[Shotimes] What can destroy a cat?

[cmichaelo@optonline.net]

Paul,

Could you expand on this Castrol treatment please? And do you mean to use Castrol GTX Hi in combination with the auto-rx treatment?

My car is strictly a "warm days only" car. I'm currently using 5W30, cause everyone is recommending this. But 10W30 should be fine for warm weather only, should it not?

FWIW, I had an Amsoil oil analysis done at around 110k (where the oil consumption was 700 miles/qt.)  It came back fine; nothing was out of spec. 

Btw, I just realized that I have been specifying the oil consumption in all my email as "miles/gl". It should of course be "miles/qt".

Michael Olsen
94MTX,green,130k,BOS+
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Nimz <pnimz@v8sho.com>
Date: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 1:46 am
Subject: Re: RE: [Shotimes] What can destroy a cat?

> Although I rally like Amsoil , it sounds to me like a couple of 
> oil changes
> on the Castrol GTX Hi Mileage oil are what you need.
> 
> Paul Nimz
> '97 TR
> '93 EG mtx
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <cmichaelo@optonline.net>
> To: "Leigh Smith" <leighsm@comcast.net>
> Cc: "shotimes" <shotimes@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 4:02 PM
> Subject: Re: RE: [Shotimes] What can destroy a cat?
> 
> 
> > I've been using the K&N filter that came with the ShoShop 80mm 
> MAF for
> about 50k miles. I cleaned it every year. It does have a few 
> "dings", but no
> open tears. Some other possibility for direct air to enter the 
> manifold is
> at the throttle body where the rubber tube connects. The tube was 
> definatelytoo big for the TB, but by tightening it hard with the 
> metal ring clamp it
> stayed in place.  But frankly I never felt confident that it made 
> air tight
> contact to the TB. (Btw, this is the tube that ShoShop supplied 
> the tube.)
> For the last 5k miles I've been using the ProFlow 77mm MAF, and 
> everythingis tight with this setup.
> >
> > One more things I should let you know is that my oil consumption got
> suddenly worse around 90k, going from 3500 miles/gl to 
> 1000miles/gl. This
> change happened at the same time I switched from Amsoil 10W30 to 
> Amsoil0W30. (I've been using 10W30 since 27k.) I kept using Amsoil 
> 0W30 until
> 100k, then switched back to 10W30. Oil consumption, however, 
> remained at
> 1000 miles/gl.
> >
> > Michael Olsen
> > 94MTX,130k,green,BOS+
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Leigh Smith <leighsm@comcast.net>
> > Date: Monday, June 21, 2004 3:43 pm
> > Subject: Re: RE: [Shotimes] What can destroy a cat?
> >
> > > > When I took of the cross-over tube and looked into the plenums,
> > > they were
> > > filthy
> > > That is normal (PCV action)
> > >
> > > >it felt like sand, very fine grain sand. Is this normal?
> > > That is NOT normal, and gives me the chills. Any kind of solid
> > > particle is
> > > very bad to an engines moving parts.
> > >
> > > >Or did the cat particles make it all the way up into the intake
> > > manifold?Maybe yes
> > >
> > > Another thought. Do you use a K&N?
> > > Have you ever cleaned it?
> > > Is it possible it has a tear/leak?
> > >
> > > Your test procedure seems sound
> > > Good luck
> > > Lee
> >
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