Where's the sticks? The guy sure does like to write.
https://540ratblog.wordpress.com/201...-test-ranking/

 

When he first started publishing his findings that blog was extremely interesting and informative, I used to post links to it. Words cannot describe what its become now.

 

100% baloney!

 

He certainly loves to hear himself type. And he also tends to let you know that most of you are WRONG or INCORRECT or otherwise HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT with his overuse of capital "shouting" words. It comes across as "LISTEN TO ME, for I am right, and you are wrong, and no matter what you say, I'll always be smarter than you"....etc.

Factual-based blogs seldom need to use the terms of "incorrect" or "wrong" to try and self-validate one's own reporting when describing the facts that are found, if any. Facts need only speak for themselves. There's no advantage of trying to sway the conversation by side-track BS. Lay the facts out in their simplistic form, and then you can put a personal spin on what those facts are telling you, as long as that's what you claim up front.

For example. "Oil starts to breakdown when...blah blah blah...where then the resulting carbon has shown in test after test to cause scoring damage to some bearings. I think if you run a cooler, it could lower the operating temperatures to prevent this." First part is the factual info, the last sentence is the opinion part of it.

I'm not making any claims for or against his "facts," but there's other ways to come off sounding like a blowhard douchebag without having to tell virtually everyone else how wrong they are just to pump up your own ego.

 

I just found it "interesting" pretty much most things I believed about camshaft breakin, zinc, 20 minutes around 2,000 rpms, yada yada are wrong. I will admit that back in the 1960s I didn't know anything about camshaft break-in and I never "wiped" a lobe. Of course I was a Chevrolet guy and what could possibly go wrong with Chevys??? What's next? They'll tell me Mondello oiling tricks are unnecessary. Oil restrictors, notched rods, etc I've done them all. (:•》I don't buy into all this guy's ideas but I agree too much of a cure could be bad also such as to much zinc. One has to find the "happy" medium. Jmo

 

I thought it was interesting to read the first time, then I found myself skipping ahead to pass over nonsense. I read it, trying to figure out how this new phenomenon of "breaking in a camshaft" evolved. "In the old days" STP/oil; EOS/oil and such was the way to go. We should also realize that metalurgical quality control has gone down. Higher spring pressures and ZDDP are more important because oils have changed.

 

Yes, in the "olden" days I didn't know all the pitfalls. Being a Chevy guy I swore by EOS and the local Chevrolet dealership was pretty much my speed shop/parts store. We'd work on an engine till 9 pm, get cleaned up and head to the Chevrolet dealership (parts Department closed at 12:30 am) get the parts we needed, then go close up the bars. Chevrolet had a lot of semi-hi-performance parts back then. Yeah, the price was a little high but back then I never worried about price.

 

They still do! My wife worked at CCA @ GM in Marketing, and frequently worked with the Performance Parts folks. They had lots of special events, including at B-J, for new performance engine launches.