Why does racing oil cost so much more than regular oil? Any of you run racing oil in your personal road vehicles? Thanks!

[Jack Dupp]

Why does racing oil cost so much more than regular oil? Any of you run racing oil in your personal road vehicles? Thanks!

Oil companies spend large amounts of research dollars determining the absolute minimum of additives needed to squeak
under the minimum specifications determined by vehicle manufacturers. Consumer oil is mass produced in quantities
large enough to be profitable and cover research and advertising costs. Racing oils are produced on a much smaller
scale driving up the price. Their only chance of success is a reputation of providing reasonable engine protection
in an extreme, uncontrolled environment. They must go heavy on additives and can because they don't have to
meet government pollution (Really!) standards.

Any car / truck motor will last 100,000 plus miles with regular oil changes of consumer oil. Expensive racing lubricants
offer no advantage,

We used mystic oil we switched from the valvoline vr1 just because it was cheaper, you could get 5 gal for what you can get a case of the valvoline for i personaly thought it was just as good

[Gasman fan 50]

As stated up above check the ZINC numbers you want the highest! The feds found out the zinc cause the catalytic mufflers to fail. The ZINC was the main lube to stop the friction.
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Joe

[Hurryinhoosier]

Brad Penn here....45 a case.

Change it every three nights.

[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.

[#1Brad Kuhn Fan]

Champion. change every 3 races. oil filter every oil change....

[TQ29m]

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

[LEADERS EDGE]

Personally;I am a huge fan of the synthetics. Not all are worth the money, but the good ones uihave their advantages.

I know there is always the story of the guy who uses the generic oil and filter and the motor lasts forever, but most of the time when I have dealt with oils or greases that aren't geared for hi-performance or racing applications I have seen unusual wear or premature failures.

To be fair, there are plenty of quality non-synthetics as well.

Like Bob said, research it and find what is best for you.