Ron@cp-e
Well-Known Member
I second thisIf you want a super high-quality oil (Group V), I'd highly suggest Red Line. It's the lowest NOACK (6%) I've seen of any 5w30 oil with good levels of zinc and phosphorus while not being super high in calcium like Amsoil. The only negative to Red Line is that it's priced kind of high, but rightfully so.
For a reasonably priced oil that performs extremely well and has tons of great UOAs, I'd suggest Pennzoil Ultra Platinum (PUP). The old formula, Pennzoil Ultra, had a better NOACK (7.2%) but the new PUP is still considered pretty decent at a 9.6% (straight from SOPUS themselves).
Hands down, Red Line is going to be the best from everything I've seen and reviewed, but PUP is a very close 2nd and can often be found for a cheaper price.
I'll make mention of something else I've been looking into. Mobil 1 Extended Performance (EP) is super low in calcium (half of PUP, Rotella, etc., and a 1/3rd of Amsoil), has a NOACK in the high-9 area, and has decent levels of phosphorus and zinc as well. I was poking around on BITOG the other day and came across some virgin oil analysis' (VOA) on there. I'm going to try to dig into that when I have a little more time, but from what I briefly saw, it seemed good. It's supposed to be a primarily Group IV oil (PAO) based oil as well. More on that some other time though.
If you can find Pennzoil Ultra on the shelf anywhere, stock up on it. I lucked up and found a ton of it on clearance and stock up for enough to get me to 90k miles.
I've been using Redline since the first oil change in my EBM as well:cheers:
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