By Piers Wright
I couldn't find anything about this on here, but there seems to be extensive threads on the BMW forums, Bob the Oil Guy, and a couple others. I tried to compile "facts" and added links to the better ones. Mobil 1 $12/5qt or $15/5qt + filter rebate link:https://apfco/se...235W/Home/EntryBlackstone Analysis on unused Mobil 1 FS 0W-40 (New Formulation):http://www.bobistheo...FS"#Post4028326Blackstone Analysis on unused Mobil 1 0W-40 (Old Formulation):http://www.bobistheoilguy/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/3001485/1BMW Thread Link, including direct communication with Mobil:http://www.bimmerfes...64&postcount=37Another Bob is the Oil Guy thread:http://www.bobistheo.../1[/B][/U]I attached pics of the front/rear labels of the new FS formulation, as well as the rear label of the old bottle for comparison. I got them from another site, since I don't have a bottle of the new oil yet (I don't remember which site, since I've visited many in my attempt to find out the differences. Quoted from page 1 of the BTOG thread linked above:"Versus the old M1 0w-40:Nissan GT-R
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Basically 502 oils would appear to perform very well in the FSi test. Originally Posted By: bobbydavro In my view SAPs level is not related to the Valve deposits. Anything with 504 will be good for valve deposits as they have been proven in the VW FSi test, however that's not to say other stuff isn't good / better. I have seen surprisingly good results on 0W-40sOriginally Posted By: bobbydavro I'd be happy with most 0W-40 A3/B4 oils with VW 502 / 505. Also, as Overkill pointed out, the original pre-visom M1 0W40 had very similar viscometrics, and was a great oil back then.
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Not out of choice but out of mistake...did not get a chance get to this post before putting it into the engine. I do not have empirical evidence on its workings in GT-R yet but I will gladly send a sample out to Blackstone. At start the engine oil gauge read 5 dots out of 5. It was this change in engine that caused me to re-look at the jug to see what i put in. - The eye-ball average engine oil temp is running about 5-8F lower.
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