actually the take away is: moly is real. zddp is real, but only use lucas zddp because its ph balanced with detergents.
also he skipped over things like addable detergents.
ive been using good starting oil and lubramoly for ages. it makes the oil black and Im curious about it in the filter. i was using it in ford motors though with the plastic tensioners where ford now puts graphite in at the shops.
moly is better graphite
but now in LS world, free from vestigel engineering left over from porsche variocam (research THAT its hilarious, all that chainguide crap fords have is because they bought their OHC tech from porsche in the 80s, and it was meant to asjust timing through chain lash. now it doesn't. now it just makes timing a nightmare and requires shit in the oil not to shred plastic wear items in the engine... anywho) and about ro register in a state where I can gut my cats and run a cam, Im considering switching to lucas zddp and liquid mechanic detergent additive (i gotta check Bob's but being detergent specifically it should just he calcium and magnesium in some solvent and a light oil like mmo, it seems that way on the way out the bottle too but only recently discovered it)
hilariously a great oil is gonna have a lot of stuff a good preworkout also should
zinc& phosphorus (zddp) and then the other electrolytes calcium and magnesium to balance the ph...
zinc makes it slippery but acidic
electrolytes make it based but less slippery
its literally the same game with friction modifier packages like lubegaurd when your ******* with ATB (helical) or LSD (clutch) Differentials
*most* additives are snake oil
the ones most people havent heard of, that you can only find at carquest or maybe a cool napa however, are real things...
they have applications and if you just get the mail and buy cereal at walmart hey nah just use good class V synthetic like Mobile1 or GTX (im sus of this lake speed talking good about class IV oils...) and a Purolator synthetics filter (specific for us because the put the dbv in the big filter for us)
but like, I literally drive my shit in the WOT tables of the ECU, i beat the hell out of it, in the desert, a lot of the time *literally* in the desert, so yeah Imma drop some racing oil additive in there or flat out run a racing oil.
i wouldnt use Vaseline in my engine to save my life, but what he saw in the MotoGP oil made me very happy.
Valvoline aint classV base though
i hope Mobil's MotoGp oil is also a cool color
if Im buying race oil its fun for it to look different lols
but besides moly, zinc, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, and some esters to condition high mileage nonmetal parts theres nothing going on in oil OR oil additives...
basically his take is "the best cake comes from duncan Hines complete cake mix because I used to work dor duncan hines complete racing cake mix and I do not believe you possess the intellect to read bob is the oil guy and formulate a superior cake using betty crocker base cake mix and more of your own farm fresh eggs, fairlife ultrafiltered milk, and additional whey isolate..."
yes I intentionally butchered that metaphor
you get the point
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