Hey guys, I've never been interested in lubricants, to me oil was always just ... oil. But with the price of everything going up, I want to get more out of my vehicles. That's why I joined here and started reading. And boy, did I find a lot of good information.
I am interested in making my engines last, so I looked into AmsOil and Red Line. They're both very very expensive, with Red Line slightly more so, but not as expensive as a new engine.
So far I learned that all these commonly available oils are fake synthetics. Only AMSOIL and Red Line are true 100% synthetic. I find AMSOIL to have some strange sales practices, so I looked more into Red Line. I found most information here and on a forum that deals exclusively with lubricants. Wow, I didn't know that there were oil nerds out there!
At $65 a gallon Red Line is very very expensive. I found the discussion bellow on the forum I was talking about. Other than the goofy annotations, the documentation looks legit like it's coming from the manufacturer. It looks like Red Line is now using Group III base oil. I am sorry, but if it's true, then it's absolutely not worth the money.
This would leave Amsoil as the only viable option as it's 100% synthetic. Their documentation and testing seems very thorough.
I have also found this video documentary about Amsoil:
AMSOIL presents “Albert J. Amatuzio: An American Success Story,” a video that details the events that shaped the man who created the world’s first API qualif...
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Amsoil looks to me like a serious company that knows what it's doing.
I'm sorry about the long post but I wanted to get your opinion.
What do you guys think I should do?