Amsoil Oil Analysis

joshisjamesbond · Sep 20, 2009, 10:54 PM

Hello,

These are the results for an oil analysis with Amsoil 5W-30, here it goes.

02/01/2007
23,330 miles on car
9,000 miles on oil
no oil added.

Severity code: 1
Sb <1
Titanium <1
Silver <1
Copper 10
Lead <1
Tin <1
Aluminum 7
Nickel 1
Iron 12
Chromium 1
Cd <1
Sodium 21 PPM
Boron 130 PPM
Silicon 21 PPM
Water % by Volume <.05
Soot % by Wt. 1.02
Glycol "N"
Fuel <.5
VIS. @ 100 C. Cst. 13.23

08/18/2009
40,566 on car
6,490 on oil
no oil added

Severity code 1
Antimony 0
Titanium 0
Silver 0
Copper 10
Lead 0
Tin 0
Aluminum 10
Nickel 0
Iron 7
Chromium 2
Cadmium 0
Sodium 21
Boron 141
Silicon 17
Water % by vol <.05
% Soot <.2
Glycol "N"
Fuel 0.00
Vis@100C 9.96

What do you guys think?
The one thing that popped out to me the first analysis was that the oil had thickened to a 5W40 oil.

joshisjamesbond · Sep 22, 2009, 03:56 AM

Bump

Anyone have an opinion about my oil analysis results? Anyone have any other results from other oils to compare to mine?

apagan01 · Sep 22, 2009, 05:33 AM

some of those numbers are climbing.

pay attention to the silicone, that number may be due to a dirty intake filter.

there a a few more that concern.
who are you using for the lab analysis.

joshisjamesbond · Sep 22, 2009, 04:59 PM

I use Ana Labs located here in Washington State with the Amsoil test tubes.

From what I can tell the Silicon has dropped from the first analysis to the second analysis. I changed from the OEM filter to a custom short ram with Amsoil Nanofiber filter.

Guess I should have posted new analysis and then the old analysis, sorry.

4g94T · Sep 22, 2009, 05:49 PM

heres mine.

Amsoil Dominator Series 10w-30
3,600 miles

apagan01 · Sep 22, 2009, 06:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 4g94T

heres mine.

Amsoil Dominator Series 10w-30
3,600 miles

Hey brother, did you ever had an analysis done before the dominator ?

Watch that silicone number, they ususlly get high when your filter is dirty or time to change, watch that lead content the lead number is concerning @ 27 PPM.

apagan01 · Sep 22, 2009, 06:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by joshisjamesbond

I use Ana Labs located here in Washington State with the Amsoil test tubes.

From what I can tell the Silicon has dropped from the first analysis to the second analysis. I changed from the OEM filter to a custom short ram with Amsoil Nanofiber filter.

Guess I should have posted new analysis and then the old analysis, sorry.

that would have helped, i understood your point, however i also knew there was info missing.
post them when you get a chance

4g94T · Sep 22, 2009, 07:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by apagan01

Hey brother, did you ever had an analysis done before the dominator ?

No, I do not. This was my first oil analysis. I wanted to see the TBN of RD-30 after ~3,500 miles and also what was going on with my oil.

Quote:

Originally Posted by apagan01

Watch that silicone number, they ususlly get high when your filter is dirty or time to change, watch that lead content the lead number is concerning @ 27 PPM.

Lead is really high. I was running high boost though...
I did not use any fuel additives so Im guessing its my bearings

apagan01 · Sep 23, 2009, 05:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 4g94T

No, I do not. This was my first oil analysis. I wanted to see the TBN of RD-30 after ~3,500 miles and also what was going on with my oil.

TBN of dominator is by nature mild, no reason to have high TBN's on racing oils as you know because they are racing oils, if you are in search of a nice high TBN number i reccomend you use our ATM 10W30 or our SSO 0W30 they have 12s and 14s

Lead is really high. I was running high boost though...
I did not use any fuel additives so Im guessing its my bearings

i think you are right on track, lead is only contained in the beraings that iam aware of.

high boost wont do the lead content other than hurt the bearings,,, that prolly what you meant,,, now my question is did you run any leaded fuel, iam sure you did not otherwise you would have mentionned it.

id say you run another lab and see where your numbers are at.

cij911 · Sep 23, 2009, 05:48 AM

Interesting info...

apagan01 · Sep 23, 2009, 08:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 4g94T

No, I do not. This was my first oil analysis. I wanted to see the TBN of RD-30 after ~3,500 miles and also what was going on with my oil.

Lead is really high. I was running high boost though...
I did not use any fuel additives so Im guessing its my bearings

ill pull some other data and try and compare to.

however i can tell you that right now i have an AUTOx evo ix that we sponsored, he is running some very hot laps prolly hotter that what you are and his numbers for metal content are all looking in the 1-3 PPM area.
The first 6 numbers on the report wich are the metals that are used inside our engines are very critical the most important ones, if any of those go above 15 one needs to start watching it.

i reccomend you run another analysis report here soon but use a different lab just as a second opinion

i have kits that can ship out for 25 bucks with prepaid USPS postage.

Jehuty · Sep 23, 2009, 01:43 PM

I'm sorry if i'm late to this, but is this a new oil? What's this all about, direct me to a thread if it's been explained already.

Thanks

4g94T · Sep 23, 2009, 01:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by apagan01

ill pull some other data and try and compare to.

however i can tell you that right now i have an AUTOx evo ix that we sponsored, he is running some very hot laps prolly hotter that what you are and his numbers for metal content are all looking in the 1-3 PPM area.
The first 6 numbers on the report wich are the metals that are used inside our engines are very critical the most important ones, if any of those go above 15 one needs to start watching it.

i reccomend you run another analysis report here soon but use a different lab just as a second opinion

i have kits that can ship out for 25 bucks with prepaid USPS postage.

Thanks.
I will run more analysis once I finish rebuilding my engine and it is broken in.
I was going to run another analysis before tearing my engine apart, but I thought it was not worth it since I will be replacing everything anyways.
I will continue to use RD30. (will this oil be okay for breaking the engine in?)

joshisjamesbond · Sep 24, 2009, 02:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jehuty

I'm sorry if i'm late to this, but is this a new oil? What's this all about, direct me to a thread if it's been explained already.

Thanks

No, this isn't a new oil just Amsoil 5W-30 which is recommended for one year or 25,000 miles under normal conditions. I just wanted to post my results for comparison purposes and see what people thought.

It just seems that with Amsoil I'm always impressed by their products and their ability to perform well under any condition. The two analysis results are proof that thus far Amsoil is doing as it states in my car under the conditions.

Amsoil FTW

apagan01 · Sep 24, 2009, 05:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 4g94T

Thanks.
I will run more analysis once I finish rebuilding my engine and it is broken in.
I was going to run another analysis before tearing my engine apart, but I thought it was not worth it since I will be replacing everything anyways.
I will continue to use RD30. (will this oil be okay for breaking the engine in?)

Yes you are perfectly fine using RD 10W30, just remember that the RD oils are meant for racing therfore they require to be changed lots quicker than our other lineups like the ATM 10W30 and the XL 10W30

i would not let the RD oils run anything above 2500 maybe 3k, thats just me oil analysis might prove me wrong though