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Additives?
I generally avoid 'em...glad I do. About 30 minutes...Lake speed on various additives. Under 3o minutes. Generally speaking, injection cleaners in fuel might help. Oil additives? Run like the Devil himself was chasing you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAGT5inQScE&ab_channel=TheMotorOilGeek
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Carroll Shelby pitching Slick 50 comes to mind . Instead of spending $$$ on oil additives spend that money on oil analysis . That's the only way to know what's going on with the oil in your vehicle .
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I try to spend at least 10% of my income on lottery tickets and oil additives.
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I remember using a few cans of this stuff....
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Dad used to believe in STP. He'd lay a can on the intake manifold of his Travelall and drive around with it for a while to heat it up so it'd flow better. We liked to use it until my brother found out that the machine shop had a hard time hot tanking things clean that had had it in it.
Slick 50 saved an engine for me, but that's a story for a different time and place.
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I use Techron in the fuel tank for the Carrera and the other cars.
For the Carrera I have done an "Italian Tune-Up": a full bottle to Techron for 20 gallons in about 5 gallons of fuel in the tank. Drive it hard. Fill the tank and drive it until down below a 1/4 tank. Refill the tank. Then do an oil change.
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Oil additives are a waste of money
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Cool collar for the win.
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Doesn’t this sorta depend on what oil you are adding it to? What is your favourite daily driver oil these days? I’m still a fan of the Pennzoil Platinum synthetic made from natural gas and have switched to VR1 in the Porsches and Spec Miata.
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