I called a few places here in the Bay Area and found Napa Auto Parts had the best price near me:
$5.50/qt for 10W30 and 10W40
$5.82/qt for 20W50

Anybody know of a better price out here? (one of the other places I called said 20W50 was $7.99/qt, wth?)

 

That is funny, the stores I work at don't carry it as a stocking item. I paid a little over 5 dollars a quart for my cost +10% for 15w-40.

 

I bought it from the Napa Auto in Mountain View, if that helps. The guy there had it brought over from the Campbell store, according to my phone convo with him.

I also saw that they stock Redline for $7.75/qt. I think that price was for the 10W30, not completely positive though.

 

Yeah, I don't think Royal Purple is a normal stocking item in most Napa's, but we can get it.... Yeah we stock some redline products... but I don't think we have the oil.

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Royal...spagenameZWDVW

 

Wow, that's a good price! I'll wait and see what his feedback looks like after he's finished more auctions.

 

that's 15/40 diesel oil, but it'll work.
and you can always email him and find out about whatever oil you want.

 

since we're on the synthetic subject;

if you're gonna use synthetic, why not use torco?

 

1) Never heard of it. :P I'll check it out.
2) Previous owner used RP, so instead of changing the type of oil used, I continued on with it by using the same oil 20W50 RP (I was thinking of going to 10W30, but I recall reading somewhere about RP being slightly on the thin side, can't recall where I read that)

In all honesty, all the talk about Group III this, Group IV that, and PAO whatever has my head spinning. I figure RP is a safe choice and is reasonably priced for a synthetic.

 

i've used torco in trannys and diffs before and it made it smoooooooooth!

in the tranny, it put RP and redline to shame.

 

Dave, where do you get your torco from?

Zach

 

local shop.

 

That helps!! Found it. www.torcoracingoils.com And when are you coming back up here anyway?

Zach

 

no clue.
i'm working on finishing everything at my house, then i'm taking some time off from work. i'm like a decade or so overdue for a vacation.

 

Vacation? What are those?? To me a vacation is getting two weeks off from work to unpack and get used to being back home after deploying to the middle east!

 

Royal purple u can pick up at Napa autoparts for 5$, but i got NGperformance discount so i can get them around 10 for 50 tax and everything...

 

What is teh NGperformance discount? Do you work there or something? Just curious to know what it is. Thanks in advance for the info.

Zach

 

its my buddy's undergroud discount(performance shop thingy) it stands for nate G. performance....yeah we get discounts from greddy HKS kragen napa autoparts etc..... the more we use his discount the better things we can get

Also its for mainly our team members of team fuzion....

 

Amen to that. I am trying to get back out to Iraq for another tour...

 

damn! that 5er on ebay ended up going for $90