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Originally Posted by SlvrBullIT 
Your story could have gone the other way like I've seen it, the sponsors will always "push" you to use what "they" want. SO you got crap oil, we got a sponsor and got crap tires!!!
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First off, I fully understand you have no problems with Mobil 1. I fully understood that previously. I just thought given your racing background that you would enjoy the story.
And the real point of the story was to show that folks like Cosworth and Ilmor had no ulterior motives, nor any incentives, from Mobil to recommend their oil. They simply based their Mobil 1 recommendation on what they had seem as far as wear and tear on internal engine components and on constantly ongoing oil analysis, both on other oils and Mobil 1.
No doubt in my mind that if the oil company sponsor in the story above had ever discovered us using the Mobil 1 that some there would have wanted us to use their inferior product... However, as we soon discovered, there were some there that might have actually wanted us to continue our ruse. After all, we were there strictly as a promotional tool to sell their product, and as I said we soon discovered they considered us no more than marketing instruments in ways we could have never imagined. Those folks there cared little for the team nor its people. As such they went to great lengths to impose their will in other ways but would have probably been fine with the use of another brand oil to sell their products...
Fortunately those people are no longer with that company, but that's another story...
Certainly the oil sponsor could have forced us to use their oil, but the point is they could have forced US, not forced Cosworth, Ilmor, Infiniti, Ed Pink, TWR, Speedway, or Comptech to recommend their oil. Nor was Mobil influencing any of these engine supplier/builders to recommend their product. Only testing, experience, and analysis guided their recommendation of Mobil 1.
For the record, I used to use Amsoil for a while. I have also used Shell Rotella oils in multiple vehicles. We use Golden Spectro synthetic pre-mix in our vintage motocross race bikes. I used Castrol GTX 20w/50 for decades in motorcycles, and later when I was a Honda dealer I used their branded oils which at first were made by Kendall and later Ashland (Valvoline). We were once sponsored by an esoteric industrial oil called Petro-Moly, and used it briefly (switching again back to Mobil 1). I've used boutique brand oils like Redline, Bel-Ray, etc. I've used mainstream oils like Shell, Castrol, Valvoline, etc., too, as well as car maker branded oils like Ford/Motorcraft, Chrysler/Mopar, GM, etc. Point is I'm not an "oil snob" who only believes that there is one, true "holy grail" of oils as some do. Personally I think there are a lot of good, and even great, ones out there, and that really almost any of them will protect your engine's components just fine if you change it often enough. As it should be, it is your car and you should run what you think is best...
I am using the Mobil 1 in my CTS-V first because GM recommended it and second because of my experience with the engine suppliers/builders mentioned above.
Just for the record, I have been using both the AC Delco UltraGuard UPF48R and Mobil 1 M1-113 oil filters on my CTS-V. I changed the oil first at 500 miles, then at 1,500, and finally again at 3,500 miles. Filter that came off from the factory was an AC Delco PF48. One of the Mobil 1 M1-113's went on at the first change because I didn't have the UltraGuard UPF48R's in yet. Since then each change I have used the UPF48R filters.
Interesting note... From simple inspection looking through the oil filter openings I would be willing to bet the Mobil 1 M1-113 oil filters and the AC Delco UPF48R filters are made by the same outfit. They appear literally identical on the inside, whereas the standard PF48 looks considerably different. The standard PF48 is also substantially lighter than the M1-113 or the UPF48R, whereas both those weigh exactly the same.
Just FYI...
Dallara
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