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mcloud
mcloud New Reader
5/5/24 6:44 p.m.

Disagree with Mike Trueba, MPT.  Do not 'play chemist' by adding zinc.  Oil engineers know what they are doing in creating the proper ingredient formulations, and you shoild second-guess them.  For street cars requiring a higher zinc content, use an oil such as Driven HR6, Castrol Classic GTX,  Lucas Hot Rod & Classic, and others.

BimmerMaven
BimmerMaven Reader
5/6/24 3:00 p.m.

the second question was not answered....

bobzilla
bobzilla MegaDork
5/6/24 3:16 p.m.
xspeedracer said:

So I have A 2023 Bmw m2 and it requires 0w30 full synthetic With the newer oil specs I live in an area that gets over 100°F in the summer should I be concerned if I go to the track 

The only way to know the answer to that is to test. 

bobzilla
bobzilla MegaDork
5/6/24 3:20 p.m.
karstgeo72
karstgeo72 New Reader
9/11/24 3:09 p.m.

In reply to meldog21 :

Please do not use the "rat540 blog" as a benchmark for this - this is simply not a test that can be attributed to how a motor oil will behave in your auto's engine.  He won't show the euqipment or detail the testing procedure and it sounds like a version of a "one-armed bandit" test which has been shown to not be relevent for ICE lubrication testing.

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