Motor oil resource for performance engines

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Originally Posted by tmontague

https://540ratblog.wordpress.com/

I stumbled across this website/blog after doing some reading online regarding lubrication of high performance engines. This is an absolute gem of information. For anyone who appreciates objective science based data without emotional rhetoric thrown into it, this is the website for you. Other resources like BITOG are somewhat useful but as with any online forum, it has becomes littered with rhetoric and opinion and it becomes hard to sift through it all.

I saw this when I was on vacation with my wife so I wasn't able to read the whole thing without her getting mad at me

So I looked at it again today and there seems to be a lot of really good information there. This is no doubt a good reference but there is also no shortage of emotional rhetoric, and these are a few easy examples.

In the comments about synthetic oils in motorcycles with wet clutches he shows clear bias against the manufacturers, a misunderstanding of the real problem (it's not actually slipping but an inconsistency of engagement), and no factual evidence or testing. I know this problem well and his suggestion that stronger springs will fix it is incorrect. I have had to repair this problem on full race bikes and only fix is new clutch plates.

On oil change intervals, though there is some testing, he disputes it's validity in the name of anecdotal evidence, and 'insurance'.

When you make a point of being unbiased, then it's probably in your best interest to be unbiased for you to be taken seriously.
Just my thoughts.