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Old 05-24-2015, 11:47 PM
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It's oil change time. Curious to know what oil others are using. I've been running Valvoline VR1 20W-50 racing oil in my soilid lifter L71 427. How bout you guys ??? Tom.
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I run the same as you, it has a sufficient amount of Zinc.
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Same oil, but 10W30 in my new roller cam 350. I'll probably switch over to synthetic after break in.
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after much research, mobil one 15w-50.
Old 05-26-2015, 09:40 AM
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same motor, but I just use regular oil. 10w30. the PO used it since motor was rebuilt in 1995, so it's apparently doing it's job...although the solid factory cam was replaced with a mechanical roller cam with as close to factory specs as possible when it was rebuilt.
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As long as it has a CJ-4 or SM rating Im happy(which usually means delo or rotella). Ive used the mobil 1 15w-50 too.
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I've been running Shell Rotella 15W 40 in all my older Corvettes both big block and small blocks for many years with no issues.

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