Just did my first oil change on the camaro and used royal purple. Hope it works really well, im sure it will. I also love how easy it is to do the oil change on chevy engines everything is within a foot of each other like on all the chevy engines i have ever done.

 

Purple oil! Thats kinda like having blood a different color than red to me. Oil is suppose to be tanish color. LoL. I have seen it but never used it. Hope it does good for you.

 

have you felt a difference yet? and wad it worth the $10.99 a quart???

 

it was not 10.99 a quart were i bought it but the entire 6 quarts and a filter was 60. and havent really driven it too much yet.

 

i tried it, only thing i didnt like was the color didnt let you know how dirty the oil was getting. green oil gets darker as it is used and how it looks on the dip stick will remind me to change the oil. lol. i use mobil 1 for now. check out walymart and see if you can get a better price by the gal. oh and where the heck are the pictures?

 

Heh... skip the Royal Purple... I've seen conventional (dinosaur) oil with higher specs. Royal Purple is only API SL rated... the current API standard is SM (SN coming soon). Save yourself a couple bucks a quart and get Mobile One, Valvoline Synpower, Or even (ugh) Castrol Syntec. Heck, you might as well pick up some conventional oil...

 

yeah but thats ok i can now tell the difference since i have driven it more it seems to run smoother

 

i was curious as to whether it was as good as ive been told, i heard its a noticable difference in how it runs but i never tried it. im using red line oil right now...

 

Nope. Definitely not. I've taken a look at their marketing materials (aside from the fact that their API ratings are still not up to current, as previously stated.) and examined the photographs they took of bearing surfaces. Initial bearing surface is rough under extreme magnification. Next photograph is of the same bearing after using a competing oil, surface show's some smoothing (a sign of wear) but still has some rough texture. Final image is of the bearing after using royal purple... the bearing surface is completely smooth (indicating severe wear).

So no, its not good oil.

 

I'm running Motorcraft 5W-30 in my Camaro right now. Good stuff.