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Old Mar 23, 2004 | 07:36 PM
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royal purple oil?....pros can con?

yea ive heard royal purple oil can increase hp in ur car....is this true?...ive been to the site and have seen wut they had to say...has any1 here used royal purple in their 7...i wanna know..
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Old Mar 23, 2004 | 07:39 PM
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http://www.royalpurple.com/
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Old Apr 1, 2004 | 01:13 PM
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Even if they have dyno numbers, I never trust any claim that says OIL will increase HP. If it does it will be a piddly amount, I mean, come one, oil??? With that thinking I will replace my gear and diff oil with something that transmits the power down better and gain more efficiency

Stick with dino juice and find a better place for your hard earned cash, or just plain cash
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Old Apr 1, 2004 | 01:17 PM
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royal purple is still an synthetic which makes it a no no.
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Old Apr 1, 2004 | 01:27 PM
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Old Apr 1, 2004 | 01:50 PM
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it is safe for rotaries I used it on mine for a while it felt a little smoother, i went back to reg. oil because it is cheaper. racing beat sells the stuff as well
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Old Apr 1, 2004 | 02:05 PM
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Racing beat reccomends royal purple for rotaries, and i trust they know what they are talking about. There was a post a while back that had numbers on the residue (sp?) left after different oils were burned, and royal purple burned cleaner than even castrol GTX. Im pretty sure icemark was the one that posted the charts. O'Reilly actually started selling it recently, but its $6.50 a quart there. I found it for at the most $4.00 somewhere online. The guy I bought the car from said that when he tried it for an oil change, it ran noticably smoother than normal.
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Old Apr 1, 2004 | 02:48 PM
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Originally posted by Crusader_9x
royal purple is still an synthetic which makes it a no no.

is it bad to run synthetic oil in the 13b or something?
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Old Apr 1, 2004 | 02:51 PM
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oh dear god please do a search on synthetic oil k thx
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Old Apr 1, 2004 | 02:53 PM
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quick question: can you subscribe to specific threads on here? i always forget what thread i have been reading.
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Old Apr 1, 2004 | 02:55 PM
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I've also heard some good things about Royal Purple, and I will be trying their Racing 21 oil soon, I will let everyone know how it turns out.
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Old Apr 1, 2004 | 03:08 PM
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Originally posted by Crusader_9x
royal purple is still an synthetic which makes it a no no.

please do not post things that are not true. i bet you read that somewhere on the forum and have been preaching it with no real facts backing it up.

synthetics work fine in rotaries, but are not worth the extra money over conventional oil.

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Old Apr 1, 2004 | 03:22 PM
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Old Apr 1, 2004 | 03:44 PM
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please no not one of these again! lol
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Old Apr 1, 2004 | 05:52 PM
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warning to all reading this thread...

I'll (or another mod) will lock this thread if it starts being a post ***** thread for people that don't have a clue and claim that you can not use Royal Purple because it is a synth.
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Old Apr 1, 2004 | 06:12 PM
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I have a case of that stuff... Haven't tried it yet.
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Old Apr 1, 2004 | 06:13 PM
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i have been using royal purple for a couple years now.. in 3 different rx7's never once had issues due to oils only advantages at least in my head.... I do use amsoil 1:100... .. > in my tII's i use either 20w50 or the racing51 in the n/a i run 10w30or the racing equv... i have torn down a motor that ran atleast 30,000hard boosted miles none of which had issues due to oil.... yes i choose to pay the price,but hey, I also pay the price for owning rx7's..... there is a couple things i have learned about owning rx7's. the 1st is preventative maintance and the 2nd is cheaper is not always the better way.... these car were bread to race so treat it that way...
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i have been using royal purple for a couple years now.. in 3 different rx7's never once had issues due to oils only advantages at least in my head.... I do use amsoil 1:100... .. > in my tII's i use either 20w50 or the racing51 in the n/a i run 10w30or the racing equv... i have torn down a motor that ran atleast 30,000hard boosted miles none of which had issues due to oil.... yes i choose to pay the price,but hey, I also pay the price for owning rx7's..... there is a couple things i have learned about owning rx7's. the 1st is preventative maintance and the 2nd is cheaper is not always the better way.... these cars wre bread to race so treat it that way...
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Old Apr 1, 2004 | 06:20 PM
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