Amsoil

Back in the 1960’s I became convinced that oil in your engine is analogous to blood in your body. There is nothing more important to long, healthy life than careful attention to both. I got hooked on Pennzoil, and every car I owned received regular doses of my oil of choice on a strict schedule. When synthetics came along, I was very interested, but didn’t make the switch until the late 80’s when Chevrolet started shipping factory fresh Corvette engines with Mobil 1. That was enough evidence for me!

A chance conversation with a business associate caused me to take a look at Amsoil products. I know that Mobil 1 is good, and Amsoil tests significantly better in all tests applied to engine oils by contemporary SAE standards. There are some really high end synthetic products out there that I am told are better than Amsoil, but at some point, price does become an issue. If Amsoil is not the top of the line, it is still extremely good, and very adequate for any purposes that most of us can imagine, including racing.

In 2005 we parted with our 1985 GMC Suburban after 305 thousand miles. The new owner happily drove it away to begin service to a new family, just as it had served ours for 20 years. By this time, it puffed a little “Chevy smoke” upon start up in the morning, and took a quart of Amsoil between changes, but the valve covers and engine front cover had never been removed. It did have carburetor and ignition timing issues due to the mileage and a bit of neglect, but it still moved itself around with enthusiasm. (OK – maybe not so good up-hill),

When my wife turned it over to me several years ago, it had rolled up 185 thousand miles. I put it to hard use on trips, and regular commuting in the hot Texas climate. I decided it needed a heavy duty oil cooler which I installed, and later I added an Amsoil Dual Remote Oil filter system. Mostly because of available parts and the sequence in which I made these installations, it ended up with the stock oil filter as well as the Amsoil full flow and by-pass filters. The latter pulls off about 20% of the oil flowing trough the filter block and removes particles less than one micron or larger, virtually eliminating engine wear.

Including the additional lines, filters and cooler, it held a little more than 8 quarts, and didn’t leak a drop. I never had an oil temperature gauge so I don’t know how hot it got, but with 10W30 and my cooling and filtering “improvements”, it had good strong oil pressure the day it drove away. If you think my additions were a bit “over the top”, you should see some of the stuff my other car nut buddies are doing. (Can you say “dry sump”?)

Recently we added an Amsoil banner to the Racing.Info site. One click takes you to their full line of synthetic lubricants, and I encourage you to check out the charts and performance reports. If you are convinced that these are superior products that you would like to use, please order them through this link. We will make a few cents every time you do so, and every penny we make will help offset the costs of domain acquisition and site development that is still coming out of our not so deep pocket. You will not be disappointed with any of the synthetic lubricant products and accessories offered by Amsoil.

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