Altus Racing and ChevySpeed - Synthetic or Conventional Oil

Jared Black

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Synthetic or Conventional Oil
09/27/06 at 11:02:03

Does anyone run a synthetic like Royal Purple?
Do you prefer conventional oil?

I have used Valvoline in all my vehicles since I was 16.
I use the Valvoline VR-1 racing oil in the Super Nova.

I saw on Horse Power TV the other day where they exchange all the oil and gear lube on a 98 Camaro with all Royal Purple products; Engine Oil, Trans fluid, gear oil, coolant, etc.
The gain was about 10-12 hp.
Which I thought was great, but given the extra cost- is it worth it?

Jared

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Chris Smith Altus Racing Administrator Offline Chevy Speed Posts: 1441 Altus, OK Gender:	Re: Synthetic or Conventional Oil Reply #1 - 09/27/06 at 11:08:59 I think it is worth it for sure. Always break the engine in with a non-detergent regular oil first though. With newer car engines you don't even have to do that, you can just run synthetic all the time. Chris
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robztrux Global Moderator Offline Chevy Speed Posts: 675 Altus,OK Gender:	Re: Synthetic or Conventional Oil Reply #2 - 09/27/06 at 12:25:13 it helps your fuel economy as well supposed to have less drag as the crank goes through it and Its really not that expensive as it was I just change the oil in the Jeep and that is what the guy was running in it so thats what I put back in it 5 qts 15.00 wasnt to bad
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Chris Smith Altus Racing Administrator Offline Chevy Speed Posts: 1441 Altus, OK Gender:	Re: Synthetic or Conventional Oil Reply #3 - 09/27/06 at 12:26:56 Also stands up to temperature extremes better. Chris
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Jared Black God Member Offline Chevy Speed Posts: 611 Arcadia, OK Gender:	Re: Synthetic or Conventional Oil Reply #4 - 09/27/06 at 12:30:49 What do you guys run in your racecars?
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robztrux Global Moderator Offline Chevy Speed Posts: 675 Altus,OK Gender:	Re: Synthetic or Conventional Oil Reply #5 - 09/27/06 at 13:47:32 I use the Valvoline VR-1 racing oil just because Timmy didnt have any of the synthetic that I wanted at the time. next one will be synthetic
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Jared Black God Member Offline Chevy Speed Posts: 611 Arcadia, OK Gender:	Re: Synthetic or Conventional Oil Reply #6 - 09/27/06 at 14:09:24 What brand synthetic?
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robztrux Global Moderator Offline Chevy Speed Posts: 675 Altus,OK Gender:	Re: Synthetic or Conventional Oil Reply #7 - 09/27/06 at 20:04:41 I was going to use the same oil just the synthetic version
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streetisez Junior Member Offline Chevy Speed Posts: 67	Re: Synthetic or Conventional Oil Reply #8 - 09/27/06 at 22:09:51 i put in synthetic in the race car and it will run 3 or 4 faster . now we are putting synthetic motor oil in the transmissions . i just built a transmission and put 5w-20 mobil 1 symthetic motor oil in it . thay say it will shift harder and last longer .
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Jared Black God Member Offline Chevy Speed Posts: 611 Arcadia, OK Gender:	Re: Synthetic or Conventional Oil Reply #9 - 10/02/06 at 09:09:40 Sweet! Sounds like I should make the switch- thanks for the input. Jared
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