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| RE: oil mods 428 |
| By Dave Shoe - 01/15/2001 12:09:37 PM; IP 207.103.119.197 |
I don't believe synthetics buy you much of anything if you change your oil
regularly and it's not -10F or colder. I generally only run synthetics in
the winter, but it frequently hits -20F and lower here. Refined oil is
really good stuff, and it's what I tend to run the rest of the year.
10w40 is my summer favorite, but 10w30 sometimes gets dumped into my
427FE in in the spring and fall if the spirit moves me. If I ran the car in a
road course race (I don't), I'd probably run synthetic, and probably
something like 5w50 Mobil1, and I'd probably change it before the race and
switch back to the cheap stuff after the race. For street driving, I don't
sweat oil at all. As I see it, FEs just aren't fussy about the type of
oil - they just hate sucking air into the oil pump.
Oil starvation is mainly a problem for the FE if you accelerate or corner
hard. I'm not sure whether it would be a problem in a pickup, as they are
more massive than a Fairlane or Mustang, and so I sorta doubt they hit the
same kind of g-forges which readily uncover the oil screen in the smaller
cars.
If I had that motor in a pickup, and didn't have a Milodon pan and windage
tray under it, then I'd definitely run a rear sump truck pan, truck pickup,
and truck mainstud to support the pickup. I'd also run a windage tray, but
then I don't drive a truck, and really don't know what I'd do.
As for the six quarts, i don't think you can even think of running that much
oil without a windage tray, unless you are willing to deal with excessive
cylinder wall splash, and the occasional smoke that goes with it when things
really get churning.
As always, just my bad advice,
Shoe.
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