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Matt97
Posted: Friday, April 03, 2009 3:17:56 PM

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Title says it all. What do you put in your machine?

Myself, for years all i used was Castrol 10w30. Last year i started using Royal Purple 10w30.
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Quaker State & Lucas oil additive
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Racer_23
Posted: Friday, April 03, 2009 8:49:00 PM

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I use 20/50 in the legend
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bill robinson
Posted: Saturday, April 04, 2009 9:37:14 PM

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Last year I used a really high quqlity synthetic, I never changed it all year and by how clean it is I could run it for the next two seasons,buttt, I cant for the life of me or anyone else who raced with us remember the name of it. So this year its another hight quality synthetic. Amsoil 10/30 and no additives.
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Jethro
Posted: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 3:04:34 PM

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Why such a high first #, 20 seems kinda high.
I would have thought a 5w30 synthetic would be best for a legend.
If you run a light oil and change it often you will get an engine to spin up fast.
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Racer_23
Posted: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 5:32:22 PM

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Jethro wrote:
Mark
Why such a high first #, 20 seems kinda high.
I would have thought a 5w30 synthetic would be best for a legend.
If you run a light oil and change it often you will get an engine to spin up fast.


It was what I was told to run in it when I bought it and a few others I asked had run, my motor is being rebuilt and when I pick it up I'll ask the engine builder what he recommends in it for 09
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Matt97
Posted: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 8:44:40 PM

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A lot of guys use 20/50 in the Thunder too. I tried it, i didnt like it. So i use Royal Purple 10w30
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bill robinson
Posted: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 7:41:06 PM

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the stock oil pumps irent meant to pump grog you have too at least thin it out to swamp water!!!!!
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racing 69
Posted: Saturday, June 13, 2009 1:06:25 PM

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castrol gtx 20w50 in the sportsman
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bill robinson
Posted: Sunday, June 14, 2009 8:04:47 PM

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Any one ever use duralube additive in any vehicle? I heard it was like insurance and even gives 3 to 5 hp. Any one know anything about the stuff...
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millsey
Posted: Thursday, June 18, 2009 10:12:12 AM
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I used to run Castrol 5w50Cool
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bill robinson
Posted: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 5:45:23 PM

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Well the dura lube/amsoil mix seems to work. I way overheated my engine two weeks ago,I changed the oil and added another quart of dura-lube and put a new rad cap on and its running as good as it did before the way over heating.
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Matt97
Posted: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 8:02:48 PM

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Awesome!
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JWO Racing
Posted: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 2:33:56 PM

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AMSOIL all the way and NO additives. Been racing for a lot of years and have used AMSOIL in every engine we've run and ZERO failures. Wicks racing filter gets changed every 6 race nights
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