Originally Posted by Al Soran:
Well, this might be an indicator as to how "low budget" my team was, but we usually ran whatever 20-50 was on sale. We would run it two nights and change it along with the KMart filter, and never had an engine failure.
Al, I gotta agree with ya on the "budget" deal, a few years back, I was at Big Lots one night, and they had stacks and shelves full of Exxon, in all weights, all same price, 5qt jugs, 5 bucks. I looked at the specs on the bottle, and decided to try it. I just used the last of it this spring, and never found anything unusual about it, or the engine. I kept going longer and longer on oil changes, finally ended up at 4 nights of racing on a change, and wasn't sure maybe that was too often. I have been reading on the internet about oil contents, I won't go into it here, but I think it is worthy of anyone's time, to just pick out a brand, and read up on it, I was looking for the spec's on 5w20 for my Fusion, looks like from what I read, the synthetic's still aren't worth the money, for normal driving, all hiway, yes, but town and country, not the real deal. Bob
