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Originally posted by donstevens
Mike,
Don't be such a puss. As an oil guru you should be the first to experiment in your own car and pass on your experience to others. Besides, if you asked someone else to experiment because you pussed out and they had an engine failure, just think about how you would feel? Don
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Your right! Coming to grips with it, I do not lack confidence but there is something else at play here. To give a little background, I formulated a 20W50 to have a head to head comparison to the Mobil 1 15W50 to see if I could get the temps down with just changing oils and keeping the same relitive viscosity - and it worked. The formula is stout and I wanted to go to production with it but the minium production size is several hundred gallons - and thats in a pilot plant kettle. Needles to say I can't make the numbers really work out because the market is not big enough for a true product introduction (needs to be >$1M) for costs to be in line. So I have the qualifications, the physical data and even some field data to support the technology but the customer base is real smal in comparison. I can't justify keeping the baby!
Its not that I'm skeerd per se, just that I put work into the 20W50 and I now I may have to let go.
The great news is I do have a 15W40 that uses the same stout technology and is commercially available in qts, gallons, 2 1/2 gallon jugs (and drums and totes and tankers.
) I have great confidence in my 15W40 - used it in my Volvo and got over 40K before I changed and I only changed because the TBN went down to 4 but I still had no signs of wear metals and the additive pack was somewaht intact.