Speaking of burning money. I was one of the guys suckered into buying
that trash. I think I read 3 chapters before giving up.
HORRIBLE.
And I hadn't even got to the car part.
Max Heim wrote:
> Hmmm, I wonder if you'll see much benefit at this point. I mean, depending
> on how many miles you have accumulated on dino oil, it's arguable that the
> wear and crud distribution has already occurred. Running synthetic starting
> after a full rebuild seems reasonable (it certainly seemed to work in your
> example), but I would suspect it's a waste of money on a high-mileage
> engine. Though you could take the attitude that it can't hurt...
>
> Speaking of burning money, on Monday I put $20 of gas into the B and was
> utterly disgusted to see that it didn't even move the needle up to the 3/4
> mark -- in fact, it was barely over 1/2. I guess I need to get to work on
> that hydrogen fuel cell conversion, like the guy in the novel.
>
>
> on 7/28/04 9:24 AM, ptegler@cablespeed.com at ptegler@cablespeed.com wrote:
>
>
>>I can't comment specifically about the difference
>>between the Castrol Syntec and the Mobil 1 but I
>>do need to put in a word here for the Mobil 1.
>>
>>I've always wondered if using Mobil 1 was worth the
>>cost or not. But while recently restoring a 72 MGB
>>more a client, I was stunned when I opened up the rocker
>>cover of an engine that had 100K+ miles on it and it
>>was absolutely clean! 165 psi +/-2 in all cyls....
>>and this engine has NEVER had any work done it.
>>It's been running Mobil 1 since it first came on the market
>>way back when.
>>
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