My experience has led me to try X1R oil treatment, Restore, and Slick 50. I purchased an old Monte Carlo waaay back in 1994 with a Chevy 305 V8. The engine was tired then and it's still in the car today. I figure even if it the additives only do 1/2 of what it claims, I'm still ahead of the game. Years ago, I started racing in an Enduro class at a local dirt track. At the time, I didn't have a fresh engine, so I just threw in a 350 I had in the shop. Within the first ten laps the oil pressure went to 0. I just slowed down and waited to hear noises. Nothing happened and I finished the race about an hour or so later. Never found out what the problem was, but the engine still runs today and the oil pressure guage is in another car. That engine had a quart of X1R treatment in it with some Valvoline 20w50. For me, any of the aforementioned additives appear to help keep things from coming apart.
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Dec. 28, 2008 9:02 a.m. ncjay New Reader
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Dec. 28, 2008 11:19 a.m. minimac Dork
On Topic: I had been using Royal Purple in a beater Falcon. When the oil pump shaft broke, I still had 125 miles to go. I figured "what the , run it till it blows". I made it home, fixed the oil pump shaft, and the car still ran fine.
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Dec. 29, 2008 12:09 p.m. noisycricket Reader
derekshannon wrote:
Hypothetically speaking, if you knew you were running very low on oil (say a punctured oil pan or something siimilar). What would you add or wish you had added to protect the cylinders?
A skid plate. (Man, I wish I'd added a skid plate to this thing...)
I drove a Mopar 400 for two weeks without oil in it in a mercy-killing attempt. It refused to die. Added five quarts, and the lifters quit rattling and the rear main (non) seal resumed pouring smoke generator all over the exhaust crossover.
So, I guess the additive would be Chrysler Engineering. (Does not apply to DOHC Neons)
PS - I practice what I preach. Mazda chose an asinine location for the oil cooler.
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Jan. 3, 2009 12:09 a.m. bigtoed New Reader
Gotta go with the mopar engineering. Worked as a graveyard gasstation jocky, get a Valiant in that is smoking like a hash bar, woman says it made a bang 35 miles ago. Open hood and get to admire the #3 rod journal. Some duct tape and some oil, she makes it another 25 miles. I used Slick 50 in my 91 Honda civic,(Pour it into the filter), I have run it 2+ quarts low(3.5 quart motor) and am still running the original motor.(270K) Now it is a Honda, and it may run just fine with no oil, so even though I use the red low oil light as a reminder...
