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Offline hotrodharley

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oil stabilizers/addatives
« on: April 24, 2014, 09:46:10 PM »
going Sat for my first TnT on car;;blown alcohol injected 540bbc;;have BRAD PENN 50WT in car..should i be putting a oil stabilizer in it like Lucas Oil/Heavy duty oil stabilizer? or do you reccomond something differant;;reason i said lucas is i think my local parts stores[auto zone and orally's]would have it..have no speed shops or performance shops close to get anything from
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Re: oil stabilizers/addatives
« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2014, 04:36:49 AM »
We had Brad Penn representatives at a club meeting this winter. I asked them the same question. They told me I was throwing my money away with the additives and the oil had high zinc in it.
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Re: oil stabilizers/addatives
« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2014, 09:37:03 AM »
We had Brad Penn representatives at a club meeting this winter. I asked them the same question. They told me I was throwing my money away with the additives and the oil had high zinc in it.

X2.

After all, the oil in alky/nitro engine needs to be changed very frequently anyway...