QUOTE(izso @ Sep 8 2015, 06:59 AM)
Actually - the 1 arm bandit test does have some merit to it. If the pressure or force used to press down the arm is the same (meaning a weight is used instead of human effort) then the results will show for itself. JTX won't survive this test vs the other brands like Royal Purple and Penrite.
And to be fair to me I did say it was a "simple" test. At that point of time all I could really test was engine heat and constant high revving to simulate track environment. With Pennzoil and some other oils I've actually seen the temperature reach 140 to 150 deg Celsius which is a little too hot for my liking. Rock oil and Penrite plus one other brand Ravenol has ever managed to keep the engine temp below 100 Deg C no matter how hard I revved it and kept revving it. Worth noting I only ever use fully syn oils. JTX would die man.
And yeah, I know both Michael and Daniel. Very animated blokes and are willing to go the distance for their brand (not technically
their brand, just the brand they are marketing). They've taken up 2 challenges so far, one was me thrashing the car on track with the oil and comparing it directly with my favorite (Rock Oil) and the other was economy/performance test on my fuel guzzler other car. Economy so far hasn't produced any results but performance wise in terms of the car starts to deteriorate after being stuck in a jam in hot afternoon weather seems to be working. Hard to justify though so I'm thinking of some sort of test for this.
well, there was a demonstration on how the test shouldn't be taken too seriously, hence the term "1 arm bandit".
Why? because head and shoulders shampoo also fared damn well (iinm, was the best performer too lol), should we put in head and shoulders now since it contains a decent amount of zinc?
obviously there could be some bias/methodology issue on these tests, however the point remains.
» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «
If you looked at the video you'll also understand why human or machine applied pressure wouldn't matter much, unless you can have a full replacement of the entire pressure grinder/test subject (That piece of metal?) itself, or hell, individual falex machine.
That is not to say i don't disagree with you though. however afaik there is an actual ASTM engine wear tests however that test is rather costy (for the test bench/engine/specific equipment and what not) and the independent/customized ones may lack some credibility (IINM shell has it, to demonstrate their pennzoil/shell pure plus)
Daniel has been hoping i'd put their oils to the ultimate test by having UOA done so we'll see how that goes
you know what, i am actually curious on what temps i am getting as well, so i am looking into oil pressure/temp gauge, hopefully can get a decent 2 in 1 one (looking at depo atm) and be done with it.
to my knowledge, all i need to do is have the pressure/temp sandwich plate thingy and just figure out how to wire into the cabin?
what gauge you got/how you set it up btw?
Sep 7 2015, 01:29 PM
Quote
)
0.0231sec
0.32
6 queries
GZIP Disabled