On 12:02 PM 10/22/02 -0400, Steve Eisenberg said...
Ken:I never noticed any blue smoke coming from my exhaust and there is no oil stains in my garage. I pull my spark plug wires and looked inside the spark plug chamber area and there was a tiny bit of oil around the base of the 2 spark plugs from the drive side, but it wasn't drowned in it. I have been using Mobil 1 5w30 for years and this was the first time that I had to top up my oil level before oil changes.
Strange, I don't know what to make of it.
Ken
90si
172,107 km.
I called Red Line and Mobil last year when I was thinking about switching my car over to synthetic. They said to stay with regular oil for old engines; it's thin and leaks easily.
Steve
I've heard of this before and I suppose it does make sense. I did run their oil in my VW GTi and did notice that the oil PSI dropped when the engine really started to get hot (and VW's in general like to run on the hot side). Someone told me to stop using the stuff in my daily driver and to go back to the normal stuff ~ which I did and never experienced the problem again.
I have also used their "Wetter" in the BMW and noticed that it did lower the water temp by as much as 10F. Kinda s*cked during the times when we needed the heater on (took longer to heat up). Fortunately we don't need to run the heaters all that often down here in Southern Cali. B^)
FWIW, I've been dumping in Valvoline 5W-30 as indicated in the owners manual (it didn't state to use Valvoline but that just happened to be what was on sale back in July of 1998 and so I just stuck with it).
Robert K. Kuhn
CRX Owners Group President (http://www.crx.org/southcal)
1990 Honda CRXsi (http://www.hooligan.cc)
ICQ # 3714283 (nickname: godzilla)
