07-01-2002, 06:39 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Greenville, SC
Posts: 5,835
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This months hot rod magazine had a good article on synthetics - they even swapped the dino oil out of an old car with synthetic and made 10hp or so at the rear wheels. I have been running synthetic in mine for 60k and my wifes for 22k and have not seen a problem with more oil leaking. Both were run on dino oil up to 100k miles and made the switch then. I dont think I've seen 10hp at the wheels or even 1 hp but it does make me feel a little better each time I watch the tach wrap around to know I have some sort of added protection in there. My wagon, on the other hand, would leak even if it was full of straight 30 dino oil but after 270k hard miles it still can bark the tires into 3rd and when I last popped the valve covers it was nice and clean in there.
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