JohnD
Legend in his own mind
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- 2023 Mach 1 track day car
5-50 is a upgrade and you want an oil for track work. That's what this oil was designed for, in opinion it is superior to mobil one.
JD unless you had an oil analysis done you have no idea if you were breaking down that oil. Do a search an read that 14 page report on all different brands and you'll find that 5-50 motorcraft is one the very best oils for racing.
No that are not totally different engines, coyote and voodoo
I have no doubt that "5-50 motorcraft" is a very good oil for racing. Racing being the key word there. I'm not racing. I used to road race, and actually won 3 championships, and found out the hard way why you need real good racing oil for real racing. But these days I'm doing HPDEs which are not even close to real road racing in terms of engine abuse.
The next time I turn 8250rpm with my Coyote :lol:, or decide to do real racing, I'll be putting in real racing oil. Hell, I havent even hit 6500 rpm yet, there's just no need for what I'm doing! For now, I'm going with Ford's recommendation to use 5W-20 synthetic that meets their standard, and I'll keep the evidence of my oil changes so there will be no dispute about complying with their recommended oil if I ever have an engine problem. Running a different weight oil than Ford calls for can have side effects with the phasers, oil flow volumes, return flow rate, bearing temperatures and many other things so I think I'll just take Ford's word on what oil I need.
Ford's oil change monitor in my car is monitoring the temps, rpms, engine loads all the time to figure out when I have abused my oil enough to need to change it. Right now, at 5400 road miles and about 120 miles of HPDE I'm at exactly 50%, so I'm pretty sure we're good.
Might do that oil analysis as you suggested, it can't hurt. Thanks for the idea on that.
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