[Binford]

latest issue of Sport Truck has an article where they swapped all the fluids out for Roysl Blue (Oil, differential, transmission, etc.) then dyno'ed and show a solid 10hp increase in performance. I am surprised.

Discuss.

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[Binford]

Well, pick up and flip through the latest Sport Truck issue. They have multipel pictures of all of there swap out. And it's NOT just the OIL in the crank case (?), they did the transmission fluids, etc. AND they dyno'ed it... They also have a sidebar asking why some ppl seem to be anti-synthetics, and the answer was they used to have problems, and the (synthetic) industry hasn't overcome yet the PERCEPTION those early problems caused even though today's stuff is great (obviously, I am paraphrasing).

I am just wondering if any of you have done this.

Of course, with forums it's hard to tell too, theres been a lot of PRESS lately on advertising marketing companies hiring people to "get known" in forums to then plug product. Apparently, it's now now SOP for a lot of product that has huge Net followings. (Cars, omputer equipment, etc)

 

[Binford]

Were they advocating any particular brand, or just synthetics in general? If they're reporting on the benefits of synthetic oil rather than plugging a certain company, then I'd probably believe the results.

Well, they were using something called Royal Blue, but I really didn't feel they were plugging the product so much as synthetics being that good in general.