What is your favorite motor oil?

[68bigblock]

Don't mean to highjack brians thread, but is there an oil that protects better against "dry starts" or occasional use vehicles, mine will sit a week or two between uses

 

[Dave L]

I was just wondering who had failures. I had a 1969 dodge dart that I put a 408 stroker flat tappet hyd cam and ran 10w 30w castral for 3 years. (no additives) I had put about 11,000 hard miles on it with no problems.I did change the oil about every 2,500 miles.There some pictures of the car on my thread (426 street wedge)

 

[69RRGTX]

Amsoil here, expensive, but worth it.

I do wish they would come out with a 40 weight oil in their Dominator line.

 

[speedchangesyou]

I was running Royal Purple for years but recently switched to Amsoil....after talking to the guys at Precision Automotive....

 

[paladin06]

Z Alt or Hemmings.

 

[eldubb440]

for obvious reasons

 

[Bb70charger500]

Mobil 1 only here that stuff has saved my *** more then once , I was being a stupid young kid once and driving down a dirt roof didn't see the man hole my dodge shadow bottomed out on it ripping the oil pan off (I didn't know) I drove the car around the block and back home then later that day I drove down the same road in my charger and said look some dumb *** lost his oil pan it took me a few secs to put two and two together I picked it up and went home couldn't believe the car made it home bone dry I had a extra eng I swiped the pan and fixed the car up put new Mobil one in it and it ran just fine , I sold the car not to long after that , saw it 4 years later same guy said he hasn't done much of anything to it but oil changes , I think any other junk oil And I'd be swinging a motor out of it . I love Mobil one it's great stuff worth every penny.
Also my father runs it in his car since it was new and I was just in it doing another timeing belt 214xxx and it looks brand new in it no sludge or nothing not bad for a Korean 4 cly to get that high of miles with nothing but maintenance.

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I will add it is getting hard to get Mobil one in 15w50 I went to 4 diff stores to get enough to change the oil in my car two more times guess I need to start ordering it off the net

 

[Rocketman]

I was running Royal Purple for years but recently switched to Amsoil....after talking to the guys at Precision Automotive....

My car loves the Purple, and I really like it on the dry starts after longer sits.

 

[mmissile]

Penn and Rotella. Gotta use straight fake oil in new 6.4 hemi.

 

[Aesthetikz]

I've always liked Valvoline or Mobil for our DD's.

I was thinking of going with Valvoline VR1.
But, I have few questions:
would this be overkill for a (Mostly) Stock '70 318?
What weight would you guys suggest?
"Silver Bottle" Conventional or "Black Bottle" Full Synthetic?
How many miles before Oil Changes?

I'm thinking Conventional (Silver Bottle) at 10w-30. Thoughts?

- JDB