Royal Purple or Red Line....??

[Texas4ever]

What fluids are you guys running...?? I was thinking of switching to Royal Purple. There is a guy a shop near by where I live that has a '69 Camaro with big block 502, totally custom. 1200HP N/A and 1900-2000 on spray. He ran a 4.88 @ 147mph in the 1/8 with a 2 stage 400 shot each of spray, and he uses Royal Purple everywhere.

I figured if that setup could take it surely could not hurt my N/A V6.

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[Guardiannknight]

Do a search on Royal Purple. If I'm not mistaken a few months back or so, a big discussion was made on this. If I remember correct, royal purple is a product that you do not want to use. But again, I would do a search on this because I'm not 100% sure. As for redline, I have used their water wetter. I've had no problems after using it, so I give it a [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img] [img]smile.gif[/img] . Also, I've heard a lot of good comments from people that use redline products.

I did a search on it, here is one of the discussions and I think it's the one I was thinking about. http://www.camarov6.com/cgi-bin/ulti...c&f=1&t=006866
Go about halfway down the discussion and you will see test results down with the use of Royal Purple. In short, the stuff is junk and I would not use it. [img]smile.gif[/img]

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[Texas4ever]

thx for the link...

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[Dekay]

I've used Royal Purple for a while now. It's fine. Not sure who said it was bad.

[Slow-N-ugly]

Royal Purple all the way.

It gave me a half-second in my bike (92 cbr 600). It sounds unbelievable but the time slips showed it.

With Royal Purple 11.54-11.60s'

Had an oil change done and RP was not available,

New times....12.10-12.20s'

This bike had royal purple in for nearly 20,000 that I know of, I sold it, it was used for road racing before I got it, and as a street bike/drag bike after I got it. It was bored out and had a lot of trick motor work done to it, seem like it would red line around 11,500.

If there is a reason not to use I have never heard of it.

I think it was Hot Rod magazine did a test and showed around a 10hp gain with it.

[y87inside]

I use Lucas oil treatment in my car. I put in the regular (non-synthetic) oil and substitute around a quart with the Lucas treatment. It does its job i guess. I did notice an increase in the oil pressure at idle for sure. Also noticed little bit faster starts, but i dunno if thats the reason or not. And its endorsed by Harley Davidson too.