Re: Sunthetic Oil once Again

[Terry Moore <terrym@nando.net>]

At 01:30 AM 8/4/96 -0400, you wrote:

You can change before 10,000 miles if you like.  Porsche's come from the
factory with synths.  I changed mine at 1,000.

Terry


>>1)  Is it every too late to change top synths??  I seem to remember 
>>reading somewhere, back in the '70's, that you needed to run synthetic 
>>from the beginning and that you shouldn't convert over.    I have three 
>>vehicles that I would like to convert and 2 have some mileage on them.
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>Change anytime you want AFTER the car has 10,000 miles on it.
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>>2) I gather Castrol and Quaker St along with Mobil are the top synths, but 
>>is there a good rating on any others, such as Havoline (texaco)???
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>I'd stay away from the Quaker State stuff....  Let's see I run Mobil 1, 
>as do several others with modded cars and it works just fine.  Amsoil and 
>Redline would also be good choices.
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>Later!
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>Eric Fletcher
>'87 5KCSTQIA2RSR2B
>St. Louis, MO
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