point: - 60 deg. F -54 deg. F
4-Ball Wear Test: 0.40 mm 0.60 mm
TBN (Total Base No.): 12.35 8.45
here is a graph showing AMSOIL vs MOBLE 1
ROYAL PURPLE and AMSOIL are tru synthetics.
due to the graph being retarted, i just made all the AMSOIL red.
Last edited by deadbeatrec; Feb 27, 2007 at 05:21 AM.
CASTROL AND MOBIL GO TO BATTLE IN COURT:
Recently, Mobil accused Castrol of reformulating its synthetic by substituting other basestocks in place of its synthetic polyaphaolefins (PAO's). Castrol Syntec is a hydrocracked oil. That's right, Castrol has replaced the PAO synthetic base stock with hydroisomerized "petroleum base stock." Hydrocracking, as it's called, is the highest level of petroleum refining. Castrol isn't even a true synthetic yet Castrol ended up winning the battle when the National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus ruled that Castrol could still market its oil as "synthetic" despite their new formulation. Basically, they expanded the definition of synthetics to include Group III hydroprocessed petroleum oil. This high profile case took place because synthetics are recognized as the market's best hope for growth. Synthetic oil sales have outpaced petroleum oil sales by a wide margin and the gap continues to widen every year. Consumers are getting smarter and demand the best for their vehicles! Read the full story on the Castrol debacle in our informative articles section. Additionally, just as soon as Castrol won this battle, several other major oil companies jumped in and came up with hydroprocessed motor oils of their own and labeled these products to be "100% synthetic", when they still are primarily Group III hydroprocessed petroleum oils!
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CASTROL AND MOBIL GO TO BATTLE IN COURT:
Recently, Mobil accused Castrol of reformulating its synthetic by substituting other basestocks in place of its synthetic polyaphaolefins (PAO's). Castrol Syntec is a hydrocracked oil. That's right, Castrol has replaced the PAO synthetic base stock with hydroisomerized "petroleum base stock." Hydrocracking, as it's called, is the highest level of petroleum refining. Castrol isn't even a true synthetic yet Castrol ended up winning the battle when the National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus ruled that Castrol could still market its oil as "synthetic" despite their new formulation. Basically, they expanded the definition of synthetics to include Group III hydroprocessed petroleum oil. This high profile case took place because synthetics are recognized as the market's best hope for growth. Synthetic oil sales have outpaced petroleum oil sales by a wide margin and the gap continues to widen every year. Consumers are getting smarter and demand the best for their vehicles! Read the full story on the Castrol debacle in our informative articles section. Additionally, just as soon as Castrol won this battle, several other major oil companies jumped in and came up with hydroprocessed motor oils of their own and labeled these products to be "100% synthetic", when they still are primarily Group III hydroprocessed petroleum oils!
