spooky skeleton tiddlywinkler on Nostr: I've done a lot of research, including pulling engines apart to see what's going on ...

I've done a lot of research, including pulling engines apart to see what's going on inside them, and I've settled on a routine of running Mobil 1 Extended Performance 5w30 and changing it every 10,000 miles. My dad started using Mobil 1 back in the 1980's and we've always had fantastic luck with very long-lived engines. He's got two vehicles that are at 280,000 and 320,000 miles on the original engine, and I'm just shy of 250,000 in my daily driver. We've also got some pretty rare cars, like a C4 Corvette ZR1 (they only made a few thousand of them and the LT5 engine is unique to that model) that we don't fuck around with anything just to save a buck. But there's not much reason to change the Mobil 1 EP at less than 10,000 mile intervals when the lab reports come back and show it's still got life in it.

I think it's very important to run a decent oil filter, though, and not some shitty one that clogs easily and goes into bypass after a couple thousand miles.