[Healeys] Oil For Healey's

Michael Lempert mlempert at bellsouth.net
Fri May 22 13:36:08 MDT 2009


Valvoline VR1 Racing oil was my choice last year (or before) when we were 
discussing the changes to motor oil. Michael Salter had done a blog on the 
subject and I remember he had chosen VR1 at the time for his car.

Recently, I found VR1 on the shelf at the auto parts store with a stick on 
label that said "Extra ZDDP for flat tappet engines" or something to that 
effect. HOWEVER, I noted that the API rating on the reverse said SM; it used 
to say SL/SM. I no longer trust it with a SM rating. I'm going with the Brad 
Penn 20-50.

Mike L. 


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