02-20-2012, 06:24 PM
So this past weekend two things were done to the car:
#1: The oil was changed.
I decided to change it at 1k based in my personal theory that at around that time most of the lets call them "casting shavings" would have worked their way smooth and into my oil and filter. There's no real downside to changing your oil, so I picked up an OEM Filter and 5 quarts of Rotella T6 5W-40. Apparently, from what research I could stand to do, this oil is the shizz. I hate doing research for things like this. I like being told "This is the overall best. Use this." Doing oil research especially makes me want to :vomit: because everyone has some anecdotes, but the data is pretty heavy and it's hard to know what's what. But basically, the consensus is: "Mobile 1 ain't what it used to be and Rotella is damn fine oil besides."
Now, as some of you may know I'd had LASIK the previous wednesday, and the Optometrist was downright scary in telling me that I absolutely under no circumstances was to risk getting even the most minute speck of foreign material in my eyeball or I would definitely go blind or have permanent erectile dysfunction or both. So I asked Dave very nicely if he'd change my oil and he said yes. It went mostly without incident, with no "Evans" occurring on the floor of the VIR tech shed. 4.5 quarts exactly went in, leaving a half quart of oil left over for topping off purposes.
#2: Nothing at all happened.
After I did nothing at all to any of my car's components, I took it out for a brief, untimed, totally scientific/educational pull down the back straight of VIR. The resulting datalog: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhZOS9FneuCkdG5QUHpLV2NWcWtSRlhOWWFGMnUtQ0E#gid=0">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhZOS9FneuCkdG5QUHpLV2NWcWtSRlhOWWFGMnUtQ0E#gid=0</a><!-- m -->
Now, while that is almost guaranteed to be gibberish to 99% of you (it is mostly gibberish to me) it basically indicates a "yerp, no problems here" with my Nothing At All. Which was good, because I did Nothing At All in order to ensure the safety of my engine internals. I may have to take some more datalogs after I slightly tweaked Nothing At All for an additional margin of safety, but mostly from my limited understanding everything is copacetic.
I have more stuff coming, it's all Stuff That's Actually Things, versus the controversial (but in the end probably the right decision) Nothing At All.
And yes, it goes like a raped ape.
#1: The oil was changed.
I decided to change it at 1k based in my personal theory that at around that time most of the lets call them "casting shavings" would have worked their way smooth and into my oil and filter. There's no real downside to changing your oil, so I picked up an OEM Filter and 5 quarts of Rotella T6 5W-40. Apparently, from what research I could stand to do, this oil is the shizz. I hate doing research for things like this. I like being told "This is the overall best. Use this." Doing oil research especially makes me want to :vomit: because everyone has some anecdotes, but the data is pretty heavy and it's hard to know what's what. But basically, the consensus is: "Mobile 1 ain't what it used to be and Rotella is damn fine oil besides."
Now, as some of you may know I'd had LASIK the previous wednesday, and the Optometrist was downright scary in telling me that I absolutely under no circumstances was to risk getting even the most minute speck of foreign material in my eyeball or I would definitely go blind or have permanent erectile dysfunction or both. So I asked Dave very nicely if he'd change my oil and he said yes. It went mostly without incident, with no "Evans" occurring on the floor of the VIR tech shed. 4.5 quarts exactly went in, leaving a half quart of oil left over for topping off purposes.
#2: Nothing at all happened.
After I did nothing at all to any of my car's components, I took it out for a brief, untimed, totally scientific/educational pull down the back straight of VIR. The resulting datalog: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhZOS9FneuCkdG5QUHpLV2NWcWtSRlhOWWFGMnUtQ0E#gid=0">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhZOS9FneuCkdG5QUHpLV2NWcWtSRlhOWWFGMnUtQ0E#gid=0</a><!-- m -->
Now, while that is almost guaranteed to be gibberish to 99% of you (it is mostly gibberish to me) it basically indicates a "yerp, no problems here" with my Nothing At All. Which was good, because I did Nothing At All in order to ensure the safety of my engine internals. I may have to take some more datalogs after I slightly tweaked Nothing At All for an additional margin of safety, but mostly from my limited understanding everything is copacetic.
I have more stuff coming, it's all Stuff That's Actually Things, versus the controversial (but in the end probably the right decision) Nothing At All.
And yes, it goes like a raped ape.
1987 Oldsmobile Cutlass 442